I'm supporting this again this year, and you should too. Awesome cause, awesome people.

AGENCY OWNERS! Help yourself & your fellow agencies out: randfish.typeform.com/to/eFoJ3tXz

Paddy Moogan is once again running the Digital Agency Owner Survey for 2025. Last year's results were incredibly compelling; this year's will be, too.

Will The Anti-Monopoly Ruling Crack Open Google's Data? Wondering how the latest news around the Google Antitrust ruling will impact search and SEO? Dr. Pete breaks down the final Google antitrust remedies as determined by the court and how this landmark r...

I finished reading the 230-page Google antitrust remedy ruling and put together my thoughts from an industry perspective. I think a lot of the data-sharing details are critical -- moz.com/blog/google-...

The AI Search Content Optimization Checklist [With Google Sheets to copy/paste] 👇 Going through:

1. Optimize for Chunk-Level Retrieval
2. Optimize for Answer Synthesis
3. Optimize for Citation-Worthiness
4. Optimize for Topical Breadth and Depth

* Much more: www.aleydasolis.com/en/ai-search...

This makes perfect sense....unlinked recommendations of businesses in AI answers (plus social posts, e.g. TikTok, IG, etc.) lead to brand searches...which gets home page traffic.

Love thy neighbor doesn’t come with fine print.

> @jemelehill.bsky.social

📣 NEW COURSE ALERT! 📣

I'm excited to announce my comprehensive GA4 Audit Course is now LIVE! 🚀

Is your GA4 property collecting garbage data? You might be making critical business decisions based on completely inaccurate numbers... 🗑️

Dawn's done some awesome work for a bunch of people I know!

You have acquired a business and need to rebrand it. How do you transition the Google Business Profile without getting it suspended? Here’s what you need to know 👇

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Awesome stuff, Darren!

Optimizing for Traditional VS AI Search (SEO vs GEO) - I've created a chart featuring the differences/similarities between them 👇

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Super useful stuff from Dana here!

Responding to a prompt from Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini, Musk's "maximally truth-seeking" AI, which is built into X, said after an analysis that the probability of the president being in the pocket of Vladimir Putin is between 75 and 85 percent.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Google updated its Search Console docs to say AI mode impressions/clicks data is not data included in the Search Console reports - as we knew but clarified in my story www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-mo... hat tip @lilyray.nyc and @searchliaison.bsky.social

YouTube video by Whitespark The #1 reason your website ISN’T ranking: Outdated Content | Here’s how to fix it | Free SEO Tool

Hey friends! I made a cool new free SEO tool with AI. I'd love any feedback you have.

Check it out at freshnessdistancecalculator dot com

#localseo #seo

That's our world here in Bend too! Love it! This guy was outside my home office window this week...eating all the bird seed from our bird feeder :-(

Excellent analysis of the incredible increases in changes to Google's algo from Dr. Pete here.

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The #1 ranking site within Google's AI Overviews for "healthy movie snacks" is google.com

Turns out the content on this Google Store blog was written by a self-proclaimed freelance writer.

AKA the same thing that got many sites penalized for Site Reputation Abuse.

#SEO

How to Recognize And Report Your Competitors’ GBP Review Fraud Learn how to identify fraudulent reviews on your competitors' Google Business Profiles (GBP) and take the necessary steps to report them.

Learn to spot and report 6 signs of local business review spam, including signs that a fake review has been generated by AI. My column today at @gatherup.bsky.social will walk you through recognizing red flags and reporting review fraud to Google: gatherup.com/blog/recogni...

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

Glad somebody liked my Swedish Chef reference!

12 Laughably Bad Linkbuilding Schemes - Michael Cottam We've all had a dumb idea or two in our life, right? Today, I'm going to cover a number of common link building schemes that are either worthless, or

Links still matter to Google (no matter what they say), and so it's no wonder there's lots of companies selling links. But I'm amazed at how many really bad linkbuilding still goes on...and how many people charge for complete garbage.

www.michaelcottam.com/laughably-ba...

Navigating Agentic AI in the World of SEO Join Andrea Volpini and Gianluca Fiorelli to explore the evolution of AI-powered SEO, structured data's critical role, and how AI agents are reshaping search.

And here we go!
The 1st episode of The Search Session is live on Advanced Web Ranking website.
It was a great pleasure to chat with Andrea Volpini of WordLift about #AI, Agents, LLMs.txt and the central role of humans in the evolution of Search.
www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/agentic...

Announcing Zyppy List: A Next-Level Directory For Marketing Pros - Zyppy SEO Consulting The Problem There are 1000s of marketing companies out there, many of them excellent. Finding a trusted, proven one online is amazingly difficult. When my consultancy gets more business than we can ha...

Happy to announce *Zyppy List* - A reimagined directory for marketing companies and consultants

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Let me know what you think!

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Google Local Reviews Decreasing Over Past 24 Hours<br><br>https://www.seroundtable.com/google-local-reviews-decreasing-38873.html

There's something only great marketers do. But there's no agreed-upon standard for doing it.

It's audience research.

And very likely, they're doing this without really knowing what it is. Studying and getting to know their audience is just part of their DNA.

In this long overdue guide…

Facts. Love Adam’s insights

Google Search launches Ask for me This is a new labs experiment where Google AI calls businesses to find out what they charge for a service & when it’s available.

Worst new Google idea in a long time:

searchengineland.com/google-searc...

Google should pay these businesses $100 a call for wasting their employees' time.

Nice overview on the challenges of tracking ChatGPT traffic ...