if you cannot find your WordPress website anywhere on Google there may be a reason for it you may have a no index no follow tag installed on your website now this tag is really quite simple to understand very basically what you are telling Google and other website crawlers for that matter is that you don't wanna be indexed you don't wanna be found it's almost like you putting up a flag saying no don't look here now there's a few reasons why this tag is put in usually website developers put it in when they are installing and creating your website some themes actually install it automatically and website developers don't even know to take it off now if you have this tag on your website like I said you are gonna be invisible to Google totally invisible this is how you take it off and also how you can check if you have it in the first place all you have to do is log into your WordPress dashboard then on the left hand side look for settings then scroll further down then click reading then on the right hand side you're gonna see there's a checkbox this checkbox must be unticked if it is ticked as you can see over there it discourages search engines from coming and crawling your website like I said uncheck it press save and then you're good to go the next step is to put your website again in the Search console and hopefully Google will start looking at your website and you can be found on the search engine if you have any questions or any problems drop a comment and let's see if we can help you out

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uh breaking news again from Valentina Vasileva she tagged me on a new interesting feature which is in the maps app in the latest update they have built like you know like if I don't know if you use Instagram or TikTok to publish videos but when you do you like upload a video you get like a whole editing interface in there you can like you know crop it and play with it and add captions and do all kinds of stuff Google has added that kind of functionality to Google Maps app now so when you upload a video to a business profile you get a full letter it's not as like comprehensive as like a TikTok or Instagram video editor but she provides a little um demo video of showing how this thing works and it's really cool and so that's super fascinating really to think about like Google continuing to invest and improve on the maps product and the maps experience I think tells us that the future looks bright for local SEO thank you Valentina oh and thank you for always tagging tagging us in because then we know

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breaking Google News there's an incredible new feature in Google Business Profiles that you have to see go to your Google Business Profiles and click posts add a new post so this only applies to offers or event posts and you'll notice it right down here see that it says repeat that's the brand new features so if I make an event post let's say something for like happy hour and it recurs every single week on Thursdays and I can specify the date and then this turns on and you can set a post to repeat daily weekly custom weekly or monthly this is a great feature from Google allows you to keep your profile always looking fresh

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You know when you click the back button but the same page just loads over and over again? Google Search to penalize back button hijacking schemes. Finally, Google is giving websites until June 15th to remove this malicious spam practice. It's literally added right here to Google's Malicious Practices section in Google Search Central. For businesses that do this and don't remove it, they could have their entire websites blocked by Google. The internet has been waiting for this, and it's finally come. And learn SEO that gets customers, users, warm leads calling you up in a white hat way at compactkeywords.com.

You know when you click the back button, but the same page just loads over and over again? Google Search to penalize back button hijacking schemes. Finally. Google is giving websites until June 15th to remove this malicious spam practice. It's literally added right here to Google's Malicious Practices section in Google Search Central. For businesses that do this and don't remove it, they could have their entire websites blocked by Google. The internet has been waiting for this, and it's finally come. And learn SEO that gets customers, users, warm leads calling you up in a white hat way at compactkeywords.com #blackhatseo #searchengineoptimization #seo #digitalmarketing


When people say Google is dead or SEO is dead, what they're really saying is, emotionally speaking, I'm scared of SEO. Here are the top ChatGPT referral destinations. Google is No. 1. YouTube is No. 2. Github is No. 3. This is data from semirush. You know how to show up in Google, you will get cited in AI. If you wanna learn more about how to get cited in AI, go to this article: AI SEO Gio AEO, how to get shown in LMS in 2026, at free SEO knowledge.com.

When people say Google is dead, or SEO is dead, what they're really saying is emotionally speaking, I'm scared of SEO. Here are the top ChatGPT referral destinations: Google is number one. YouTube is number two. This is data from Semrush. If you know how to show up in Google, you will get cited in AI. If you want learn more about how to get cited in AI, go to this article, “AI SEO/GEO/AEO: How to Get Shown in LLMs in 2026” at freeseoknowledge.com #generativeengineoptimization #searchengineoptimization #answerengineoptimization #digitalmarketing

AI citations / Google dependency
SEO/GEO contradiction


Most of you are targeting keywords that your website has absolutely no chance of ranking for. I've audited hundreds of websites and I see this all the time. I sell candles, so I wanna rank for candles. You are not gonna rank for candles. It's dominated by massive brands, way too competitive. And this is the case with most broad keywords like this. You can get everything else right with your website SEO, but you're still not gonna rank. This is exactly what keyword research is for. I go into the full method in the SEO Clinic. But in a nutshell, keyword research helps you find keywords your website can realistically rank for, because you probably need to get way more specific with what you're targeting. So instead of candles, you're looking at things like soy candles, aromatherapy candles, scented candles. Then you check out the competition. There are keyword research tools that will show you this in way more detail, but you can just search it on Google. If the results are things like John Lewis, Amazon Darnell, you're not competing there. You need to go way more niche, like scented soy candles or no scent candles. Once you start seeing smaller independent brands in the rankings, you're in the right place. This is just one part of the keyword research method that I teach in the SEO Clinic. But even if you just do this one part, you're gonna be giving your website way more chances to rank.

If your website SEO strategy has you trying to rank for keywords like this, you're doing it wrong. Keyword research is intended to help you find SEO keywords your website can realistically rank on Google and AI search for. #websiteseo #keywordresearch #websiteseoexplained #googleseo #rankongoogle

Keyword research / realistic targets
SERP competitiveness


Look at this. Oh! Oh my God! Isn't it great? Chris! I know, it's my dream. I have goosebumps everywhere. This is out of this world. What a birthday. I know. Happy birthday!

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what is EmDash and why all the website developers in the world suddenly talking about it last week Cloudflare launched a brand new CMS product called EmDash and they are saying and hoping that EmDash is gonna be the spiritual successor to WordPress now WordPress is massive as we know it powers about 40% of the world's websites but the problem with WordPress this is what Clydeville are saying and I do agree with them is that a lot of the website language built on WordPress No. 1 isn't that AI-friendly also wordpressing itself was built before this brand new AI era came into being the other thing that Cloudflare is saying about WordPress is that a lot of the plugins create huge vulnerabilities so what EmDash are doing is that they're saying they're going to ring fence these plugins and make it a whole lot safer the other stuff that EmDash say they're gonna do is that it's gonna be brand new AI-friendly technology all the MCPs are ready in place the language is easier for AI models and it really does look exciting now one of the things that got a lot of the web developers out there that specialise in WordPress excited and starting to take note of EmDash is that one of the creators of Yost which is probably one of the biggest plugins for WordPress used the folk made note of EmDash and on his LinkedIn page he said that he's gonna be creating his own blog on EmDash I've been playing around slightly with EmDash it actually looks quite similar to WordPress on the back end I think this is gonna be very big news in the website space and I'd be interested to see in the next few weeks and the next few months what EmDash have in play for us what are your thoughts do you think you're gonna try EmDash

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here's a great free Chrome plug in that I found that will help you with your Google Business Profile and your local SEO the plug in is called GMB Everywhere it's very simple and quick to download and all you have to do is just sign up and follow the steps once it's installed you're gonna see on the top over there that it's done the next thing that you have to do is just open up your Google Business Profile you can see over there that it gives you some free tools straight away that you can jump into you can get some audits and there's some other cool things as well now one of the cool things that I love about this plug in is that you can spawn your competitors you can see which categories they've got in their listings and you can put that into yours and there's a whole lot of other cool things that you can do go check out GMB everywhere it really is a great plug in and like I said it's gonna help you so much with your Google Business Profile and your local SEO

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These AI overview things from Google, they reduce clicks to websites by 58%. Websites that are targeting top of funnel keywords, these are informational keywords where people are trying to learn, these are what are getting destroyed the most by AI overviews. The AI answers the searcher's question, they move on. To avoid this, go after bottom of funnel keywords. These are searches where people know exactly what they're looking for. They are looking to use a product. They are looking to contact a service. They just don't know the brand to go with. They're putting in very specific high intent searches. Instead of targeting these people with articles, you target them with conversion based SEO landing pages. Before people start scrolling, right there, they get what they want. Here it is for sass. Here it is for products. Here it is for services. And you go after high intense searches. Even if you get one of these AI overviews, it still recommends your brand. People are looking to go to a website and use something. If you want to learn how to do this type of SEO, conversion based SEO targeting high intent purchase intent people, you can learn it at compactkeywords.com.

These AI Overview things from Google… they reduce clicks to websites by 58%!  Websites that are targeting top of funnel keywords, these are informational keywords where people are trying to learn,  these are what are getting destroyed the most by AI Overviews. The AI answers a searcher's question, they move on. To avoid this, go after bottom of funnel keywords. These are searches where people know exactly what they're looking for. They are looking to use a product. They are looking to contact a service. They just don't know the brand to go with. They're putting in very specific high-intent searches. Instead of targeting these people with articles, you target them with conversion-based SEO landing pages. Before people start scrolling, right there, they get what they want. It works for SaaS, it works for products, it works for services. When you go after high-intent searches, even if you get one of these AI Overviews, it still recommends your brand. People are looking to go to a website and use something. If you want to learn how to do this type of SEO, conversion-based SEO, targeting high-intent, purchase-intent people, you can learn it at compactkeywords.com #searchengineoptimization #seo #digitalmarketing #performancemarketing

AI Overviews / traffic loss
Bottom-of-funnel SEO / landing pages


Everyone in your organization needs to be using AI, but that doesn't mean they all need to be keeping up with AI. Let me explain what I mean and how I think you should be thinking about your business structure going forward. It's very clear that AI is going to make everything we do on a computer much more efficient. Already, if you're doing any kind of reporting, presentations, content creation, strategy, analysis, it's borderline irresponsible to do that without AI. And the more capable these models get, the more mandatory this is gonna become. The ability to use AI is gonna be at least as important as the ability to use a computer. So it's not optional. Everyone needs to be using AI. However, keeping up with AI is a full time job. Paying attention to what models could do this month that they couldn't do last month and how that's gonna improve your systems. It doesn't make sense to have everyone in your organisation spending time on that, but you probably want some people in your organization spending time on that. So we're all still trying to figure out how we need to restructure our organizations with AI in mind. But I think this is what we know so far. For each thing your company does, I think you want at least one person who's completely focused on making the best use of AI to do that thing. This is someone who stays familiar with tools like Claude Code and now Claude managed agents. They know how to build skills and set up work flows, and can train the rest of the team on those processes. And when I say train the team on those processes, I don't mean train them how to set up complex workflows in AI. I think it's gonna be important for companies to set up these workflows so that they're dummy proof. I'm the one building these processes at my agency right now, and t

Stop telling your whole team to "keep up with AI." Everyone should be USING it — but keeping up with it is a full-time job. You want 10-20% of your team building AI workflows. The rest? Focus on what humans do best. And if you don't have someone who's already obsessed with AI on your team, hire an agency. #AIStrategy #AIForBusiness #businesstipsandtricks #AIWorkflows

AI operations / team structure
AI workflows / SOP design


a be important for companies to set up these workflows so that they're dummy proof. I'm the one building these processes at my agency right now, and the end result is a 5 to 10 minute SOP that I can hand to my team. It shows them how to go to Claude, select a skill, and Claude will guide them through the process. Now, it's important that everyone on my team is familiar with Claude. They need to know how to use it, what it's capable of, what it's not capable of. But otherwise, I want most of them focusing their time on the things that humans do best. As AI can handle more and more of the work, it's gonna be those things that humans do best that are the real differentiator for businesses. I don't know what the ideal structure is yet. Maybe 10 or 20% of your team is focused on building AI skills and workflows. But the next question is, how do you find those people? How do you know who on your team should be building those workflows? And in my experience, if you have to ask, you don't have the right person yet. Mistake a lot of companies are making right now is that they're forcing people to become interested in AI. They're pointing to their teammates, and they're saying, learn AI. Figure out how to work this into our processes. But the kind of people who are good at this are already obsessed with AI and working it into your processes. You're not gonna have to force them to do anything. Instead, you just have to empower them to do more of that. But a lot of companies don't have these people. And in that case, you have two options. You can either hire someone or you can hire an agency. And in the short term, I think for most businesses, it's gonna make more sense to hire an agency, an agency that's already figured out how to set up these processes. Long term, you probably wa


sinesses, it's gonna make more sense to hire an agency, an agency that's already figured out how to set up these processes. Long term, you probably want someone on staff, given that your business is large enough to warrant that. But if you're hiring someone for that role now, it might be six months or a year before you start to realize those productivity gains. And with how fast AI is moving, I don't think most businesses can afford to wait that long.


If you know anything about SEO, you probably know that backlinks matter for ranking in Google. And yes, this is still true even with AI search. However, you probably don't need as many backlinks as you think. And if you don't understand why backlinks help and which backlinks help, you're likely to waste a lot of time and money. I'd like to just get into how we think about backlinks at our agency. If you don't know, a backlink is just another website linking to your website. It's one of many factors that search engines use to determine how high you should rank. The idea is pretty simple: if a lot of other websites online are linking to your website, you must be a trusted, authoritative source. But of course, SEOs are gonna SEO. It's pretty easy to throw up a website linking back to yours, or pay another website to link back to yours. And so over the years, Google and other search engines have had to become more and more sophisticated at detecting which links are natural, authentic backlinks and which have just been placed for SEO purposes. Nowadays, the vast majority of backlinks are ignored. If the link is easy to get, or if it's placed on a site that's known for soliciting backlinks, Google's gonna ignore it. This is why for most websites, if you go to a link building agency and just start building a bunch of links, you're unlikely to see a significant benefit. But links still do matter. So what are you gonna do? The thing to understand is, even if you aren't actively building links, websites just naturally get links. If you're running a business and creating content, people are gonna link to you. Not very often, but occasionally. And like I said before, links are just one factor that Google uses. When you're doing SEO the right way, the signal you're trying to send to

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AI-cited sources / outreach
Authority signals / backlinks
Backlink quality
Risk/avoid / paid or reciprocal links


sionally. And like I said before, links are just one factor that Google uses. When you're doing SEO the right way, the signal you're trying to send to Google is that your business is growing, you're becoming more of an authority in your space. And Google has a pretty good idea of what this looks like when it happens authentically. You're publishing more content to your website. More people are searching for your brand by name, people are more likely to click on your website in the search result. People are talking about you online. And yes, more people are linking to you. And so if your business is truly becoming more of an authority, Google expects all of these things to rise simultaneously. You suddenly get a bunch of links, but no one's talking about you online. Your brand search didn't go up, you're not producing more content. That just looks unnatural to Google. So a good link building campaign isn't about getting as many links as possible, it's about getting enough links to keep up with all the other efforts. And as I mentioned before, you're naturally gonna get some links, so you probably don't need to build a ton of additional links. But you do wanna build some. And specifically, you wanna build links that look natural, that Google's gonna trust. Let's talk about how to do that. If you're a brand new website, you're gonna wanna get some foundational links. These are things like setting up your social media profiles and identifying the top directories in your industry and submitting your business there. These links are very easy to get, and so they don't carry a lot of weight, but Google expects to see you in these places. The next thing I recommend doing is building links with existing relationships. Try to think of every person or business you know with a websi


places. The next thing I recommend doing is building links with existing relationships. Try to think of every person or business you know with a website. You're then gonna reach out and ask if they can link to you. But don't worry, you aren't asking for a favour. You're gonna do this in a way that's mutually beneficial. There's typically three approaches. 1. You offer to write them a testimonial that they can place on their website with a link back to yours. 2. You offer to write them an article they can put on their blog with a link back to yours. And 3, you offer to put them on your partners or resources page if they'll do the same on their website. Don't assume you're gonna get a lot of links this way. But if you can identify 10 websites and get two of them to link back to you, you've done a good job. And the last method: instead of going to these websites that are actively soliciting links, go to the websites that Google is telling you they trust. Go to Google's AI mode and search for the kind of things that your customers would search for when they're looking for your products and services. Start making a list of all the articles that Google sites in those responses. Try to collect 20 to 50 of these articles. Then just reach out to each publisher and say, hey, I loved your article. What would it take for you to recommend our brand in your article? In our experience, 95% of them are going to ignore you. But it's okay. 5% is enough. If they respond, they're gonna want one of two things. They're gonna want payment, usually something like one to 3 hundred dollars, or they're gonna want a reciprocal link you link back to them. In either case, it's well worth it. These are websites that Google is telling you they already trust. Then if you still need links, you can reach


hem. In either case, it's well worth it. These are websites that Google is telling you they already trust. Then if you still need links, you can reach out to a trusted link building agency. Let me know if you need a recommendation. I'll put you in touch with my friend Scott over at outreacher. But of our 40 SEO clients, I only recommend this for two of them.


A company ever pitches you scaling SEO content pages, you have to know this is what you should expect. You will get the most tremendous increase up. This site had super sophisticated SEO content pages. They increased from 200,000 clicks a month in two months, 9.5 million clicks a month. Craziest spike up ever. It was very easy for Google to identify a manipulation pattern. This is what immediately happened. Look at this downwards. Now they're at 47,000 clicks a month from Google, way worse than when they first started. Even in last year, they were doing more sophisticated AI SEO than people are doing now in 2026. They still got hit. There's a new SEO traffic Saturn emerging. People are calling it Mount AI. If you can look at this and understand why it's called Mount AI: AI content scaling starts, traffic spike, Mount AI peak, the website gets hit, disability collapse down and down and down and down and down again. Don't fall for the hype. This SEO strategy is unsustainable. If you wanna learn safe, sustainable SEO, you can do so at free SEO knowledge.com.

If a company ever pitches you scaling SEO content pages, you have to know this is what you should expect. You will get the most tremendous increase up. This site had super sophisticated SEO content pages… They increased from 200,000 clicks a month in two months to 9.5 million clicks a month. Craziest spike up ever. It was very easy for Google to identify a manipulation pattern. This is what immediately happened… Huge downwards drop. Annihilation. Now they're at 47,000 clicks a month from Google. Way worse than when they first started. Even last year, they were doing more sophisticated AI SEO than people are doing now in 2026. They still got hit. There's a new SEO traffic pattern emerging. People are calling it Mount AI. AI content scaling starts, traffic spike, Mount AI peak, the website gets hit, visibility collapse, down and down and down and down and down it goes. Don't fall for the hype. Scaled AI SEO is unsustainable. If you want to learn safe, sustainable SEO, you can do so at freeseonowledge.com #searchengineoptimization #scalingseo #growthhacking #startups


do you want your website index by Google and get on top of the search results here's the best way that you can do it straight away all you have to do is go to Search Console if you haven't signed up for Search Console it's free of charge and all you have to do is follow some steps then once you have done it is you have to submit a site map now majority of websites out there the formats of the site maps are pretty much the same it's your website address Ford slash site map dot x m L all you have to do is go to site maps in Search Console submit that site map URL and press enter by doing this you are telling Google these are all the different pages on your website and it's gonna help to get your website found crawled and indexed as fast as possible go do it straight away I'm telling you by doing this this is gonna make such a big difference to your SEO and getting your web site up the Google search index

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Reviews are incredibly important for almost every business, much more important than most business owners realize. And it's one of the few things that a marketing agency can't handle for you. Whether a potential customer is doing research on their own or they're using an AI to get recommendations. Reviews are almost always one of the major factors, but they're also notoriously difficult to acquire. And this is why the majority of businesses don't put nearly enough resources towards getting more reviews. You've probably put efforts towards getting more reviews in the past, and it just feels like you're spinning your wheel. The good news is you're not alone. Your competitors have the same difficulty. However, I think if the average business owner understood how much a review is really worth, they would put more resources towards it. Some really rough math that I think is useful is that one review is typically worth about what you get from one customer in profit. And this is because for the average business, you'll get about one extra customer for each positive review you have. So how do you get more reviews? Well, the number one thing you can do is just ask. Make it part of your standard process. Identify the part of your process where the customer is most satisfied, and use that as an opportunity to ask for the review. But of course, 90% of them still aren't gonna leave a review even when they tell you they're gonna leave a review. So here are a few things you can do to increase the percentage they do. One is just to tell them you're going to ask for a review. Before you ask for a review, before you do any work, before you give them the product, tell them, we intend to give you five star service. We're gonna come back and ask you if we provided that five star service. An

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Review acquisition / process
Review platform prioritization
Reviews / AI recommendations


give them the product, tell them, we intend to give you five star service. We're gonna come back and ask you if we provided that five star service. And if we did, we're gonna ask you leave us a five star review. What this does is turn something that was a favor to you into a favor for your customer. You're giving them all the leverage. Now that they know you need this five star review from them, it shows them that you're incentivized to provide a five star product or service. And then, of course, you follow up and say, did we provide a five star product or service? If they say yes, you ask for the review. And if they say no, you're getting some really valuable feedback from your customer. But still, most people who say they're gonna leave your review are not gonna leave a review. So you need to follow up. And this is where business owners get shy. They're worried they're bothering their customers, or they're gonna push customers into leaving them a negative review. Neither of those things are true. Happy customers want to help you. They want to leave a positive review, they don't mind you following up. And unhappy customers, the ones that might leave you a negative review, are gonna leave you a negative review anyways. They don't need the reminder. So in practice, the more annoying you are, the more positive reviews you get. But where do you ask the customer to leave you a review? For some businesses, this is obvious. If people are mostly finding you through Google Maps, it's gonna be your Google Business Profile. If you're an e commerce business, it's probably gonna be on your own website or on Amazon. But if you're unsure, I recommend going to Google's AI mode. Ask for reviews for the type of product or service you offer, and see which websites Google sites most often


e, I recommend going to Google's AI mode. Ask for reviews for the type of product or service you offer, and see which websites Google sites most often.


The CEO of Google just said that Google Search is evolving into an agent manager. Let's talk about what he means by that and what this means for businesses that are doing SEO right now. Sundar Bachai was just on the Cheeky Pint podcast, and he's saying that soon when you enter a search into Google, it's not just going to return an answer. It's actually gonna spin up agents that can do tasks on your behalf. For those of us that have been paying close attention to this, it's been pretty clear that it's headed in this direction for a while now. It's been funny to me to watch SEO's debate over the last year whether or not Google is going to give up the 10 blue links in exchange for an AI search result. I've been saying for a while now that by the end of 2026 Google's search results page will look more like AI mode. It'll be primarily an AI response, but this actually goes one step beyond that. What Sundar is saying isn't just that an AI will review the top results and then summarize it using a large language model, but instead, at least for some searches, multiple agents will go out and actually interact with these websites and take action on your behalf. Might help you book a flight or make a dinner reservation. They might let you check multiple stores to see if any of them have shoes in your size. They might reach out and get quotes from three different companies and compare them for you. It's really hard to predict exactly what shape this will take, but I think what's clear is that we're very quickly moving into a world where we're building the websites more for AI agents than we are for humans. Now, for the foreseeable future, we still need our websites to be usable by humans, but if we're not already there yet, very soon most users of our websites will be AI agents, ag

Google's CEO just said search is becoming an agent manager. Agents will book flights, compare prices, and gather info FOR you. Your website's future audience? AI agents, not humans. SEO isn't dead, it's evolving. #SEO #GoogleSearch #AIAgents #DigitalMarketing

Agent-readable websites / information completeness


ure, we still need our websites to be usable by humans, but if we're not already there yet, very soon most users of our websites will be AI agents, agents gathering information from and interacting with our websites on behalf of a human. And humans are ultimately gonna be making decisions based on the recommendations of those agents. And so it's time to start thinking: how do you make sure your website shows up when agents are searching? How do you make sure that the information that they're looking for is on your website? And how do you make sure it's easy for them to interact with your website? On that last point, I recommend looking into web m C P. I have a whole video on it, but it looks like this is gonna be the protocol we're using to let agents interact with our website. The other thing I recommend is just loading your website up with any kind of information that an agent might need when doing a search on behalf of a human. I have another video detailing all the pages I recommend adding to your website and what content you should put on there. In short, SEO is gonna be more important than ever. It's just we won't be optimizing for humans so much anymore. We'll be optimizing for AI agents.


Your site has got two major issues that you need to address if you want any chance of ranking. First, nobody is searching for NYC portrait and wedding photographer. They want a portrait photographer or a wedding photographer. You need a page for each of these, but there is no point doing any of that until you fix this issue. Where is your meta title? I go into this in depth in the SEO Clinic, but when it comes to what you should have on your pages, this is the most important on page SEO ranking factor. Even if you do nothing else, you've got to add your keywords here.

Replying to @Tia✨🐝 || Photographer Your website SEO is never going to take off if you don't look at your keywords and pages. You can't rank for everything with just one page, and you need to consider whether the SEO keywords you're using are things people actually search! This is basic on-page SEO and it feeds into the most important Google ranking factor - your meta title. If it's empty or generic, you're not going to rank on Google for anything! Highly recommend you run a website SEO audit on your site so you can get all these things right from the get go! #websiteseoaudit #googleseo #onpageseo #seokeywords

Local/service SEO / page splitting
On-page SEO / meta titles


did you know that Google provides a free tool that allows you to ethically and legally go and look what 99% of your competitors or any advertisers out there are doing inside of Google Ads it's called the Air Transparency Center all you have to do is go log on choose the country and then choose any advertiser as long as that advertiser is verified on Google you can see everything that they're doing inside of Google Ads you can see their text ads you can see their shopping ads you can see their banner ads you can see their YouTube ads now clever advertisers know how to use this tool quite a lot now here are just some ideas No. 1 if a person has got keywords in a headline that means that generally they are bidding on those keywords so now you can get some ideas what keywords your competitors are bidding on obviously you can also go take a look at the different types of banners if these guys are big company you can see the research that they've done they've probably done AB testing and over here you can see what some of the winners are this tool is free from Google like I said and it's really unbelievable go check it out now and let me know if it works for you.

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Shopify just made SEO a whole lot easier. The Shopify AI Toolkit, manage your store with your favorite agent. This can be a lot more efficient than going through every product one by one, adding a ton more details for SEO, especially for merchants who have hundreds of skews. This is a video from Shopify. The prompt is optimize all my products for SEO. 32 product listings are optimized. All text is added or rewritten. Meta descriptions, verifying every change with one prompt. No fiver freelancer, no 2 hundred dollar per month app subscription, no agent retainer. You wanna make sure you have a backup if you're gonna play around with this one. Congrats, you just made sure I have a full year of fixing people's websites after they effed it up with your half baked tool. Another person: this, my friends, is how you delete all of your products and collections in a single prompt. Somebody else: founders with no technology can prompt clawed into a mess that they won't understand, let alone know how to fix. For people who know what they're doing, good stuff. Again, just make sure you have a backup of your store before turning AI loose on it. And learn how to find purchase intent product keywords and target these keywords with the special kind of SEO product page. Learn it all at Compact Keywords com.

Shopify just made SEO a whole lot easier: The Shopify AI Toolkit. Manage your store with your favorite agent. This can be a lot more efficient than going through every product one by one, adding a ton more details for SEO - especially for merchants who have hundreds of SKUs. The agent goes off and does lots of tedious SEO tasks. Alt text is added or rewritten, meta descriptions, verifying every change with one prompt. No Fiverr freelancer, no $200 per month app subscription, no agency retainer. You want to make sure you have a backup if you're going to play around with this. One person: “Congrats, you just made sure I have a full year of fixing people's websites after they effed it up with your half-baked tool.” Another person: “This, my friends, is how you delete all of your products and collections in a single prompt.” Somebody else: “Founders with no tech knowledge can prompt Claude into a mess that they won't understand, let alone know how to fix. For people who know what they're doing, good stuff.” Again, just make sure you have a backup of your store before turning AI loose on it. And learn how to find purchase intent product keywords, and target these keywords with a special kind of SEO product page… learn it all at compactkeywords.com #ecommerce #searchengineoptimization #marketingautomation #ecommerceseo

AI agents / ecommerce SEO
Risk/avoid / autonomous store edits


Your website's SEO strategy is not AI proof if you're doing this, and it's the reason why so many of you are doing SEO and not getting anywhere. Google's AI Overviews and tools like ChatGPT are already taking traffic away from websites. We know this. It's happening whether you like it or not. But that only becomes a problem when it affects revenue, and that only happens when your website SEO is targeting the wrong traffic. I go into this properly inside the SEO Clinic, but in short, when you're using blog posts for SEO, you're targeting informational searches, the exact searches that AI is replacing. And there is a place in your website strategy for blog posts, but it's way down the line. And I guarantee you're not there yet, because even if they rank, you're not gonna get a click and you're not gonna make any money. What actually works is targeting commercial and transactional searches, the searches that people make when they're ready to buy. This is where the real revenue comes from. In the SEO Clinic I'll show you exactly what pages you need to target those searches, because it's different for every type of business. But once you've got this right, you're targeting searches that AI isn't replacing.

You need to AI proof your website SEO. If your SEO keywords are all focused on blog content, that’s probably why you’re not seeing results. You’re going after traffic that doesn’t convert, and now AI is taking that traffic anyway. This is where most SEO strategies fall apart. You’re targeting the wrong part of the search intent funnel. If you want revenue from your website SEO, you need to shift towards searches from people ready to take action. That’s where the money is, and it’s what AI can’t replace in the same way. #websiteseo #keywordresearch #googleseo #aiseo #seoin2026


Oh no, more proof that SEO is dead. Says it right here. More proof SEO is dead. Here's the proof. The global SEO services market was valued at around $81.46 billion in 2024. Here it comes. It's now expected to reach $171 billion dollars by 2030. Let's go along with this. The market is estimated to grow at around 13% during the four cast period. Come on. According to Google Trends, search engine optimization is fluctuating around an all time high. All time high in interest for search engine optimization. There has never been a better time to learn SEO. If you want to learn it for free, head over to free SEO knowledge.com.

Oh no, more proof that SEO is dead. Says it right here. More proof SEO is dead. Here's the proof. The global SEO services market was valued at around $81.46 billion in 2024. Here it comes. It's now expected to reach $171 billion by 2030. Let's go! Along with this, the market is estimated to grow at around 13% during the forecast period, come on! According to Google Trends, search engine optimization is fluctuating around an all time high. All time high in interest for search engine optimization. There has never been a better time to learn SEO. If you want to learn it for free, head over to FreeSEOKnowledge.com #searchengineoptimization #seo #digitalmarketing #generativeengineoptimization


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I wanna share an SEO horror story that is happening right now with a client that I used to work with these guys called me in December and they said Josh we have decided to move to a new SEO provider one of the directors is friendly with one of the guys there and this is the way that we wanna go obviously I don't like losing clients but I said to these guys guys I know these providers they are terrible they are cowboys they are useless and you are gonna drop off a cliff they didn't listen to me and I made the move yesterday I went onto HS just to take a look how these guys are doing and I've started to see like I said they are really starting to collapse take a look at these horrible results so far I can see so far they've lost 545 keywords from the rankings I can see just from the top three keywords alone they've dropped 372 keywords if we look at the organic traffic go look at that number this is massive now I'm so disappointed because I worked so hard with these guys again I knew this new provider would do it if I go look at what the issues are I don't really know what these guys did but they did something along the lines in December and for whatever the reason is over here you can see that the amount of pages that have been crawled and index has dropped dramatically these guys are just gonna continue to drop unless I call them and say guys please there is an issue I'm gonna try but I think that's too late to help them because I think they're tied down to this agency and I don't think whatever I tell them is gonna help please guys when you're choosing an SEO provider do your homework make sure that that provider knows what they're doing they're skilled in SEO because a wrong moving SEO can cost you millions and millions of brands

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Do you know what's going on with your website's internal links? Don't lie to me, I bet you don't. I've audited hundreds of sites, and fixing messy internal links has actually given some of the quickest SEO wins I've ever seen. Which is nuts because everyone focuses on back links and totally ignores the links they can actually control. So internal links do three things: tell Google what pages are the most important, pass ranking power to other pages, and improve your site's crawlability. But when your site hits like 100, 200+ pages, it gets messy, especially if you haven't really been paying attention to it. So a couple of weeks ago, Rankmath gave me early access to their Link Genius feature, and honestly, it just solves that whole messy internal links issue. Let me show you. So it scans all the links on your site, gives you an overall breakdown, but also a full breakdown of all your broken links, all the links with redirect, your top linked pages, and then. This is awesome. You can compare all your pages to identify internal linking opportunities. Took me less than 5 minutes to do all of this. 10/10.

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There's a seriously awesome feature in Google Business Profiles that almost no businesses are using. Take a look at these search results for Roofers Seattle. You can actually book an appointment with them right through the Google Business Profile. Just click this button and I get this nice little interface that I can book an appointment with. If you're in an industry like a hair salon, nail spa, any kind of service business, you'll have this button for booking. So if you click that, then you can see the options. You can actually set up booking with a featured book button. This is the one that will let you book directly, but it's only through a series of preferred partners. If you are using any of these systems for your own booking, then connect this directly to your Google Business Profile and that way people can book with you right from the search results. If you have this option on your Google Business Profile, make sure you connect it.

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This is the new black cat SEO scheme you have to be afraid of. Every single video contains a brand name, then the word review. Every single one. These are all AI videos. If you ask ChatGPT about one of these brands, ChatGPT gets its information from one of these AI review videos. Here's another one of these YouTube channels. They don't even buy the products. They have an AI doing commentary on the products landing pages. They all promote different products as alternatives. The product they promote is given at the top of every single description. YouTube is the most clicked website in Google. It has been blowing up in SEO. There are so many of these fake review YouTube channels out there. They get discovered in Google. They get discovered in AI. AI uses what they say, even though these YouTube channels don't buy the products. If you have a brand, this is what you have to do. Take all of your reviews, put them on YouTube, use the exact same language these people are using: your brand name, then the word review, then is it worth it, is it a scam, here's the real truth. Even if you have written reviews, just show them on screen and speak them yourself. Use the transcript of your review in the YouTube description. Put up a ton of these videos. Put them across multiple YouTube channels. Put your positive reviews on TikTok, on Instagram, on Facebook, on X. These are the most clicked websites in Google. Double down on YouTube. According to Adweek, it is the most cited source in AI search. This is a huge problem if you are a brand. Protect yourself by constantly sharing your reviews.

This is the new black hat SEO scheme you have to be afraid of: Every single video contains a brand name, then the word review. All are AI videos. If you ask ChatGPT about one of these brands, ChatGPT gets its information from one of these AI review videos. The review channels don't even buy the products, they just have an AI doing commentary on the products' landing pages. They all promote different products as alternatives. The product they promote is given at the top of every single description.  YouTube is the most clicked website in Google. It has been blowing up in SEO. There are so many of these fake review YouTube channels out there. They get discovered in Google. They get discovered in AI. AI uses what they say, even though these YouTube channels don't buy the products. If you have a brand, this is what you have to do: Take all of your reviews, put them on YouTube. Use the exact same language these people are using for your video title: your brand name, then the word review, then is it worth it, or is it a scam, or here's the real truth. Even if you have written reviews, just show them on screen, and read them yourself. Use the transcript of your reviews in your YouTube descriptions. Put up a ton of these positive review videos. Put them across multiple YouTube channels. Put your positive reviews on TikTok, on Instagram, on Facebook, and on 𝕏. These are the most clicked websites in Google. Double down on YouTube. According to Adweek, it is the most cited source in AI search. This is a huge problem. If you are a brand, protect yourself by constantly sharing your reviews. #searchengineoptimization #seo #reputationmanagement #youtubeseo

Review content / YouTube visibility
Risk/avoid / fake AI reviews


I mean, there's a lot I could say about this website. It is not good. But you are a local business, so we are gonna look at local search results. Let's see who's ranking. You're not in the top 3 results. Cause anyone that doesn't go further than this and just clicks on these guys. Already not seeing you. Where are you? You are position 5. Okay, why are you calling yourself a home improvement shop? No one else here is doing that. I mean, actually pressure washing there are even more off base. You've got more reviews than almost everyone ranking above you. But as you can see, the majority of them have got a category of property maintenance. Makes sense. Home improvement shop. And your other category is service establishment. Oh my goodness. Like, what were you thinking when you were putting this profile together? LWR Group is a property maintenance company. Well, they clearly don't think so because they haven't put it as their category.

Replying to @Louis 548 You’re making local SEO way harder than it needs to be. If your Google Business Profile isn’t set up properly, you’re handing leads to competitors in the Google Map Pack without even realising. Wrong categories mean wrong rankings Wrong positioning means no visibility Fix your Google My Business setup and you give yourself a much better chance to rank higher on Google, especially if your reviews are already strong. #localseo #localseoaudit #googlemybusiness #googlebusinessprofile #rankhigherongoogle


did you know that inside of Google Ads you can see who your competitors are and you can actually see how you are doing relative to them in the Google Auction it's very easy to do inside of Google Ads click on insights and reports then on the left hand side slightly below you're gonna see something that says auction reports now once you're in it as I said you gonna see all the people that are competing against you and you gonna see a wealth of information you can see how you're doing relative to them in terms of getting on top of the auction or obviously on below you can see if you need to increase your budget and a whole lot more most people don't know the wealth of information that it is actually inside of Google Ads it's actually an amazing system and you have to spend time to get to know it a little bit more

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Claudia Tamina has published an article on Search Engine Land called if your local rankings are off your map pin may be the reason I Learned a couple things in this article that I hadn't thought of before the first one is the suite numbers in the address 1 field it's very interesting and she points this out those have to go in like floor building any like little modifiers they have to go in address too and the reason for that is that Google GEO locates based on what you put into the address 1 field so we put a whole bunch of extra weird stuff in there Google system sometimes can't figure out what that is and then it messes up where Google places your GEO like your GEO coordinates your map pin and so that's interesting I didn't actually think about that before well I always knew it's best practice to put sweet number in address to field but this is the reason as like don't mess with it cause you can actually screw up your ranking significantly

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Garage Door company hired us for $18,000. They made 1.7 million back in 11 months. Optimized Google Business Profile. This is what helps them show in Google Maps and the local map pack. Collected at least 10 legit reviews as fast as possible. Used real photos, not cheesy stock images. Please don't do that. Fixed hours, services, categories, description, everything properly. Kill generic service pages on the website. Built hyper-specific money pages: affordable garage door repair in Houston, same-day service, no hidden fees. That's what you should be making pages like. Fix their internal links. The site has zero links between pages. What connected everything: the service pages, blogs, homepage. Focus on real solid backlinks, guest posts on real legit local blogs and industry sites. If you wanna see an easy way to use AI to get local backlinks, go to free SEO knowledge.com, scroll down to the AI system to find relevant journalists, land coverage, and earn ongoing high-authority backlinks. Built relationships with other local businesses for link swaps. If you're a plumber, you get a link from an electrician that you work with. If you're an electrician, you get a link from a contractor you work with. Stop trying to be famous. Focused on local only. They wanted to rank for best garage door, top garage doors nationwide. Pointless. Double down on keywords like garage door repair Austin. They were a small company struggling to get calls, living off word of mouth and random referrals. The owner was almost ready to shut it all down. Now they're booked out weeks in advance and turning away low-ticket jobs. I love this. I just put out a podcast on this: 18,000 to 1.7 million in 11 months, the local SEO strategy that actually works on the Edward Show podcast. Is post is from sarvest

A garage door company hired us for $18,000. They made $1.7 million back in 11 months. Optimized Google Business Profile.  This is what helps them show in Google Maps and the local map pack. Collected at least 10 legit reviews as fast as possible. Used real photos, not cheesy stock images- please don't do use cheesy stock images. Fixed hours, services, categories, description, everything properly. Killed generic service pages on the website. Built hyper specific money pages. “Affordable Garage Door Repair in Houston - Same Day Service, No Hidden Fees.” That's what you should be making pages like. Fixed their internal links. The site had zero links between pages. Connected everything. The service pages, blogs, homepage.  Focused on real solid backlinks. Guest posts on real legit local blogs and industry sites. If you want to see an easy way to use AI to get local backlinks, go to FreeSEOKnowledge.com, and scroll down to The AI System to Find Relevant Journalists, Land Coverage, and Earn Ongoing High-Authority Backlinks. Built relationships with other local businesses for link swaps. If you're a plumber, you get a link from an electrician that you work with. If you're an electrician, you get a link from a contractor you work with. Stopped trying to be famous, focused on local only. They wanted to rank for best garage door, top garage doors nationwide, pointless. Doubled down on keywords like garage door repair Austin. They were a small company struggling to get calls, living off word of mouth and random referrals. The owner was almost ready to shut it all down. Now, they're booked out weeks in advance and turning away low ticket jobs. I love this. I just put out a podcast on this, $18,000 to $1.7 Million in 11 Months: The Local SEO Strategy That Actually Works - on The Edward Show podcast. This post is from Sarvesh Srivastava, who's a friend of the podcast. He's been on twice already. He'll be coming back on the show tomorrow to break down this exact strategy. $18,000 to $1.7 million in 11 months. If you're a local business, you can do it too. #localseo #searchengineoptimization #googlebusinessprofileoptimization #seo

Local backlinks / relationships
Local SEO / Google Business Profile
Local SEO / money pages


a podcast on this: 18,000 to 1.7 million in 11 months, the local SEO strategy that actually works on the Edward Show podcast. Is post is from sarvestrivastrova, who's a friend of the podcast. He's been on twice already. He'll be coming back on the show tomorrow to break down this exact strategy: 18,000 to 1.7 million in 11 months. If you're a local business, you can do it too.


It's never been easier to replace yourself with AI. And I don't just mean, like, routine processes that you can write out of the checklist. I mean, like the really difficult stuff, the stuff we thought we'd never be able to turn over to AI. So I just wanna walk through exactly how I've been doing this and the major unlock I had recently. Because if you're like me, if you're a founder or at least an expert or specialist in your organisation, there's a very good chance that you're the bottleneck. People are depending on that tacit knowledge or intuition that you develop through experience. And until recently, it really felt like that was something AI couldn't handle. But I'm gonna show you the way. Let's start by considering why this doesn't feel possible. If you're someone with 5, 10, 20 years of experience, you very likely developed a strong intuition when people come to you with difficult questions. You just have a feeling you've seen a problem like this a hundred times before, and you can take all the context and nuance and confidently put forth a plan for addressing the problem. The actual decision process or framework is mostly invisible to you. But of course, this isn't magic. There is a decision framework. The neurons on your brain are processing information and outputting a result. The difficult part is documenting that framework and all the nuance and edge cases that it comes with. But having done this myself for a handful of decisions that I make on a regular basis, it's incredibly powerful. So let me just walk through the process I'm using right now. First, you need to identify a problem or category of problem, but try to keep it small. For me, this would be things like keyword research or internal linking, resolving website technical issues, or proposing a si

You can literally train AI to think like you. Document your decision process, build it into a skill, then correct every mistake until it gets it right. I've got 6 running right now 🤯 #AIAutomation #AITools #FounderTips #WorkSmarter

AI skills / expert decision frameworks
Human review / AI workflow QA


ut try to keep it small. For me, this would be things like keyword research or internal linking, resolving website technical issues, or proposing a site map structure. Pick one of these problems and create a skill in Claude. Now, you can use ChatGPT, or Gemini. I think skills work across all the models now, but I recommend Claude with Opus 4.6. If you've never made a skill before, don't worry. Claude will walk you through the whole process. Just tell it exactly what you're trying to do. I need to make a skill that solves this problem. Then you're gonna give it your best first draft of the framework. Carve out an hour and just really spell out the whole process you go through in your head. If you have any documentation or examples of times where you've gone through this process, throw that in there as well. Claude does a great job with lots of messy context. And then ask Claude to give you any follow up questions it needs to finalize the skill. Claude's gonna take all that information and package it into a nice organized skill file. That's step one. Now, every time you're dealing with this problem, use this skill in Claude. If you get a question from a customer, someone in your team, or you're just solving the problem on your own, go to Claude, paste in the context, and link that skill. Say, Claude, help me solve this problem using this skill. And what you're probably gonna notice very quickly is it's gonna make a lot of mistakes. It's gonna get a lot of things wrong and do things differently than you would. Your job is to itemize each of those discrepancies, explain to Claude what it got wrong and what you would have done instead. And then at the end of that process, say, Claude, I want you to go back through our entire conversation, take everything you've learned, and


instead. And then at the end of that process, say, Claude, I want you to go back through our entire conversation, take everything you've learned, and update the skill. And that's the magic. Do this a dozen times, 20 times. Eventually it'll be making these decisions the same way you would 90% of the time. Plus, it has all the advantages of being an AI. At that point, you can hand it over to your team. Now, for a while, you're still gonna wanna check the output, but I have about half a dozen processes I'm developing this way simultaneously right now, and it's kind of amazing how close it gets.


Right now, everyone is wondering what impact AI is gonna have on jobs and businesses. Who's safe, who's about to be replaced? As someone who owns a digital marketing agency, which might be the most disruptable industry right now, but it's still actively hiring three or four people every month, I just wanted to give my take. Whether you're a business owner, employee, or contractor, right now, I think you're in one of three situations. I wanna explain what those three situations are and then how I see this progressing over the next few years. The first situation is you do something that we still need humans to do or society demands humans do for the foreseeable future. So this includes what people are calling the Halo industries. High asset, low obsolescence. Things that you need to do in person, maybe manipulating things with your hands. Things like construction, the trades, in-person experiences. But also things that AI could do, we just don't want them to do. For example, my wife's a teacher. I think pretty soon AI can make a pretty good teacher. But do we really want robots teaching our kids? I don't think so. In some cases, this could also include things like account managers or the main attorney at a practice. If you're the one with your name on the building, you're probably safe for now. I don't think we'll be letting AI attorneys represent people in court anytime soon. In other words, if Your customers, the law or the laws of physics demand a human do what you do. You're probably safe for now. Now, all these industries are still gonna be affected by AI, of course, and I do think eventually AI will be able to do everything humans do. But these are the people with the most job security. The second are businesses and people who do something that they think only a hum

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thing humans do. But these are the people with the most job security. The second are businesses and people who do something that they think only a human can do. If you're wondering if you're in this category, you are. These are people who do something creative, or they're in charge of strategy, or they manage a team of people. They think there's no way AI could do what I do. It's just not creative enough, doesn't have the experience that I have. While a year ago there was some room for doubt, here I think we've seen enough. It's very clear we'll be able to distill human experience and creativity into an AI model. It also plays in this category. People who have chosen just not to think about it. Maybe they know AI is coming for their job, or they just choose not to think about the implications of AI. However you find yourself in situation number two, it's not a good situation. There's good news though, cause you can always leave situation number two and enter situation number three. Situation 3 are people like me. People who realise they could be replaced by AI. And are leaning into it. Because if you can be replaced by AI, that means you can replace yourself by AI. And then multiply yourself 100 times, a thousand times. People who are really good at this are incredibly valuable right now. If you are one of these people, I will give you a job offer right now. For the next one to two years, situation three is the best situation to be in. People in businesses in this category are gonna do very well. But, of course, as they get more and more successful at replacing themselves, we'll need fewer and fewer of them. The spoils of this productivity will go to a smaller and smaller group of them. And those that become obsolete will start to wish they were in situation number one.


this productivity will go to a smaller and smaller group of them. And those that become obsolete will start to wish they were in situation number one. I'm guessing a lot of them will transition to situation number one. And that's it. I don't have any advice for you. Just remember that AI and robots are coming for all of our jobs. Eventually, hopefully, we find ourselves in the happy version of the future.


Are you kidding me? Oh, my. The keyword stuffing here is next level. There's no way this is ranking for anything. Yeah, I mean, the fact there's been, like, zero growth here does not surprise me. I'm gonna assume you're trying to rank for Tibet Travel Agency or similar. Aside from all of this nonsense, this is honestly giving travel blog. Um, why have you got comments? Absolutely mental. There is no need for any of this. And it's from, like, 2020. I'm sorry. This is just achieving absolutely nothing. The majority of your rankings, which aren't great by the way, they're based on people looking for information, and you've got a ton of it, but this stuff isn't gonna make you any money. And the stuff that presumably will is just tacked on the menu at the end here. Jeez Louise, stop following blog SEO advice. Just put it in the bin and start again.

Replying to @Tibet Travel Guide Tours If your website SEO strategy is all blogs and no clear path to sell, you’ve got a bigger problem than rankings. Getting website traffic from informational keywords might feel good, but if it’s not tied to search intent that leads to enquiries or sales, it’s not doing much for your business. You need to rethink your SEO keyword research strategy and website content.  You don’t need more blog SEO. You need pages built to rank higher on Google for the stuff that makes you money. Highly recommend doing a website SEO audit of all your content, pages and target keywords.  #websiteseoaudit #googleseo #websiteseostrategy #seomistakes

Intent / revenue pages
Risk/avoid / keyword stuffing


What a time to be alive. The AI vibe coding tool replicate. There's no longer an obstacle to creating SEO-optimized content at scale. And this is what it looks like when you do this. This site scaled AI content. It went from 275,000 clicks a month, you're not gonna believe this, to 9.5 million clicks a month. Now here's the part replets not gonna tell you. Google has gotten exceptionally good at detecting scaled AI content. This is what happened after they hit 9.5 million clicks a month. They went down and down and down and down and down, down and down and down and down and down. Here's a million more examples of the same pattern. Spike up with the scaled AI SEO traffic, get caught, get slammed down. Look at this. It's so bad Google literally has it in their guidelines: scaled content abuse. The comments in this replete post are full of jokes. AI content at scale is a penalty waiting to happen. shopify tried this, got a spike, then got d ranked. They went from 5 million clicks to 300,000. They are still trending down. Anybody who tells you to scale AI content for SEO does not have your best interest in mind. They are either trying to go viral or trying to take your money, or both. This is what happens when you scale AI SEO content. And there are plenty of SEO hacks that are not spam. If you wanna learn them for free, head over to free SEO knowledge.com.


here are 6 useful Google tips that most people don't know if you have like a long specific error message if you put it in quotes you're telling Google that you wanna search for that exact phrase in that exact order No.2 if you do a search with minus AI then the AI overview gets removed No. 3 if you put in site call and then the domain name and then whatever you're looking for it'll only return pages from that site that match that specific keyword No.4 you can use before or after specific date to find only pages that were published before or after that date No. 5 in URL will only return pages that match the query where this word is in the URL itself and No. 6 you can also search for specific file types so here I did pdfs that are social media marketing guides boom look at that and if you care about local SEO you definitely wanna sign up for White Sparks local ranking grids

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if you're creating any form of video content you have to remember to do SEO on that video now take a look at this for example I created a video the other day it's about how to connect a Shure MV7 microphone to an iPhone I did SEO on the title and on the description obviously I know what to do I then posted that video all over I posted onto YouTube Facebook LinkedIn TikTok you name it everywhere now look at the brilliance of this not only will that video be found if I go look on YouTube or Instagram or TikTok but look at self over here if I go onto Google itself and I search the term how to connect your Shure MV7 to your iPhone you can see that video results are actually coming up in the Google search results itself you can see over here all of them are being triggered which is just unbelievable you can see just by the way it's also coming up on images and it's also coming up on the forums because I posted that video in Reddit so again if you're doing any form of video content you have to remember to do SEO the most important space on your video to do the SEO is choosing the right title by putting your keywords near the front and putting a description as well with your keywords video SEO is a huge game changer and will help your content be found on the actual platforms and on Google itself.

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If you think the main advantage of using AI is that it allows you to do the same work more efficiently, you're missing the biggest opportunity right now. And this was actually a mistake I made for the first few years after ChatGPT came out. It was immediately clear to me that we were approaching a world where AI could do the work as well as a human could. So my initial thought was we could just work way faster and lower our prices and take on more volume. And there are other digital marketing agencies that are doing exactly that right now, and some of them are having success. Pretty soon, I think we're gonna see those agencies get replaced by software, and I think the value of that work is gonna continue to go down. The thing that a lot of us didn't see coming and is really starting to take shape in 2026 is that AI is actually raising the quality bar. Now, a lot of people are gonna hear that and laugh, and that's a totally fair reaction. AI produces a ton of low-quality slop. But as we get better at figuring out how to incorporate AI into our processes, or more often now, how to incorporate us into AI's processes, we're finding that with the right structure and context and instruction, there are many things that AI does not just faster, but better than Humans. The websites we're building are better, the technical audits are higher quality, the strategy is much more comprehensive, and the content quality is miles ahead of where we were with human writers. So instead of doing 10x the output at the same quality, we're doing more like 2x the output at twice the quality. And we aren't the only ones, of course. I share notes with a lot of agency owners, and those that are implementing similar systems are seeing similar results. And that's what's causing the quality bar to ris

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h a lot of agency owners, and those that are implementing similar systems are seeing similar results. And that's what's causing the quality bar to rise. A year from now, people just aren't gonna Wanna pay for what was acceptable two years ago. Now, of course, that doesn't mean that using AI automatically improves the quality of your work. Most of the work we see done by AI today is still low quality. My point is, knowing that AI was used in the work tells you nothing about the quality. However, if you're not intelligently using AI in your work, there is no chance you're going to hit the new quality standards and efficiency standards we have in 2027.


One of the biggest WordPress developers just said he's going all in on EmDash. If you're not familiar with EmDash, check out my other video on it. It was just announced by Cloudflare as the spiritual successor to WordPress. EmDash fixes all of the fundamental problems with WordPress and is perhaps the first CMS that is truly built with AI agents in mind. At this point, the only advantage that Word Press has over EmDash is the community of developers and the ecosystems of plugins and themes and page builders that they've created. And that is a significant advantage. However, we're already seeing a ton of excitement from developers, and because EmDash is built for AI agents, it's turning out to be very easy to build or port plugins and themes for EmDash. The developer I referred to at the top of the video is Yost Devock. He's the founder of the Yoast SEO plugin. He's already written several posts on his blog explaining why he's now building for EmDash and migrating his own website to EmDash. I highly recommend checking them out. My marketing agency is also now migrating our website to mdash, and we'll likely start building clients websites there too. In his blogs, Yost explains that he truly wants WordPress to succeed, but for that to happen it would take an entire refactoring. But in his words, the only thing we're seeing from WordPress is a redecorating. What Yoast and the developers who are following him have in common is that they understand the way we're doing website development is changing rapidly. It no longer makes sense to have humans doing most of the work. And in that paradigm, any viable platform needs to be built with AI agents in mind. It needs to be built primarily for AI agents. And that's what endash does, right? All the post content is stored as JSON fi

The founder of Yoast SEO just went all in on EmDash, Cloudflare's new CMS built for AI agents. WordPress would need a full refactoring to keep up, but all we're getting is a redecorating. My agency is switching too. #EmDash #WordPress #WebDev #AI #CMS

AI-native CMS / agent-readable structure


lt with AI agents in mind. It needs to be built primarily for AI agents. And that's what endash does, right? All the post content is stored as JSON files. Each post type gets its own database, and every field in that post type gets its own column in that database. And all of this is easily parseable by AI agents. But maybe most importantly, all the documentation is written for AI. It has a dedicated MCP server and a growing library of skill dot MD files. And all that means that AI can use it natively. You don't have to teach AI how to use it. So while we still need to wait and see if mdash gets enough developers and users to be successful, in my mind it's already a done deal. One of his blog posts, Yost mentions that we have a chicken or the egg problem, meaning it's hard to attract users until you have developers, and it's hard to attract developers until you have users. But I really don't think this is the case. There are already a ton of users using AI to build websites. A lot of those Users are spinning up their own CMS. Or just wish they had a CMS underneath that website. It's just as easy, if not easier, to build those sites on EmDash now, before we have plugins and themes and page builders. And if you're a WordPress developer, there are already skills for porting existing plugins and themes into mdash. The barrier for entry has never been lower, and the opportunity has never been higher. This isn't a chicken or the egg problem. It's a chicken and the egg opportunity.


YouTube SEO growth is so explosive SEO tracking tools can't even keep up. The tracking tools are literally bugging out. They can't even calculate the traffic effectively. If this is true, YouTube is getting 1.3 trillion clicks a month from Google, even though Google only has 90 billion searches every month. If you are not making short YouTube videos on the topics your business cares about, please start now. YouTube videos are wildly discoverable within SEO. They also get cited a ton by AI. YouTube SEO is one of the greatest marketing opportunities of our lifetime. Do not miss out on this, and learn how to find high-purchase-intent keywords to target for your business at CompactKeywords.com.

YouTube SEO growth is so explosive, SEO tracking tools can't even keep up. The tracking tools are literally bugging out. They can't even calculate the traffic effectively. If what they are saying is true, YouTube is getting 1.3 trillion clicks a month from Google even though Google only has 90 billion searches every month. If you are not making short YouTube videos on the topics your business cares about, please start now. YouTube videos are wildly discoverable within SEO. They also get cited a ton by AI.  YouTube SEO is one of the greatest marketing opportunities of our lifetime. Do not miss out on this. And learn how to find high purchase intent keywords to target for your business at compactkeywords.com #searchengineoptimization #seo #youtubemarketing

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YouTube SEO / AI citations


running a Google Ads campaign without having negative keywords is like driving a sports car with art brakes yes it's brilliant when it's working well but once you come to a corner or there's traffic and you run out those brakes you're literally just gonna explode and go into ashes the same way with the Google Ads campaign when it works brilliantly and the right words are being triggered you can get unbelievable leads and unbelievable business but if you don't have negative keywords you're literally just gonna burn through your budget and you're not gonna get the results that you want negative keywords inside of Google Ads basically tell Google that when someone types in certain words Google must not try your ads so for example let's say you are a plumber you telling Google that you want your ad to come up when someone is searching the word plumber but if they add that word jobs you don't want your air to come up the same thing with equipment or skills or learning or videos again you want people that are looking to hire you as a plumber you don't want any of those other words now when it comes down to negative keywords there are two different ways to do it the first one is ongoing you look at your search term report and then you see the words that triggered your Google Ads you then add those words to your negative keyword list but what a lot of people don't do is that you should add negative keywords to your campaign before the campaign even starts why do you have to wait for those negative keywords to be triggered add them before the campaign even starts spending any money it's very easy to do on the left hand side inside Google Ads you gonna see keywords audiences and content click it over there then click on keywords on the right hand side click on negative keywords a

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Google Ads you gonna see keywords audiences and content click it over there then click on keywords on the right hand side click on negative keywords and you gonna see that there's an empty space over there put in the negative keywords that you know will not help your account now with most Google ad accounts they're the most common negative keywords there's words relating to job jobs salary employment studying free pictures videos etcetera etcetera add those negative keywords straight away a tip is that you have to add singular and plural because Google don't see the difference between them in negative keywords you can then save those negative keywords either at a campaign level or an air group level press save and there you go those negative keywords that you've selected should now protect your account from spending endlessly and wasting your money on irrelevant words let me know if this helps you


This is either a bug or YouTube SEO is going to be the most incredible opportunity of our lifetimes. Oh look, YouTube wins another core update. Google has these things called core updates where they update their core search algorithms. YouTube is looking to be one of the biggest wins we've ever seen. Before this update, YouTube was already the most clicked website in Google, but after this update it has increased by 2,500%. SEO tracking tools can't even keep up. It is getting more clicks a month from Google than there are clicks a month in Google. If you are not using YouTube for SEO, please start. Make videos on the searches that are important to your brand. Use your exact search term. Put it in your page title. Give ChatGPT your YouTube transcript. Have it write a natural-sounding description specifically for SEO. This is absolutely insane. I hope you will take advantage of it, and you can learn how to find Google search terms that specifically bring customers, users, warm leads calling you up at CompactKeywords.com.

This is either a bug or YouTube SEO is going to be the most incredible opportunity of our lifetimes. Lily Ray: “Oh look, YouTube wins another core update.” Google has these things called Core Updates where they update their core search algorithms. YouTube is looking to be one of the biggest wins we've ever seen. Before this update, YouTube was already the most clicked website in Google. But after this update, it has increased by 2,500%.  SEO tracking tools can't even keep up. It is getting more clicks a month from Google than there are clicks a month in Google. If you are not using YouTube for SEO, please start. Make videos on the searches that are important to your brand. Use your exact search term, put it in your page title, give ChatGPT your YouTube transcript and have it write a natural sounding description specifically for SEO. This is absolutely insane, I hope you will take advantage of it. And you can learn how to find Google search terms that specifically bring customers, users, warm leads calling you up at compactkeywords.com #videoseo #searchengineoptimization #digitalmarketing #seo

YouTube metadata optimization
YouTube SEO


If you have an e commerce website and you're running Google Shopping ads, here's a tip that will help you tremendously. For anyone that runs any form of shopping campaign inside of Google, whether it's normal shopping ads or whether it's P Max, you know of the merchant center, inside of the Merchant center you got your primary feed that is the information that has been pulled from your e commerce website. You got your product titles, you got your product descriptions and you got some other product categories. Again, all this information is being pulled directly from your e commerce website but in order to improve the performance of your shopping ads, many times you have to change those page titles, all those page descriptions to be the correct way for Google to pick up well. In other words, you might want to put in your page titles, your colours, your descriptions and a whole lot more things but the limitation that happens that in order to do that you have to fix your website. In other words, you have to work on the actual website so it can go down to your primary field and becomes messy. But there's a much better way to do that that is called the supplemental feed. Basically what a supplemental feed is is that it's a feed that sits on top of your primary feed. Now what you can do is that you can change your page titles, you can change your Categories, you can even change your images and a whole lot of other things without changing a code on your website. It's unbelievable. And we do it with every single shopping client of us and the results are just amazing. If you want to take your Google Shopping seriously, you have to investigate the primary feed. Again, the way that you make your shopping ads work well with Google is that you put your keywords in the front, you cha

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investigate the primary feed. Again, the way that you make your shopping ads work well with Google is that you put your keywords in the front, you change your descriptions and a whole lot of other things. You can do this with the help of a supplemental feed without changing the front end of your website. If you want more videos about supplemental feeds, how to create it, how to set it up, let me know in the comments.


Cloudflare just released a platform that could completely replace WordPress. It's called EmDash, and there's still a lot we don't know, but at first glance to me it just seems like better WordPress. So I just want to explain why I'm so excited and why my agency is jumping headfirst into mdash. If you don't know, Cloudflare recently acquired the HTML framework Astro. Astro has been incredibly popular with people who are using AI to build websites. It makes it easier for AI to build websites with beautiful front end design. Now, we love WordPress. All the websites we've built are on WordPress. Most of our client sites are on WordPress. But the truth is, it really does not play nice with AI. And because of that, website development has remained the one area in our agency where most of the work still has to be done by a human. Now, since Cloudflare acquired Astro, we've been speculating that Cloudflare would probably come out some kind of platform that disrupts WordPress. I didn't expect it to happen this soon, and I didn't expect them to literally call it the spiritual successor to WordPress, but it really is. It's already available as a beta for developers. You can install it and use it right now. You can easily set it up on a Cloudflare server. Of course, but they have a generous free tier, and once you log in, you'll see it looks exactly like WordPress, except without all the plugins and themes and page builders you're used to. And a lot of people in the WordPress community are saying this is why it's gonna fail. It won't be able to compete with WordPress because it doesn't have the community that WordPress has. And it's true. Most of the value in WordPress is all the plugins and themes and developers who are familiar with the platform. But I really don't think that's g

Is WordPress Now Obsolete_CloudFlare just dropped a WordPress killer called EmDash and my agency is already building on it. It's more secure, faster, and actually works with AI. WordPress community says it'll fail — I think they're wrong. #EmDash #WordPress #CloudFlare #WebDev

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WordPress / AI workflow risk


rue. Most of the value in WordPress is all the plugins and themes and developers who are familiar with the platform. But I really don't think that's gonna be enough to keep EmDash or a similar platform from disrupting WordPress. And I'll explain why. But first, let's talk about how EmDash is better. It's far more secure. It solves the primary security issues that WordPress has with plugins and themes. Every plugin has strict permission settings, and themes are unable to edit the main database. They've also made a handful of improvements to performance. I recommend reading their entire article. But the thing I'm most excited about by far is their integration with AI. They already have an MCP and CLI for mdash, so you can develop, update, and maintain the website directly from cloud or your favorite platform. It is hard to overstate how much this will unlock in terms of letting AI help with website development. We're already starting to build websites with EmDash, and I'll have more videos sharing what we're learning as we integrate AI into our processes. What about all the plugins and themes and page builders on WordPress? Well, if it isn't already obvious? Software like this is so easy to build with AI now. Cloudflare has done a lot to make it easier for developers to build on mdash. So mdash doesn't need a community that rivals WordPress to compete. It just needs a handful of really savvy developers.


Honestly, the biggest mistake I see business owners make when it comes to their website SEO is publishing blog posts. You are all publishing AI blog posts. Don't even lie. I know it, you know it, Google knows it. And before people chime in with "we publish blog posts and we rank," how much traffic are you getting? How much revenue has that generated for you? I go into this in way more detail in the SEO Clinic as part of my website SEO strategy blueprint. But essentially, since AI has been on the scene, blog posts have to work a lot harder to generate even a quarter of the website traffic they used to be able to. They are very much phase 2 of 3 of a website SEO strategy, which is why most of you are blindly following outdated SEO advice about publishing blog posts and getting nowhere. If you wanna know what website content you should be publishing to generate traffic, leads and sales from search engines, this is something I teach in detail in the SEO Clinic, along with examples depending on your business type.

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One of the top SEO platforms is losing at SEO in a massive way. If you search Semrush alternatives, you see them getting bodied by all of their competitors. Their competitors put up pages saying that they are the best alternative to Semrush. This is how to see if Semrush has any content on this. It does. The content is really bad. It's a lazy, programmatic SEO page that does a very poor job of satisfying search intent. If you compare this with this, this gives the answers in a way clearer way. Semrush should be ranking No. 1 for Semrush alternatives. This way, they could control the narrative around their brand. They're not, which allows their competitors to take advantage of them. And you can learn this technique yourself at compactkeywords com.

One of the top SEO platforms is losing at SEO in a massive way. If you search Semrush alternatives, you see them getting bodied by all of their competitors. Their competitors put up pages saying that they are the best alternative to Semrush. Semrush’s top page on this doesn’t properly address search intent. Semrush should be ranking number one for Semrush alternatives so they can control the narrative around their brand. They're not, which allows their competitors to take advantage of them. And you can learn this technique yourself at compactkeywords.com #searchengineoptimization #seo #marketingstrategy #digitalmarketing

Competitor comparison / brand SERP defense


AI domains are selling for so much money, even ones with seemingly uncommon names. Service Link AI sells for $8,888. The seller bought it only five months ago. Right now is probably one of the worst times to buy a .AI domain. In 1 to 3 years, they will be way less valuable. They're really best as a cash grab to get investor buy in. Learn Digital Marketing for free at free SEO knowledge com.

.ai domains are selling for so much money. Even ones with seemingly uncommon names. Servicelink.ai sells for $8,888. The seller bought it only five months ago. Right now is probably one of the worst times to buy a .ai domain. In one to three years, they will be way less valuable. They're really best as a cash grab to get investor buy in. Learn digital marketing for free at FreeSEOKnowledge.com. #digitalmarketing #artificialintelligence #domainnames #startups


All of these websites have the same exact downfall. They all use the same tactic, experience the same growth. Here's this one. Here's this one. Here's this one. The tactic they all use: scaling AI SEO pages. They put up a ton of SEO pages generated by AI, put them up really fast. It worked for a little bit, worked for a little bit, then it stopped working. This is a huge trend that nobody is talking about. You will see digital marketing gurus confidently shilling these spam tactics. What they don't tell you is the fate of the websites they work for. All end the same. Here's another one. Before it experienced this increase, it was getting 220,000 clicks a month from. It briefly got up to 9.5 million clicks a month from Google after getting hit. Now it is down to 50,000 clicks a month from Google, and it keeps going down. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Learn a safer way of doing SEO that gets cited in AI, that specifically targets paying customers. Users warm leads calling you up at compactkeywords com.

All of these websites have the same exact downfall. They all use the same tactic, experience the same growth. The tactic they all used: Scaling AI SEO pages. They put up a ton of SEO pages generated by AI, put them up really fast, it works for a little bit, then they get hit. This is a huge trend that nobody is talking about. You will see digital marketing gurus confidently shilling these spam tactics. What they don't tell you is the fate of the websites they work for all end the same. They experience great growth, then get wwayyyyyy less traffic than when they started. Their websites get ruined for years. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Learn a safer way of doing SEO that gets cited in AI and that specifically targets paying customers, users, warm leads calling you up at compactkeywords.com #searchengineoptimization #growthhacking #seo #digitalmarketing


Anthropic just released Claude Conway as a research preview. I'm gonna talk about what this is and how it could dramatically change how knowledge work is done. So we already knew Claude was building an always-on agent similar to opencl, partly because of the recent leak, and partly because that's just what all of the model makers are doing right now. Opencl has just radically changed the industry's view of what an AI agent is capable of doing in work. And it seems that that's what Conway is. Anthropic's answer to Opencl. Like I said, this is still in the research preview. I haven't had a chance to play around with it myself yet, but here's what we know so far. Conway is an always-on agent. You open an instance of Conway from the Claude app, and then each instance of Conway gets its own window. Conway can connect directly to your files, offline or online. It can use a browser, it has persistent memory, and it can be triggered by web hooks. So you don't need to use Conway directly. It can just be triggered by any other app you're using. And maybe most importantly, it's extensible. Anyone can build and share extensions that expand the functionality of Conway. So why does this matter for the average knowledge worker? I own a digital marketing agency, and I think the moment that companies like ours have been waiting for, the moment where everything really changes, is when we Can fully integrate AI agents just like we would a normal team member. For this to work, the AI agent needs to have their own Gmail account, their own Slack account, their own account. In our task management system, we use notion. They need to have access to everything our team members would have access to. And we need to be able to communicate with them the same way we'd communicate with our team member

Anthropic just dropped Claude Conway, an always-on AI agent that could actually work like a real team member. Here's why this matters 👇 #ClaudeConway #Anthropic #AIAgent #AITools #KnowledgeWork


o everything our team members would have access to. And we need to be able to communicate with them the same way we'd communicate with our team members. Now, this has all been possible since the release of opencl. Problem is that opencl has major security issues and a steep learning curve. So it's too early to say for sure. But Conway could be that convenient, secure version of opencl we've been waiting for.