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Btw, I believe a long due recognition to @randfish is due here … I remember (probably you too, if you’ve been doing SEO for more than a decade) when Rand used to get backlash, dismissive comments, and Twitter drama by the suggestion of some of these. I know you’re not in SEO anymore, Rand, but thank you, your contributions to the evolution of our sector have been and still are huge 👏🙏
Well after going through most of the content of the leak, I feel pretty confident in the advice I've given recently:
To do better at SEO, focus less on SEO and more on other channels.
Basically SEO is not the discovery engine it once was, it's more of a feedback loop for how well you're doing overall with your online presence.
I guess it makes building an audience on platforms that don't drive traffic worth it if you can indirectly benefit from search traffic on the other end.
For example, cjeatsrecipes .com has been winning the updates big time, probably thanks to his million Instagram and TikTok followers and how they behave in search.
Clearly there are some weird outliers though like:
- Font size matters 🤨
- Google flags review and small sites 🤔
- Link velocity matters 📈
- HCU is called baby panda internally 🐼
I'm curious to hear what you guys think.
What do you think of Google's helpful content update? 📚
- Websites that satisfy search intent will do better. Content that's created for people, not search engines, will be rewarded.
- SEO best practices should be used to complement quality content.
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https://t.co/faLzB6EtOw
Today we fixed a Search Console issue that affected many properties: we were reporting pages that are not indexed as being indexed. As a consequence, you might see a drop in your indexed pages in the Index Coverage report.
#GravitasPlus | As India celebrates 75 years of independence, @palkisu brings you a round-up of India’s biggest success stories over the last 7 decades.
How did a country written off by so many & left impoverished by its colonisers become a global force to reckon with?
Google Search is very broken right now: Outages, indexing issues, old pages dropping out of search and more - Google's @JohnMu thinks things will come back to normal at some point - so hang on... https://t.co/G8LRiwiSUe
@ahrefs You are safe until you use AI content writer tools just like the way you use Grammarly. Don't put your blog future in the hands of AI. Someday it becomes a terminator😜. So be careful the way you use it.
The marketing funnel is a visual representation of the process of attracting and retaining customers.
It's also funnel-shaped because people fall out of the process at every stage.