Mark Webster

🤖 Helping founders grow with AI | 📈 8-figure biz owner / 4x exits
🛠️ Practical strategies, no hype | 🎙️ Host: @AuthorityHacker podcast

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@ViperChill Very nice!

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@timsoulo Steve Toth (@seo_notebook)

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@Peter_Quadrel AI

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@selftapestudiob Thanks, why do you say that?

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@SearchH1storian @GaelBreton @authorityhacker We're aware of it. Going to fix it in a futute site rebuild as we're moving away from Wordpress entirely soon.

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AI video actors are getting scarily good now. We're really not far off it being completely indistinguishable from real video.

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It’s so over.

Google Veo 3 AI does speech and sound for its video generation now.

Not sure how I feel about this.

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@mattdiggityseo Traffic, # of employees, office size. Heck, even conversions/revenue is a vanity metric for some businesses. Profit after tax is where it's at.

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Interest in 'link building' has shot up to an all-time high, according to @GoogleTrends

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Full podcast episode here: https://t.co/YRYIwkisCE

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🔗 Revealing how we built 1,664 High-Quality Backlinks. Forbes, Business Insider, Yahoo... all linking to us passively. Learn how we did it👇

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@Avum Yeah @LarsLofgren is a superstar for digging this up, he was even kind enough to contribute some extra thoughts to the video. We do quote him extensively in the full video.

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🚨 Google Slams Forbes with Manual Penalty!

Millions of visitors lost 📉 Affiliate content scandal exposed. 70+ employees quit.

The full story is wild. 👇

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Check the full video here: https://t.co/fbXJPTcxTS

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@TommyGriffith @GaelBreton Thanks @TommyGriffith . We released a video with some initial thoughts too: https://t.co/ehts6nXVUn

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@GuitarChalk @glenngab @lilyraynyc @GaelBreton Nice one! Do you have any idea yet how much of a recovery this is? 50%? 100%?

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4/ We may finally see HCU recoveries - they say that this update will "better capture improvements that sites have made." And they updated their (limited) guidance on what to do if you get hit by and update.

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The Google August 2024 Core Update is here. https://t.co/79GVBWr4nf
There is some very promising language in the text of the update for small publishers. Here are my takeaways from what was said:

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3/ Google is again emphasizing that it wants sites to create content for humans, not to just do well on search. If you are doing "scaled content" this might not be a good update for you.

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2/ Google acknowledges that the feedback from publishers has gotten through. They met with the owner of HouseFresh recently.

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1/ It sounds very much like we will see more weight given to small publishers on the SERPs. Google said: "we aim to connect people with a range of high quality sites, including small or independent sites that are creating useful, original content"