Tom Flann

I do local SEO for businesses that want more clients (see I really like BBQ and cook it too. I did mortgages for a while ago.

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@pontodotdev @Taxguy33962

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@ShannonJean Why no test them all?

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@NathanABinford They’re already rationing jet fuel in Europe. lol

[Tom Flann @tflann]

I picked up another client this week, they need both web design and ongoing SEO.

How did I get them?

They found me because my website and GBP rank well in search results.

SEO works.

I do for my website too.

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@hii_mohit Good content, authority, etc…

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@lilyraynyc Young SEOs seem to be having a lot of problems with Google’s Panda update - why this, why now?

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Tom Flann @tflann]

Younger SEOs are still having a *LOT* of struggles with understanding Google’s Panda Core Update from 2011 - why would they worry about Reddit now?

💀😂

[Lily Ray 😏 @lilyraynyc]

Took long enough for the media to start reporting on this

https://t.co/Gjyl1BdRfb

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@loganix If only the young guys knew, but they’ll find out… 😂

[Tom Flann @tflann]

If you're a SEO company, don't mass create 100s of city pages with AI spun content for your own website - it will not end well.

Like we've all seen many times over the last few months, you'll have about 2-3 good months of traffic - then your URL is hit with a penalty and is toasty toast forever.

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Pretty interesting - shows you need to rank everywhere, not just search. 🙂

[Tim Soulo 🇺🇦 @timsoulo]

In the last 6 months at @Ahrefs, we analyzed over 1 billion data points across 14 studies. Here's what we learned about AI search optimization:

1) "Best X" blog listicles are the single most prominent content format cited by AI chatbots. They make up 43.8% of all page types cited by ChatGPT specifically.

2) 67% of ChatGPT's top 1,000 citations come from sources marketers can't influence: Wikipedia (29.7%), homepages (23.8%), app stores (6.6%). Only 32.3% are influenceable content like educational pages, reviews, news, and blog posts.

3) 28.3% of ChatGPT's most-cited pages have zero Google organic visibility. These pages get cited repeatedly by ChatGPT despite not ranking in Google at all. A completely separate discovery layer.

4) ChatGPT only cites about 50% of the URLs it retrieves. It fetches dozens of pages per query but uses half as background context without attribution. This means that being retrieved and being cited are very different things.

5) Adding schema markup had zero meaningful impact on AI citations. AI Overviews actually dipped −4.6%, while AI Mode (+2.4%) and ChatGPT (+2.2%) showed changes indistinguishable from zero.

6) YouTube mentions have the highest correlation (0.737) with AI brand visibility out of all the factors we studied (including all the conventional SEO metrics like backlinks, page count, DR, etc). This held true for both Google-owned and OpenAI products.

7) AI Overviews reduce clicks to the #1 result by 58%. That’s up from 34.5% just 10 months earlier. The trend is accelerating.

8) 99.9% of AI Overviews appear on informational intent queries. Transactional, navigational, and local searches are almost entirely AIO-free. Shopping triggers AIOs just 3.2% of the time.

9) For a given search query, Google’s AI Mode and AI Overviews reach the same conclusions 86% of the time — but cite almost entirely different sources (only 13.7% citation overlap).

10) AI Overviews change every 2.15 days on average, with 70% of content differing between consecutive observations. But semantic similarity stays at 0.95. The words, sources, and entities constantly shuffle, but the actual meaning barely moves.

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@fingalpimpernel @KangusB3 No - they could just walk into any business, give them a resume, and get a job. You must be imagining things.

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@realestate_kyle Congrats!

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@djdbbs19701 @BigRufus_Bucks @KangusB3 Okay bud. lol

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@LPCapitalChi They’re literally talking about 20 years ago.

I had a great apartment in a nice area of the town I was in for $400/mo.

I happily lived there.

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@Milajoy You’re pushing an ad for @unishack - at least tag them… 😂😂😂

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@tom_heidel @jasonlewris I heard that back in 2008. It’s worse now. lol

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@djdbbs19701 @BigRufus_Bucks @KangusB3 The OP said 35 y/o, so you think having roommates at >35 is normal? That’s wild… lol

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@djdbbs19701 @BigRufus_Bucks @KangusB3 The answer is no - it was only normal for people in their 20’s. Just stop. lol

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@arrowzag @KangusB3 It’s “every” 😂😂😂