It's a biggie on SEO Office Hours today! And the last one before the holidays🎄 Joining Jo Juliana Turnbull and Michael Chidzey at 9:30 am (GMT): ⭐️ Dixon Jones and ⭐️ Dawn Anderson #SEOOfficeHours with Good Signals.

A great evening at the UK Search Awards earlier this week, complete with Alan Partridge power pose. Well done to all the winners!

Rounding off a week of conference planning for 2026 with some lovely news. Thanks so much for inviting me back to speak at @brightonseo.com. Stay tuned for more details!

Downside: There is no plan and no courage. No attempt to sort the tax system. No strategy for the economy, like the one @johnspringford.bsky.social suggests here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk. Even good policies, like mansion tax, simply fiddle for pennies instead of properly reforming property tax.

Plus sides to today: Two-child benefit scrapped. Largely progressive tax implications. Good market reaction. No big spending cuts. Nightmare prospect of cutting funding to net zero etc avoided. It's a left-wing budget. Those who say there's no difference between Labour and Tories are bananas.

For anyone facing #budget anxiety today: yes, as a small business owner, I'm sure it will be disappointing in parts. See "we are living in extraordinarily tough times" cop out etc. However, keep in mind the media narrative, which seems set on "a Reform win is inevitable in 2029". It is not.

BREAK: Owain Lloyd-Williams acquires Artisanal Sourdough Loaf for vegetable soup lunch for £3.5. Stock markets in dissaray, industry chatter in overdrive. This is big.

AI SEO Deep Dive - Tom Critchlow & Dan Petrovic dejan.ai/blog/ai-seo-...

If anyone needs to read my niche blog article from 2021 on how I used Fantasy Football tactics to inform SEO reporting, I'm very sorry, you'll have to wait. #CloudFlare

Just got access myself.

Bob Dylan/Dylan Thomas in Swansea.

Dusting off the inkwell on dark November evenings.

The best AI transcription of a voicemail I've seen yet, courtesy of Google Pixel 8. I was trying to book a pub lunch.

Sense checking myself before firing off an email to a US client to make sure there's no US specific term for "tumble dryer" (don't ask) and I'm glad Google has my back. At the very least, it has finally worked out I have a very Welsh sounding name.

Slack unstable. Time to think. #AWSOutage.

Why is the BBC using this article with footballer Jonjo Shelvey as a conduit to promote his (sorry, Jonjo) vastly misinformed views that are just parroting of online far-right conspiracy theories over "London being finished" or "go to London and get mugged or stabbed"? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I put out the fourth album (imaginatively titled "IV) of my solo shoegaze/ambient project, Morning in Akarmara, today. You'll be able to find it across all the usual music streaming services shortly, though head on over to Bandcamp if you fancy a listen. morninginakarmara.bandcamp.com/album/iv

D’Angelo, Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneer, dies aged 51

'If Autofiction dealt in the directness of photography, Antidepressants is – like Francis Bacon’s portraits – a no less truthful recreation of emotion and experience through distortion and dramatisation.' #Suede - Antidepressants is a Quietus Album of the Month for September 2025 buff.ly/PjjYVm4

Popped into London to see this guy live last night. Kevin Kaarl, an indie/folk singer songwriter from Chihuahua, Mexico. I first heard him on a taxi radio in Oaxaca, Mexico a few years ago. Lovely to see London's Hispanic community sing along and hang off every word. 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

Wow, link spammers sharing Google Drive links with a list of link targets directly to my business email with aggressive messaging. Not new I'm sure, but poor form...

Google testing AI-generated search result snippet summaries www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-ge... #google #googlesearch #googleai #gemini #search #ai

A timely reminder of genuine British patriotism

To my overseas friends: this is NOT who were are in the UK and we love you.

I forgot about the 404 page on my website. Punchline not written by AI.

I recently sat down with Elisabeth Mayr on her brilliant Freelance Blueprint podcast to discuss my background and journey into the SEO industry and how I've built my business as an independent SEO consultant. Inevitable AI search chat too of course..... open.spotify.com/episode/3rLv...

Felt special getting a #Radiohead unlock code for tickets, but then realised shortly after that all my friends who entered did as well. Bring on the Friday scramble.

Back in the ancestral homeland. View from a treehouse retreat on the family farm at dusk.

In memory of John Graham Mellor aka Joe Strummer, born on this day in 1952 in Ankara, Turkey. Photo by Richard Bella #punk #punks #punkrock #joestrummer #theclash #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Hafod Estate, Ceredigion, Wales. That or Lothlorien.

Sooo much good stuff here in this episode about what makes our great capital so amazing and what it is about it that triggers so many online hard right edgelords.

A new post from my Substack. owainlloydwilliams.substack.com/p/john-from-...

Proud of my little adopted hometown.

‘Can you tell us how he died?’: Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa over tribute to ‘Palestinian Pelé’

First proper Substack post. A caper from a boat tour across a Filipino archipelago just after New Year's Day in 2020. owainlloydwilliams.substack.com/p/mr-pong-th...

Ask An SEO: Why Aren’t My Pages Getting Indexed? via @sejournal, @HelenPollitt1 - brought to you by your handy #seo helpers @Sitebulb 😊

I may or may not have won this league a couple of years ago and it's definitely something I don't remind myself and others about on a regular basis.

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Shall we rely on AI Mode for all Search Liaison related questions from now then? I jest of course...

What a great service to the club. Build the man a statue now. 💔💔💔

Outside of my SEO life, I've always written, be it poetry or fiction, as well as online magazine writing/editing and ghostwriting in the professional sphere. I've created a Substack to curate some recent work. Subscribe below if you're interested: substack.com/@owainlloydw... 1/3

I haven't used Facebook properly for years. Only for community event/creative type groups where I live. When I do rarely browse my feed, I'm often reporting weird manosphere/alt right/edgelord content from groups that I guess are adjacent to my age (late 30s). Tip of the iceberg I suspect...

Any UK pals (bonus if you do SEO) have access to Google's AI Mode yet? It appears not to have traversed the Thames estuary to my location quite yet.

Forget your GEO/AIO optimisation consultant repositioning. I was just called a "search engine hotshot" on live TV. This is the new headline.

A few weeks back, I had the pleasure of chatting with @jlwchambers.bsky.social on Search With @withcandour.co.uk podcast on all things B2B content SEO. 1/3

Tonight.

"Getting buy-in" can be a common challenge for SEO consultants trying to get their strategies off the ground. I was recently on the Keep Optimising Podcast discussing ways to get SEO moving in complex enterprise settings: Episode here: keepoptimising.com/owain-lloyd-... 1/2

Wow. Did a concert only a couple of weeks ago with all the titans of the genre playing his songs before one final blowout. What a legend.

I'm one of the lucky ones who won a ballot ticket for @brightonseo.com San Diego on Wednesday September 24th However, I am equally unlikely insofar as I won't be able to make it over this time. Would any friends here like it?

I've been lucky in my career to travel all over the world, work with amazing global brands and share the stage and mic with incredible industry peers. But to feature in an Channel 5's "The Hotel Inspector" doing a live audit of a website for a local B&B where I live? These are dizzying new heights.