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.

What's the best platform for publishing writing/creative writing these days? Is it Substack? I've started writing properly again and performing some spoken word and am thinking of housing it somewhere that isn't my professional SEO site.

I by and large love Slack, but occasionally get irked when this lights up because a) I think of nuclear war and b) Leave me alone?

Jason Bourne Googles a local business in The Bourne Supremacy, 2003 or so. If AIOs existed then, he'd have gotten a paragraph about the history of the business, a paragraph about their services, and a list of principals at each office. And the movie would be ruined. 😅

The plot is thickening on this one. Question - can I take on Wiltshire in a war singlehandedly and win? "People of Wiltshire. I mean you no harm. My in-laws live in Marlborough. But I'm here to free you from self-oppressive thinking and to bring love and warmth into your lives.".

Cet été, ma nouvelle famille et moi avons décidé d’acheter une maison en France.

Building a UK wild swimming location site, I'd never thought I'd get messages from people like Lily in Wiltshire describing, in her words, "swarms of gypsies with inflatables arriving into the village thanks to your site" as part of a request to take a page down. Awful Little Englanders.

It's so hot even my browser is slow etc

You are now at a Bright Eyes concert.

The job market is tough right now. That's why I wanted to talk with @nickleroy.com about the state of SEO jobs in 2025. 🤔How have job roles in the SEO industry changed? 🤖How has AI impacted the job market? 🤝What are key skills we should be learning right now? www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSOL...

It's amazing how, when out and about with my new son in the pram, with my wife or without, I get occasional comments such as "good on you, you're such a modern dad!" These are meant with good intentions of course, though isn't this just "being a dad" modern or otherwise?

Google Search testing Audio Overviews - I just wish it mentioned the site's brand more www.seroundtable.com/google-searc... #google #googleaioverviews #googleaudiooverviews

Loving the New European's rebrand to @thenewworldmag.bsky.social from a SERP viewpoint. No, "The end" isn't about the death of the New European, but an old edition following Trump's election. Yet it's the only indexed page on the old New European domain. Fun stuff, deliberate or not.

BREAKING: Brian Wilson, the legendary co-founder of The Beach Boys, pop music visionary, and one of the greatest songwriters in music history, has died at the age of 82 → cons.lv/rtG6qH

Thanks to @jlwchambers.bsky.social for having me on the Search @withcandour.co.uk podcast! Jack and I discussed ways to get B2B content strategies and tactics moving in modern day SEO. Stick around for the podcast recommendations at the end! open.spotify.com/episode/74vd...

The sales tactic of "DM to try to sell links" to "like random smattering of my recent LinkedIn posts" to "view profile multiple times in 20 minutes" is almost certainly wanting me to buy your links.

Interesting AIO/SEO adjacent discussion in today's the Rest is Entertainment on concerns of reduced CTR for publications (40 mins in). TLDR: If you've built a brand and a relationship with your audience, be it through SEO, email, whatever, none of this matters. open.spotify.com/episode/2kPb...

This might be one of our best episodes ever. And I hardly say a word in it! An all-star panel of @dawnieando.bsky.social, @jono.id, @myriam.dopamine.builders & @chris-green.net joined me to discuss AI Mode, the future of #SEO, Google's role as a publisher and so much more. youtu.be/50HX5c3mv-U?...

"AI didn’t kill SEO. It just raised the bar." Successful AI/SEO is going to require a lot more of us to brush up on branding, consulting wise we're going to have to push back on the idea that you can "SEO" something In vacuum.

The gulf between what London is actually like & how it is portrayed by terminally online, self-styled ‘patriots’ & their political heroes is absolutely incredible. I wonder how much it has to do with the city repeatedly electing a Muslim mayor… www.timeout.com/london/news/...