Read my gosh darn article:

Published a little piece in @sejournal.bsky.social... My first one ever… “a bit” proud… 😊 www.searchenginejournal.com/why-your-pro...

I started this as a test to see how AI agents may get snared through honeypot-style links and hidden page cues. That part was messier than expected, but the failed test was probably more interesting than the original idea. 🧵 1/3

Our domain, neocities.org, was NOT listed in the provided court order document, but Namecheap took the report at face value and suspended the domain anyways, and told us "We have to resolve the issue with the complainant in order to have the domain unsuspended." As in, a legal firm in New Delhi.

I’ve completely overhauled my Subdomain Hijacking blog to make it easier to find the resources you need if you suspect a client has vulnerabilities > > > bethwoodcock.com/posts/subdom...

this is why log file access matters :D

Folk of the UK. This is the biggest decision you'll make today: www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/he... You can only pick 2 in each category.

Google recognises that people do not trust agentic ecommerce yet, so by adding 'Buy on [website]' it's the best of both worlds. Getting users warmed up to the real thing #GoogleIO

I'm actually really excited about Fitbit Air and the new Google Health. AI + health data is pretty much exactly what I'd want to use AI for, and I'm tempted to trial it to see how the conversations I have about improving my health extends into additional searching for products on Google or AI

SEOs hate this one trick

people getting heated about vibecoders for not producing 'original code' are also in the same venn diagram as people who have never heard of stack overflow

Trying to look up some specific contexts for ghostwriting schema (in incognito) and I'm being cited as an example by AI for a completely irelevant post wonderful that I'm ranking of course, but not helpful to my issue 😂

Tom Rudnai believes that AI search isn't a directory like Google because it enters the buyer journey much later and drives far fewer clicks, requiring a fundamentally different optimisation mindset beyond traditional SEO thinking. maj.to/4boCBCf

AI Citation drift: How stable are sources in AI search results? www.sistrix.com/blog/ai-cita...

Geo-redirects can be quite annoying to users, so if you absolutely need to do them (outside of the regions from where Googlebot is crawling), I'd suggest working to do them thoughtfully, so that it's transparent to users what's happening.

Our guidelines say to treat Googlebot the same as other users from the same location. For many sites, we crawl from the US, I'd check your server logs to be sure. ( developers.google.com/search/docs/... has a bit more)

SEO best practice says avoid geo-IP redirects, but UK law for crypto requires them to restrict UK users accessing non-UK financial advice. How do we balance Google’s crawling needs with strict legal compliance? Possibly one for @johnmu.com ! conventuslaw.com/featured-con...

how about instead of being cited MORE, are the citations more accurate, or thorough?

After cutting down FAQ snippets in 2023 and just showing them for authoritative government and health sites, Google is now nuking them totally. From Google: "As of May 7, 2026, FAQ rich results are no longer appearing in Google Search. We will be dropping the FAQ search appearance, rich result..."

I’ve been working with a client who runs a lot of social media and ad campaigns, so we’ve been deploying the experimental `No-Vary-Search HTTP` header. It’s amazing to see it actually working! Read all about it here: csswizardry.com/2026/05/bett...

Three of our team are jumping out of a plane on 30th August! They'll be skydiving to raise money for our charity of the year, Leeway - a domestic abuse charity supporting 14,000 people a year across Norfolk and Suffolk. We'd love your support: withcandour.co.uk/about/news/c...

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

Anyone come across sitemaps with <PageMap> in that aren't being utilised by any sort of custom Google on-site search engine? Client won't remove as they believe it's 'good for SEO' but is already a slooooow 20k URL sitemap with Magento styling. Hardly any info online about their utilisation.

Focus on Local? This is big news -> New ways we’re protecting businesses on Maps *Stopping review scams before they start *Using Gemini to catch fake edits even faster *Making it easier to manage Business Profiles

Vibe coding a website - doesn't have to result in a new SaaS making you millions. Just make & fix the things that annoy you. Make the web you want to find, even if it's just for yourself.

semrush really testing me today - 'invalid schema' on schema that validates, 'missing self referencing hreflang' on a canonicalised url referencing the canonical 🫠

me: hey claude could you stop using em dashes claude: ok double normal dash

The first "Schema.org" involved a tomato in 1750 Carl Linnaeus gave us binomial nomenclature, the original language for nested hierarchies. Taxonomy isn't just for plants or librarians. I think 2026 is going to be about structuring the web to make it clearer for humans, crawlers and AI agents.

Tried my hand at #dart android app development today... oooomigosh my brain is fried, but some super cool projects in the works!

Finally fixed an issue I had with Youtube for yeeeaarrss with my brand new Chrome Extension! QueueTube allows you to queue your Youtube subscriptions and watch them like a playlist. I released v1 last week and v1.1 will be out soon!! bethwoodcock.com/queuetube/

New breach: Storenvy was breached in 2019. 1.8M rows with cracked password hashes were posted publicly. The source breach included 23M rows with 11M unique email addresses & salted SHA-1 hashes, among other data. 54% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. More: hackread.com/e-commerce-f...

google search console being a big fat liar is why i am so passionate about log files

So straightforward, so good. An ALT text decision tree. www.w3.org/WAI/tutorial... #a11y

Also for anyone else in this thread, here is an excellent person on a podcast on getting into tech SEO, even if you're not from a technical background 😀 @jlwchambers.bsky.social is on it too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmdg...

If you want technical SEO insights, Beth is a brilliant person to follow 👇 Look, she's already providing excellent recommendations with her very first Bluesky post! That's a 100% hit rate!

@sheek.org what resources would you recommend to a technical seo to learn JS? Feel I'm hitting a career glass ceiling because I'm not 'technical enough'. Also wanting to code a y2k website on geocities instead of using a builder haha

I’ve fiiiiinally made a Bluesky account! 🎉 Looks like there's a lot of SEO's here 👀 To celebrate, here’s a thread on the Chrome extensions as a Technical SEO that I cannot live without ⤵️ #seo #technicalseo

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