Belated Happy New Year to you all. This year its from Manila where its definitely hotter than Swansea by about 28c

Todays rather lovely surprise, getting tagged by in the Google Search Central news for my BrightonSEO talk on Lessons Learnt From Crawling 1000's of websites

Last Thursday, I gave my second #BrightonSEO talk - "Lessons Learnt from Crawling 1000+ websites" where I shared 12 useful lessons learnt from my success and failures crawling 1000's of web sites over the last 30 years speakerdeck.com/charlesmeade...

@runbox.bsky.social any chance you could use this channel to update this on why your having downtime As you don't update your website, the lack of information is frustrating

In really no surprise to anyone, the latest research from the respected Pew Institute directly contradicts Google claims that AI Overviews have increased search usage

Every so often you come across those WTF moments where agencies do the really bare minimum Today was the agency who didn't install the tracking tags for the Adwords campaign, but instead gets the client to send an Excel sheet with the times & dates of the enquiries to cross match

My Brighton SEO talk from last year "Scraping the SERPs using off the shelf tools to find SEO gold" has been finally released on YouTube If you're going to BrightonSEO, look forward to seeing you there youtu.be/Wa3KuzwUK9k?...

OK, stop and read this article. Very important for anyone involved in Search -> A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major updates like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT #google #ai #seo

Perhaps agencies shouldn't start a pitch with tell us if we are bullsh**ing and then do that

Handy visualisation tool from Google to visualise CRUX data at a domain and page level cruxvis.withgoogle.com As well as the top level scores, you get the elements that make the scores

Nicely summarises how to spot the many cowboys and snake oil SEO agencies

A great thread that nicely sums up how LLMs can help increase your skills and knowledge

This gives a glimpse of just how much Meta cares about data privacy

Using Enhanced Measurement in GA4 to track calls on phone numbers and email addresses. Google quietly removed that functionality in November You still can and should be creating custom events for things like this Hat tip to Steen Rasmussen for flagging this www.linkedin.com/in/steenrasm...

If you're not scraping the search results are you sure you really know who your competitors are. Our recent scrape of 6,500 results for a competitor audit, made our client change the minds about who they really were competing against

Another of those incredibly useful features I didn't know was there

Todays handy hint Waybackmachine also stores copies of a robots.txt Helps solved a client issue to determine exactly when a certain resource was blocked

If you watch just one SEO talk this festive season make sure its this one from @markwilliamscook.com Simply the most useful talk I've seen all year youtu.be/_AQ9UDqES80?...

Anyone else seeing these "new" Product Site carousels in the Google SERPs This was Nike Water bottles and seems to be dominated by the PriceSpy www.google.co.uk/search?q=nik...

To check how many searches Google Search Console is not showing to you, take the figure you're first shown and then apply this filter Divide the second figure by the first to find out what % of queries are anonymised

If only all CAPTCHAs were this easy Excellent example from Conversion Hotel 24 From Andras Kobza

#wingshot on the way to Conversion Hotel

Great article from @glenngabe.bsky.social on Googles site level classifiers Also worth following @markwilliamscook.com for his posts on this www.gsqi.com/marketing-bl...

Excellent talk from Katarina Dahlin on using ChatGPT, Make and Google sheets to optimise product descriptions. Hat tip tp @hellemans.me for sharing speakerdeck.com/katarinadahl...

Amazon internal search is pretty good apart from when it comes to looking up orders It can't seem to cope with the actual order number which isn't much good when you're trying to reconcile a credit card number

Inspired by @markwilliamscook.com looking up on Google Trends americans searching for "what are tariffs", here is the latest Google Trends data for two of Trumps more controversial picks