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Early signs that the current Google Spam update is hitting sites with highly templated, programmatic, (probably) AI-generated pages, like one page for every phone number/area code
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Today we released the August 2026 spam update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: status.search.google.com/inc…
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Would you create this content if ChatGPT didn’t exist? @amandaecking tells @gfiorelli1 that better content starts with customer questions, not AI prompts.
Talk to sales. Talk to support. Solve real problems first. 🎧
i have a small, terrifying hatred of people who put up flip out of office replies about the fact they're doing nothing on holiday. It's such a villain thing to do.
i'm going to say something vaguely controversial and walk away to see what happens: i want the model collapse. i crave the model collapse.
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Truly insane that I’m getting Perplexity ads to scale long-tail programmatic content for SEO.
This is SO RISKY!
Dear business owners: please work with experienced SEOs (at least 5+ years) before doing this.
🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
i swear this is how i've felt in this industry for the last...5 years? Maybe that's why I've avoided x/twitter...
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Dear lord, just found another SEO/AI case study about how the company exploded this site's organic traffic in early 2024...
...when do we get the follow-up case study? 😅
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Excited to be speaking at the Croatia SEO Summit in June! Ft. an epic lineup of speakers: @pelogia, Tom Winter, @alexmoss, @amandaecking, Barry Adams, @lilyraynyc, @craigcampbell03, @basgr, @TheRyanRobinson, @g33konaut. More info via @ZagrebSEOSummit: croatiaseosummit.com/
you know I'm feeling nostalgically existential nihilism when I'm listening to @boburnham
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Jun 2003 - Kaltix creates BlockRank.
Sep 2003 - Google buys Kaltix.
Nov 2003 - Florida Update.
*BlockRank (2003) calculates authority 1000x faster than traditional PageRank by exploiting the block-nature of the web: ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/579…
You're welcome 🫡
