I watched a video last night where a normie (not an SEO or internet marketer, but someone who just "knows what SEO is") lamenting the downfall of the modern internet...
It went something like (paraphrased)... "[the internet is] almost unusable now. Social media is full of shills... You google...
Really resonated with this sentiment. I was doing all this SEO/digital work to try and make a living as passively as possible, so I could focus on what I really wanted to do.
But as I got older and kept fighting the bad fight, I realized that it was a stupid idea and I should just dive right...
That sounds ominous - what'd you notice?
The stammering/hesitation in the voice response? "uh, um"
The food being eaten is an apple? OpenAI coming for Apple's neck?
Enquiring minds want to know...
Reading all the latest posts here, my mind keeps going back to the idea that what's happening isn't necessarily new to SEO but, perhaps, on a larger scale than previously done.
And that's the randomness and the chaos in the SERPs.
I don't remember how long ago, or where I read it but the idea...
Haven't been in it for quite 20 years, but damn this post was very inspiring. Do you mind sharing what kind of project you're going all in on? Be as vague as you'd like or don't answer if you're not comfortable doing so.
Lmaoooo I've seen this in the wild (YMYL niche) and was so jelly
I swear SEO is just a hamster wheel in a temporal sense. I think our current SEO timeline is an infinite loop that manifested when the large hadron collider fired up pre panda/penguin and opened a hole in the fabric of SEO space-time
Damn you're right no one mentions this but it's legitimately the most solid reason to stop focusing on trying to rank plain long-form written content in Google. Not to mention it's the least likely format to keep a user engaged on site and not hitting the back button. And other than links we all...
I think true content marketing will always be an effective tactic for a business.
But content marketing isn't just writing articles for search engine traffic...
it's about pushing out "content" (news, tv sitcoms, podcasts, short/long video, movies, documentaries, twitter threads...
Just thought I'd share this here:
Important bits:
"CEO Sundar Pichai tells WIRED that Google’s new, more powerful Gemini chatbot is an experiment in offering users a way to get things done without a search engine. It’s also a direct shot at ChatGPT."
"Pichai is also experimenting with a new...
I assume the self inflicted implosion is referring to the spate of updates over the last couple years that has literally everyone (both SEOs and normies) saying how shit Google search has become.
Isn't Gen Z all about using TikTok as a search engine now?
I think the reason financial analysts...
Not trying to be an asshole at all so please forgive me if it comes off like that, but this just isn't true.
Literally no one wants to read a 3000 word article when they can watch a 15 minute video in the background instead. (and this is coming from me, a hard-headed SEO that just wrote a 5000...
I'm the same way - I have a total lack of discipline and focus and jump from idea to idea, and then return to the original, etc.
ADHD probably.
But I think that's why a lot of successful startups and businesses are partnerships between the creators and the marketers. The creators want to...
I just saw a thread on where real time AI is right now. In-fuckin-credible
People worried about AI text flooding the internet... We have no idea what's about to come.
I was one of the ones unimpressed by chatgpt content, it was garbage. But now if you do things right - even with 3.5 turbo -...
Funny enough I just played around with elevenlabs a bit this weekend and the wheels started turning. And now HeyGen...
Turning this niche site into a media company just got a whole hell of a lot easier.
They said the Nov core update was working on a different "core system" but from what I'm seeing with traffic, the Nov core update really was just a rollback of the Oct core update.
Either that or the reviews update is helping me a lot
Edit #2: Just checked, and it looks more like it's actually...