A cool thing about the E-Commerce Berlin Expo: you can voice your preferences and shape the keynote lineup. If you're interested in Simon's take on the top organic needle-movers for e-commerce sites, fill your boots 👇

I wondered whether it was realistic to set up a chartered institute of SEOs, and this is legit a requirement of the application in the year of our lord 2021. (gov.uk source).

Work in SEO? Got an office nemesis? Let them know by failing to name your Data Studio data sources.

1) Crawling, rendering and indexing 2) Internal linking 3) Page experience 4) ...and, a wildcard, actually working with/managing all of the above at some scale.

Hard-won Data Studio advice. Creating a clever, terse, digestible report with disconnected sources? You'll love it. Using it as the medium for a 10-page, 500-chart master reporting solution? You'll find you're abusing it. Likely buggy, painfully slow. Undermines confidence.

My Dad - leaving for work for the last time today. Retiring. Our own industry is overindexed with younger people. In fact I've never seen someone in their 60s in a 'frontline' digi role. What would persuade you to work in digi marketing thru your 60s? What would prevent you?

Asks "what's the ROI on that?" for every individual component of a wider forecasted SEO plan 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

Agency-side SEO is bootcamp for the brain. This morning I worked on a fast fashion website. This afternoon, genome sequencing. Tomorrow I'll look at takeaway coffee and radiators. There's nothing like it.

SEO clients with VC backing: "we'll need fast ROI". Me: "we'll do our best - when do you need to become profitable?" Client:

Thank you!

Thanking you!

Hi SISTRIX pals. A couple of us Blue Array have found the visibility index failing to load for few hours. Any sign of a solution?

SEO Twitter: if today left you thinking more about politics than organic search, you can redress the balance tonight with some remote talks. 6pm, no charge. my.demio.com/ref/mJIude85BE…

Good luck to the Blue Array team who are off to the @dontpanicevents #UKContentAwards tonight! 🙌💙 We're up for "Finance Content Campaign of the Year" for our work with the brilliant GoCardless team and 410: Gone is a "Rising Star in Content" nominee!

Me: "Why weren't these SEO recommendations implemented?" FT 404 page:

Career update: linkedin.com/posts/activity…