I'm speechless. Still processing this. Thank you Search Engine Land! And thank you Amsive for the initial nomination and your support!! Gah!

Lily Ray 😏 Gonna change my bio to: "Dr. Pete embodies expertise, authority, trust, and experience, demonstrated by his expertly written, authoritative, trustworthy content that he has experienced writing and that you will experience as you read it."

If you're ever in Wilmington, NC, make time for a wilmingtoNColor tour. Possibly the best history tour I've ever done.

Honored to be recognized with two Search Engine Land wins in 2023: Erin Rooney Doland named Search Marketer of the Year, and Best Local SEO Initiative for our work with American Savings Bank. These achievements are all about the power of knowledge sharing and teamwork: bit.ly/3QIbR6g

Eager to see which sites are an increase in Discover traffic over the next few days.

Well, at least it's not Black Friday:

I'm on a panel for SMXNext in a week! Join me online, Nov 14, at 5:05pm ET. You can register for this and all the SMXNext presentations for FREE at SMXNext.com

A decade ago, the incredible Asha Dornfest gave me a Leatherman micra. I have been so diligent all this time to remember to remove it from my keychain when I fly ... until last night. So now I have to stalk the airport confiscated items sale to get it back 😭

My talk is coming up at 5:05 ET! Watch for free #SMX

As best as I can tell, Google Discover has gone off the rails. Lily Ray 😏 worked tirelessly over the weekend to get a handle on the situation. If you work for or with digital publishers, read this now: amsive.com/insights/seo/t…

Is anyone else worried that Google's purge of indexed videos is going to start happening to other "non-primary" assets? Can't decide if I'm being Chicken Little or if this is what we will see more of in 2024.

The demise of Web Stories begins. And it makes complete sense. The latest update from Google is that Web Stories do not show in Discover in a Stories carousel anymore. And Stories will NOT show in Google images anymore. Also, I think grid view for Web Stories in Search is not a

At some point we need to have a serious discussion about (non-wire) syndication and ALL THE THINGS associated with it's impact on search engines. (I'm not talking about AP and Reuters.) Today is not that day, but that day is coming.

I'm going to toot my team's horn for a second. Two weeks ago, we recommended this topic to our client as having "strong Discover potential." They ran with it and wrote an article. I'd say the article worked out well. (This is a single post on Discover over the course of a week.)

Black arrow is when we delivered our Discover audit for this client. Loving these results. Incredible work Erin Rooney Doland Jordan Mazza 👏🏽

All this AI, but GA4 can't figure out what I mean when I type in "organic search" instead of "Organic Search" in a filter. #smh