What I learned from the Google leaks: Everyone sees what they want to see. 🔗 Link sellers tell you it proves links are still important. 📕 Semantic SEO people tell you it proves they were right all along. 👼 Niche sites tell you this is why they went down. 👩‍💼 Agencies tell

I'm floored, at how bad Google is right now 👀. Here's my most recent "WTF" example. 👇 I've been observing the way Rand Fishkin (follow @randderuiter on Threads) markets SparkToro with his 0-click content strategy. I really like this idea, especially since Google probably uses click data to rank your site as we

I see you "SEO influencers" buying your way to 100k+ YouTube subscribers 👀

My podcast with Sammie Ellard-King is live. I think it's one of the best episodes of the year. Go listen to it on the Authority Hacker podcast feed or Youtube.

Who makes the best squeeze pages around?

💀Apps that have been killed by apple today: ✏️ Grammarly - Apple intelligence edits your content 🔑 1Password - New password app ✉️ Gmail - Apple intelligence organises your inbox 🧲 Magnet - window snapping finally coming to macOS 🤖 All AI writing tools - built in iOS

How long until my Siri talks to your Siri to find potential appointments? Or calls businesses for you and books things in your calendar?

Filming the new Authority Hacker news video last night. Someone got confused by Barry Schwartz aka Barry Schwartz's twitter handle. The script said "Seo Expert Rusty Brick...".

This week's, we chatted with jared bauman to reveal how he made $40k in only a few months, without ❌ Building a website ❌ Having to drive ANY traffic ❌ Having product to sell ❌ Dedicating more than a few minutes a day Check it out - Episode 342 is now live! 🔥 (🔗👇)

The Google August 2024 Core Update is here. developers.google.com/search/blog/20… There is some very promising language in the text of the update for small publishers. Here are my takeaways from what was said:

It looks like HCU Recoveries may finally be possible? The owner of guitarchalk.com, which lost tons of traffic last September and March, is reporting "shooting up" for dead keywords. It's only day 1 of a 1 month update, but this is encouraging.

Guess what? Reddit is up with the update 🤷‍♂️

I don't defend Google very often but... The idea that "the loudest sites are the ones that recover as a PR move" is complete BS and conspiracy. There's many sites nobody knows about seeing bumps up similar to Housefresh and Retrododo. Tweet less, research more, you'll see.

"aI iS gETiNg dUMbeR" I don't think so Pal, I can see the logic keeps improving over time, to the point where I give it many research tasks like this now.

I'm pretty proud of SEASON 2 of @Ahrefs Podcast! 😊 This project takes quite a bit of my time, but it's well worth it, because I learn A TON from every single one of my guests. Every episode is special in it's own way. Sometimes I'm surprised. Sometimes I'm impressed.