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@OriZilbershtein

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Passionate about self expression, SEO and leadership. "Memento Mori"

Joined February 2017
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8 months
You are looking at a slide from an internal presentation I gave back in 2015 (when I worked in Gambling) which I named "The right focus". Let's break it down.
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@BNODesk Your new template, You are welcome
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Google: "Today we announce the march 2024 core update & new spam policies..." People who do SEO since 2006:
@googlesearchc
Google Search Central
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Today we announced the March 2024 core update & new spam policies that, in combination, are designed to show less content made to attract clicks and more content that people find useful. Learn more:
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@OriZilbershtein
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Data driven SEO agenices
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6 months
@BigMikeMW @RapolasKep Votes says otherwise though
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4 months
@WTSmith17 You should definitely speak to @jordanbpeterson he can save you a lot of time on how to deal with it, experience it, go through it :D
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2 years
Now that is a bit awkward isn't it?
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3 years
The Worst states to be a teacher in, in terms of average pay: Mississippi – $46,843 South Dakota – $48,984 Florida – $49,102 And teacher shortages are felt across U.S, especially due to the pandemic. Full Article:
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5 months
You are the SEO leading this team... What do you do?
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The way Google is destroying its search engine is spilling way beyond SEO circles or marketing... it is now a "common" trend and topic of discussion. If @OrdinaryGamers covering this, you know this is getting bigger than our circle.
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7 months
@visegrad24 People claiming those were planted in... 3...2....1....
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1 year
GA4, is the hellish nightmare no one asked for... the most basic functions which used to be available like simple filtering or event tracking are now HELL, with most of those demanding detours which seems unnecessary, and we do simple tracking. My god. Google why?!
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I love how people are shocked that the manual spam team used GSC, site registrar names, IP addresses, Domain ownership and history etc. to root all of their spam network. Claiming it is not "fair" after breaking every possible guideline of search on the Engine you appear on.
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Lost 90% of traffic in the span of 7 months. When it comes to retro gaming reviews, there is no other big trusted brand than retro dodo, I know this site even without being part of the circle / niche. It is the poster boy of building an actual brand. And it is also, dead.
@retro_dodo
Retro Dodo
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This is a sad time for Retro Dodo. 😩 Our latest video explains how Google is killing us and other independent sites, all while building a search engine that is unfair, biased and certainly not open. Watch here 👉
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Majority of SEOs right now...
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@visegrad24 The White Death
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4 months
"Remove GSC to remove Google penalties. Trust me I am an SEO expert" The SEO expert:
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The most trusted and largest SE in the world. This literally destroys all trust in the product which was built over 2 decades. They took the most trusted search engine in the world, and demolished it by panicking. This is a marketing case study for future marketing majors.
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Google is dead beyond comparison
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@charlieINTEL DO NOT PRE-ORDER. First they deliver the game and we'll see what it is. Then they get money.
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@operationdanish @CommunityNotes Not sure community notes job is to oppose someone's opinion about what they deem fit to give their baby to eat. That is what the comments are for.
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I kid you not, this is real...
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@Google
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Figuring out your next travel plans? These tools can help ↓
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@OriZilbershtein
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6 months
For those who missed the memo. The three pillars of rankings as stated by Google: - What you say you are (content) - What others say you are (links / citations) - What users think when they interact with your site This means a very simply thing >>
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Barry Schwartz
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Google says author bylines do not help you rank better
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I do love fake AI Quora profiles. Especially that most of her answers are written with ChatGPT and rank first in Google for, you guessed it. Medical terms.
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4 years
Might be one of those rare occasions that writing in the title "definitive" actually means definitive. Great work, nicely done and very digestible. @Backlinko
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@erancherpak ארץ נהדרת חושבים שאנחנו אהבלים.. מביאים את ינון מגל לשחק את עצמו וחשבו שלא ישימו לב.. לא יעזור להם.
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@russellcrowe Are You Not Entertained?
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3 months
It seems No matter how Danny phrases. "Stop trying to satisfy Google try to satisfy your users" SEOs go: So you mean we need to understand what types of things Google trying to filter for and focus on those. Got it.
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Mike Futia
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“It's that these things might **indicate a pattern** of doing too much ‘show Google’ things that's taking away of just being a good site.” So Google basically took a bunch of low-effort, low-quality niche sites that DESERVED to get hit. Came up with a list of elements/features
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Destroy competitors with DMCA: 1. Copy entire content from competitor 2. put it on a new domain that appear in Google 3. File DMCA claim the original domain copied you 4. Weeks will go by as the case is "in process" when that happens original site is removed from search. >>
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SEOs before September: "Google's results are shit, who wants 3K words articles, you literally need to type "Reddit" to find anything" SEOs after September: "Google's results are shit who wants spammy Reddit posts, my site with good 3K words articles got punished for nothing"
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7 months
SEO affiliates who dodged the latest Google update releasing their "method" in an X thread
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7 months
The downfall of every deception is always tied to the ego of the perpetrator. You "pulled it off" that you "have to get credit for it". Talk about wrong focus :D If I would do such things and they were successful, I would remain silent and rinse repeat.
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Jake Ward
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We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor. We got 489,509 traffic in October alone. Here's how we did it:
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I knew @BritneyMuller was all in on AI and LLm for a while, but holy this is amazing. A great interview with her, she is shedding a lot of light on LLM, how they work and how it impacts your SEO / content creation efforts.
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The "trend" of "Is Google now bad at search" is starting to rise and we'll see many more of these.
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It's not just you, Google Search Sucks Now. (NEW VIDEO STYLE) Why is it so hard to find anything?
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The SEO industry has a lot of content / info being spread at insane rates, keeping a close tab or following everything is nearly impossible, don't waste time trying to filter useless "25 tips for SEO" articles to stay updated, Barry did it for you :). These make life easier.
@rustybrick
Barry Schwartz
2 years
SEO video recap covering the Google’s first search algorithm update of 2022, there is a manual actions backlog, Google has more to share on core updates, IndexNow sharing began and so much more
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@adam_crusader @VGC_News @Nibellion @elonmusk the exodus has begun. Huge active users are moving on, this should be mitigated if the platform to keep being relevant and not transform into 4chan.
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2014: "Wow you landed a job as an SEO at forbes, that is crazy.. high trust publishers FTW" 2024: "SEO job at forbes? what are you, a casino affiliate?"
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27 days
Google's legal team after the last two weeks.
@kristileilani
Kristi Hines
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Yet another Google leak is making headlines. 😳
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Everyone got riled up against the voice of "Sky" in the new OpenAI model. Sam Altman literally tweeted "Her" right after the launch. You know why? because they know they can do whatever the F*ck they want and face zero repercussions. Regulators in U.S are 20-30 years behind
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@Flakfire "Until Early summer" Won't be anyone but bots by early summer. I am grinding BF1 again, so much fun. BF V looks nice but playability still sucks tho.
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@tamarishshalom Your new meme template, you are welcome.
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4 months
Google's spam / core update combo: Kills - Expired Domain abuse - Scaled content abuse - Third party reputation abuse Online Gambling affiliate bros:
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Half of the SEO industry:
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For those who were living under a rock. - Google updates decimated the travel blogging industry - Their product surged in search
@lilyraynyc
Lily Ray 😏
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Google Travel is surging. () This subfolder earned the #1 ranking for the keyword "travel" back in September, and now it earned the #1 ranking for the keyword "flights" last month.
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Publishing more content after Google core update
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@NewsNation "Authorities say they DO NOT suspect foul play in the death of a Georgia man whose body was found WRAPPED IN PLASTIC AND ROLLED UP IN A CARPET."
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The single best exchange in the SEO community to this day.
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Mordy Oberstein *Slow... but steady*
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After seeing the fuss on Semrush buying Backlinko, and the posts about Semrush retroactively changing things to favor them. Ahrefs Review, was edited to be far less favorable. Aand the conclusion of Brian (who reviewed it changed). This raises questions on integrity. 🧵
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Google: We have new ranking systems and ranking updates they are not the same. Also Google: We like to introduce you the new ranking system for helpful content. 6 months later "HCU is not longer existing and is now just part of the core updates which are not a ranking system"
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@lilyraynyc @sistrix Good to see pornhub is doing well, I got scared there for a moment.
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2 months
So instead of contractors rating content created by people... contractors now rate content created by machines that created that based on content created by people.
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Kristi Hines
2 months
“These days, most search results I evaluate are AI-generated, and I’m told to fact-check those by googling. That’s right: I fact check AI-generated search results with Google search results to populate future search results.”
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@NicheDown That is a strange take. A system is flawed, and you can exploit it, doesn't mean you should. if you do, you taken a moral / ethical stand on it. The fact I can destroy other people on Google search by demoting them, doesn't mean I should.
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Remember when tech announcement were met with awe and excitment. How does this feel now? Dystopian would be more of the word I would use...
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The Gemini era is here, bringing the magic of AI to the tools you use every day. Learn more about all the announcements from #GoogleIO
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@unusual_whales You know, link to the source would be nice :D. I always need to see this and then go look for the source for full context :D
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@PeterMindenhall GOLD response.
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Tell me again what is the solution Google or any search engine has for this? When this becomes a commercial fully designed frontend service for $3.99 a month, what would stop the search results from flooding it with garbage?
@MaxBrodeurUrbas
Max Brodeur-Urbas
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A YC batch mate wanted AI to convert their Youtube videos to SEO optimized blog posts Took <1 hr to automate + add multi language translation GPT4o instantly: -Watches the video -Writes a structured blog post -Translates it to any # of languages -Publishes them all to Ghost
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Opening a blog to rank and sell ads or affiliate products is not a good business model, in most industries the threshold is too low, anyone can do it. Meaning differentiation is near impossiblle, and without differentiation, you are dead.
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7 months
@BNODesk Uno Reverso version
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6 months
Someone is attacking big sites with Domain mirroring. Loading their entire site through CDN into a different site. Example: This URL loads Healthline domain, and canonicalize to Healthline. When Google crawls it, it might conflate the two together.
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Ori Zilbershtein
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Alright, Ahrefs sent the email to push the new "credit plan" to my account, been there, was pretty awful. The Rynair of SEO tools with fees on every action and refresh. Been a blast Ahrefs, you are a great tool. Thanks for the fish.
@OriZilbershtein
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8 months
Hey @ahrefs When your monetization model is a running industry meme, you got all the feedback you needed from your users. Don't lose them to competition because of red tape, or greed or whatever drove you to make that model. Change it. sincerely yours An Active Ahrefs user
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@bryan_johnson @SolBrah The collab we never knew we needed.
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Why do @Healthline ranks so well on so many health / nutrition related topics? One might say, of course they focus highly on E-E-A-T. But that just takes the bigger picture and frames it as the "how" to do something. They much more than that >>
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Darth Autocrat (Lyndon NA)
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@ItamarBlauer That's because EEAT is NOT Rankings. It's a bunch of correlations and shallow associations.
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7 months
Hey @searchliaison can we stop doing these? How many people who type "hi" want Adolf Hitler with a picture in autocomplete? is it indicative on the amount of interest or how does this work? These are so basic... smh
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You know those guys who sell you courses telling you how in 24-30 months you would make tens of thousands of $ by setting up content sites and selling ads or doing affiliate stuff. They are lying, they also know they are lying, at least most of them do. How do I know?
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What?! Google is doing illegal stuff in order to pursue their business goals? Call me shocked...
@NewsNation
NewsNation
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Google to pay $62 million for tracking users without consent
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@OriZilbershtein
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8 months
While the update is rolling.. I'll just put this here.
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I love how this OpenAI and Reddit deal describes Reddit: “Reddit has become one of the internet’s largest open archives of authentic, relevant, and always up to date human conversations about anything and everything" Meanwhile Reddit:
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You thought Google won't uncover every site you own, put it under the microscope and with the smallest reason needed ban your site from search? Who spams Google and puts all their sites under one GSC, what is next? you mapped your links PBN in Google sheets too?
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Once NYT & big names write about it.. Memes with over 830,000 likes.. appear to portray the PR disaster Google are in right now.. Doesn't show impressions but Instagram algorithm is pushing it strong, as it gets engagement. Can't imagine the @Google PR team now.
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@rpnickson @arcAman07 Wait until the supply chain improves, consumer facing tech / products hit the market and it stops being a rabbit hole and every person has access to work with it smoothly. Changes the game. Also raises some real copyright / ethical questions :D
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You thought Google SGE is bad? it is the entire GPT tech... the term "hallucinations" was coined to distract you from the fact, that it is not a bug it is a feature. It is not halluciations it is the very core of how it works.
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Google: Today we introduce an update that surface first hand experience content for users from forums to surface Hidden Gems Also Google: We are happy to announce a multi million dollar deal with Reddit to get access to their API Reddit: Guys, we go public
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Most of my SEO feed on this platform right now
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BOY oh boy this industry is F*cking quick...
@kristileilani
Kristi Hines
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Is it a ranking factor? Find out with ChatGPT. Updated today to include the 14k factors, signals, and oddities revealed in the latest leaked Google docs. #SEO
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Keto gummies cloaking explained. If you are in the SEO sphere and encountered Mark Cuban speaking about it in Lex Fridman podcast (would tag him but he blocked me, Lex I mean) Anyway... here we go. 👇
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Ori Zilbershtein
3 months
Google's entire business is changing, and we are in for the ride. The uncertainty here, is that we, much like them, do not know where this is heading. This is what it means to be in the frontline of a changing industry. So sit back and relax, nothing is under control.
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NYT, Axios, The Verge, 404 Media and others are writing on the colossal failure of AI overviews. I know many people feel vindicated but I suspect the "correction" from google will be minor, there will be some statements made and "commitment for quality" and life will move on.
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Building more links trying to get out of penalty
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@rogerskaer
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Fuck Around and Find Out. Full Video.
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@Discourse_Stu @BNODesk There you go, son.
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Google: "Do not do click bait, you will not get to appear in news / discover and high in organic results" Also Google:
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@searchliaison June core update...
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Even in the old Panda patent, they described Brand searches as one of the factors for the calculation of the quality threshold. Makes sense, if people are looking for your name actively, they know what they are looking for. In the right context = trust signal
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@CyrusShepard
Cyrus SEO
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Marie makes a great point - people searching for *your website* MAY be a legit ranking signal. @bill_slawski covered a Google patent that modified rank based on the ratio of "Reference Queries," e.g., NAVIGATIONAL searches. Examples: • example com • sf craigslist • fb login
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It was so much fun being part of this amazing initiative with one of the best SEO / Marketing tools on the web.
@semrush
Semrush
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Obsessing on "how Google works" instead of what users need is one of the most common SEO pitfalls. It creates a moving goal post situation where SEOs keep chasing Google changes & ranking factors instead of focusing on understanding user needs. #SEOThread @OriZilbershtein
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There you go @verge I have the header image "a content goblin willing to eschew rules, morals, and good taste in exchange for eyeballs and mountains of cash" "a bunch of megalomaniacal jerks were degrading our collective sense of reality because they wanted to buy Lamborghinis"
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Ori Zilbershtein
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My sister from another mister. Happy Birthday, @lilyraynyc Keep on rocking, may you have the best transformative and truly powerful year. Love you and always have your back sis.
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So what actually happened here? Google using their HCU update, elevated Quora and its "questions" into the top results. Which created a huge incentive to create fake profile, pump them with upvotes to appear as the first legitimate answer to those questions. Example:
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Ori Zilbershtein
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I do love fake AI Quora profiles. Especially that most of her answers are written with ChatGPT and rank first in Google for, you guessed it. Medical terms.
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