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SVP, SEO & Stable Genius @ Razorfish. Not a cat. Ryan works from early in the morning until late in the evening. He makes many calls and has many meetings.

Trenton, MI

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Joined March 2007

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@RyanJones

Ryan Jones

2 years

Have you checked out yet? My FREE KW idea tool that: * shows related search terms * shows common questions * Breaks terms down into N-grams * compares content of 2 urls as N-grams * lets you turn your own KWs into N-grams

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SEODataViz lets you break down related search terms, your own keyword list, or webpage copy into Ngrams to help with keyword research & site comparison.

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@RyanJones

Ryan Jones

3 years

The most boomer thing ever is increasing social security to keep pace with inflation while arguing that minimum wage does not need to increase to keep pace with inflation. The generation continues to walk through doors then promptly close them for others.

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@joncoopertweets It’s hard to walk in 4” heel lifts with a full diaper.

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@KamalaHQ nothing says party of small govt like telling me how and when to have kids.

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@unusual_whales prediction: they're going to launch some scam trump NFTs or coin, and tons of broke idiots will spend money they don't have on it because they're in a cult and don't know it.

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7 years

@SpeakerRyan @rustybrick Finally! Millions just lost their healthcare. That was the final hurdle in making America great.

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2 months

@unusual_whales Don't worry, he's raising it for everybody who makes under 100k.

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2 months

@GoodVibePolitik We gotta elect dems to the house and senate too. Not just him. Thats the only way to really get it done.

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Ryan Jones

4 years

let's be real though. any SEO can find issues with any other SEO's site - they just don't know the politics or priorities or tech debt that are behind it. At some point it's about compromise and prioritization. #seochat

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Ryan Jones

6 years

Web 3.0? popup: This website uses cookies ok popup: this website would like to use your location no popup: This website would like to send you alerts no popup: sign up for our email to get 10% off no - i haven't seen your site yet popup: download our app never mind.

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@RyanJones

Ryan Jones

6 years

@realDonaldTrump the republicans controlled the house AND senate for 2 years and still voted against the wall. You can't blame the democrats.

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2 months

@unusual_whales can't wait to see the "convenience fee" on this.

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@RyanJones

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump The current bill only gives cuts to those making over 100k. How do you define middle class? Hint: it's not that.

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@RyanJones

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6 years

@realDonaldTrump the fact that you consider the rest of the world burning as a victory is very sad and telling. It's a global economy now. do you not understand that?

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@RyanJones

Ryan Jones

4 years

so many SEO conversations break down to: How do we rank? Do this.. But that's hard. Yup, that's what it takes. Ok, we did this cheap/easy thing instead. Why don't we rank?

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@SimonWDC He can't do interviews with journalists because his project 2025 platform is so bad, he needs to gaslight his base into thinking it's not really his platform.

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@RyanJones

Ryan Jones

5 years

if you create a page and then tell your SEO to "SEO IT." It's going to suck. Instead, tell your SEO what type of visitor you want to attract, and what your goal is, and they can help you create a page that that will kill it.

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4 years

people on SEO forums be like "My traffic is down over the last few weeks. Must have been a google update." Or... A global pandemic. But yeah, let's go with Google update.

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Ryan Jones

2 years

Every day people say that SEO will eventually go away - and every day I still come across a newly launched website with a title tag of "home" and a robots.txt blocking all search engines.

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@RyanJones

Ryan Jones

5 months

THIS! I can read 5x faster than you can talk to me. I can also read while i'm on a conference call, or watching TV, or in public. I don't want video.

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4 years

@realDonaldTrump by literally any metric you choose, we aren't even top 10 in the world.

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4 years

SEO is not a condiment, you can't add it after the fact. It's an ingredient. You have to plan it out up front.

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@RyanJones

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6 years

@realDonaldTrump for the 100th time, they imaged the server. they have a copy of it. they don't need the actual one. nobody physically touched it to hack it. you just don't understand tech.

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Ryan Jones

4 months

@realBrookNash Let's parking lot that for now.

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@RyanJones

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6 years

so many people talking about EAT for SEO. Expertise, Authority, and Trust are what happen when you build a real business instead of a website that tries to rank for a keyword. It's not an SEO strategy, it's a business strategy.

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5 years

more often than not, the "SEO issues" I talk to clients about are really business model issues. You can no longer win in SEO with hacks or quick fixes. Thread...

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Ryan Jones

3 years

Can ya'll help me with SEO titles? I know Guru is above Expert, but is it above Ninja? What about Maven? Where does Wizard fit in? How much more does an "seo rockstar" make than a growth hacker? Is it better to be an inbound marketing unicorn or SEO cowboy?

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Ryan Jones

6 years

dear SEOS. if you have an outdated article that isn't true anymore, DELETE IT - because the rest of our clients WILL find it and use it to make bad decisions.

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5 years

@realDonaldTrump you faked a weather map. you can't be trusted about anything.

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2 months

@infinitethird we all did. and we all unsubscribed and started looking for competitors to use.

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Ryan Jones

4 years

why do designers always start with a giant hero image that takes up all the above the fold real estate on every new website? does anybody have data that proves users prefer scrolling past a giant image to get to the useful information?

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Ryan Jones

6 years

SEOs need to stop using "here's a crawl i did of your site. I found major issues" as a sales tactic. It just gives our industry a shady reputation. especially when your "major issues" are things like a missing h2 tag or an empty alt attribute.

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@RyanJones

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@jkbjournalist I'm 99% sure his plane didn't have technical problems, because the airports it didn't land in are ones that he still owes money. My guess is he wasn't allowed to land there.

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Ryan Jones

7 years

@realDonaldTrump Maybe your definition of "good" doesn't match with the rest of Americas. Maybe you're just wrong.

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5 years

SEO isn't about making your site rank for a term. It's about understand what searches want and then building that. Too many people have been doing it backwards for so long.

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2 years

SEO at large companies is so little about fixing issues and creating content, and more about building the business case & finding client budget to fix shit eliminating blockers preventing you from fixing shit, and compromising on the shit you want to but can't fix.

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Ryan Jones

3 years

I learned the most about seo from being a Google quality rater. They didn’t teach anything about seo but they told us what type of sites deserve to rank so I just took that learning and set out to make that type of sites.

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5 years

@HannahPekarek You work there according to your bio. You can afford it.

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8 years

@RoguePOTUSStaff always John Barron and John Miller - the two aliases that Trump used.

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Ryan Jones

5 years

joined some black hat SEO forums and facebook groups. Let me save you the time. It's 99% them talking about PBNs that "google will never catch," and 301ing expired domain names.

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@RyanJones

Ryan Jones

4 years

wow, this exact thing happened to me a month or 2 ago as well. I thought it was unique to me.

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brands getting owned

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7 years

@SethAbramson it's probably not over though - cuz nothing matters anymore and nobody in congress has a backbone.

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2 years

@AOC If you don't, the republicans are going to the second they get control, and use it to push a national abortion ban through. And time is running out, they're gonna win mid terms cuz dems are letting them change the narrative to gas prices.

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@AOC It's almost like our party is afraid to use their power. Reverse the situation and republicans would have already ended the filibuster, added 11 more supreme court justices, and issued hundreds of executive orders.

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@RyanJones

Ryan Jones

7 years

@NivenJ1 @mathewi is it legal for the president to block somebody from official government communications?

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2 months

@MayraFloresTX34 @POTUS The AG doesn't make the laws, she just enforces them.

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4 years

can we all agree to stop saying "link juice" and "SEO Optimized?"

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7 years

@20committee it's about time we put country over party anyway. Wish more people focused on the actual issues not the party of the person who is involved before deciding if it's ok or not.

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Ryan Jones

4 years

Been hiring for 6-7 SEO roles over the last month or so. Keep seeing one thing in common: most are very lacking in technical SEO experience. Can't diagnose indexing issues, JS rendering issues, or write schema code.

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Ryan Jones

6 years

ok we're gonna end the argument here: Put dates on your freaking SEO articles so users know if it's old advice or not. If you want it "evergreen" for ranking, then update the content. Otherwise, add the date.

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2 years

I’m still shocked at how many seos regularly disavow links. Why? Unless you spammed them or have a manual action you’re probably doing more harm than good.

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4 months

hot take (theory) - Google wants to help sites hurt by HCU but they can't because it's all machine learning and they don't really understand what it's doing or why - all they can do is collect examples of good sites hit to feed into the next training cycle.

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Ryan Jones

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Guy next to me on plane: “I’m glad that drunk girl didn’t sit here. I’d have had to take advantage of that” Me: that’s called rape. He didn’t talk the rest of the flight.

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Ryan Jones

5 years

SEOs freaking out about noindex no longer being supported in robots.txt My question: why were you using it there? it's not in the docs or specifications. you were never supposed to.

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Ryan Jones

5 years

never thought I'd see the day where SEOs are complaining about ranking #1 .

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Ryan Jones

2 years

Democrats, pass these laws NOW. Let women claim fertilized eggs on their taxes, take life insurance out against them, etc.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

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75% of fertilized eggs naturally miscarry. If the GOP honestly believed a fertilized egg is a human being, their abortion bans would mandate insurance companies pay life insurance benefits for a miscarriage. But that’ll never happen—b/c GOP knows a fertilized egg is NOT a human.

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@karaafrederick This is a terrible bill. The only part that keeps kids safe is the name. This is censorship and undue burdens on small websites just labeled with "keeping kids safe"

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Ryan Jones

5 years

Attention all websites: I'm not going to create an account or login or give you my email to see your pricing. I'll just go with your competitor - even if you're better or cheaper.

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@unusual_whales Honestly, and this will piss off some people, the entire job of a real estate agent should and could be an app. It should cost me a couple hundred bucks, not 4-8% of the house price.

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5 years

@realDonaldTrump you provided us a fake weather map, how do we know this won't be a fake transcript?

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3 months

@pblest WTF cookies are you buying? I've never even paid $3 for a single cookie.

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8 years

@ESPNFantasy how many fantasy points is that? I can't tell your website is down.

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Ryan Jones

5 years

EAT is not a ranking signal or a score. it's not an actual part of the algorithm. It's what the algorithm is trying to reward. It's plain english to describe what all of the factors together are trying to measure.

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@RyanJones

Ryan Jones

10 months

@upperwestbruin @JasonIsbell when you say "call me charlie" I don't insist on calling you 'charles' or demanding you show me what name is on your birth cert. This is the same thing. Why are you so against calling somebody the name they want to be called?

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Ryan Jones

2 years

@QasimRashid The only problem the GOP has with Shariah law or the Taliban is how they spell their God's name.

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Ryan Jones

2 years

Playing with the ChatGPT API. Wrote a python script that grabs the top ranking pages for a query, grabs related search terms, feeds all that content to chatGPT and has it create content ideas. Just a proof of concept. cooler stuff coming soon. #ChatGPT #seo #Python

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Ryan Jones

3 years

way too many SEOs are over-thinking CWVs. It's gonna be such a minor factor. There's no way google will show a faster site over one that better answers the query. Not saying don't fix CWV. definitely do. but prioritize appropriately.

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Ryan Jones

5 years

instead of tracking core algorithm updates, maybe we should be tracking stuff like Google adding a 4th ad, prominence of map packs, knowledge graphs, and other things that users click instead of organic results. They seem to have a much larger effect on SEO.

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Ryan Jones

4 years

the core algorithm update is launching at some point today - and you haven't already written an article about how to recover form it? can you even call yourself and SEO?

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4 months

Forbes completely removed their coupon directory. They didn't noindex it. Why is that important? Because it signifies the only value it had to them was for SEO traffic. It they thought it was useful to their users, they'd have kept it up, noindexed, and linked to it from other

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3 years

I wish SEOs who don't understand NLP would stop talking about it like they do. I have a computer science degree and I barely understand the very basics. It's ok to be an SEO and not be an expert in NLP. It's not ok to pretend you are.

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My take on the leaked docs. We don’t know if this is for production or for testing. My guess is it’s mostly for testing potential changes. We don’t know what’s used for web or for other verticals. Some things might only be used for a Google home or news etc. We don’t know

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Ryan Jones

7 years

one day SEOs will stop chasing algorithms and start chasing the things the algorithms are trying to chase.

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Ryan Jones

2 years

So I just added a new answer the public style feature to that looks at question keywords - it's FREE and it looks like this. Check it out, I'd love your feedback.

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Ryan Jones

3 years

looking at an audit done by another agency. every slide is literally just a screenshot of some SEO tool and a number. There's no what does it mean or what should we do about it. That's not an audit. An audit has impacts, and prioritized next steps specific to the site.

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This works because rather than give that $$ to shareholders and pay 70% tax, they paid employees more, invested in the company, bought equipment & other things they could write off on their taxes to not pay 70%.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

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From the 1940s-1980, the wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax rates. Zero of them went broke from taxation. Zero of them left the country. All of them remained exceedingly wealthy—AND we had the strongest middle class growth in US History. Let's do that again. #TaxTheRich

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2 years

@AOC Congress should act to give sick time and parental leave to ALL workers rather than solve this time after time whenever one industry finally says 'enough.'

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Ryan Jones

5 years

Maybe you shouldn't ignore Bing. #Pubcon

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2 years

@RightWingCope Why does he have an extra finger?

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Ryan Jones

5 years

the most exciting thing about BERT is that suddenly, overnight, every SEO is now an expert on neural networks and natural language processing.

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Ryan Jones

4 years

if Google DID tell us what a core algo update did, it would be something like: "we increased the importance of pagerank by 1% while decreasing the importance of keywords in domains by 2% and changing the pagespeed factor from 0.000001 to .000002" What would we do with that?

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Ryan Jones

2 years

It’s time to change our seo language to be more DE&I #StateOfSearch2022

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6 years

SEOs going batshit crazy over google telling people the time. If your business model was ranking for what the current time is, you need a new business.

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2 years

@boosted4k @JoeBiden Economy growing. More jobs than people because the last president focused on reducing immigration and tons of boomers took early retirement during pandemic.

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@Devonteshiquand @RSA_Observer @ananayarora imagine being so racist that you immediately think every issue in the world is caused by diversity.

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2 years

I'm really getting tired of talking about ChatGPT but the vast majority of SEOs talking about it seem to greatly misunderstand what it's actually doing and how it actually works. That's going to be a problem at some point I think.

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7 years

can we all agree that just sending a client a report from an SEO tool is NOT an 'audit' nor something they should pay you for?

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@unusual_whales we don't have the technology. US companies do not have the patents or the technology to make the smaller chips that Taiwan does. That might have something to do with the party that says NOT to go to college and cut the # of Visas for tech workers though....

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Ryan Jones

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when I started in SEO, it used to be everybody helping each other. These days when you share your experience or knowledge, every chad7numbers with 14 followers comes at you with insults because it contradicts whatever spam they're selling. How'd we get here?

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Ryan Jones

1 year

Stop assuming ChatGPT can do something just because it tells you it can. I think I've seen 7 SEO posts today about using chatGPT to do stuff that it can't actually do, but will confidently tell you it did. I feel bad for the people taking that advice and acting on it.

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7 years

@DRUDGE_REPORT @realDonaldTrump FAKE NEWS!

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4 years

theory: 95% of what you read about EAT in SEO, is BS.

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@AriMelber @schachin so, if they rule in his favor - what prevents Biden from doing that right now?

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@RonFilipkowski It’s hard to do stairs in 4” heel lifts and a diaper

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3 years

The best part about doing a competitive analysis in SEO is showing clients that their online competitors aren't who their real world competitors are. It's often eye opening. #seochat #a1

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1 year

the more private SEO forums and groups I join, the sadder I get. It's like we've suddenly gone 10 years backward in terms of SEO tactics and strategies. Why is that?

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1 year

Fact: even if they had the Google algorithm code, most SEOs still couldn’t rank #1 . That’s not a dig at people. That’s a statement on the complexity of machine learning, vectors, and large data sets.

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If you’re looking for a checklist of things to make your content helpful you’re on the wrong track. SEO is real marketing. You need to understand the users intent for that query and meet their needs. That’s how you rank.

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@realDonaldTrump so what are YOU going to do about this? there has been more than 1 shooting per week so far this year. How do we stop that?

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3 years

oh hey it's google search console fills up your email box day.

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5 years

Bad SEOs say "how do I make this site rank for this term?" Good SEOs ask "what do people searching this expect?" then go build that.

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