Insights From the Google DOJ Documents (Part 1)
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AI Mode: What We Know for Now
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Is Schema Useful for LLMs?
“Why Sara, why?” This article may beg the question: why do I throw myself into hot water by bringing up controversial SEO topics? I know the easier path: just go with the flow, say what everyone else is saying, and collect the applause. But that’s boring. Why talk about

Auditing Large Websites
This week's newsletter is sponsored by me 😄 Check out my Python for SEO course A lot of SEOs speak from their own experience and then generalize it, as if there’s a one-size-fits-all approach. For an industry famous for saying “it depends,” that’s kind of a joke

Running Control Experiments in SEO
This week's newsletter is sponsored by me 😄 Check out my Python for SEO course More often than not, there's no definitive answer for some of the issues we face in SEO. Specifically when you're trying to figure out "why" something is happening.

Difference Between GEO and SEO
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Mistakes I Made in Client Discovery Calls
This week's newsletter is sponsored by me 😄 Check out my Python for SEO course There are two parts to acquiring SEO clients: getting the lead, and closing the deal. Both are equally challenging. Pretty much similar to getting the user from search, and then making this user convert

When Programmatic SEO Backfires
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SEO Like It’s 2014
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The Bing Bong!
Historically, most SEOs ignore Bing Webmaster Tools (BWT) and solely focused on GSC. Well... maybe we should change that for many reasons, There's no guarantees that Google will maintain search market dominance in this new era of AI-powered search. Users have so many options right now, and also
