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SEO is continuing to change at an alarming pace. And yet, in some sense, the principles of good SEO remain the same. Hello, and welcome to SEO in 2024 – a significant repository of current thinking from many of the world’s leading SEOs. We're pleased to be able to welcome you to the third book and third series in this podcast, now well and truly an annual tradition, brought to you by Majestic. “This is the most actionable book in SEO! A must-read to go through the top tips for the year.” ALEYDA SOLIS SEO Consultant & Founder, Orainti “There is NO better resource for the latest up-to-date (and ahead-of-the-curve) SEO advice than this book series! Don't start your new year without this book!” PAM AUNGST CRONIN President, Pam Ann Marketing & Stealth Search & Analytics “This is an insanely awesome collection of tips and information from most of the top minds in digital marketing. Instead of the generic "SEO for Dummies" approach, it's real-world tactics and tips from ridiculously smart marketers, so it's a book that's literally packed with immediately actionable information that can change how you work TODAY!” GREG GIFFORD Chief Operating Officer, SearchLab Digital “SEO continues to expand into an all-encompassing field that touches all aspects of marketing, technology, communication, branding, psychology, and more. That's a vast field - and one that's increasingly hard to keep up with.” JONO ALDERSON Independent Technical SEO Consultant “Few other works encapsulate the newest, cutting-edge advice from venerable titans of SEO. There are always goodies weaved throughout, if you read nothing else - read this.” NIK RANGER Senior Technical SEO, Dejan Marketing
- 304 - Raise the status of SEO within the business – with Ash Nallawalla
Ash Nallawalla from CRM911 Digital believes that SEO deserves a bit more recognition – and businesses will benefit greatly from giving SEO managers a bigger voice.
Discussion points include:
Where in a corporate structure should an SEO manager sit?
What do they need to control?
What do they need to influence?
How do they manage to climb the organisation hierarchy?
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 - 17min - 303 - Ensure that SEO takes its rightful place as a strategic business function – with Helen Pollitt
Helen Pollitt says that you need to ensure that SEO takes its rightful place as a strategic business function.
Discussion points include:
Why has SEO been traditionally been considered a marketing channel?
Why is it imperative that SEO is fully integrated into design, brand, engineering, customer services and UX teams?
How should a company change their focus from "SEO as a marketing channel" to "SEO as a strategic business lever"?
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 - 16min - 302 - As an SEO you need to think like a product manager - with Gus Pelogia
Gus shares that you can improve your impact by taking inspiration from how product managers operate.
Gus says: “Think like a product manager."
"For me, it’s about following a process of discovery, testing, and seeing whether the things that you’re doing actually have an impact or not. Let’s say you believe that you can improve indexation on a website. That’s your hypothesis. Then, you’re going to start with the discovery phase: what are the possible things you can do to solve this problem? There are many different ways that you can do this, depending on the size of your website and the resources that you have."
Fri, 26 Apr 2024 - 19min - 301 - Foster a collaborative environment to achieve success – with Montserrat Cano
You can diversify your own approach and skillset, but International SEO and Digital Marketing Specialist Monsterrat Cano is a firm believer in strength in numbers. It’s foolish to work alone, she says.
Discussion points include:
Can every SEO collaborate - even in-house SEOs working by themselves?
How do you collaborate during a
- migration process
- recession
- algorithm update
- tech integration
Thu, 25 Apr 2024 - 16min - 300 - Learn from what's currently ranking, but offer something different with your content - Ashley Segura
In this episode David and Ashley discuss the importance of learning from what's currently ranking, but offer something different with your content.
Discussion points include:
How do you learn what you should be ranking for?
How do you learn what’s currently ranking?
How do you offer something different with your content?
How do you know that search engines will prefer your content?
What type of content tends to be more effective nowadays?
How often should you update your content?
Wed, 24 Apr 2024 - 17min - 299 - Start integrating video into your SEO strategy – with Sara Taher
If you’re looking for a new weapon to add to your arsenal, Sara Taher from Assembly Global says that video is the way to go. She believes that this is where users and search engines are turning their attention.
Sara says: “Integrate video content into your SEO strategy, be it long-form, short-form, vertical, horizontal, or square videos.”
"You want to leverage video on the SERPs themselves and also on other platforms as well – like YouTube and TikTok. You basically want to create video content that you can also post on your website. For each of those, there are values that they are going to bring to your business."
Tue, 23 Apr 2024 - 13min - 298 - SEOs need to know about Performance Max ads - with Navah Hopkins
Navah Hopkins believes that SEOs need to know about Performance Max ads.
Discussion points include:
What are Performance Max ads?
What will iOS17 do for tracking and attribution of your marketing campaigns?
What creative works best? Ad or landing page perspective or both?
Why are they different?
What does adapting content to visual first placements mean?
Why are they better?
Is there any downside?
Why are they important for SEO?
How should paid and SEO work together?
Mon, 22 Apr 2024 - 16min - 297 - Use multimedia to slice across channels - with Crystal Carter
Crystal Carter believes that you should be using multimedia to slice across your marketing channels.
Discussion points include:
What do you mean by slicing?
Does multimedia work for every type of content?
What stage in the customer journey does multimedia content work for?
Does multimedia replace content?
Do you mean multimedia off site?
What does the ideal content production process look like?
How is AI changing multimedia content?
Fri, 19 Apr 2024 - 21min - 296 - Befriend other marketeers and go holistic - with Izzy Wisniewska
Izzy Wisniewska believes that you should befriend other marketeers and go holistic in 2024.
Talking points include:
What does holistic actually mean in practice?
How do you unite as a marketing department in a large organisation?
How does a content team, PR team, video team join forces with sEO to deliver a more effective customer experience?
What other teams impact areas like:
EEAT, technical performance, user experience, speed, user intent, content quality
What does this mean for channel team members - do they need to train themselves on other channels?
How do you measure success?
Who gets credit for a customer purchase?
Thu, 18 Apr 2024 - 17min - 294 - Know your audience, meet their search intent & ensure your content is “Helpful” - Sukhjinder Singh
In this episode, David and Sukhjinder discuss the importance of knowing your audience, meet their search intent & ensure your content is “Helpful”.
Discussion points include:
Why is knowing your audience and meeting their search intent even more important in the age of SGE?
How do you know your audience?
How do you meet their intent?
How do you ensure that your content is helpful for both users and search engines?
What does having E.E.A.T.-worthy content actually mean?
How is this changing in 2024 and beyond?
Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 18min - 293 - 2024 is the year of the yearning for original, creative and well-written human content - Luke Carthy
Luke Carthy believes that 2024 is the year of the yearning for original, creative and well-written human content.
Discussion points include:
What can humans do that AI can’t do?
What’s the difference between well-written human content and AI content?
What should humans stop doing and hand over to AI?
How long will this be the case for?
How is TikTok a competing ecosystem to Shopify and Google?
What should SEOs do about this?
Is it an SEO’s job to optimize for every platform?
Tue, 16 Apr 2024 - 18min - 292 - Creating actionable audits that your client understands - with Nikki Halliwell
Nikki Halliwell shares that creating actionable audits that your client understands, and can be used by stakeholders at all levels and being able to follow them through and get fixes implemented by working closely with dev teams and speaking their language for faster implementation.
Discussion points include:
What is an actionable audit?
Is there any type of audit that you see SEOs doing that don’t provide much value?
What stakeholders should be using this audit?
What language should you be using in your audit reports to assist you in engaging with various stakeholders?
How do you get dev teams on board to implement fixes more quickly?
What software do you use for your audits?
How often should you do these audits?
Mon, 15 Apr 2024 - 16min - 291 - Invest in additional tools and external testing when doing a migration - with Andor Palau
Andor Palau shares the importance of investing in additional tools and external testing when doing a migration.
Talking points include:
What are some examples of some of the preventable errors that can occur with migrations?
What tools do you use?
How do you end up paying with missing revenue?
What different perspective or different data layers might you end up missing?
How should you plan for a migration?
Who should you involve in a planned migration?
Is there anything that you need to keep checking post-migration?
Fri, 12 Apr 2024 - 16min - 290 - Limit crawlability to your content - with Emma RussellThu, 11 Apr 2024 - 16min
- 289 - Keep a wide open eye and be flexible - Manu Madeddu
In this episode, David and Manu discuss the importance of keeping a wide open eye and being flexible in your SEO approach.
Discussion points include:
Can you give an example of the new possibilities of integrating AI in your workflow and processes?
When you say, “make sure you have access to the right and accurate data”, what data are you referring to?
How do you work cross-channel?
How do you determine what delivers the most value to your audience?
How do you know when to pivot an SEO strategy?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024 - 18min - 288 - What impact does site speed and Core Web Vitals have on SEO in 2024? With Fili Wiese
Fili Wiese shares what impact site speed and Core Web Vitals has on SEO in 2024.
Discussion points include:
What impacts site speed most in 2024?
- Server and hosting
- File sizes and types
- Plugins and add-ons
- Traffic volume
- Poor coding
How should we be using Core web Vitals to direct our site performance improvements?
Inside Search Console?
- Loading (Largest contentful paint - how fast is fast enough? How do you improve this?)
- Interactivity (First input delay - how fast is fast enough? How do you improve this?)
- Visual stability (Cumulative layout shift - what issues are key?)
Tue, 09 Apr 2024 - 17min - 287 - Ensure technical quality throughout your entire site - with Tom Pool
Tom Pool advises that you ensure technical quality throughout your entire site.
Discussion points include:
What does good technical site quality look like in 2024?
Has anything changed in terms of technical setup best practice in the past couple of years?
How does a good technical set up deliver better user experience?
How do you build a solid technical foundation if you’re not sure how large you’re going to grow?
If users are happy using your site is it worthwhile to continue to invest in further technical improvements?
How do you measure the impact of technical improvements?
Mon, 08 Apr 2024 - 16min - 286 - Building the right links is one of the biggest priorities for marketers - with Alexandra Tachalova
Alexandra Tachalova shares that building the right links should be one of the biggest priorities for marketers.
Discussion points include:
What are the right links at the moment?
What are the wrong links at the moment?
How do you get the best links?
Why is this more important than other marketing activities?
You say that Sites that have a strong domain authority can easily reach excellent results in Google SERPs without building any links back to their individual pages - does this mean that you only have to build links to certain pages?
Can you stop building links after a while?
Will links stay important with AI results?
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 - 15min - 285 - Why you shouldn't give up on "Hero Campaigns" in Digital PR - with Eva Cheng
Eva Cheng shares why you shouldn't give up on "Hero Campaigns" in Digital PR.
Discussion points include:
What are hero campaigns?
What are the typical results you are looking to achieve from hero campaigns?
How do you create a hero campaign?
How do you manage a hero campaign?
How do hero campaigns fit into the bigger picture?
Why should SEOs consider building category page links?
At what point in your SEO strategy should you implement this?
Are there any specific Digital PR tactics that have proven more successful for category page links?
Why do you say that an SEO shouldn’t be afraid to build category page backlinks?
How do building category page backlinks fit into the bigger picture?
Thu, 04 Apr 2024 - 15min - 284 - Prioritize Value Over Sheer SEO - with Rad Paluszak
Rad Paluszak shares the importance of prioritizing "Value" over "Sheer SEO".
Discussion points include:
Why is working on improving the site better than obsessing about SEO?
You say that SEO-elements on a website CAN be imperfect - why?
You say that if your site is not useful or does not deliver truly unique value, it might be throttled and suffer in the long term - what do you mean by this?
Why should SEOs stop obsessing over AI developments?
Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 16min - 283 - Start prioritising building smaller numbers of relevant high-quality links - with Jo O'Reilly
Jo O'Reilly believes that you should start prioritising building smaller numbers of relevant high-quality links.
Discussion points include:
How do you define relevant high-quality links?
How do you define irrelevant spammy links?
How do you measure the value of a link?
How do you conduct outreach?
Ideally what style of links are you looking for?
Are you willing to pay for links?
Tue, 02 Apr 2024 - 15min - 282 - Leverage Happy Customers for Ethical Backlinks - with Alan SilvestriThu, 28 Mar 2024 - 14min
- 281 - Master Your Video SEO - with Rana Abu Quba Chamsi
Rana Abu Quba Chamsi shares the importance of mastering your video SEO.
Discussion points include:
What do you mean by video SEO - optimizing video to appear on the SERP?
What type of business is video most suitable for?
What’s the ideal length and format? How do you optimize? What’s your process?
What are some other video-based platforms that you optimize for and how is that optimization process different?
What kind of intent does video traffic have and does that differ to other traffic?
How does video fit into the overall content mix?
How is AI impacting video optimization?
What is the future of video optimization?
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 17min - 280 - “Build relationships” before you link build - with Amit Raj
Amit Raj shares the importance of building relationships before you link build.
Discussion points include:
How would you define a valuable link?
What do you have to give to obtain a valuable link nowadays?
How do you stand out with your outreach?
Is that link a logically relevant link between those websites?
Does it provide value?
Is your outreach relevant and genuine to the receiver?
Are you approaching sites with something that will genuinely resonate, and that their audience would benefit from?
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 - 15min - 279 - Stay on top of link and mention building - with Debbie Chew
Debbie Chew emphasises the importance of staying on top of link and mention building.
Discussion points include:
Why build mentions?
What do you mean by generative AI chatbots and search being influenced by listicles?
What do you mean by that you shouldn’t "blindly" build links to pages without regularly revisiting the SERPs?
What are the link building tactics to focus on in 2024?
Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 15min - 278 - Optimize internal links to increase the relevance scores of target content - with Andreas Voniatis
Andreas Voniatis shares the importance of optimizing internal links to increase the relevance scores of target content.
Discussion points include:
What scoring system do you use to analyse the relevance scores of target content?
What are the data sources required
What are some data cleaning tips
How do you determine anchor text relevance with python functions?
How do you use statistical distributions to model the relevance and highlight under-served target content?
Fri, 22 Mar 2024 - 15min - 277 - Don't underestimate the power of linking sub-categories to parent categories - Katherine Nwanorue
Katherine Nwanorue shares the importance of linking sub-categories to parent categories as part of your on-page SEO strategy.
Discussion points include:
What about linking the other way around - from the main category body content to the minor category page?
Why do this if there are links on the navigation menu?
What measurable value does this provide?
Does this make it more likely for the pages to be indexed?
Will it result in higher rankings?
Is the keyword text within the links important?
How many links per page do you recommend?
Any other internal link strategies that you recommend?
Can this be automated?
Thu, 21 Mar 2024 - 15min - 276 - Adopting search generative experience as your SEO strategy in 2024 is pivotal - Veronika Höller
Veronika Höller shares that adopting search generative experience as your SEO strategy in 2024 is pivotal.
Discussion points include:
How is SGE changing the SERP?
What markets does this affect at the moment?
What timescale are we looking at for full international roll-out?
What industry sectors does this affect the most?
What about queries - what types of queries does this affect the most?
What does this mean for the way that we write or optimize content?
How are other search engines changing?
Does this reduce the impact of Google as an organic search discovery channel?
Do we have to turn to other content mediums like YouTube, TikTok or podcasts?
Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 16min - 275 - Take full advantage of internal link optimization - with Anna Uss
Anna Uss shares the importance of understanding the full advantage of internal link optimization.
Discussion points include:
How do you build an internal links strategy?
How important is it to have your target keyword phrase in internal links?
Where should you have your internal links?
How often does your internal links strategy need to be reviewed?
Why is having an internal links strategy so important?
Can you have measurable success thanks to an internal links strategy?
What tools do you use to help manage your internal links?
Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 15min - 274 - Understand the whole link profile of your website, not just the tier 1 links - Bill Hartzer
Bill Hartzer shares the importance of understanding the whole link profile of your website, not just the tier 1 links.
Discussion points include:
How deep do you go?
What impact do the 2nd and 3rd tier links have?
What tools do you use to research this?
How can you affect the 2nd and 3rd tier links?
How often should you be working on this?
How do you build a multi-tier link building strategy?
Mon, 18 Mar 2024 - 15min - 273 - Use AI assistance to validate long-form content that fulfills intent - with Mark Williams Cook
Mark Williams Cook discusses why you should use AI assistance to validate long-form content that fulfills intent.
Discussion points include:
What type of content is this for?
How do you use AI to validate long-form content that fulfils intent?
What does validation mean?
Why is this valuable?
What AI tools do you use?
How does doing this at scale provide an easy map of what needs improving?
What does ‘scale’ mean?
What does an easy map of what needs improving look like?
Fri, 15 Mar 2024 - 16min - 272 - Reduce, reuse, recycle applies to your website as well as the products you use - with Natalie Arney
Natalie Arney believes that reduce, reuse, recycle applies to your website as well as the products you use.
Discussion points include:
How do you Reduce, reuse, and recycle content?
How do you review your content?
How do you determine what you already have provides value?
How do you provide more value?
How do you ensure that content stays relevant - or do you always have to review content?
What style of content are users typically enjoying at the moment?
Thu, 14 Mar 2024 - 15min - 271 - Make sure your agency is maximizing its use of AI - with Santi Clarke
In this episode, Santi Clarke from Duda recommends that your agency is maximizing its use of AI.
Discussion points include:
How has AI changed the way that agencies work?
How do you maximize your use of AI?
How do you know what aI you should be using?
How do you stay on top of the most appropriate AI to be using?
What are your favourite AI tools for agencies at the moment?
How do you think an agency’s use of AI will continue to evolve over the coming year?
What is the future of the agency model, thanks to AI?
Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 16min - 270 - How to harness the power of informational content for e-commerce sites - with Jack Chambers-Ward
Jack Chambers-Ward shares how to harness the power of informational content for e-commerce sites.
Discussion points include:
Why is informational content so important for ecommerce sites?
Can Informational content help at every stage of the customer journey?
How do How-to articles help?
What about comparison articles - are they important for E-E-A-T?
How do you deal with landing pages for seasonal products?
How do you use FAQs?
Tue, 12 Mar 2024 - 16min - 269 - How to Level-Up Content, Tech and Links in your SEO - with Lidia Infante
Lidia Infante shows how to level-up content, tech and links in your SEO.
Discussion points include:
- With opinionated, unique, expert-driven content
What’s an example of this?
How to you go about creating this?
Why can’t AI replicate this?
- Rich Schema markup
What Schema do you need to use?
How do you insert it and manage it?
Will AI not lead to the end of Rich Schema?
- Focusing on brand awareness
What does that mean practically for SEO?
Where do you want to see the increased brand awareness?
How do you measure the impact of improved brand awareness?
Mon, 11 Mar 2024 - 17min - 268 - Think Human-First with your AI Copywriting - with Bibi Raven
Bibi Raven says that you need to think human-first with your AI copywriting.
Discussion points include:
What does Human-first AI copywriting mean?
What do you love about AI language models?
What don’t you love about AI language models?
What do we need to do about AI copywriting?
What does authenticity mean?
Should a business define a brand voice?
How does a business know that it is investing in the right creativity?
Fri, 08 Mar 2024 - 17min - 267 - Get to know your thought leaders! With Paige Hobart
In this episode Paige Hobart shares how important it is for your SEO to get to know your thought leaders.
Discussion points include:
Why get to know your thought leaders?
What can sales reps offer?
What can product evangelists offer?
What can the CEO offer?
What types of content is produced?
How do you measure success?
Why is search volume reactive not proactive?
Thu, 07 Mar 2024 - 16min - 266 - 2024 is the year of Query Satisfaction - with Arnout Hellemans
In this epsiode, Arnout Hellemans explores why he believes that 2024 is the year of query satisfaction.
Discussion points include:
How are content UX, core web vitals and E-E-A-T coming together?
How do you know which queries to optimise for?
What software do you use?
How do you go about establishing how to answer the query? (i.e. content form)
How do you satisfy UX, core web vitals and E-E-A-T at the same time?
How do you optimise for Google’s SGE and other AI results?
What is your content creation process?
Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 16min - 265 - Influencer Marketing to Influence Search - with Maria White
Maria White and David Bain discuss how we need to be moving from Influencer Marketing to Influence Search.
Discussion points include:
What does Influence Search mean?
Are you talking about using influencer to create quality and relevant content for your website?
How do you identify the influencers?
How do you persuade them to write for you?
Do you ask these influencers to talk to the press on your behalf?
What does success look like?
How do you measure the success of related social activity?
Tue, 05 Mar 2024 - 22min - 264 - Creator-Led SEO will dictate 2024 and beyond - with Ashley Liddell
Ashley Liddell and David Bain discuss how creator-led SEO will dictate 2024 and beyond.
Discussion points include:
What will these relationships with creators look like?
Why long-term relationships?
How do you build these relationship?
How much do they cost?
What sort of content do you want them to create?
What happens when the relationships ends?
Mon, 04 Mar 2024 - 17min - 263 - Listen to what your customers say FIRST and then validate it with keyword research - Martin Huntbach
Martin Huntbach and David Bain discuss the importance of listening to what your customers say FIRST and then validating this with keyword research.
Discussion points include:
How do you listen to your customers?
Face-to-face / video recordings / surveys?
How do you validate it with keyword research?
Are there missed opportunities if your customers don’t suggest certain topics?
What tools do you use?
What search volume is good?
Is zero search volume ever still interesting?
How do you incorporate the keyword on the page and within the content?
How do you choose what content suits the keyword?
How do you try to rank for the keyword?
Fri, 01 Mar 2024 - 18min - 262 - We are going to have to adapt extremely fast in 2024 - with Fabio Embalo
Fabio Embalo and David Bain discuss why ee are going to have to adapt extremely fast in 2024.
Discussion points include:
What do SEOs have to do differently?
How does this impact the way that things are currently done?
What has to be optimised to appear in SGE?
How do you drive traffic from SGE?
Should SEOs also be using AI in their own processes?
Should SEOs also be using AI to create content?
Thu, 29 Feb 2024 - 14min - 261 - Become "Uncopyable" for SEO Success in 2024 - with Kerry Campion
In this episode, Kerry Campion discusses why it's important to become "uncopyable" for SEO success in 2024.
Discussion points include:
How do you become "uncopyable"?
What’s an example of a strong brand messaging strategy?
How do you lean heavily into your own customer stories and what value does that provide?
How do you nurture relationships with thought leaders and what are you looking to achieve from that?
Are internal or external thought leaders key?
Are there any AI evolvements that you are nervous about from a content perspective?
Wed, 28 Feb 2024 - 20min - 260 - Make sure your content attracts the right audience and helps them convert - with Begum Kaya
Begum Kaya and David Bain discuss the importance of making sure your content attracts the right audience and helps them convert.
We have endless opportunities to find the right topics, optimize the websites accordingly, and try to reap fruits before really understanding our audience. However, we've seen many examples where it doesn't mean anything beyond some text. Begum believes we have to move towards the communicative and humane side of things and build our voice rather than covering all we can that touches our niche on the internet.
Tue, 27 Feb 2024 - 13min - 259 - What does a post-SGE, AI influenced world mean for SEO? With Nik Ranger
Nik Ranger and David Bain discuss what a post-SGE, AI influenced world means for SEO.
Discussion points include:
How do you leverage natural language processing techniques for information retrieval?
How do you leverage natural language processing techniques for text analysis?
Why is it more important than ever to understand the mechanisms that underpin how and why results are displayed?
What does this mean for SEO?
How does this affect an SEO strategy?
Mon, 26 Feb 2024 - 15min - 258 - Focus on the end user only and understand WHY they are searching - with Eli Schwartz
Eli Schwartz and David Bain discuss why you need to focus on the end user only and understand WHY they are searching.
Discussion points include:
Why is this important?
How do you find out why they are searching instead of what they are searching?
What tools do you use to assist you with this?
How do you alter your content to appeal to the why?
Does this apply to every type of content?
How does this interweave with other digital marketing activities?
How does this change of focus impact the bottom line measurable?
Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 16min - 257 - Be continuous and use a wide variety of SEO elements - with Amanda White
Amanda White and David Bain discuss how to be continuous and use a wide variety of SEO elements.
Discussion points include:
Surely you can’t work on everything at the same time?
How do you identify who user is?
How do you create a strategy around that?
Should you not be prioritising the most impactful SEO activities?
What are the well-trusted methods we shouldn’t be forgetting?
How do you know when you should automate or use AI?
How can SEO work more effectively with PR for greater success?
How do you know what you need to adapt and change in your processes?
Thu, 22 Feb 2024 - 14min - 256 - The answers to your SEO problems lie in the SERPs - with Bart Magera (SEOin2024)
In this episode, Bart Magera shares that the answers to your SEO problems lie in the SERPs.
Discussion points include:
What answers are you looking for in the SERPs?
How do you use the SERP to define opportunities?
How have the SERPs changed recently?
How do you use the SERP to form your SEO strategy?
What are your thoughts on the future of the SERP?
Read the full transcript of Bart's interview at https://majestic.com/seo-in-2024/additional-insights/bart-magera
Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 15min - 255 - Rather than SEO, focus on HEO. "Human Engagement Optimization" - with Ken "Magma" Marshall
Ken "Magma" Marshall and David Bain discuss how rather than focusing on SEO, you should focus on HEO. "Human Engagement Optimization"
Discussion points include:
What is "Human Engagement Optimization"?
How do you focus on creating web content with the user intent and needs in mind?
Show should you use AI / ML?
How do you know what your user or customer expects?
How do you ensure that you are delivering excellent experiences?
Why will Keyword data matter less?
How do you get more sophisticated around attribution?
How do you know which keywords have made a company most profitable?
How do you measure "Human Engagement Optimization"?
Tue, 20 Feb 2024 - 16min - 254 - Understanding the limitations of AI based tools for SEO - Jan-Willem Bobbink
Jan-Willem Bobbink and David Bain discuss understanding the limitations of AI based tools for SEO.
Discussion points include:
What are the useless exercises are happening based on LLMs that are not suitable for it?
What are the limitations of AI-based tools?
What are the elements of SEO that go hand-in-hand with AI?
What are the elements of SEO that don’t go hand-in-hand with AI?
Mon, 19 Feb 2024 - 16min - 253 - Mid-funnel is your strategic target - with Myriam Jessier
Myriam Jessier and David Bain discuss how mid-funnel is your strategic target.
Discussion points include:
What do you mean by mid-funnel?
How do you identify Mid-funnel opportunities?
What are good goals for Mid-funnel opportunities?
Can you not work with both traditional marketing funnels and customer journey mapping?
What are the typical touchpoints where SEO is overshadowed where search is critical?
Fri, 16 Feb 2024 - 17min - 252 - Stop chasing Google rankings and focus on building a real relationship with customers - Ian Helms
Ian Helms and David Bain discuss how to stop chasing Google rankings and focus on building a real relationship with customers.
Discussion points include:
What are SEO best practices at the moment?
How do you deliver personalized content, that is also beneficial for SEO?
How do you measure the SEO value of creating a great customer experience?
Is it possible to use AI generated content and to create a great customer experience at the same time?
Thu, 15 Feb 2024 - 16min - 251 - How small changes can lead to big impacts in eCommerce SEO - Rasmus Sørensen
On this episode Rasmus Sørensen discusses how small changes can lead to big impacts in eCommerce SEO.
Discussion points include:
What small changes?
How do you know what to change?
What big impacts does this have?
How do you measure this?
What are the biggest recent changes in eCommerce SEO?
What CMS Software do you recommend?
Read the full transcript of Rasmus's interview at https://majestic.com/seo-in-2024/additional-insights/rasmus-sørensen
Wed, 14 Feb 2024 - 16min - 250 - How to cut through the AI noise in 2024 - with Dixon Jones
Dixon Jones and David Bain discuss how to cut through the AI noise in 2024.
Discussion points include:
How do you cut through the AI noise?
Why does this make a difference?
How long will this differentiating factor work effectively?
Does this mean that you have to have a fairly manual process to be successful?
How do you determine who your “audience of one” is, and how to talk to them?
Tue, 13 Feb 2024 - 17min - 249 - The biggest challenge in 2024 will be standing out - Gerry White
Gerry White and David Bain discuss how the biggest challenge in 2024 will be standing out.
Discussion points include:
How do you deliver a reason to visit and engage with the site?
What if you look at the SERP and the search engine appears to be looking for a particular type of result for a query - do you still try to be different?
How do you stand out?
How do you measure the impact of trying to stand out?
Do you split-test trying to stand out?
How do you stand out in the world of a single AI result?
Will Google Perspectives help you stand out?
Can you use other marketing channels to help you stand out?
Mon, 12 Feb 2024 - 16min - 248 - The importance of Experience, high quality, author info and transparency - Filipa Serra Gaspar
Filipa Serra Gaspar and David Bain discuss the importance of Experience, high quality, author info and transparency.
Discussion points include:
How do you demonstrate Experience?
How do you show that you offer high quality information?
How do you format your author bio?
What do you mean by showing transparency?
What are examples of credible sources?
How do you cite credible sources and what impact does this have?
Can AI produced content demonstrate EEAT?
Fri, 09 Feb 2024 - 16min - 247 - Entity SEO - being a topical authority is key - with Anthony Barone
Anthony Barone and David Bain discuss how being a topical authority is key to your entity SEO.
Discussion points include:
How do you ensure that you create a comprehensive online version of an entity?
Where do you include the information?
What do you include?
How do you hone your entity to appeal to your target user?
How do you measure the impact of creating a comprehensive online entity?
How do you differentiate yourself from ChatGPT content?
How do you know that you are delivering a real and valuable answer?
What should you use ChatGPT for?
Thu, 08 Feb 2024 - 16min - 246 - We must consider all the organic channels and make them work in synergy - Valentina Stragliotto
In this episode Valentina shares that we should now consider all the organic channels and make them work in synergy to ensure success and that SEO is turning into OSO.
Topics covered:
What do you mean by OSO?
What do you mean by all the organic channels?
How do you make them work in synergy?
How do you determine what your audience wants?
What are the benefits of this?
How does this ensure success?
How do you measure success?
Read the full transcript of Valentina's interview at https://majestic.com/seo-in-2024/additional-insights/valentina-stragliotto
Wed, 07 Feb 2024 - 14min - 245 - Google is getting more and more focused on authority, expertise and experience - Andrew Cock-Starkey
Andrew Cock-Starkey and David Bain discuss how Google is getting more and more focused on authority, expertise and experience.
Discussion points include how too many people are still too scatter-gun with their approach. Andrew shares some advice on how to focus down on topic areas and really demonstrate your Expertise, Authority and Experience to search engines.
Tue, 06 Feb 2024 - 16min - 244 - SEOs must adopt the content creator mindset for their clients and employers - with Dre de Vera
Dre de Vera and David Bain discuss how SEOs must adopt the content creator mindset for their clients and employers.
Discussion points include:
What is Google’s new Perspectives filter and how do you take advantage of that?
How do you optimise your content on other sites to take advantage of this?
How do you need to style your content?
What sorts of queries are more likely to surface the Perspectives filter?
How do you get content ideas from Reddit and Quora?
Can any business take advantage of this?
Is this for any type of content?
How do you use this to build your build your E-E-A-T?
Where do you lie on the use of AI to create content?
Mon, 05 Feb 2024 - 17min - 243 - Acknowledge that E-E-A-T considerations are no longer "nice to haves" - with Ben Howe
Ben Howe and David Bain discuss how you need to acknowledge that E-E-A-T considerations are no longer "nice to haves".
Discussion points include:
What do you have to do to demonstrate your use of EEAT principles?
Do you have to do this to every piece of content, every type of intent?
How do modifiers on long-tail targets look in practice in terms of landing pages?
Will we have to rely on optimising for the user to receive the answer on the SERP or in an AI-powered chatbot in the future?
How do SEOs segment organic audiences?
Fri, 02 Feb 2024 - 16min - 242 - Build authority and collaborate to amplify your reach - with Kerstin Reichert
Kerstin Reichert and David Bain discuss how to build authority and collaborate to amplify your reach.
Discussion points include:
Do we reduce our authority by using AI to generate content?
How can we be more selective about content and utilise AI at the same time?
How do we use AI to be faster and better at the same time?
How do we change our SEO strategy as search engines move from multiple options to answer?
How do we stand out with our content in 2024?
How do we utilise our authoritative figures in 2024?
What style of content will work best?
How do we promote the content?
Thu, 01 Feb 2024 - 17min - 241 - Communicate the value of SEO to your c-suite - Anna Bravington
In the current climate, it's more important than ever for SEOs to communicate to the business their value - ensuring they're aligning with business goals and reporting back in ways that the c-suite/business owners can understand the value SEO brings.
In this episode, Anna shares with David:
- How do you communicate your value to the business as an SEO?
- Why do this?
- Who should you communicate with, and how should you communicate?
- How do you ensure your SEO activities align with business goals?
- How do you report back in ways that the c-suite/business owners can understand the value SEO brings?
- Should all SEOs be involved in this?
- What does this mean for how you go about building your SEO career?
Read the full transcript of Anna's interview at https://majestic.com/seo-in-2024/additional-insights/anna-bravington
Wed, 31 Jan 2024 - 18min - 240 - Focus on known benchmarks and best practices in UX - with Taylor Kurtz
Taylor Kurtz and David Bain discuss the importance of focusing on known benchmarks and best practices in UX to improve your SEO.
Discussion points include:
What known benchmarks and best practices are you referring to?
What is Virtual Environment Optimization?
How do you measure the value of focusing on EEAT?
What are best practices in UX and how does this impact SEO? Why should this be a priority?
Tue, 30 Jan 2024 - 19min - 239 - Follow Google's lead and renew focus on E-E-A-T in 2024 - with Kavi Kardos
Kavi Kardos and David Bain discuss the importance of following Google's lead and renew focus on E-E-A-T in 2024.
Discussion points include:
Why is E-E-A-T so important in 2024?
What are the good ways of using AI?
By announcing Perspectives and emphasizing E-E-A-T in their most recent messaging, Google has indicated that they're predicting a future preference for user generated content - what user generated content are they looking for?
How do we integrate social with SEO?
How do we incorporate community voices into our own content?
Mon, 29 Jan 2024 - 17min - 238 - Start with EEAT, and your strategy will follow - with Ed Ziubrzynski
Ed Ziubrzynski and David Bain discuss how you should start with EEAT, and your strategy will follow.
Discussion points include:
How do you start with EEAT?
What do you mean your your strategy will follow?
How does EEAT integrate with a holistic marketing strategy?
How often should you review your EEAT performance and future campaigns?
How do you measure EEAT success?
Fri, 26 Jan 2024 - 15min - 237 - Accept and prepare for the fact that Schema is becoming less relevant – with Anne Berlin
Anne Berlin believes that we need to accept and prepare for the fact that Schema is becoming less relevant.
Discussion points include how 2024 will be the year that structured data implementation plateaus. Anne believes that NLP has evolved to the point where most structured data is superfluous, except in a few use cases such as for publishers that have page resources prioritization/page speed or rendering issues.
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 - 15min - 236 - Don't forget your basics, good strategy doesn't have to be complicated! - Andy Mollison
David and Andy discuss why it's important not to forget your basics and that good strategy doesn't have to be complicated!
Discussion points include:
- You say that a good strategy doesn't have to be complicated! What is a good strategy?
- You talk about complicated tricks and tools available - what shouldn’t you be doing?
- What about AI?
- How do you know what newer tips and tactics to listen to?
Wed, 24 Jan 2024 - 19min - 235 - Branded keywords will become increasingly more important than generic keywords - Austine Esezobor
Austine Esezobor and David Bain discuss why branded keywords will become increasingly more important than generic keywords.
Discussion points include:
What is an entity?
Why will branded keywords become more important?
What strategy takes best advantage of branded keywords in 2024?
Do you not focus on generic keywords at all?
What is your keyword research process?
Tue, 23 Jan 2024 - 16min - 234 - Entity building for better EEAT - with Sara Moccand-Sayegh
Sara Moccand-Sayegh and David Bain discuss entity building for better EEAT.
Discussion points include:
How do you build a digital entity?
What are the key elements that search engines need to know and how do you teach them?
What content do you need before you apply your Schema?
What other sites do you need to be on to cement your entity’s authority?
You say that when there is understanding, you can get a Twitter Carousel. How does this work?
Will search engines and AI not get clever enough not to need Schema?
Mon, 22 Jan 2024 - 16min - 233 - The new AI landscape flips around the technical SEO rules - with Ulrika Viberg
Ulrika Viberg and David Bain discuss how the new AI landscape we all have found ourselves in flips around the technical SEO rules.
Discussion points include:
What are the rules for technical SEO in 2024?
How has AI altered this?
How do we focus better on semantics on how does this assist AI?
How do we better position our AI for AI?
How do we mark up our content better for machines?
Can we automate the marking up of our content?
Fri, 19 Jan 2024 - 15min - 232 - The resurgence of BrandSEO due to the rise of SGE - with Miracle Inameti-Archibong
Miracle Inameti-Archibong and David discuss the resurgence of BrandSEO due to the rise of SGE.
Discussion points include:
What does brand SEO actually mean?
How do you improve your brand SEO?
How do you work closely with other marketing teams to promote the brand?
What does brand SEO success look like?
How do you measure brand SEO performance?
What brand SEO opportunities does SGE offer?
Any other SGE opportunities?
Any SGE concerns?
Thu, 18 Jan 2024 - 18min - 231 - Combatting cannibalisation and utilising the reviews system to take advantage of Google’s updates
In this episode, David and Charlie discuss why you should be combatting cannibalisation and utilising the reviews system to take advantage of Google’s updates.
Topics include:
- What are the biggest cannibalisation issues?
- How does cannibalisation impact SEO?
- How does this impact content?
- What do you mean by utilising the reviews system?
- How do reviews positively impact SEO?
Wed, 17 Jan 2024 - 16min - 230 - Use Connected Schema Markup to prepare your organization for AI - with Martha van Berkel
Martha van Berkel and David discuss how to use connected Schema Markup to prepare your organization for AI and build your company's knowledge graph.
Discussion points include:
What does optimizing your site and using schema markup in a connected way mean?
What are your 3 tips for doing "connected" schema markup? Why does this matter?
Why this is important for what's changing in Search - (SGE, ChatGPT/Bing)?
How does this position SEO to be the hero in preparing marketing data for broader AI initiatives?
What does this mean for the future role of SEO?
Tue, 16 Jan 2024 - 16min - 229 - The Importance of Visual Elements is going to be more important than ever - Mufaddal Sadriwala
Mufaddal and David discuss the Importance of how visual elements are going to be more than ever in the new world of SGE.
Discussion points include:
Why are visual elements becoming more important?
What are examples of the visual elements you mean?
How do you optimise these visual elements?
Where do they appear?
What measurable result does this deliver?
Mon, 15 Jan 2024 - 18min - 228 - Consider Google’s incentive to index your site and prepare for the next chapter of the internet – with Jono AldersonFri, 12 Jan 2024 - 17min
- 227 - Keep a closer eye on the ever-changing SERPs – with Julia-Carolin ZengThu, 11 Jan 2024 - 17min
- 226 - Don't forget the power of TikTok when planning your SEO strategy - Mathilde Høj
In this episode, David and Mathilde discuss why you shouldn't forget the power of TikTok when planning your SEO strategy.
Discussion points include:
- How does TikTok work as a search engine?
- How do you determine if your audience is on there?
- Do you conduct keyword research?
- How do you optimise your content?
- What is the best publishing schedule?
- Any other ways to optimise content?
Wed, 10 Jan 2024 - 15min - 225 - Watch out for better, AI-powered technical SEO tools – with Pam Aungst CroninTue, 09 Jan 2024 - 20min
- 224 - Build your own prompt libraries for your clients – with Victoria OlsinaMon, 08 Jan 2024 - 15min
- 223 - Improve your success with AI by building a prompt library – with Garrett SussmanFri, 05 Jan 2024 - 16min
- 222 - Employ AI to improve your quality, not your quantity – with Joseph S. KahnThu, 04 Jan 2024 - 18min
- 221 - What you get out of your prospecting tools is a reflection of what you put into them: Sinead McLarty
David and Sinead discuss why what you get out of your prospecting tools is a reflection of what you put into them.
Discussion points include:
- What prospecting tools are you referring to?
- What should you be looking to get out of them?
- How do you put more into them?
- Outreach that you are doing is suitable for the site?
- How often should you review how you’re using prospecting tools?
- Is AI changing the way that prospecting tools are used?
Wed, 03 Jan 2024 - 17min - 220 - Utilise AI to save you time with your content creation – with Isaline MuelhauserTue, 02 Jan 2024 - 17min
- 219 - Learn to think, and only automate when it makes sense – with Kristina AzarenkoFri, 29 Dec 2023 - 18min
- 218 - Understand how generative AI is affecting SEO content – with Itamar BlauerThu, 28 Dec 2023 - 15min
- 217 - Know how your customers think and make decisions, to be the brand they'll always come back to
In this episode David and Giulia discuss how to know how your customers think and make decisions, to be the brand they'll always come back to.
Discussion points include:
- Why is it important to Know how your customers think?
- How do you Know how your customers think?
- How do you measure what your customers think?
- What do you mean by “make decisions to be the brand they'll always come back to?”
- What are examples of doing this?
- How does this impact SEO?
- How do you measure this?
Wed, 27 Dec 2023 - 16min - 216 - Learn how to tackle generative AI in search – with Jason BarnardFri, 22 Dec 2023 - 16min
- 215 - Use LLMs to improve your forecasting and save you time – with Arpad BaloghThu, 21 Dec 2023 - 16min
- 214 - Bullet-proof your SEO efforts with E-E-A-T to supercharge organic performance - with Kapwom Dingis
In this episode, David and Kapwom discuss how to bulletproof your SEO efforts with E-E-A-T to supercharge organic performance.
Topics include:
- How does E-E-A-T bulletproof your SEO?
- What is the most effective way of maximising your EEAT?
- What does a supercharged organic performance look like?
- How do you measure success?
- Is AI impacting EEAT?
Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 15min - 213 - Familiarise yourself with the capabilities and limitations of large language models – with Bastian GrimmTue, 19 Dec 2023 - 21min
- 212 - Consider how AI will impact user behaviour – with Annika HaatajaMon, 18 Dec 2023 - 17min
- 211 - Stop worrying about the future and start optimizing for it – with Jake GauntleyFri, 15 Dec 2023 - 16min
- 210 - Prepare for the AI-fuelled duplication epidemic – with Billie GeenaThu, 14 Dec 2023 - 16min
- 209 - Get hands-on to grow your career in SEO - with Jade SymonsWed, 13 Dec 2023 - 15min
- 208 - Stay ahead of the game by embracing AI – with Nitin ManchandaTue, 12 Dec 2023 - 18min
- 207 - Keep a human eye on your AI-generated content – with Adelina BordeaMon, 11 Dec 2023 - 16min
- 206 - Be human in order to sell to humans – with Jess JoyceFri, 08 Dec 2023 - 15min
- 205 - Emotional intelligence can be your superpower – with Petra Kis-HerczeghThu, 07 Dec 2023 - 21min
- 204 - Become more adaptable so that you can take advantage of change – with Rebecca BerbelWed, 06 Dec 2023 - 14min
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