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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New post is live. 3 ways you can help to get AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude to surface correct product, service, and even personal information. www.adamriemer.me/ai-and-llms/... #AI #LLM #SEO #ecommerce

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3 Ways to Correct Incorrect and Outdated Answers in AI

Are LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude surfacing incorrect information about your products, services, or you? Here's how we're trying to fix this.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New post is live. It's for affiliate managers. The post is a way to use AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude with conversion and revenue data to come up with content strategies that will help partners make money. Hopefully this post helps if you manage programs. www.adamriemer.me/affiliate-ma...

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A 6-Step, Money-Making, AI Content Strategy for Affiliates

Looking for a way to have AI help the affiliates in your program make more money? Here's a data based content strategy to try.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Is your finance team asking to do net 30 or net 60 for affiliate network payouts? Here's some ways to combat this, and if your competitors are doing it, how you can use it to your advantage. www.adamriemer.me/affiliate-ma...

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Net 30 Does Not Work for Affiliate Programs

Is your finance team looking at net 30 or 60 for your affiliate network invoices. Here's how to combat this or use it to recruit.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

New post is live on my blog. It's how I see outputs evolving and what we're doing now to try and secure citations, recommendations, and referrals for future AI algorithms. www.adamriemer.me/ai-and-llms/... #SEO #AIO #GEO #AI

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How We're Futureproofing Getting Featured in AI

We're not going after shopping lists and cited resources as a priority for LLM citations, we're focusing on where users are. Here's how.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

New post is live, it features ideas for creators, brands, and social media marketers to make money with Instagram Reels and the 30 links you can now add to them in video. In the post I feature ideas for creators and affiliates, but it applies elsewhere too. www.adamriemer.me/affiliate-ma...

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Ways to Use Instagram’s 30 Reel Links to Make Money

Ready to try Instagram reels to make money with affiliate marketing? Here's a few strategies and examples to get you started.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

New post is live "How to think like AI so you can optimize for AI." It's some of the ways we're building website, YouTube, and other experiences to hopefully set our clients up for success as LLMs gain traffic market share. www.adamriemer.me/ai-and-llms/... #LLM #AI #SEO #marketing

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How to Think Like AI So You Can Optimize for AI

Curious about optimizing for LLMs or what future outputs and results may look like? Here's what we're doing to prepare for them.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

There's no shortage of features we all wish affiliate networks would have, but here are five that I personally think will help everyone save time and make more money. www.adamriemer.me/affiliate-ma... What are yours?

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5 Features I Wish Affiliate Networks Had

Affiliate networks are constantly evolving, but there are certain features each should have, but some don't. Here's five of them.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

New post is live. Blogging isn't dead and can still bring in SEO traffic and revenue. Here's a split test we ran and the results on how we created a strategy that works. www.adamriemer.me/seo/blogging... #SEO #contentmarketing #blogging

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Blogging Still Works - An SEO Case Study and Split Test

Blogging is still alive and well, here's how we tested keyword focused strategies vs. user centric ones to grow traffic.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

New blog post is live. It's about Affiliate Programs not being dead, they're thriving. But they also evolved. The channel is no longer pay on performance or low-risk, but it does work even for small brands and startups. www.adamriemer.me/affiliate-ma...

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Affiliate Marketing Has Evolved from Pay on Performance

Affiliate has made many evolutions, and it is no longer pay on performance or low risk. But it can still work. Here's how.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New blog post is live, its about our reasoning for rejecting most affiliate applications that use AI or LLMs to apply, create content, and respond to emails. www.adamriemer.me/affiliate-pr... #marketng #AI #LLMs #affiliatemarketing

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Why We Reject Affiliates & Applications That Use AI

We reject most affiliate applications where the affiliate uses AI to apply, create content, or do promotions. Here's our reasons why.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

New post is live. A reader asked if having similar steps in a process will create a duplicate content problem for SEO, AIO, GEO, etc... The answer is no. I share why and a few ways you can have similar steps without competition. www.adamriemer.me/seo/similar-... #SEO #AIO #GEO

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

ChatGPT 5.0 is nowhere near as good as previous versions. Look at this catadactyl, absolutely not accurate and lifelike. Same with the tricerakittens I asked for.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Finally updated my blog. The post is about why redirecting a conversion page (product, lead gen forms, etc...) to content pages for SEO is almost always a bad idea. www.adamriemer.me/digital-mark... #SEO #marketing #AIO #GEO

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Redirecting Conversion Pages to Content is a Bad Idea

Redirecting conversion pages like lead gen, forms, product pages, etc... to content pages is not good. There are better options available.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A few people have been asking me what vectors are for SEO, AI, and LLMs because the current guides out there are techie and confusing. So I created an easy-to-understand one that features dogs and cats. I hope it helps if you're stuck on them. www.adamriemer.me/ai-and-llms/... #LLMs #SEO #AI

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Vector SEO & AI - An Easy Explanation (With Dogs & Cats)

Vectors in SEO are how search engines and AI or LLMs associate words and topics to know what to show a user. Here's how you can use them.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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Vector SEO & AI - An Easy Explanation (With Dogs & Cats)

Vectors in SEO are how search engines and AI or LLMs associate words and topics to know what to show a user. Here's how you can use them.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My new post on SEJ is live. The person wants to know why their rankings and keywords didn't return after they refreshed their copy. It's because copy is only one part of SEO, everything matters to be able to perform. www.searchenginejournal.com/ask-an-seo-w... #SEO #HeyGoogle #marketing

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Ask An SEO: Why Didn’t My Keywords Come Back After I Changed My Page Content?

If keyword visibility drops again after improving, content may not be the issue. Site health, over-optimization, and irrelevant links could be affecting it.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

New post is live and it is about optimizing for LLM inclusions using 3rd party signals. It is not about what you can do with your own website. These are trends and observations I've noticed, but doesn't mean I'm right. I hope you enjoy and it is helpful. www.adamriemer.me/ai-and-llms/...

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Optimize for LLMs & AI with Third Party Signals

Looking to get featured in more LLM and AI answers? Here's some of the trends we're seeing using third party signals.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

My new Ask an SEO column is live. The person wants to know if you should optimize for high volume and high competition keywords. My response contradicts itself, but also backs up why. The SEJ team did an awesome job editing the post. www.searchenginejournal.com/ask-an-seo-o... #SEO #content

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Ask An SEO: Should We Optimize For Keywords With High Search Volume Or Competition?

Focusing on user intent is more effective than search volume in keyword research. Read how to optimize for topics and build authority

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I wrote a new post yesterday. Yes, schema will help you rank a page and a website, it just depends who you ask and what they do. If you're curious why I'm publishing something that goes against what common knowledge is, here you go. www.adamriemer.me/seo/actually... #SEO #marketing #business

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Actually, Schema Will Help Your Site & Page Rank

Schema can and will help your pages and website rank, but not in a direct way. This is because I look at it from a marketing viewpoint.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

New Case Study: Learn how we're helping a lead gen website in the finance space recover and grow traffic. We share step-by-step how we audited the site and the steps we're taking to get it growing again. www.adamriemer.me/seo/seo-reco... #SEO #marketing #advertising

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SEO Recovery Case Study - Lead Gen for YMYL in Finance

This SEO case study shares how we're helping our client in the finance space regain and grow traffic for highly competitive terms.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Writing for Ecommerce SEO isn't about keywords, it is about helping the user find the correct product or service to buy and getting them to the correct page. Here's how we do this in my new post: www.adamriemer.me/seo/the-diff... #SEO #marketing #ecommerce #advertising

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The Difference Between SEO Keyword & User Content for Ecom

Writing for SEO keywords is not an ecommerce SEO strategy that works long term. Write for the shopping experience instead with these tips.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

New post: How to Give Citation and Sourcing links without damaging your own website's SEO. This is the process and some of the criteria we require with our projects and writers. I hope it helps with yours. www.adamriemer.me/seo/how-to-d... #SEO #contentmarketing

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How to Do Citations and Sources for Your Own SEO

Citations and sourcing is one of the things we have to correct most often in SEO audits and recovery projects. Here's what we look for.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My new column on SEL is live. 5 SEO content pitfalls to avoid & alternative solutions to them. - Using search volume - Publishing in bulk - Word counts - Questions as headers - Publishing everyday searchengineland.com/5-seo-conten... I hope this helps you, it was fun to write! #SEO #marketing

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5 SEO content pitfalls that could be hurting your traffic

Outdated SEO tactics can hurt your traffic more than help. Focus on what matters: user experience, quality content, and smart optimization.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Forgot I wrote this one, haven't gotten a chance to see how it has been edited yet. SEJ asked me to create a guide about 5 or so months ago with some advanced link building ideas. These are things I've done or seen others do and liked. www.searchenginejournal.com/advanced-lin... #SEO #Marketing

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Advanced Link Building Strategies For National, International & Local

Learn effective link building strategies for gaining natural links from various sources, like the media, bloggers, and industry publications.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Advanced Web Ranking reached out and asked if I'd write a post about how to run split tests for #SEO, and that's a topic I love. So I did. Hope it is able to help you if you're looking for ways to test with less potential damage. www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/seo-ab-...

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SEO A/B Testing Ideas to Improve Search Performance

SEO A/B split tests help you refine your strategy for better results. Here’s how to run them effectively and get started with high-impact testing ideas.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

3 clients in different niches with very different audiences all said the same thing on 3 separate calls this week. 1. Google Ads tanked starting late December/early January 2. Meta Ads on Facebook started crushing it same time I checked the data and it is 100% accurate. Money shifting to Meta now.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Don't rely only on SEO tools to evaluate website traffic and quality. My blog for my company is unoptimized for SEO so the tools show 100 to 200 visitors per month. I normally have about 25K because of social and my email list. Use multiple tools when evaluating who to work with.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

My new post, The #1 thing I recommend doing before joining an affiliate program. It's something I've been doing personally for 20+ years and what I still recommend when doing public speeches today. What is your top recommendation? www.adamriemer.me/affiliate-ma... #marketing #advertising

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The Most Important Thing Before Joining an Affiliate Program

In the 20+ years I've been in affiliate marketing, this is the most important thing I do and recommend before joining a program.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Right now could be the perfect time to restore an AskJeeves style search engine. Its kind of what the original was supposed to be doing, but it didn't have the LLM systems to power it. #SEO #SEOchat #HeyGoogle

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My new Ask an #SEO column on Search Engine Journal is live. It's about how long it takes for schema to go live on a search result. I myth bust a few misconceptions about schema, and give an answer based on what we see with sites at different trust levels. www.searchenginejournal.com/ask-an-seo-h...

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Ask An SEO: How Long Does It Take For Schema To Rank?

Find out how long it takes for schema to impact search engine rankings. Learn how schema helps search engines understand your page's content and purpose.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My new post on Search Engine Land is live. It's all about optimizing your title tags for 2025 and is based on the trends I saw in 2023 and 2024 and how to help yours stand out. searchengineland.com/title-tags-s... #SEO

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Title tags and SEO: Everything you need to know in 2025

Find out how to make your page titles pop in the SERPs by using creative techniques tailored to today’s SEO landscape.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Want to increase your chances of getting approved to an affiliate program? Try the following on your application. Include: - How & where you'll promote them - Examples of where they are a fit - Contact information - You have read the TOS - The brand guidelines will be followed It's that easy.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Search Console just sent a schema error warning for FAQ schema which was deprecated. If it is deprecated, why are they flagging it? 1. Might be an error and they'll say ignore it 2. Maybe FAQ schema is coming back, I saw it on a couple financial SERPs #SEO #SEOchat

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Not all trips turn out great. This one started with my room not existing.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

AI Overviews are missing source links and citations for some queries today. Hopefully they can add them back in. Also seeing quora, forums, and other opinion sites being sourced on medical and health queries. #SEO #HeyGoogle #seochat

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

In my latest Ask an SEO column I was asked why an #SEO formula stopped working for their law firm clients. Google looks for unique, original, and informative experiences. If everything uses a formula and is the same, there's no reason to rank you. www.searchenginejournal.com/ask-an-seo-w...

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Ask An SEO: What To Do When Your SEO Formula Doesn't Work?

Learn why the same SEO approach doesn't work for law firms and other niches. Discover how to develop unique strategies for each brand.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Feast of seven shellfishes. Happy holidays everyone!

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Over the summer I made a post about next steps and the future...and had a comment about mergers. Well I'm excited to share the following news. Please read the entire post. www.adamriemer.me/press-room/f... #agencylife #acquisitions #marketing

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For Immediate Release: Adam Riemer Marketing Has Been Acquired

Adam Riemer from Adam Riemer Marketing has been acquired. We're excited for this new endeavor and congratulate the parties.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

In my latest ask an SEO column on SEJ I was asked about moving from the second page in Google to the top positions on the first page. Here's some of the things we do with our clients for this: www.searchenginejournal.com/ask-an-seo-h... #SEO #marketing #advertising

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Ask An SEO: How To Move From Page 2 To Top Positions

Are you stuck on page two of search results? Read on to learn effective strategies and tips for boosting your website's visibility.

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Gerry White SEO nerd @dergal.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

If you're going to Digital Marketing Europe in March Make sure you see @adamriemer.bsky.social / Marty Weintraub / Amanda Walls and Luke Cope! There's so many other amazing speakers I'm sure! I had a blast there last year, great venue and amazing city!

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

ICYMI: Review affiliates, influencers, and partners can be high, mid, and low value touchpoints. Other times they accidently break attribution lines. Here's how we work with them in our programs so both they and our clients win. www.adamriemer.me/affiliate-ma...

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Review Affiliates Are Both Top and Bottom Funnel

Review affiliates are both top funnel and bottom funnel, and working with them can grow you or hurt you. Here's what to know.

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

New layout for me on product queries. - Product listings - Where to buy - YouTube and/or social media reviews - A retailer (Macy's) with a collection/category page and how recently the page was updated as a tag Under shop the store it has two retailers not from above. #SEO #HeyGoogle #marketing

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

New Google core update rolling out which is why we're likely seeing weird search results right now and spammy sites showing up in top positions. Happened during the last few in the same way and then they went away. status.search.google.com/incidents/V9... #SEO #HeyGoogle

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Adam Riemer @adamriemer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Doing end of year client calls with and the data for a majority is freaking awesome. Some are established brands and are getting 500% growth in new customer acquisition. Others are starting out and seeing substantial climbs. One let us try channels that "don't work" and we got them to work.

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