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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

And unless you are an award-winning design agency, never use more than 3 or at most 4 fonts. EVER. And get those in within the 1st 10 assets retrieved during the page load.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Have you gotten YOUR badge yet? Being "Verified by Google" can help position you as an expert. get your verification today!

Several years ago John Mueller called me a wiseguy, because well, I'm a wiseguy. That day, I took an official Google Trusted Partner banner and PHotoshopped it. Upper left corner is the Trusted Partner 5 pointed star badge, and the text reads "Google Trusted Wiseguy". Below that are badges for "Top Contributor" and "Mentor".

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

And people think LLMs are going to make use of, never mind respect, an LLMs.txt file? hahaha

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Having lived in California most of his career, I saw him for the manipulative, charismatic vulture that he really is long ago. His views on the homeless, or protecting PG&E, or podcasting with Nazis, for example, are radical on the wrong side. He is a performative liar. A fascist in Dem clothing.

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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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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Working with GPT takes patience. The clearer my prompts and the more I forgive mistakes, the better the process goes. When a “clear” prompt gets weird results, I try to spot why so I can improve my wording.

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Dan Petrovic @dejanseo.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

We scraped Open AI and Google and trained this model on their content. LinkBERT is a link building expert and can identify optimal place for links in web content. Demo: linkbert.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNKZ...

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LinkBERT V2

YouTube video by DEJAN

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

44 page audit delivered. Always so grateful when another audit is done and sent out. And now I have availability for another audit or consulting gig. Could really use the continued cash flow

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Aimee Jurenka @handle.invalid · 10/08/2025

🛠💡 14 Tools, 48 Points 💡🛠 I just put 14 AI brand visibility tools through my review process 📊🔍 Here’s the truth 👉 A “low” score isn’t a fail 🚫 it means the tool is a specialist 🎯 It goes deep, not wide 🌊… and that’s a good thing Pick the tool(s) that’s perfect for your job 🛠 ➡️ bit.ly/4lidP9x

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2025 AEO Tool Comparison | Women in Tech SEO

A comparison of 14 leading AEO tools for AI search visibility in 2025, with transparent, research-backed ratings. Find the best platforms for prompt tracking, crawler insights, and generative SERPs—so...

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

FACT: I have no idea if I will get this position. I am beyond grateful for the opportunity in such a challenging market. And this audit was fun & challenging for wild reasons. Whatever unfolds, I am truly grateful.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Wrapping up an audit on "Domain 1." If it clicks, I step in as Director of SEO—overseeing these sites plus 2,300 more. I would get to architect the revamping of the entire system for maximum SEO / AI value. Loved my years as a consultant, but ready for my 4th run as a director at a great agency.

Table showing six domains (Domain 1–Domain 6) with major gaps between URLs in sitemaps, pages indexed, and “Crawled” or “Discovered – not indexed” counts.

Example conflicts:

Domain 3: 746,386 URLs in sitemap, 588,216 indexed, but 1.8M crawled-not-indexed and 305,892 discovered-not-indexed.

Domain 2: 1.25M in sitemap, 353,263 indexed, but 921,829 crawled-not-indexed and 697,421 discovered-not-indexed.

Domain 5: 295,860 in sitemap, 399,300 indexed (more than in sitemap), yet 798,391 crawled-not-indexed and 60,472 discovered-not-indexed.

Pattern: Most domains have far fewer indexed URLs than in sitemaps, while massive numbers remain in crawled or discovered-not-indexed status, indicating significant indexation and content value issues.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Great quotes from industry people in this article calling out that lying sack of Google corporate vomit, Liz Reid.

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Montse Cano @montsecano.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Does anyone need any help during this August? - Strategic digital marketing/ SEO advice - Keyword research - Training - Website migrations - Website audits

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an advertisement for the only murders in the building

ALT: an advertisement for the only murders in the building

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Montse Cano @montsecano.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Many have never truly understood what SEO is nor how it fits within digital strategy, therefore, what type of skillset is needed. However, in my experience as a teacher/ trainer, someone who doesn't want to be educated will never learn. That is a real problem in life generally.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

ENTIRE SITE de-indexed. Client can't figure it out. Hired a technical SEO weeks ago. Can't figure it out. Me: check Cloudflare. You're the 4the site I've seen with this same issue this week, the previous three were ALL from Cloudflare being overly aggressive. Client: Oh hey, it was Cloudflare

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

And @developers.google.com Liz Reid, VP Search at Google, is smoking crack cocaine again. It's required daily at Google HQ these days in order to keep vomiting the pathetic lies that are so blatantly invalid.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

LOL Bluesky incorrectly suspended my account for "suspicious" activity. Appeal took 2 days to get the suspension reversed. I'm assuming everyone missed me?

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 30/07/2025

PSA on links: On Bluesky, there’s no limit to the number of links you can share, and they will receive the same visibility as your other posts 💙

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Mark your calendars? But don't use cheese to mark them. www.stateofsearch.org/conference-2...

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I may or may not have been approved to speak at an upcoming industry conference. They have 24 hours to retract their confirmation, in case they get speaker-selection remorse.

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I’m bringing the talk that most people in our industry aren’t giving, the one that challenges outdated comfort zones and confronts the half-measures that lead to collapse. While others still chase “hacks” or address the most basic needs, I’ll show how to build durable visibility in the AI era through structured signal integrity, human first usability, and real world authority.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Another best practice turns out to be more important in the age of AI.

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Nick LeRoy @nickleroy.com · 22/07/2025

SEOJobs.com is too limiting for paid search marketers. So I acquired the domain and launched PPCJobs.com today. Paid media folks, you now have your own safe place for hiring (and getting hired). Some think search is dead. I'm doubling down!

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Chris Green SEO @chris-green.net · 22/07/2025

“Vector Embeddings” discussions nearly always mention “cosine similarity.” The core idea: turn content into vector embeddings and use cosine similarity as a distance metric to quantify semantic relatedness. But Massimiliano highlighted a crucial nuance in a recent LinkedIn post: 🧵 1/5

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This is what "guest posting" "should" be. This is earned visibility.

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Sannidhi @heysannidhi.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

As I said, video overviews in action @ bsky.app/profile/rust...

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Jonas Sickler @jonassickler.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

According to Google's AI Mode, your next doctor may just be a hippo.

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

For screen reader users like Holly Tuke, accessibility is the difference between being able to use a website and clicking away. In this post, Holly shares the most annoying barriers she encounters as a blind person, and how to fix them. business.scope.org.uk/article/5-mo...

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5 web features I find annoying as a blind person - Scope for Business

Holly, a blind screenreader user, explains the main accessibility barriers she faces every day. Bad heading structure, alt-text, links, forms

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

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Montse Cano @montsecano.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Slightly controversial, but you do NOT need SQL nor python experience to lead a project. Your team is supposed to do that. PjMs may need to be familiar with it. With SEO, it's different, bc you can't gauge its importance unless you've worked on it.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Marketers thinking they can use embeddings to game the system...

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Pro Tip: If you're going to analyze trends, don't ask a few SEOs their opinion on what they think is happening. Those just make my blood boil. Instead, do real analysis, on a large enough sampling size to be credible. This is an example of credible analysis:

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

𝗞𝗘𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗? 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗜 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂! The year, 2012 I went to a Fortune 500 client's offices for a kick-off meeting before I began auditing some of their sites. "Did you want to see the keywords we track?" "Uh, not really"...

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𝗞𝗘𝗬𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗? | Alan Bleiweiss

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Martin Stepanek @techseovitals.com · 01/07/2025

Think your website is "good enough"? Think again 🤔 Because "good enough" is costing you customers and revenue. While your website might be working, subtle technical flaws and performance issues could silently drive users away and limit your growth. 🧵 1/2

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: New Forensic Audit Checklist Live! 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗴𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗺 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀? Just published my advanced Forensic SEO Audit Checklist! 190+ signals, 77 tasks, 8 core groups. It’s the process I use for deep audits. Took a month to map out. alanbleiweiss.com/seo-services...

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Jon Henshaw @jon.henshaw.me · 29/06/2025

After two decades of stagnation with the PNG image standard, it's back with a new version to rival the innovations made by WebP and AVIF. coywolf.com/news/web-dev... #WebDevelopment

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New version of PNG to challenge AVIF and WebP for image dominance on the web

After two decades of stagnation with the PNG image standard, it's back with a new version to rival the innovations made by WebP and AVIF.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

𝗲𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. This one was a train-wreck • Conflicting signals • Horrific architecture • Crawl conflicts • Duplicate content • Near-duplicate content • Perceived duplicate content Work is moving along & this ship slowly turns back in the right direction.

Screenshot of Google Search Console performance metrics comparing the last 3 months to the previous 3 months.

Total clicks: 350,000 (last 3 months), up from 261,000 (previous 3 months).

Total impressions: 17.4 million (last 3 months), up from 15.8 million (previous 3 months).

Average CTR: 2% (last 3 months), up from 1.6% (previous 3 months).

Average position: 13.9 (last 3 months), improved from 14.2 (previous 3 months).
Metrics are displayed in blue (clicks), purple (impressions), teal (CTR), and orange (position) boxes, showing gains in clicks, impressions, click-through rate, and average ranking position.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

MUVERA - another Vector Embeddings algorithm DO NOT THINK THAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO PUSH EMBEDDINGS AS THE NEW SEO HACK! JUST STOP. RIGHT NOW. STOP IT. 🤬

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Joe Hall ☕ @joehall22.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I developed TermSuggest.com a long time ago. It essentially does "query fan-out" analysis for you. This is not a new thing.

termsuggest.com

Discover New Keywords For Content Marketing and SEO

TermSuggest.com uses Google’s Query Suggest API to populate popular terms for keyword research.

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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It can absolutely hurt. Chasing algorithms has never been valid. Focus on human needs. Do better at topical focus at the page, section, & site level. Understand proper H1, H2, H3 nesting has always been about chunking. Do more to answer all the important questions. That's how to succeed.

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Alan Bleiweiss @alanbleiweiss.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Google has a new, friction-causing, visitor-insulting, interstitial they're offering to publishers. To get around Google's own rules about interstitials, they're including it in their bullshit workaround for advertiser pop-ups. It's ridiculous. techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/a...

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As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall to boost publisher revenue | TechCrunch

Offerwall lets publishers give their sites' readers a variety of ways to access their content, including through options like micropayments, taking surveys, watching ads, and more.

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