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Charles Meaden

@charlesmeaden.bsky.social
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Uber curious about all things SEO, data analytics and user experience. Brighton SEO speaker - also keen cook and dabbler in the kitchen

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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Very much looking forward to testing lots of things, but most importantly the ability to hook into an MCP server such as Claude Desktop and then analyse the results www.screamingfrog.co.uk/blog/seo-spi...
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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 24.0 - Screaming Frog
We’re delighted to announce Screaming Frog SEO Spider version 24.0, codenamed internally as ‘bolus’. In this release we have introduced a number of much demanded new features, as well as smaller quali...
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Heads up to anyone using Google Search Console data for weekly reports. There seems to be an issue as the data that has been published is Saturday www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Heads up to anyone that is using Google Search Console data to run weekly (Monday to Sunday )reports on There appears to be a delay on their systems are the moment that means Sundays data is still… |...
Heads up to anyone that is using Google Search Console data to run weekly (Monday to Sunday )reports on There appears to be a delay on their systems are the moment that means Sundays data is still "b...
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Belated Happy New Year to you all. This year its from Manila where its definitely hotter than Swansea by about 28c
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Todays rather lovely surprise, getting tagged by in the Google Search Central news for my BrightonSEO talk on Lessons Learnt From Crawling 1000's of websites
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Last Thursday, I gave my second #BrightonSEO talk - "Lessons Learnt from Crawling 1000+ websites" where I shared 12 useful lessons learnt from my success and failures crawling 1000's of web sites over the last 30 years speakerdeck.com/charlesmeade...
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Lessons Learnt from Crawling 1000+ Websites
First presented at BrightonSEO October 2025, this deck contains 12 important lessons for crawling websites based on our success and failures over the la…
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
@runbox.bsky.social any chance you could use this channel to update this on why your having downtime As you don't update your website, the lack of information is frustrating
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
In really no surprise to anyone, the latest research from the respected Pew Institute directly contradicts Google claims that AI Overviews have increased search usage
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Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results
In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Every so often you come across those WTF moments where agencies do the really bare minimum Today was the agency who didn't install the tracking tags for the Adwords campaign, but instead gets the client to send an Excel sheet with the times & dates of the enquiries to cross match
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
My Brighton SEO talk from last year "Scraping the SERPs using off the shelf tools to find SEO gold" has been finally released on YouTube If you're going to BrightonSEO, look forward to seeing you there youtu.be/Wa3KuzwUK9k?...
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SERP-mining with off the shelf tools to find SEO gold - Charles Meaden - brightonSEO October 2024
YouTube video by brightonSEO
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Glenn Gabe @glenngabe.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
OK, stop and read this article. Very important for anyone involved in Search -> A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major updates like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT #google #ai #seo
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Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT
Big changes are underway for the internet’s most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Perhaps agencies shouldn't start a pitch with tell us if we are bullsh**ing and then do that
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Handy visualisation tool from Google to visualise CRUX data at a domain and page level cruxvis.withgoogle.com As well as the top level scores, you get the elements that make the scores
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CrUX Vis
CrUX Vis is an experiment by the Chrome team to help you explore the Chrome User Experiment Report data with visualizations and helpful links to articles, for a particular web page or origin.
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Nicely summarises how to spot the many cowboys and snake oil SEO agencies
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
searchengineland.com/site-migrati...
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How to speed up site migrations with AI-powered redirect mapping
Website migrations often involve painstaking redirect mapping, but AI can help. Here's a walkthrough of the process to help you save time.
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A great thread that nicely sums up how LLMs can help increase your skills and knowledge
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This gives a glimpse of just how much Meta cares about data privacy
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Using Enhanced Measurement in GA4 to track calls on phone numbers and email addresses. Google quietly removed that functionality in November You still can and should be creating custom events for things like this Hat tip to Steen Rasmussen for flagging this www.linkedin.com/in/steenrasm...
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
If you're not scraping the search results are you sure you really know who your competitors are. Our recent scrape of 6,500 results for a competitor audit, made our client change the minds about who they really were competing against
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Another of those incredibly useful features I didn't know was there
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Todays handy hint Waybackmachine also stores copies of a robots.txt Helps solved a client issue to determine exactly when a certain resource was blocked
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
If you watch just one SEO talk this festive season make sure its this one from @markwilliamscook.com Simply the most useful talk I've seen all year youtu.be/_AQ9UDqES80?...
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Improving your SEO with conceptual models - Mark Williams-Cook
YouTube video by SearchNorwich
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Anyone else seeing these "new" Product Site carousels in the Google SERPs This was Nike Water bottles and seems to be dominated by the PriceSpy www.google.co.uk/search?q=nik...
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
To check how many searches Google Search Console is not showing to you, take the figure you're first shown and then apply this filter Divide the second figure by the first to find out what % of queries are anonymised
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If only all CAPTCHAs were this easy Excellent example from Conversion Hotel 24 From Andras Kobza
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
#wingshot on the way to Conversion Hotel
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Great article from @glenngabe.bsky.social on Googles site level classifiers Also worth following @markwilliamscook.com for his posts on this www.gsqi.com/marketing-bl...
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Documenting Google’s site-level evaluation and impact on search rankings using the ‘Gabeback Machine’ [Googler Quotes, Videos, Documentation and more]
Glenn Gabe explains Google's site-level evaluation and impact on search rankings based on documenting Googler quotes, videos, and documentation from over the years.
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Excellent talk from Katarina Dahlin on using ChatGPT, Make and Google sheets to optimise product descriptions. Hat tip tp @hellemans.me for sharing speakerdeck.com/katarinadahl...
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How to Optimise 3,500 Product Descriptions for eCommerce in One Day Using ChatGPT & Make
My talk at Marketing Business Summit in Milan 17. November 2024 on 'How to Optimise 3,500 Product Descriptions for eCommerce in One Day Using ChatGPT & Make'.
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Amazon internal search is pretty good apart from when it comes to looking up orders It can't seem to cope with the actual order number which isn't much good when you're trying to reconcile a credit card number
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Charles Meaden @charlesmeaden.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Inspired by @markwilliamscook.com looking up on Google Trends americans searching for "what are tariffs", here is the latest Google Trends data for two of Trumps more controversial picks
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