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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#ThrowbackThursday 🎧 Christina Del Villar's G.R.I.T. Method for "marketing the marketer" to the C-suite, plus her hack: open your next exec meeting with your last slide, the one showing pipeline and revenue.

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎙️ Happy #InternationalPodcastDay! Two shows, two different itches scratched: Daily SEO Tips (60-second hits of SEO know-how) + Digital Marketing Victories (real stories on the people side of marketing wins). No fluff, just what works.

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

⚠️ Thin content is now an official Google spam signal. Journals are full of it: withdrawn abstracts, empty author profiles, bare TOC pages. They burn crawl budget and can stall new articles from indexing. Prune or enrich them. #TechSEO #academicpublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your decades-old backfile archives might be disappearing from Google. 📉 Per Adam Gent's study at Indexing Insight, pages uncrawled for 130+ days have a 99% chance of being deindexed. Fight it with internal linking, press, and social shares. #IndexBloat #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

MasterTalk's Brenden Kumarasamy on why public speaking is a digital marketing skill: "The better you get at conversations, the better you get at presentations... it becomes a multiplier effect." 🔗 wostrategies.com/podcast/digital-marketing-victories/brenden-kumarasamy/ #ThrowbackThursday

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Manual SEO work takes hours you don't have. This AI-powered workflow template gives you the exact prompts and steps to run SEO faster. Grab your free copy 👇 wostrategies.com/ai-marketing... #SEO #AIprompt #automation #SEOworkflow

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Are infinite pagination loops crashing your crawl budget? 🔄 Out-of-range pages often return 200 OK with zero results, trapping crawlers. Return a 404 or noindex instead. #WebArchitecture #Pagination #AcademicPublishing #CrawlOptimization

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Where should AI actually live in your workflow? Not writing your strategy. New episode with Geoff Livingston breaks down where it helps, where it hurts, and where he won't let it near his own work 🎧 t.ly/dcf-R

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of our all-time favorite technical SEO PSAs: on one enterprise site, a relative-link spider trap with no 404 page caused a single URL to duplicate 129,876 times in a 270K-page crawl. Fixing it changed everything 🔗 wostrategies.com/deadly-combination-relative-links-lack-404s/ #ThrowbackThursday

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does your platform generate indexable pages that say "0 Results Filtered"? 📉 These are severe low-quality signals to search engines. Serve a 404, block rendering, or apply noindex. #WebArchitecture #SEOStrategy #ContentQuality

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

2 days to go! 🎙️ Search With Sean Live 2026 kicks off Sept 17. Free, streaming on LinkedIn & YouTube. I'm one of 30+ speakers, supporting the American Institute for Mast Cell Disease, a cause personal to my family. Don't miss it: lnkd.in/em4e54kP

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Are your syndication partners outranking your own journal? 🥇 Publish first, get indexed, then syndicate. Require noindex on partner pages and use scholarly schema with sameAs links back to your DOI. Protect your rankings. #ContentSyndication #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why I said yes to Search With Sean Live 2026: it's tied to charity, and mine is personal. My daughters and I live with mast cell disease, and there's currently no FDA-approved treatment for it. Free to watch, streaming Sept 17 on LinkedIn & YouTube. Sign up: lnkd.in/em4e54kP

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Most AI rollouts don't fail because of the tech. They fail because leadership treats it as a mandate rather than a skill. New episode with Geoff Livingston (author, Now Is Gone) on what actually makes AI adoption work 🎧 t.ly/dcf-R

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Former Reddit Head of Brand Strategy Joe Federer breaks down why a simple Ziploc image outperformed a polished video campaign. Video asks for a lot: click play, turn on sound, put in headphones. Sometimes a GIF just wins. #ThrowbackThursday

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Did you know Google indexes your PowerPoint presentations? 📊 If file properties are blank, Google relies on the filename alone. Fill out metadata for every PPT before uploading. #FileSEO #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Excited to share I'm a featured speaker at Search With Sean Live 2026! 🎙️ 30+ digital marketing pros, one free event, streaming on LinkedIn & YouTube from Sept 17. I'm supporting the American Institute for Mast Cell Disease, a cause personal to my family. Sign up: lnkd.in/em4e54kP

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Your PDFs are missing critical ranking signals! 📄 I frequently find missing Title/Author/Subject/Keyword metadata — and even wrong language tags, like en-GB on a Portuguese PDF. Fix metadata before you publish. #PDFSEO #AcademicPublishing #LiteracyDay

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Are your pop-up surveys hurting mobile rankings? 📱 Google penalizes standalone interstitials users must dismiss before reaching main content. Test across devices before launch. #MobileSEO #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New podcast with Geoff Livingston 🎙️ His take: AI transformation is a people problem. Full episode on AI rollouts, hallucinations, and more t.ly/dcf-R

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Did you know that search, social media platforms, and Gmail all use cosine similarity as part of their algorithms? Checking how closely your content matches a target keyword or topic using embeddings doesn't require enterprise software. Here are 5 free tools I've used. #SEO #GEO

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Are you throwing away your link equity? 🔗 302 and 307 redirects are temporary, and while Google says they are fine, they don't pass link equity. When migrating to HTTPS or to a new domain, always use permanent 301 redirects. #LinkBuilding #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

AI can write your report. It can't build your judgment. New episode with Geoff Livingston (author, Now Is Gone) on why most AI rollouts fail, why the people management part is essential, and how to stay mentally sharp while using AI.

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Back to Daily SEO Tips: John Mueller confirmed Google can recognize when a site has a strong reputation in a specific topic area. Staying too broad topically makes ranking harder. 🔗 wostrategies.com/podcast/seo-tips-flash-briefing/topical-expertise-ranking/ #ThrowbackThursday

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Does your journal publish "Your Money or Your Life" content? 🏥 Google holds health, financial, and safety topics to a higher EEAT bar. Display author bios clearly. Don't bury them in internal search. #EEAT #YMYL #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Rewatching Kathleen Booth's DMV podcast episode on the mindset shift that got her internal buy-in: stop counting leads, start reporting pipeline value. And treat sales like your most important customer, not just a department down the hall. #softskill #ThrowbackThursday #SEOStrategy

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Want to get cited in AI Overviews? Learn cosine similarity. There's a measurable "semantic closeness" between AI answers and the content they cite — your titles, subheads, and copy need to match the query. 🧠📏 #SemanticSearch

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Search changed in 2026. Users don't want ten blue links anymore and AI answers are driving close to zero clicks, analytics are fuzzy, and LLM rankings are wildly unpredictable. I broke down how to survive it at the Digital Strategy Summit. 🧵 #AgenticSearch #SEO #LLMOptimization

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Are empty pages eating up your crawl budget? 🕷️ Empty pagination and empty search pages often return 200 OK instead of 404 — wasting Googlebot's time and burying your real articles. Make sure you're blocking interal search with a noindex. #CrawlBudget #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Is your journal cannibalizing its own search traffic? 👯‍♂️ A common issue: sites with both www and non-www versions live, each self-referencing as canonical. Consolidate your authority with sitewide 301s and self-referencing canonical tags. #DuplicateContent #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Migrating your journal to a new platform? Don't let your SEO start from zero. 📉 The #1 mistake I see: redirects pointing to URL variants with parameters instead of the clean canonical URL. QA your redirects (with a tool like ScreamingFrog) before launch. #TechnicalSEO #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

#ThrowbackThursday 🎙️ Google ignores anything after a # in a URL — no crawling, no indexing, no PageRank. Bookmarks/anchors are fine (hi, "Fraggles"), but hash-based navigation with hidden content won't rank. Know the difference.

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

How important has your professional network been to your journey? Eleven years ago, I started WO Strategies with a baby who often didn’t sleep, a laptop, and a supportive professional network that pointed me toward my first client...

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Want to know how to get better at storytelling? Patti Sanchez says: • Read great writers. • Study people. • Practice empathy. • Tell more stories. These are simple advice that compounds over time. Do you agree? #softskills #communicationskills #marketingtips

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Helping people accept change starts with a story. Patti Sanchez shares a simple storytelling framework every marketer and leader can use. A great lesson in soft skills. Listen now! #communicationskills #softskills #storytellingframework

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

SEO isn't dead in the age of AI, it's the foundation. The top two AI citation ranking factors are URL accessibility and search rank. Microsoft confirms crawlability, metadata, and internal linking still matter. Build on solid ground. 🧱🔍 #SEO #LLM #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Reddit and YouTube now drive 78.2% of all AI citations. The twist: 94% of those go to long-form video, not Shorts. If AI answers are becoming the new search results page, organic visibility now runs through video built to be cited, not just watched. #YouTubeSEO #AIOptimization

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Technical skills matter in marketing — but emotional intelligence does too. This episode explores how empathy and relationship-building can strengthen your career. #TBT #emotionalintelligence #softskill #marketingskill

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Your website's best content might be invisible to AI. Tabs and expandable menus get skipped, PDFs lack the structure LLMs rely on, and text baked into images can't be parsed at all. Worth checking what's actually crawlable. #TechnicalSEO #AIVisibility #AcademicPublishing

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Elizabeth Linder of Kick Point joined our podcast last month to talk about staying grounded through AI overwhelm in SEO. She just published a framework to go with it: a self-audit to help you figure out what's actually worth learning. kickpoint.ca/ai-prioritiz...

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

AI can edit your writing. It can't replace your perspective. Patti Sanchez shares why your human experience is your biggest communication advantage—and how to become a good storyteller in the AI era. #softskills #storytelling #marketing #communicationskill

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Subfolder or subdomain? Site structure decisions can affect how search engines interpret your content and authority. This quick episode breaks down the tradeoffs. #throwbackthursday #sitestructure #techseo

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Storytelling isn't just a marketing tactic—it's a competitive advantage. Patti Sanchez explains why storytelling is a soft skill that starts with empathy, why AI can't replace it, and how to get better at storytelling in today's marketing world. Listen now 👇

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

How do you choose the best social media platforms for your audience? Our step-by-step guide removes the guesswork from your strategy, helping you optimize right away. #socialmediaguide #seo #socialmediastrategy #googlediscovery #marketingtips

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Feeling bogged down by time-consuming SEO tasks? This detailed workflow template is here to streamline your process and boost productivity. #aiprompt #seo #automation #seoworkflow #productivity

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

AI creates endless information. Successful marketers learn how to prioritize. Elizabeth Linder explains why prioritization may be the most important skill for SEO professionals today.

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

As AI search becomes more prevalent, traditional SEO tactics aren't enough. This guide helps you understand how AI Overviews evaluate content and what you need to do differently. #aisearch #contentstrategy #seoevolution

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Reddit can be an incredible #SEOresearch tool. You’ll find real questions, real language, and real pain points your audience cares about. You can use these for your AI prompts, and becoming more familiar with Reddit is essential to appearing in AI answers, as its one of the top sources of citations.

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Learning AI optimization doesn't have to be overwhelming. Start with one topic. One article. One lesson. Elizabeth Linder shares practical advice for building an AI learning habit that actually sticks.

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Katherine Watier Ong @kwatier.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thanks to those who joined me at the summit on how to optimize content for AI answers last week. As promised, here's my deck. Feel free to reach out if you have questions!

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