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Tom Capper

@tcapper.co.uk
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Senior Search Scientist at Moz and STAT. Distilled alum. Follow for the digital marketing insights, unfollow for the British politics.

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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 23/06/2026
And they're like, it's better than yours
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 12/05/2026
I have an even harder act to follow
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Moz @mozseo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
See you at @brightonseo.com 🏖️ 📉 @tcapper.co.uk — How low can organic go? ✍️ @chimammeje.bsky.social — Create demand-led content that builds affinity 💬 Kanaar Bell — Roundtable on AI & SEO. 🗝️ @dr-pete.bsky.social (keynote) — The infinite tail: Keyword research for AI 🙌 And of course, the Moz booth.
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Moz @mozseo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This week, @tcapper.co.uk talks through the 4 biggest mistakes people make when tracking AI prompts Ready to get creative with your tracking? Watch the full video on the Moz Blog: mz.cm/4lTW2rf
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 03/02/2026
I would never work another day in my life. Sure, sounds good.
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Moz @mozseo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Is GEO just SEO by another name? 🏷️ Not quite. While tactics like content structuring overlap, the goal is shifting from winning a blue link to becoming the authoritative source an LLM cites. @tcapper.co.uk explains why low traffic doesn't mean low priority for 2026. mz.cm/4qktQ1T
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SEOs Should Not Dismiss Geo for Being Low-Traffic
Is it GEO, AI SEO, or just SEO? Regardless of the label, optimizing for LLMs is critical in 2025. Learn how you can reframe your existing tactics, why your off-site content strategy is critical, and w...
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 10/12/2025
Or rather, they changed one thing, that had both effects. Probably one of which, an unintentional side effect. Not specifically no, besides the post above in this thread, I did put put a Whiteboard Friday on the topic but it's more general.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 09/12/2025
Yeah - I am saying it's related, but the drop you are seeing is not from bots. Rather, it's a change in how Google measures "impressions", deliberately or otherwise, below the fold. Of course, lower rankings no longer receiving impressions very much also affects your CTR.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 08/12/2025
Even then I wouldn't expect them to hit head terms, and I've seen big impression drops for head terms timed with this trend. My personal theory is that Google changed how they measured/structured SERPs somehow, and breaking 10-page scrapes was a happy side effect. Or perhaps vice versa.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 08/12/2025
Doesn't add up imo. There is no way SEO tools, or AI grounding, was hitting head terms that many times a day. There are ~10 SEO tools that do their own scraping at any scale, we do not hit the same head terms tens of thousands of times a day. And AI grounding doesn't hit head terms at all.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 07/12/2025
Got the same from Lloyds. Grim.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 06/12/2025
I think most people who've heard of it have considered FIFA corrupt and/or a joke for a long time, tbh. Nothing surprising about this.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 21/11/2025
Hey - my DMs are open. Away this long weekend but will get back to you next week if you want to leave me something there.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 23/10/2025
Come say hi!
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 17/09/2025
& at some point will vastly increase prices
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 15/08/2025
This is Moz.com, which I guess I can share.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 15/08/2025
Good question - I'm not sure. And what about the Siege Media client portfolio specifically? I would guess 1 or 2 sites dominate this. (I have access to some big sites that don't look like this, although a couple did see a drop just this week. But July is up on June.)
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 15/08/2025
I think it's significant that this is traffic *from* ChatGPT, not to. And a small sample, given the Y axis scale. Also, the shape of the chart overall is not "downwards inflection". (I wish it was)
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STAT Search Analytics @getstat.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
If you were at #MozCon and want to revisit @tcapper.co.uk’s talk (or if you missed it and are curious), the full deck is now available to download. Lots of solid, data-backed SEO insights in there: bit.ly/4mcPDa3
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 08/08/2025
Where have I been missing all these C-suites prioritising SEO at all costs
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Your regular reminder that over a lifetime, people born in 1956 will each receive on average £291,000 more from the welfare state than they paid in, compared to £132,000 for people born in 1996 (h/t Resolution Foundation) Just something to consider next time you hear “I’ve paid in all my life…”
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 21/07/2025
Not really
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 18/07/2025
Why have you done this
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 09/07/2025
🎉 3rd email I've had about this post recently, and my email address isn't even on the page. I should do more of these write ups.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 08/07/2025
Wait til I tell them about my new idea for GeoTLDs
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 04/07/2025
www.searchenginejournal.com/math-decode-...
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Do We Have the Math to Truly Decode Google's Algorithms?
This article shows how SEO studies that claim how to decode Google and other search engine algorithms are based on poor data and bad science.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 04/07/2025
Same experience for me.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 04/07/2025
Do I need to welcome you to the "target of a totally random hit piece in SEJ" club?
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 02/07/2025
I'd agree, except the competition is usually worse than the company making an effort with testing etc. And if there was an era when we'd start to see ideals-led SEO evangelism from the c-level, wasn't it a few years ago? And if we did, wouldn't they augment it with testing for tactical decisions?
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 02/07/2025
Maybe - but, at least when it comes to SEO, that's 99% (100%?) of large companies. The ones that do something, however they sell it to each other, will do better than the ones that do nothing.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 01/07/2025
What if demonstrable results (in the eyes of c suite etc) is what gets me buy in to do the untestable stuff?
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 29/06/2025
Unfortunately it is actually LinkedIn isn't it? That vapid cesspit is basically a ranking factor at this point.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 28/06/2025
Now with 100x the cost to Google, and no monetisation
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 24/06/2025
I'm sorry, I will improve my output.
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Sitebulb @sitebulb.com · 18/06/2025
London Calling: 15 Activities to Bookend Your Trip to MozCon @moz - brought to you by your handy #seo helpers @Sitebulb 😊
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London Calling: 15 Activities to Bookend Your Trip to MozCon
MozCon 2025 in London is coming up fast! Are you ready to join us? Meghan has put together a list of fun activities to do with your team or on your own before and after the conference.
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 01/06/2025
I've been trying to get people to accept precisely this for about a decade now. This is not how I wanted my wish to be realised 😬
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Hey it's Jess @jessthebp.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
I'm out from Weedmaps and looking for either a Job or side work-- SEO, perf stuff, data, pipelining, whatever!
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 13/05/2025
ICYMI - I tried to tackle the most basic (and yet not particularly basic) SEO question of all: Whether to do it in the first place. moz.com/blog/when-sh... (Charts inspired by @markwilliamscook.com / @aleyda.bsky.social )
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 08/05/2025
Surely this also applies to bitcoin? I happen to think AI has its uses, but I don't think widespread use depends on it being useful. People are jumping on a bandwagon.
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Dr. Pete Meyers @dr-pete.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Since it's launch, we've been quietly working to improve Brand Authority and understand how it impacts marketers' lives. Some of the work we've done over the past few months includes multi-market score (US+UK+CA+AU) and pre-computed data for almost 2M brands. moz.com/blog/brand-a...
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Moz’s Brand Authority: Multi-Market, More Features, More Data!
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 23/04/2025
That's the thing - you have some idea what you're doing. I don't 😂
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Moz @mozseo.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Roger has some news: tickets are now available for MozCon in NYC and London! 🎉 Get your early bird tickets (only 100 per event) now: mz.cm/423diSG
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Lily Ray 😏 @lilyray.nyc · 20/04/2025
Spit out my coffee. I call this “AI-splaining”
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brightonSEO @brightonseo.com · 14/04/2025
Hashtag apply hashtag now to hashtag speak in hashtag October docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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brightonSEO, Hero Conf & MeasureFest Speaking Interest
We get a huge number of people interested in speaking at each brightonSEO, Hero Conf & MeasureFest event, so many we could probably programme 100 tracks and still have more speakers than slots. We're...
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Motoko @motoko-ajpr.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Google remains go-to search engine over AI tools www.emarketer.com/content/goog...
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 09/04/2025
You accepted right?
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Tom Capper @tcapper.co.uk · 01/04/2025
I was about to be annoyed he'd found another one and not told me Just 2018 SEO nostalgia, okay
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Sitebulb @sitebulb.com · 31/03/2025
Content Churn in Google Doubled Over Five Years - via @dr-pete.bsky.social #seo
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Content Churn in Google Doubled Over Five Years
We know that Google changes constantly, but what about the internet itself? Dr. Pete's analysis shows that from the end of 2019 to the end of 2024, content churn has more than doubled. What does this mean in the context of content marketing?
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 21/03/2025
God bless the British media! I love it! Clicks all round! Sky News > Daily Express > Er, the Daily Express' own liveblog
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STAT Search Analytics @getstat.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Want to make sure your SEO strategy is built with this in mind? Get the slides here: getstat.com/smxm25 🔗 #SMXMunich
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SMX Munich 2025: Succeed with STAT
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