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Valentin Pletzer

@valentin.app
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SEO at day, hacker at night

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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 14/06/2025
even AI mode gets it
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 18/04/2025
a screenshot showing that Google handles duplicate url parameters by joining the values – the q parameter to be exact.
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 13/03/2025
this is what it looks like. Right now Google stores roughly 10 days of data on a hourly basis. I guess in theory a week over week look of yesterdays data would be something Google could "easily" implement.
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 10/03/2025
this is what I wrote last Friday in a slack channel:
My predictions: Publishers will try to keep LLMs away from their precious content but most will ultimately perish. This is because ecommerce websites (or other websites with alternative monetizations other than subscriptions and ads) will provide content “for free” and open to LLMs. Very few subscription model publishers (I’m guessing very big ones like the NY Times) will survive. In the end the web will be less diverse and much more expensive.
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 06/03/2025
Impression of our Berlin office
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 25/02/2025
I have to say I am really impressed by Claude 3.7 Sonnet. "Create a website in the style of the 'Still Alive' from at the end of Portal during the credits." didn't even take a minute to create a nice page which even could play music. Sure this isn't advanced programming but still very impressive.
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 03/02/2025
Did Google lift a site reputation penality (in Germany) over the weekend?
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 03/01/2025
Not sure if this behaviour is new but this doesn't seem right either. Why do old pages show up for a news search of the last hour? (I used NY Times as an example to show that this doesn't happen only to us)
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 03/01/2025
No. But this is what I feel anxious about. It's not bot protection, robots.txt or server errors. And looking at server logs it get's even worse because instead of a general drop there are gaps where Googlebot decides to do nothing.
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 23/12/2024
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 14/12/2024
"Results are personalized – Try without personalization" the banner top appears when clicking "Try without personalization" which adds &peek_pws=0 to the url cc @rustybrick.com
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 01/12/2024
…make pseudo incognito searches without switching into incognito mode. I added www.google.com/search?igu=1... to my list additional search engines in Chrome (chrome://settings/searchEngines) to quickly access it
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 25/11/2024
I love stuff like this: danielmangum.com/posts/this-w... @danielmangum.com (mis)used the AT protocol which Bluesky uses under the hood to host his proof-of-concept "website" porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atp... And Google has already indexed it.
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 19/11/2024
People you follow on LinkedIn hoping you will learn something interesting one day. Today: Tim Tang, Head of Growth at Google Discover. Discover seems to have 600M daily users 😲 www.google.com/about/career...
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 17/11/2024
Introduce yourself with your video games?
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 14/11/2024
"Jentry Chau vs the Underworld" a show about a teenage SEO who tries to find out what Gugu (Google?) is hiding. 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHYc...
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 15/01/2024
Google serp election dates onebox #google #mobile #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 08/01/2024
Google testing search refinement filter icon #google #mobile #search cc @rustybrick.com
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 15/12/2023
Looks to me like Google is rolling out the new follow feature to everyone (testes it with 2 accounts). I did some testing and you can follow: - sites/feeds (but only english shown right now) - searches (last entry in the screenshot) - topics/entities (second to last)
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 06/12/2023
Bing Webmaster Tools down? cc @rustybrick.com
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 04/12/2023
Google testing a knowledge panel snippet (which links to the serp with the knowledge graph panel) #google #mobile #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 01/12/2023
Perspectives onebox with videos. #google #mobile #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 20/11/2023
#pagerank
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 17/11/2023
some screenshots from US english serps
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 17/11/2023
Listen to PPA answers in your browser #google #desktop #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 17/11/2023
Perfection
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 15/11/2023
from time to time I check Wikipedia pageviews pageviews.wmcloud.org/topviews/?pr... this time I was a bit surprised to find a porn-site topping the daily charts. After some checking I found that Google seems to have changed is adult-filter defaults a few days ago #google #serp #filter
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 14/11/2023
not sure if someone else already noticed this but Google News has now author pages #google #news #authors
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 08/11/2023
Google injecting ads in between organic results #google #mobile #ads (screenshot of current layout for reference)
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 22/10/2023
Google needs money. So there are ads on Google Discover promoting magic. #google #fail
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 21/10/2023
Google needs money. So in addition to "Sponsored" there is "Sponsored" with "Highly rated products" now. #google #ads #mobile
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 18/10/2023
Google testing collapsable image onebox (default is non-collapsed) #google #mobile #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 18/10/2023
Google testing a new knowledge graph/featured snippet layout #google #mobile #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 16/10/2023
interesting: in the news vertical a Wikipedia entry is listed as a news story. Does this work as intended? @searchliaison.bsky.social
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 16/10/2023
slightly different top stories layout (maybe because of "highly cited"?) #google #mobile #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 16/10/2023
Google promoting entity search with "Mentioned in these stories" #google #mobile #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 16/10/2023
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 16/10/2023
Google wants to know your favorite brand #google #desktop #search
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 16/10/2023
Cloud or smoke?
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 14/10/2023
@delicioustoast.com 🧀
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 11/10/2023
My take: This is not something specific to authors but rather something for all entities connected to the article. In the particular case of Barry it might look like an author thing but he is most likely identified as an important entity.
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 10/10/2023
SEOs anonymous gathering place for today
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 09/10/2023
Google goes publisher again. Quiz in search result page #google #mobile #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 08/10/2023
Voted
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 07/10/2023
lakeview
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 22/09/2023
"Top insights" #google #mobile #serp
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Valentin Pletzer @valentin.app · 20/09/2023
"Your math problem" #google #desktop #serp
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