Matt Wright
@honed.co
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Adventures in SEO, web sustainability, & practical jokes. South London based Dad & Hubby - otherwise found on MTBs, or surfing at any chance: https://honed.co (SEO) / https://green-clicks.com (Web Sustainability). He/Him
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Nice pragmatic list of actions there Barry. Great resource!
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SEO tools today 😆

🔧 Tool: Thank you for paying a lot of money...

🙍‍♀️ User: Can I please use this feature now?

🔧 Tool: No, you need to pay more money
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How an earth can a publication striving for journalist grade integrity be spoken for by a company? That screams trust issues.
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I do agree, but then I also realise there's more to our online habits than we think: andymasley.substack.com/p/individual...
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Advertising revenue
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Wow, the feedback here is a resounding no.
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Inside (AI) agents huh 🥸
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Some nice mixing in there!
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johnmu.com
Fyi if you want to see which links were shared on Bluesky from a site, search for domain:example.com
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jack @j4ck.xyz · 3d
TIL the `domain:example.com` search term exists on Bluesky?? Omg
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What an interesting aspect to consider as a writer... is my tone of voice my IP, and can my publications train their AI on my writing 😦
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Someone's asked Martin if he'd like to buy links.
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AI will not be taking the job away from rank tracking analysis experts!! If anything, more resources are required haha
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I know UTMs aren't perfect, but attribution helps me retain clients, so I'm game!
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In the new AI world, URLs and domains are not a big deal anymore 😅. If you haven't ditched your domain then you're already behind in GEO
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whitespark.ca
Google says choose fewer categories 🙄 But @joyhawkins.bsky.social confirmed what local SEOs already knew: The more categories you add, the more terms you will rank for.

@miriamellis.bsky.social covers this and 17 more local SEO developments in her Q3 Local Search Roundup on the whitespark blog 🏃
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If this was Linkedin or X post then by now it would be smothered in SEOs commenting their AI visibility tracking affiliate partner. Have you tried AI-citation-drift-rank-tracking.com though?... It's really accurate.
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chris-green.net
“Citation drift isn't a bug in AI systems. It's an inherent feature of how these probabilistic models operate. Randomness prevents repetitive responses, pulls in different perspectives, and adapts to changing information landscapes.”

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AI Search Volatility: Why AI Search Results Keep Changing
New research reveals 'citation drift' in source selection across major AI platforms, showing how AI citations can change by up to 60% in just one month.
www.tryprofound.com
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It blows your head off to think that 30% to 50% of Google's 14 billion searches now contain an AI Overview (AIO). That's upwards of 4 billion searches, and that's 98.4% bigger as an AI search engine than ChatGPT.
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Webmasters really are looking towards robots.txt standards, for fresh help with AI crawlers, aren't they.