Navid Motiwala
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Navid Motiwala
@navidmotiwala.bsky.social
Marketing, Product, AI, Startups, Tech Enthusiast & Lifelong Learner
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5 AI Citation Traps That Can Ruin Your Credibility.

1️⃣ Made-Up Sources.
2️⃣ Old Stats = Bad Decisions.
3️⃣ Wrong Author/Brand Tags .
4️⃣ Perfect-Sounding Claims .
5️⃣ No Link, No Trust.

#seo #AIseo #backlinks #digitalmarketing
December 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Perplexity’s Discover Pages Offer A Surprising SEO Insight Many see Perplexity's Discover pages as programmatic SEO. What they reveal is something more ambitious, a swing for the fences. The ...

#Generative #AI #News #SEO

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Perplexity's Discover Pages Offer A Surprising SEO Insight
Perplexity's Discover pages are praised as an example of programmatic SEO. In fact, they’re something more ambitious in scope.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Understanding Core Web Vitals: A Developer’s Guide to SEO Success #seo #tutorials

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Enhance your website's performance with our comprehensive guide on Core Web Vitals. Discover how to optimize your site for better SEO success, out…
Understand Core Web Vitals for SEO Success: A Complete Guide
In this article, we share why you need to pay attention to Core Web Vitals to improve your web performance. Here we are cutting through the mumbo-jumbo.
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August 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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My teammate Johnny Herge found some examples of ChatGPT linking directly to Google Maps results for some location searches 🤯

Not sure I’ve seen this before? They even have utm parameters included.

www.linkedin.com/posts/johnny...
I have been seeing a lot of talk about how ChatGPT may have switched from using the Bing index to the Google index. | Johnny Herge
I have been seeing a lot of talk about how ChatGPT may have switched from using the Bing index to the Google index. While I can't say for sure what's going on, today, while conducting research...
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July 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Well, at least you can get Perplexity (and other AI tools) to be "honest" when questioning the methodology behind their own "best of" lists 🤣

But no idea if these revelations factor into the "thinking" behind future answers to similar questions.
June 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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For anyone who wasn't able to attend SEO Week in NYC, I did my best to summarize the major takeaways.

There were 40 talks, so I was only able to capture some of the conference. (There was way too much brilliance for a single blog post!)

lilyray.nyc/seo-in-the-a...
SEO in the Age of Agents: Takeaways from NYC SEO Week - Lily Ray
I had the privilege of attending, speaking, and DJing at the first ever SEO Week conference, held by iPullRank in New York City. SEO Week was the longest and mostContinue readingSEO in the Age of Agen...
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May 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Labeling AI generated images
March 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Googlebot Slowdown Alert! 🚨 Many websites are experiencing massive server response times for Googlebot (up to 9000ms ☠️), causing crawl activity to drop. The likely reason? Google updated their IP addresses for crawling on Feb 4th 2025, but a few CDNs haven't caught up yet. 👇🏼
February 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Today I learned that the company providing my project’s web support has been outsourcing SEO ‘back link’ provision to a third party that’s used gen AI to create web pages and blog posts as if authored *by my project*. Not only are they factually incorrect, but also in ethical opposition to my work
January 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM