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If you're using a cloud provider to host images / videos / other content, you can and should verify the host in Search Console, so that you're aware of potential issues that affect Google's crawling & indexing, & Safe Browsing. Use a DNS CNAME to the bucket, then verify with DNS. More: (1/n)
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
If you're using a cloud provider to host images / videos / other content, you can and should verify the host in Search Console, so that you're aware of potential issues that affect Google's crawling & indexing, & Safe Browsing. Use a DNS CNAME to the bucket, then verify with DNS. More: (1/n)
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Does Traffic From LLMs Convert Better?
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October 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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SEO & Marketing with Russ Macumber | Sara & Nik SEO Podcast E3 | Season 1
YouTube video by Sara Taher
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October 26, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Another day, another positive comment on my Python course.
Super grateful for comments like this! A great start for the weekend.
Happy Saturday Everyone and checkout my course (link below)
Super grateful for comments like this! A great start for the weekend.
Happy Saturday Everyone and checkout my course (link below)
October 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Another day, another positive comment on my Python course.
Super grateful for comments like this! A great start for the weekend.
Happy Saturday Everyone and checkout my course (link below)
Super grateful for comments like this! A great start for the weekend.
Happy Saturday Everyone and checkout my course (link below)
Impressions is a good measure of user interest in a topic/trend in general more than click data, bec clicks data is impacted by ranking and title tags, search features and more
October 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Impressions is a good measure of user interest in a topic/trend in general more than click data, bec clicks data is impacted by ranking and title tags, search features and more
The casual SEO
This is how it looks like imo “hey dev, can you do add a canonical tag (or whatever) to this page?
Let’s not do that, okey?
Here’s how to do it in a DOC:
This is how it looks like imo “hey dev, can you do add a canonical tag (or whatever) to this page?
Let’s not do that, okey?
Here’s how to do it in a DOC:
October 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The casual SEO
This is how it looks like imo “hey dev, can you do add a canonical tag (or whatever) to this page?
Let’s not do that, okey?
Here’s how to do it in a DOC:
This is how it looks like imo “hey dev, can you do add a canonical tag (or whatever) to this page?
Let’s not do that, okey?
Here’s how to do it in a DOC:
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Also special thanks for Rankscale.ai for sponsoring this edition!
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October 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Also special thanks for Rankscale.ai for sponsoring this edition!
If you want to get your brand in front of 12k+ subscribers, I’m one DM away.
How people are using generative AI, and what this means for news
open.spotify.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Omg 🤩 just received @semrushofficial.bsky.social swag! October is looking great already 😎😎😎
October 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Omg 🤩 just received @semrushofficial.bsky.social swag! October is looking great already 😎😎😎
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👀 How can you increase your brand visibility in AI search? I’ve got something for you. I’m teaming up with the AirOps team on July 30 to walk you through my AI Search Action Checklist.
Date: Wednesday, July 30 at 10am EST.
👉 Save your spot & get more details: www.airops.com/blog/webinar...
Date: Wednesday, July 30 at 10am EST.
👉 Save your spot & get more details: www.airops.com/blog/webinar...
July 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
👀 How can you increase your brand visibility in AI search? I’ve got something for you. I’m teaming up with the AirOps team on July 30 to walk you through my AI Search Action Checklist.
Date: Wednesday, July 30 at 10am EST.
👉 Save your spot & get more details: www.airops.com/blog/webinar...
Date: Wednesday, July 30 at 10am EST.
👉 Save your spot & get more details: www.airops.com/blog/webinar...
Reposted by Sara Taher
👀 June 2025 Google Core Update Shifts Across Verticals So far:
* SaaS: Positive Shifts to highly Specialized Software Players Offering Software/Information about their main/niche offering/features, eg. Zoho dropping in positions for "free invoice generator" ...
* SaaS: Positive Shifts to highly Specialized Software Players Offering Software/Information about their main/niche offering/features, eg. Zoho dropping in positions for "free invoice generator" ...
July 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
👀 June 2025 Google Core Update Shifts Across Verticals So far:
* SaaS: Positive Shifts to highly Specialized Software Players Offering Software/Information about their main/niche offering/features, eg. Zoho dropping in positions for "free invoice generator" ...
* SaaS: Positive Shifts to highly Specialized Software Players Offering Software/Information about their main/niche offering/features, eg. Zoho dropping in positions for "free invoice generator" ...
Reposted by Sara Taher
Traffic is like matter 😆 cannot be created nor destroyed 😆😆😆 (joking but they’re close)
July 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Traffic is like matter 😆 cannot be created nor destroyed 😆😆😆 (joking but they’re close)
You don’t have to do the tech audit all in one go. I actually like to divide it by theme.
Crawlability issues
Indexability issues
User experience and site speed
Schema
JavaScript issues
Etc….
Crawlability issues
Indexability issues
User experience and site speed
Schema
JavaScript issues
Etc….
June 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
You don’t have to do the tech audit all in one go. I actually like to divide it by theme.
Crawlability issues
Indexability issues
User experience and site speed
Schema
JavaScript issues
Etc….
Crawlability issues
Indexability issues
User experience and site speed
Schema
JavaScript issues
Etc….
Hi @johnmu.com I have a question 🙋 how come sometimes, if we search for exact title of a news article that was recently published it doesn’t show in results, and other websites covering the same story show?
June 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hi @johnmu.com I have a question 🙋 how come sometimes, if we search for exact title of a news article that was recently published it doesn’t show in results, and other websites covering the same story show?
Reposted by Sara Taher
![Wikipedia definition of "idiot plot": In literary criticism, an idiot plot is one which is "kept in motion solely by virtue of the fact that everybody involved is an idiot",[1]: 26 and where the story would quickly end, or possibly not even happen, if this were not the case.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6waxgers6k753hgsmh2prmv7/bafkreicwreql25fxq3hliczfe3pgz6djdjbrvwbax2d2oyevjm73tb3voy@jpeg)
Happy Eid to those celebrating today 🎈 🎈 🎈
June 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Happy Eid to those celebrating today 🎈 🎈 🎈
Google relies on user behavior signals to decide on good content, LLMs train on the actual content word by word and build a “statistical model” of the most probable outcome for a prompt…
How they decide on what content to show to users is very different
How they decide on what content to show to users is very different
June 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Google relies on user behavior signals to decide on good content, LLMs train on the actual content word by word and build a “statistical model” of the most probable outcome for a prompt…
How they decide on what content to show to users is very different
How they decide on what content to show to users is very different
Reposted by Sara Taher
72% of B2B buyers their buyer journey by asking their peers and a ton of other great stats in here, reminding us all that getting your brand in someone's recommendation set is key.
Check that traffic coming from places where humans recommend you to others.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/indepe...
Check that traffic coming from places where humans recommend you to others.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/indepe...
June 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
72% of B2B buyers their buyer journey by asking their peers and a ton of other great stats in here, reminding us all that getting your brand in someone's recommendation set is key.
Check that traffic coming from places where humans recommend you to others.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/indepe...
Check that traffic coming from places where humans recommend you to others.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/indepe...
Reposted by Sara Taher
Yep, great post from @randfish.bsky.social: "I’d bet if you’ve done SEO for the last few years, you’re *already* doing Search Everywhere Optimization. You’ve probably had your boss/team/client ask about rankings in YouTube, Reddit, being visible on Pinterest searches, and... LLMs
#google #seo #ai
#google #seo #ai
Seriously, please stop with the new acronyms. It's still SEO: Search Everywhere Optimization. - SparkToro
It's a day ending in Y, which means my social feeds are filled with people attempting to rebrand the acronym "SEO." Look, I ain't here to rain on your
sparktoro.com
June 1, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Yep, great post from @randfish.bsky.social: "I’d bet if you’ve done SEO for the last few years, you’re *already* doing Search Everywhere Optimization. You’ve probably had your boss/team/client ask about rankings in YouTube, Reddit, being visible on Pinterest searches, and... LLMs
#google #seo #ai
#google #seo #ai
“Optimizing for Google is the same as optimizing for LLMs. If you rank well in Google, you’ll rank well in LLMs.”
Is that true?
At best, we don’t know yet.
As an industry, we’re still figuring things out.
Google keeps rolling out changes (e.g., AI Overviews),
Is that true?
At best, we don’t know yet.
As an industry, we’re still figuring things out.
Google keeps rolling out changes (e.g., AI Overviews),
May 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
“Optimizing for Google is the same as optimizing for LLMs. If you rank well in Google, you’ll rank well in LLMs.”
Is that true?
At best, we don’t know yet.
As an industry, we’re still figuring things out.
Google keeps rolling out changes (e.g., AI Overviews),
Is that true?
At best, we don’t know yet.
As an industry, we’re still figuring things out.
Google keeps rolling out changes (e.g., AI Overviews),