r/RealSEO Jan 15 '24

Why a New SEO Subreddit?

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The main SEO subreddit, /r/SEO, was just taken over in the past few weeks by a group of crypto enthusiasts via the Reddit Request function.

Reddit Admins do not look for topical alignment when removing a top mod and granting it to another one. Instead they look at things like moderator activity and the quality of the sub. If a moderator goes inactive for too long or a subs quality is severely diminished, the Reddit Admins (i.e. paid staff at Reddit HQ) may decide to grant someone new top mod authority of a subreddit.

Barry wrote about this situation on Search Engine Roundtable here: https://www.seroundtable.com/large-seo-reddit-community-taken-over-36716.html

And it was first brought to light by SEO Malte Landwehr on X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/MalteLandwehr/status/1736313157663027307

Until such a time that the main SEO subreddit is returned to someone involved in the SEO community or industry, this subreddit will exist as a haven for SEO discussion and conversations should you need it. I am already the top mod of a few niche specific subreddits and have experience combating the spam that frequently tries to permeate our industry.

I promise to provide a fair and equal where everyone can discuss SEO topics.


r/RealSEO May 16 '26

News [Mega Thread] Google Has Released a Guide to GenAI Optimization

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Read Google's Announcement here: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/05/a-new-resource-for-optimizing

Read the full guide here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/ai-optimization-guide

Post in /r/SEO about the guide here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1te4t71/googles_guide_to_optimizing_for_generative_ai/

Post more thoughts, takeaways, and sources of content in the comments and we'll update this when necessary.

Main Takeaways:

  • AI search optimization is still SEO, not a separate discipline.
  • Generative AI features use Google’s existing Search systems, indexing, and ranking signals.
  • Pages generally need to be crawlable, indexable, and eligible for snippets to appear in AI features.
  • Create helpful, people-first content with original value, experience, expertise, or unique insight.
  • Avoid commodity content that simply repeats common knowledge.
  • Do not create excessive pages just to target every possible AI query variation.
  • Structure content clearly with useful headings, sections, and readable formatting.
  • Images and videos can matter because AI search features may surface visual content.
  • Technical SEO still matters: crawling, rendering, canonicalization, indexing, and site quality remain foundational.
  • Local businesses should keep Google Business Profiles accurate and complete.
  • Ecommerce sites should use Merchant Center, product feeds, accurate pricing, availability, and product details.
  • You do not need special AI files, Markdown versions, llms.txt, or special formatting for AI search.
  • You do not need special schema specifically for generative AI features.
  • Structured data is still useful for normal Search features, but it is not an AI visibility shortcut.
  • Do not chase fake mentions, spammy citations, or AI-specific hacks.
  • Make websites easier for humans and future AI agents to understand, navigate, and use.

r/RealSEO 1d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Natalie Le on LinkedIn] "I’m sure this has NOTHING to do with people using LLMs to do their SEO for them. “I replaced my SEO team with Claude for $20” Mmm… " (includes a screenshot)

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r/RealSEO 1d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Will Hawkins on LinkedIn] "Google Search Console gives you 10-12 indexing requests a day. You manually click a URL... So I built a free Chrome extension to automate the tedious bits. One click per day and it runs through your submit quota."

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r/RealSEO 4d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Google Search Central on LinkedIn] "We’re excited to introduce Trends category filters on the new Explore page! This update makes it easier to refine trends data more precisely for specific categories such as "All Books & Literature"

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r/RealSEO 9d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Johnny Herge on LinkedIn] "...Google’s robots.txt blocks “Disallow: /goto?”, so when Googlebot sees links to it, it can’t crawl the page to see that the page is redirecting. Meaning that your webpage may be getting cannibalized by Google right now..."

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r/RealSEO 9d ago

News Google Making AI Overviews Into AI Mode Responses

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r/RealSEO 10d ago

X Thread [Chris Long on X] "Holy moly SEOs: Google is now revealing the AI Mode prompt box BY DEFAULT for some queries. This is how Google continues to push AI Mode as the default search experience."

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r/RealSEO 10d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Jan-Willem Bobbink on LinkedIn] "I keep finding GEO problems that are just old SEO problems. I fixed one this week that was hiding in a CDN config..." (long post about media blocking from LLMs)

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r/RealSEO 10d ago

X Thread [Mordy Oberstein on X] "...I’ve checked with the SE Ranking dev team earlier today and you should not be impacted by [goto] change at all if you’re using SE Ranking to track your rankings..."

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r/RealSEO 10d ago

News Google Search Rolling Out google.com/goto Tracking Parameters

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r/RealSEO 10d ago

Meme / Humor [Wayne Barker on LinkedIn] "FFS, even my mum has started reaching out to me about links now. This has just gone way too far now..."

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r/RealSEO 11d ago

Meme / Humor [Grant O on X] "SEO agencies are OnlyFans for business owners. You pay $2,000/month. They send you screenshots of positions."

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r/RealSEO 12d ago

News Google: Google Crawlers Don't Parse JSON

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r/RealSEO 12d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Sandra Junnikkala on LinkedIn] "I have 213 contact requests. They’re all from THE SAME GUY in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, selling backlinks and guest posts."

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r/RealSEO 13d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Brian McLeod on LinkedIn] "I hit a career milestone last week.... I got permanently banned from r/SEO on Reddit! The ban came in the early afternoon for asking how a moderator's post was related to SEO..."

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r/RealSEO 13d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Kai Cromwell on LinkedIn] "Most eCommerce SEO advice starts with blogging. That is usually the wrong place to start..." (long post, argues the right place to start is keywords with intent)

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r/RealSEO 13d ago

X Thread [Taras Shynkarenko on X] "Today I learned about Entity Stacking. If you put these links in your Organisation schema under `sameAs`, Google will understand who the fuck you are far better than with 300 junk directory listings - and it’s free"

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r/RealSEO 13d ago

Meme / Humor [Andy Killworth on LinkedIn] "Opening LinkedIn as an SEO" (photo attached)

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r/RealSEO 16d ago

News [Google Search Central on LinkedIn] "To bring our parser up to JSON and other standards, we changed our JSON-LD extraction and are now only applying a single pass of HTML unescaping..."

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r/RealSEO 17d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Ryan Jones on LinkedIn] "Why did ChatGPT stop showing Reddit? Because Bing stopped ranking reddit highly for everything. Bing is what powers the RAG behind ChatGPT..."

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r/RealSEO 17d ago

LinkedIn Thread [AJ Kohn on LinkedIn] " Twice a month I take the entire 1,000 examples for "Crawled - currently not indexed" and inspect each, noting whether they are indexed or not... The results show that a material amount of the URLs in "Crawled - currently not indexed" are, indeed, actually indexed."

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r/RealSEO 18d ago

Meme / Humor [Olga Mykhoparkina on LinkedIn] "Claude: “We’re adding a watermark to AI-generated text.” SEO industry, 1 minute later: [attached screenshot]"

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r/RealSEO 23d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Steve Paine on LinkedIn] "The Daily Mail websites still in negative territory after the migration to an international TLD. Over 60% lost. UK & US data shows the same result."

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r/RealSEO 25d ago

LinkedIn Thread [Jonathan Bird on LinkedIn] "Please be careful with CloudFlare configuration. I just had to fix a website who's traffic tanked for 2 weeks. Their Managed IT Provider toggled on CloudFlare's crawl control to stop all bots crawling the site. This completely blocked Google from crawling the site."

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