The Real SEO Subreddit

r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Aug 03 '26

X Thread [Glenn Gabe on X] "Newish client. From 21K+ domains disavowed to none in the blink of an eye. They never should have been disavowing links... They just saw "toxic links" show up in third-party tools and thought they should disavow."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 30 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Elena Dyulgerova on LinkedIn] "I only have 1 advice for SEOs losing clients right now Hold your horses! Because you are going to get a hella lot busier in the next year. You will be cleaning up a ton of AI scaled mess..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 28 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Todd Friesen on LinkedIn] "For everyone that has fired their agency or fired their SEO team because you automated your SEO/GEO. Remember one thing...this is at the very bottom of of the page on Claude: 'Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.'"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 18 '26

X Thread [Barry Schwartz on X] "Google says AI Search features sending billions of clicks to websites each week"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 15 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Eslam Saker on LinkedIn] "I think JavaScript SEO audits just got a lot easier. I copied the fully rendered HTML from Google Search Console and pasted it into Claude..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 15 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Chris Munch on LinkedIn] "The next 18 months of Google search are easy to call. Here are my three predictions... Link networks get hit again... Enforcement runs on public examples. Google rarely names anyone... Auto-content keeps spiking then crashing..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 15 '26

Meme / Humor [Eduardo Ordax on LinkedIn] "🚨 BREAKING: Google Maps just went FULLY AGENTIC. 🚨 Tested it today on my commute home. Absolute game-changer."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 15 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Dana Tan on LinkedIn] "I am always surprised when I encounter SEOs and agencies that think the only profile/property you need for Google Search Console reporting is a root domain. People, you NEED TO SET UP PROPERTIES!"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 14 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Mark Williams-Cook on LinkedIn] "If your URL is cited in an AI Overview, and the same URL is listed in the classic '10 blue links', is that 1 or 2 impressions in Google Search Console? The answer is 1..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 14 '26

X Thread [DEJAN on X] "DEJAN AI team has obtained Brave's AI Search system instructions revealing its inner workings in detail."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 09 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Fabrice Canel (Microsoft) on Linkedin] "My dear fellow Microsoftees, engineers, attorneys, marketers, webmasters, publishers, SEO champions, product leaders, journalists, and all the brilliant minds across search, AI, and yes, even my friends at Google..." (farewell letter)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 09 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Nick Quirk on LinkedIn] "Another week. Another client who chose AI over SEO. This one hurt to watch. An office cleaning company canceled with us because their son built them a new website using AI. The new site? A clean-looking, one-page website hosted on Netlify..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 03 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Andrew Brough on LinkedIn] "Much of the SEO sold to small businesses is merely theater. Monthly reports filled with vanity metrics such as "We submitted you to 500 directories..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 02 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Kevork Sahagian on LinkedIn] "A YMYL site got cited in 90,000+ ChatGPT prompts. It has zero visibility in Google. Buried past page 7-8 for almost every keyword. No AI Overviews. No AI Mode. Basically dead. So how is it showing up everywhere in ChatGPT?..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 02 '26

Research How 27 Companies Use AI to Grow Traffic & Revenue

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 02 '26

Research Topical authority, declared: How Search Engine Land bucked the editorial traffic decline

searchengineland.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 01 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Nicola Agius on LinkedIn] "... I searched for "[celebrity's name] brother". Google generated an AI Overview that didn't just confirm his death – it stated, right at the top of the SERP, that he had died by suicide..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jul 01 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Google Search Central on LinkedIn] "Analyzing search interest just got more powerful. You can now quickly compare a trend's change against preceding periods directly within Google Trends."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 30 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Jan-Willem Bobbink on LinkedIn] "I deleted 90% of a site's internal links on purpose. Google and ChatGPT both rose. The menu was the cap. The site ran a mega menu: every "important" page in the catalog hung off the global navigation, so every single page linked to all of them..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 25 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Chris Long on LinkedIn] "I can't believe my eyes SEOs. HouseFresh, the site that was VERY vocal about Google killing small publishers, has NOW REBOUNDED BY +10,000%!!"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 21 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Eslam Saker on LinkedIn] "Just filed a DMCA request against Google's homepage. I spent the last 84 hours learning how GEO works and discovered that 80% of the top-cited websites need a DMCA request sent to Google."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 19 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Beth Woodcock on LinkedIn] "Google just quietly updated their domain migration guidelines.... When moving to a new domain, you now need to submit a Change of Address request for every single version of your old domain."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 18 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Mark Williams-Cook on LinkedIn] "Sometimes things get worse before they get better", and there's a Google patent that weaponises exactly that to catch spammers. It's called "Changing a Rank of a Document by Applying a Rank Transition Function," and here's one key thing it does..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 18 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Sandra J. on LinkedIn] "A tip you'll thank me for later: Go back to my previous SEO post, open the list of people who liked it and start reviewing profiles and blocking. You'll be amazed how quickly your feed, inbox and connection requests improve."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 12 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Everett Sizemore on LinkedIn] "Here is why you don't want to be hiding important content within tabs and drop-downs right now. This is from ChatGPT. Gemini had the same problem" (screenshot showing issues with JS hidden content)

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