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Daily SEO advice, hacks, and interviews with some of the top voices in search engine optimization, as well as sit-downs with many undiscovered talents.

Podcast · By Edward Sturm · English · US · Official site

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Sep 11, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 11, 2026

    Position #1 On Google Is Dead (8.1 Million Searches Prove It) (opens the original)

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    E1165: Position #1 on Google is dead, at least as a single, static ranking you can check once and trust. Joy Hawkins returns to break down a study of 8.1 million Google search results that found organic rankings became 48.7% more volatile after the May 2026 Core Update. 97% of the tracking reports analyzed started shuffling, and two people searching the same phrase at the same time now regularly see different rankings. The volatility didn't disappear after the update ended. It stayed elevated. W

  2. Episode · Sep 11, 2026

    How $72 in Press Releases Made Google Call This Man the King of AEO (opens the original)

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    E1164: It cost just $72 in press releases to get Google's AI Overview to call James Dooley the "King of AEO." I break down how two cheap press releases created enough relevance and third-party confirmation for Google to repeat the claim directly inside an AI Overview. The first press release cost $66 through an EIN Newswire package. The second cost $6 through AB Newswire. Both placed "King of AEO" in the locations that matter most for relevance: the headline, page title, URL slug, and opening se

  3. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

    The $50,000 Internal Linking Experiment: Links That Get Clicked Carry More Weight (opens the original)

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    E1163: Does Google care whether people actually click the links on your page? I break down a $50,000 internal linking experiment across 15 websites, plus a Google patent that describes assigning different weights to links based on the probability that users will click them. The findings challenge a lot of standard SEO thinking around internal links, PageRank dilution, link placement, and how authority flows through a site. In this episode: - A $50,000 internal linking experiment conducted across

  4. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    Google Admits They Fake Understanding Your Content (opens the original)

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    E1162: In 2016, Google gave an internal presentation called Q4 Search All Hands. Years later, slides from that presentation surfaced during discovery in Google's antitrust trial, and one of them contains an unusually direct admission: "We do not understand documents. We fake it." Google explained that its ability to understand documents directly was minimal. Instead, it watched how people reacted to search results and learned from those responses. I break down what Google said, why this presenta

  5. Episode · Sep 6, 2026

    LinkedIn Is Still a Blue Ocean (45,000 Views With a Dead Account) (opens the original)

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    E1161: I break down why I still consider LinkedIn a blue ocean for organic reach, Google rankings, AI visibility, and content distribution. A listener named Marc recently started posting again after years of inactivity. Within one week, one of his posts reached 45,000+ views. That came from an account that had been dead for years. And the opportunity goes far beyond LinkedIn's feed. LinkedIn pages rank extremely well in Google. LinkedIn ranks for almost 120 million keywords and gets close to 500

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