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Confessions of an SEO® — 255 episodes
Legacy SEO Practices Are Killing Your AI Visibility - Season 6, Ep 19
Confessions S6, ep 18 Why We Need to Write for Machines First (So People CAN Find Us) - Season 6, Episode 18
Helpful Content is a Math Problem, Not a Moral One - Season 6, Ep 17
The 1% Club - Achieving Gemini Induction in the Age of Compute Tax
The Energy Economics of AI Answers - Season 6, Episode 15
Parsing The Parsing of HTML - Response to SOTR (#105) - Season 6, Ep, 14
The Next Evolution of Indexing - Season 6, Episode 13
How To Make Your Content A Magnet for AI Citation - Season 6, Ep 12
IP Laundering How Google Built an Answer Monopoly by Seizing YOUR Content
You Had the Authority All Along: Backlink Truths - Season 6, Ep. 10
Is Google Cracking Down on AI Content- Season 6, Ep 9
The Code is more like Guidelines Than Actual Rules - Confessions S6, Episode 8
Bot Crawl Space and Time - Season 6, Episode 7
The Mystical Listicle Is It Really Endangered in Google? - Season 6, Episode 6
Crawled Not Indexed Solved - Season 6, Episode 5
LLMs Don't Rank Sites - They Synthesize Trust - Season 6, Episode 4
Too Many Tags On The Dance Floor - Season 6, Episode 3
Blow Chunks in SEO - Season 6, Episode 2
Horizontal Content Analysis Brings LLM Insight - Season 6, Episode 1
Helpful Content Analysis Tool - Vizzex - Season 5, Episode 51
A few of my favorite things in 2025 - Season 5, Ep 50
A Good Kind of Sticker Shock - Season 5, Ep 49
Written in the Logs: GoogleOther's Gemini Alignment - Season 5, Ep 48
Vector Embedding for $2025 Alec! - Season 5, Episode 47
Breathing Through the Noise - Season 5, Episode 46
SEO vs GEO vs AIO equals IR Information Retrieval - Season 5, Ep 45
The Halloween Google Update That Never Was - Season 5, Episode 44
Topical Cohesion Is Designed — Topical Authority is different - Season 5, Ep 43
Let the Games Begin - Season 5, Ep 42
How Much Did That Content Really Cost? - Season 5, episode 41
Duplicate Content Works Until It Doesn't - Season 5, Episode 40
Monopoly Bingo - Season 5, Episode 39
I'll Do It My Way - Season 5, Episode 38
Happy 4th Birthday Crawl or No Crawl - Season 5, Episode 37
Google Retains Custody of Chrome - Season 5, ep 36
The Google Crawler Crisis of August 2025 - Season 5, Ep 35
Is Mo Content Mo Better? Season 5, Episode 34
AI SEO Confession - Season 5, Ep. 33
Born In An Oven Does Not A Muffin Make - Season 5, Episode 32
Pivoting Is Awareness Season 5, Episode 31
NAVER what it seems - Google's Latest Crawler
Hreflang - International Tag of Mystery - Season 5, Episode 29
How Google "Fixed" Their Biggest Asset (And Made You Do All The Work)
Google Core Update June 2025: Don't Be Afraid, Publish Now - Season 5, Ep. 27
Every Tool Is A Weapon IF You Hold It Properly - Season 5, Episode 26
The Fatal Flaw in Your Correlational Ranking Data - Season 5, Ep 25
The Power Paradox - The AI Energy Crossroads
I'm Kind of A Big Deal - Season 5, Episode 23
What's Mine is Mine - Season 5 Episode 22
The DEMISE of DMARGE - Season 5, Epi. 21
Google Agrees With Me About TOC Links - Season 5, Ep 20
Ain't Hard To Follow 1000 Cows - Season 5, Episode 19
First to Crawl, Chance to Index - Meet GoogleOther
Accidental Indexing Momentum: From 1 page indexed to 57 in 3 days
SERP Inversion - Season 5 Episode 16
Indexers Gotta Index, right?
Is this the Golden Age or Gilded Age of AI
Just EEAT it!
The March Core Update of 2025 is Over!
March 2025 Core Update and Indexing API
What 16 Million Pages Can Say Part 2
What 16 Million Pages Can Say Part 1
Trad Keyword Research Failing Us
Anchor Links OK But Not All Are - Season 5, Episode 7
Content Over the Threshold - Season 5, Episode 6
Healthy Relationship Between Site and Search - Season 5, Episode 5
Scale Ruins Some Things - Season 5, Episode 4
Helpful Content - Patent or SERPS? Season 5, Episode 3
Schema Screaming - Season 5, Episode 2
SEO Expertise and Lack of Awareness - Season 5, Episode 1
Final Episode - Happy New Year's Eve - Season 4, Episode 50
An SEO Christmas Eve - Season 4, Episode 49
SEO Testing - A Reality Check - S4, Episode 48
The Journey is as important as the SEO destination - Episode 47, Season 4
Helpful Content in all the wrong places - Season 4, Episode 46
Results on Helpful Content Classifier Testing Does HC read? - Season 4, Episode 45
Over the Shoulder Launch into An Update - Season 4, Episode 44
November Core Update, Really Google? Season 4, Episode 43
Helpful Content System Does Not Read Content - Season 4, Episode 42
I'm Your Huckleberry - Test to know if Helpful Content System Actually Reads - Season 4, Episode 41
Does Helpful Content System READ content? - S4, Episode 40
Hitting Google Like a Hurricane, Season 4, Episode 39
No Such Thing As Helpful Content - S4, Episode 38
Forbes is the new Reddit - Season 4, Episode 37
Site Reputation Abuse Enforced Manually - Why?
Walking on Sunshine - Season 4, Episode 35
Getting Stung By Your SEO Company - Season 4, Episode 34
One Rule To Wring Them All - Season 4, Episode 33
ReBroadcast - WOW! All the Blue Socks - Google Parameter Tool Gone
Spontaneous Something - August Core Update - Confessions Season 4, Episode 32
Googlebot Worthy - Season 4, Episode 31
The Mystery of the Negative SEO Canonical
The SEO Struggle Bus - Season 4, Episode 29
Get Curious - Season 4, Episode 28
Schadenfreude SEO - Season 4, Episode 27
Buying IS Hard, Season 4, Episode 26
Eye For An Eye SEO - Season 4, Episode 25
Fast Food SEO Season 4, Episode 24
What Happened in Kelowna Definitely Won't Stay in Kelowna - Season 4, Episode 23
What's Canonical Got To Do With It? Season 4, Episode 22
Short But Sweet - Season 4, Episode 21
No Click Customers May Be The Future - Season 4, Episode 20
Site Reputation Abuse Update - Who's Zooming Who? - Season 4, Episode 19
Line Between Curiosity and Doubt - Season 4, Episode 18
3 Stages of Truth - Season 4, Episode 17
Google Word Soup - Season 4, Episode 16
The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Man Often Go Awry Season 4, Episode 15
Fetch Worthy Content - Season 4, Episode 14
Helpful Content - Invisible Ships - Season 4, Episode 13
Helpful Content Palaver - Season 4, Episode 12
Seemly Random - Helpful Content System - Season 4, Episode 11
Go Fish Yourself - Season 4, Episode 10
House Fresh Response: We're on a Mission from Gad - Season 4, Episode 9
Is Google Killing Independent Sites - Season 4, Episode 8
Forced Indexing, Season 4, Episode 7
Tools of The Trade - Season 4, Episode 6
The Emperor Has No Measurements - Season 4, Ep 5
Can They Really Do That? - Season 4, Episode 4
The AI Conversation We Have to Have - Season 4, Episode 3
Top SEO Podcast on Semrush's Must Listen List - Season 4, Episode 2
Deadly Passion, Terrible Joy Season 4 Episode 1
No One Is An Island Unto Themselves - Season 3 Episode 31
Paying It Forward in SEO - Season 3, Episode 30
Bright Shiny New SEO People
Confessions - Different Day, Same Bot Time, Same Bot Channel
Notes From Nineveh
You Can't Handle The Truth S3 Episode 26
Google and The Update - Season 3, Episode 25
WWJD Confessions of an SEO - Season 3 Episode 24
Just Say Scariest Environment - Season 3, Episode 23
Happy Birthday & Happy Update
Code of Ethics in SEO - Season 3, Episode 21
Helpful Content Update and Visitor Expectations - S3 Episode 20
Summer Time - Season 3, Episode 19
Penny Wise Pound Foolish
Greater Expectations (My Own) - Season 3, Episode 17
Great Expectations - Season 3, episode 16
The Being and the Doing of SEO - Season 3, Episode 15
Are We There Yet? The End of an Update - Season 3, Episode 14
After The Update, Season 3, Episode 13
Google March Core Update is Over & little MC4 - Season 3, Episode 12
Google March Core Update and Me - Season 3, Episode 11
Keeping Up With Myself - Season 3, Episode 10
I'm Claiming My Time Back - Season 3, Episode 9
Strategy Optional? Season 3 - Episode 8
No Serve For You! - Season 3, Episode 7
Episode 5 and 6 - SEO Survivor - Season 3
Nerd Logs - Season 3, Episode 4
Indexation. Indignation. Season 3, Episode 3
FOMO Free Zone - Season 3, Episode 2
Are You With Me - Season 3, Ep 1
New Year's Edition 2022 - Season 2, Episode 52
Rethinking SEO - Season 2, Episode 51
Google Search Status Dashboard - Season 2, Episode 50
By The Numbers, Season 2, Episode 48
The Dark Arts of SEO, Season 2, Episode 47
SEO testing is my Parrot - Season 2, Episode 46
Where Have You Been? Season 2, Episode 45
The Thorny Path - Season 2 Episode 44
What Fresh SEO Hell Is THIS? Season 2, Episode 43
My Advice To "Early SEO" Carolyn - Season 2 Episode 42
Is The Grass Greener? Confessions of an SEO - Season 2, Episode 41
Evolution of SEO Testers
Season 2, Ep 39 - What a Sham(e)
S2, Episode 38 - Q4: Buckle Up Buttercup
S2, Ep 37 - The Telling of The Bees
Season 2, Ep 36 Success Disguised As Failure
S2, Ep 35 - The Update on the Update
S2, Ep34 Indexation Research - The Gift That Keeps On Giving
Season 2 - Ep. 33 - TL:DR - Too Long Didn't Read
Season 2, Ep 32 - Talking Up A Storm
Season 2, Episode 31 Flirting With Madness
Season 2, Ep 30 SEO Success Status Code
Season 2, EP 29 - My SEO Client Win
S2, Ep 28 - A Little Venting and a Mobile Challenge
S2 - Ep 27 - How Do You Know Your SEO is Working?
Season 2 - Episode 26 - Mind Your OWN Business
Summer of Mobile OnPage & Upcoming Topics
Season 2 - Episode 24 Something Mobile This Way Comes
Season 2, Ep 23 - Everyone! Back into the Pool!
Season 2 - Episode 22 - One Week Into Google May Core Update
Season 2, Ep 21 - Google May Update, or bot...
Season 2, Episode 20 - Part Kentucky Windage
Season 2 - Episode 19 - The 2% Solution
Season 2, Episode 18 - Serp-Certified
Season 2, Episode 17 Testing, Testing, 1..2..3...
Season 2, Ep 16 - Expectations Managed
Season 2, Episode 15 - WOW! Its All The Blue Socks - Google URL Parameter Tool
Season 2, Episode 14 - Turtles All The Way Down
Season 2 - Episode 13 - SEO Mythology Talk
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Call Me Ishmael
Season 2, Episode 11 - Did You Get Indexed
Season 2, Episode 10 - SEO on the Brain
Season 2, Episode 9 - When Helping Hurts
Season 2, Episode 8 - What I did Last Summer
Season 2 - Episode 7- SEO Testing is Dead, Long Live SEO Testing
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Lost In Search
Season 2 - Episode 5 - When Nothing Means Something
Season 2 Episode 4 - SEOs Use Their Words When They Fight
Season 2, Episode 3 Getting Emotionally Attached To Your Keyword?
Season 2 - Episode 2 - There's No Hyphen in Micromanager
Episode 54 Season 2 - Ep 1 - Indexation Liberation
Episode 53 - Countdown to 2022
Episode 52 2021 Holiday Edition
Episode 51 Dear Google, This is a Mess
Episode 50 - Keep Calm and WTH is Happening With Indexation?
Episode 49 - Survey Says
Episode 48 - Shop 'Til You Drop AKA Google's November Update
Episode 47 - The Rebound SEO Agency
Episode 46 I Love Stupid SEO Ideas
Episode 45 - When to Say No to SEO
Episode 44 - Halloween Google 2021 Indexation Style
Episode 43 Fantasy SEO
Episode 42 Where Do You Go When You Have SEO Questions
Episode 41 - Show and Tell
Episode 40 Core Web Vitals...Field Evidence
Episode 39 Testing vs Testing
Episode 38 Newly Discovered SEO KPIs
Episode 37 Who Do You Believe, Google or Your Lying Eyes
Episode 36 What to Do Before Hiring an SEO Company
Episode 35 - Organic Raspberry Confidence
Episode 34 Indexed Not Found
Episode 33 - The Case of The Curious SEO Proposal
Episode 32 - SEO Projects Updates and Testing
Episode 31 - SEO Bits and Bobs
Episode 30 - State of Voice Search July Update
Episode 29 - Will Artificial Intelligence Kill SEO?
Episode 28 The Summer of Updates
Episode 27 - This Isn't Your Dad's SEO Anymore
Episode 26 - My SEO Pet Peeves
Episode 25 - Voice SEO
Episode 24 - CSI SEO
Episode 23 - Super Chill Core SEO
Episode 22 - What a RELIEF!!!
Episode 21 - Summer SEO Topics
Episode 20 - V is for Volatile - Part 2
Episode 19 - V is for Volatile - Part 1
Episode 18 - Play Hard Ball SEO Side
Episode 17 - Playing Hard Ball - Client Side
Episode 16 - What if I knew then what I do now
Episode 15 - Hiring an SEO Company
Episode 14 - What's Your Superpower?
Episode 13 - Google Updates - Personal and Public
Episode 12 - Part 2 of SEO Packages????
Episode 11 Part 1 - Packages? We Don't Need No Packages!
Episode 10 Where do keywords come from?
Episode 9 - SEO Fairy Tales and Other Stories
Episode 8 - What is SEO Testing?
Episode 7 - When A Person Only Has a Hammer
Episode 6 Freshman Orientation - What The Hell Is Going On?
Episode 5 - My First SEO Client
Episode 4 - It's OK to Reinvent Yourself
Episode 3 - The Conundrum
Episode 2 - Why I Dislike Working with SEO Clients
Episode 1 - Why Do I Love being an SEO?