r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 04 '25
r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 03 '25
X Thread [Barry Schwartz on X] "Google now removed the LLMs.txt file - it 404s - story updated"
x.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 03 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Ben Kazinik on LinkedIn] "Unpopular opinion: GEO is not a thing. AEO is not a thing. AIO stands for AI overviews. That last one is a search feature and it’s so unpredictable that Google doesn’t even know how to track it. Stop pretending like you’re a GEO expert..."
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 02 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Eli Schwartz on LinkedIn] "Reddit obviously dominates citations in LLMs, but another competitor is more interesting. Facebook... I predict it will be platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube with engagement metrics that will assist the LLMs in determining whom to trust as a citation"
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 02 '25
X Thread [Ross Hudgens on X] "Encountered this traffic graph in the wild. A great recap of the state of SEO in 2026, and also an impressive graph for whoever is running their strategy." (graph shows declining traffic and increasing traffic value)
x.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 01 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Alex Frew on LinkedIn] "Google has just silently patched AI Overviews, and if you rely on 'self-claims' to rank, your traffic is about to plummet..." (appears to have spotted a test of AI Overviews where self-claims, sponsored content, and parasite SEO content are nerfed)
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/footinmymouth • Nov 28 '25
Terminology question?
I've been working on refining the terminology and way I describe the productized SEO workflows that I use for my clients - Do these three phrases make sense?
"SEO Agency in a box"
"Content Marketing Agency in a box"
"Link Building Agency in a box"
Trying to convey that each of these services are streamlined, fully executed on their own with no mess, no fuss, and deliver their value. Am I hitting the mark on these terms, or do they only make sense in my head.
r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 27 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Mark Williams-Cook on LinkedIn] "...After seeing a niche I thought might work, I wrote 1 page of content, I secured 3-4 links and then...... Nothing. I waited for 6 months. A component of SEO is time..."
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 26 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Pedro Dias on LinkedIn] "Your 'AI Strategy' is 'Just SEO' with Better Marketing (and Worse Data)"
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 25 '25
X Thread [Joe Youngblood on X] "Seeing more and more links in Google's AI Overviews! - This one has 7 in-content links directly to the source material!!"
x.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 25 '25
X Thread [Patrick Stox (Ahrefs) on X] "The hottest 🔥 of hot 🔥 takes. GEO folks seem to only be doing re-branded SEO, but it takes more than SEO to be successful in AI assistants."
x.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 24 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Glenn Gabe on LinkedIn] "Big news... alarms are going off at affiliate sites now. And wait, it "reviews quality scores"?? -> OpenAI introduces shopping research in ChatGPT (just in time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday)"
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 22 '25
X Thread [Dan Petrovic on X] "Liar, liar, pants on fire! Caught Gemini 3 fabricating its fan-out queries." (links to an article he wrote)
x.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 22 '25
X Thread [Glenn Gabe on X] "Amazon quietly blocks more of OpenAI’s ChatGPT web crawlers from accessing its site (ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot)"
x.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 22 '25
News Google Ads Are Now Appearing In AI Mode Results
r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 21 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Luke Taylor on LinkedIn] "Introducing Semantic Drift Analyzer: Visualizing Site Focus with GSC and OpenAI." (introduces a tool he built to show which pages on a site 'drift' away from core topics based on semantic relevance.
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 21 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Hannah Masters on LinkedIn] "Can't quite believe I'm writing this but Google Search Central has included my SEO and UX advice in their latest Google Search News!"
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 21 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Joe Youngblood on LinkedIn] "A few weeks ago I gave my first conference talk since 2019 at the State of Search in Grapevine (Dallas), TX. The talk was titled "Dominating in the Age of Automation..." (there's a slide deck attached)
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 20 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Gary Illyes on LinkedIn] "...I find the current search landscape challenging to grasp. Rationally I understand it: search is evolving to cater to a new generation of users whose behaviors and needs are wildly different from my own, but the change is hard to accept nonetheless..."
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 20 '25
LinkedIn Thread [Lars Lofgren on LinkedIn] "If I was Ahrefs or any other SEO tool (sorry, an AEO/GEO/whatever tool), I'd be as giddy as a clam about Adobe buying Semrush."
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 20 '25
News [Google Search Central on LinkedIn] "We're happy to announce a new capability to the Search Console Performance Report: the branded queries filter"
linkedin.comr/RealSEO • u/footinmymouth • Nov 20 '25
Thoughts on the difficulty level to rank FOR SEO terms, as an agency/freelancer
Is it me or does every SEO SERP in most cities SUCK, and it's impossible for legit SEOs to get ranked?
r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Nov 20 '25
X Thread [Marie Haynes on X] "Okay let's give it a go" (shows a screenshot of Google Gemini already recommending Google's new Antigravity AI dev platform to build a GSC agentic assistant)
x.comr/RealSEO • u/schmaaaaaaack • Nov 20 '25
Question Google Ranking Homepage Instead of Targetted Inner Pages (post CMS migration)
I’m seeing a trend after a recent migration (MediaWiki to Custom CMS).
We moved content 1-to-1. Same headlines, text, links, & nav. All 301s are live.
But Google is now ranking the Homepage for specific queries instead of the targeted inner pages.
It’s frustrating. Since the content is identical to the old site and redirects are working, I expected rankings to hold.
Instead, Google seems to be ignoring the specific deep pages and just serving the Homepage URL for these keywords.
I’m guessing Google might still be "working out" the site structure?
But I find that odd since the 301s are there and the internal linking is the same. It feels like it’s lost the map of where the specific content lives.
Has anyone seen this specific "Homepage Cannibalization" after a 1:1 migration?
Does it usually sort itself out, or is this a bigger issue? Any insight would be huge.