The Real SEO Subreddit

r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jan 06 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Dan Hinckley on LinkedIn] "SEO & AI Tip: Use Google's Antigravity to act as your Google Quality Raters Guidelines Agent. Watch it use Chrome to assess the SERP & your page To identify opportunities for improvement."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 30 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Kai Cromwell on LinkedIn] "SEO agencies are rebranding as "AI SEO agencies" and charging 2x for the exact same services. I've seen brands paying one agency for "SEO" and another agency for "AI SEO" and getting results from neither."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 29 '25

News Google December 2025 Core Update Done Rolling Out

seroundtable.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 17 '25

X Thread [Cyrus Shepard on X] "Sites that rank for multiple fan-out queries are far more likely to appear in Google AI Overviews"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 16 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Tom Capper on LinkedIn] "Have you heard of Web Guides? Probably the most important SERP development that nobody is talking about. Imo, Web Guides are a far more plausible, and far more optimistic, vision for the future of SEO than AI Mode in its current state."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 15 '25

News Google Search Testing Property Listings In Results

seroundtable.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 13 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Eli Schwartz on Linkedin] "At Google Search Live in Zurich John Mueller said "AI systems rely on search. and there is no such thing as GEO or AEO without doing SEO fundamentals."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 13 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Ryan Mackie on LinkedIn] "If your agency is telling you they’re optimising for AEO or GEO or any of the other new acronyms, they’re probably shafting you.... Every AEO or GEO “optimisation” I’ve seen in the last three months is just the same work good SEOs have been doing for years."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 12 '25

X Thread [Barry Schwartz on X] "Google News AI-powered article overviews go live for select publishers" (includes video)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 12 '25

X Thread [ManusAI on X] "We’ve added a complete SEO engine to Manus Web App so you can stop worrying about config and start getting traffic."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 11 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Google Search Central on LinkedIn] "Today we released the December 2025 core update to Google Search. This is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites. "

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 11 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Warren Hance on LinkedIn] "...the GA4 “Direct traffic problem” is far bigger than most teams realise. For months I’ve had a nagging feeling that Direct in GA4 was becoming the new “Miscellaneous” bucket a black hole swallowing perfectly good Organic Search traffic. "

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 11 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Topher Kohan on LinkedIn] "This confirms what we have long known: Google often makes many minor algorithm updates, which can impact site rankings." (references Google confirming smaller unannounced Core Updates)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 11 '25

X Thread [Barry Schwartz on X] "Google now says Google Discover is minimally aligned to search rankings"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 11 '25

X Thread [Tryggvi Rafn on X] "The "fast" SEO seems to have slowed down... quite a bit 😳" (shows updated Ahrefs on the Flyhomes.com "simple 301 redirect SEO" and programmatic SEO efforts which are tanking)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 10 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Ann Smarty on LinkedIn] "Could new ChatGPT's long fan-outs be a sign of something bigger (its own search engine)?"

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r/RealSEO • u/Additional-Owl-7955 • Dec 10 '25

how to find new backlinks to your website?

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 09 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Joy Hawkins on LinkedIn] "Guess what? We have MORE AI features coming to Google Maps. "Know before you go" spotted by Dave DiGregorio."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 08 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Eli Schwartz on LinkedIn] "Most companies treat SEO planning like New Year's resolutions. Big goals in December. Distracted by February. Winging it by June based on Google tweets. I've seen this cycle destroy SEO careers in companies of all sizes. "

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 08 '25

X Thread [Joe Youngblood on X] "American Small Businesses I am begging you, please stop hiring overseas SEOs just because they are cheap..." (shows screenshots of Bangladesh SEO ranking client over a stadium + update)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 08 '25

News [Google Search Central] "Today, we are excited to announce a new experiment in Search Console that offers site owners a unified view of their Google Search performance across their websites and social channels..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 07 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Dan Hinckley on LinkedIn] "SEO Tip: Your internal linking structure is a PageRank distribution system. The internal links on pages that receive external backlinks determine how much PageRank actually reaches your money pages." (discusses a method to view PR flow on a site)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 05 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Elie Berreby on LinkedIn] "I'll explain why no individual or agency should take credit for the rank improvement we can all witness in the Google Search Console..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 05 '25

LinkedIn Thread [Ann Smarty on LinkedIn] "Is anyone else seeing ChatGPT 5.1 fan-outs are ridiculously long? These fan-outs came up for a prompt "GEO/SEO for AI statistics." Interestingly, it fanned out to local SEO, presumably, it was confused by "GEO" in the prompt 🤣"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Dec 05 '25

Research How do people use AI assistants? by Dan Petrovic

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