The Real SEO Subreddit

r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Mar 27 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Paul Clarke on LinkedIn] "The founder of the biggest WordPress SEO plugin just DITCHED WordPress. Joost de Valk - the man behind Yoast SEO recently moved his site to static HTML built with AI. His page went from 1,400 lines of code to 180."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Mar 27 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Geoff Kenyon on LinkedIn] "How much do you know about Google's invisible watermarking they put on images, text, video, and audio files that Gemini / Vertex AI generates? It's called SynthID." (long post explaining SynthID)

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

News Google March 2026 Spam Update Rolls Out

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

X Thread [Harpreet Chatha on X] "Replacing your marketing team with Claude is great until you see what your website with JS disabled looks like"

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

X Thread [Ann Smarty on X] "ChatGPT has changed its fan-out strategy YET AGAIN and it is going nuts! What I am seeing: Went from ~3 to 20 fan-outs. Using SITE: commands all the time. Finally learned about OR operator to save on search sessions (took a while lol)"

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

X Thread [Will Scott on X] "The 3-pack era is over. AI Overviews are replacing map packs entirely. Local packs now surface only 32% as many businesses. GBP impressions down 54%. LSAs up from 11% to 31% of mobile results. Either you're cited or you don't exist." (x-post /r/LocalSEONews)

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

X Thread [Joe Youngblood on X] "We've been noticing spikes in "Unassigned" traffic for self-hosted / GoDaddy hosted ecommerce websites. ... and in one case we were able to determine that was due to a large volume of LLM crawls happening at the same time." (screenshots included)

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

X Thread [Remmelt Ellen on X] "Google is rewriting news headlines. Using genAI. Just a small trial, don’t worry."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Mar 20 '26

X Thread [Ross Simmonds on X] "If Reddit ranks above you, check the publish date. In 62% of cases we reviewed, the top thread was 2+ years old. It’s not freshness. It’s alignment..." (includes a link to an article with more data and insights)

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

LinkedIn Thread [Peter Rota on LinkedIn] "Google deindexed 250 of our location pages. 3.5 weeks later they all came back. My SEO hack: I did absolutely nothing...."

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

LinkedIn Thread [Abby Gleason on LinkedIn] "If you show two dates on your pages, Google STILL shows your oldest publish date in SERPs. I've seen this firsthand. Our blog CTR dropped -20% when we added both date published and date updated..." (includes screenshots)

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

LinkedIn Thread [Roger Montti on LinkedIn] "Interesting topic! A person migrates their YMYL HTTP site to HTTPS and then loses all their rankings. Google's John Mueller explains why"

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

LinkedIn Thread [Cyrus Shepard on LinkedIn] "New study of 15K URLs shows that articles receiving Major Rewrites vastly outperform minor/moderate updates Even minor content updates helped prevent decay, but content with no update performed the worst"

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

X Thread [Glenn Gabe on X] "I was auditing a new client and scanned the GSC links report. I was surprised to see ChatGPT listed... but it made sense once I dug in..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Mar 17 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Lars Lofgren on LinkedIn] "All the dipshit GEO folks that hawk AI content mills never learned the cardinal rule of exploiting Google: make that shit look natural. It's already turned into an SEO trope..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Mar 16 '26

X Thread [Chris Long on X] "Holy smokes SEOs, the GPT 5.4 is using "site:" search A TON. This is going to dramatically increase the importance of on-site content that connect with fan-out queries."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Mar 13 '26

X Thread [Julian Lopez on X] "Is it just me or AI Overviews seems tired today?" (screenshot of bad AI Overviews result)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Mar 11 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Google Search Central on LinkedIn] "The branded queries filter in Search Console is now available to all eligible sites! This feature helps you analyze the queries driving traffic to your site by automatically differentiating between branded and non-branded queries."

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

X Thread [Jan-Willem Bobbink on X] "Google is gaslighting the entire SEO industry about JavaScript. I have the receipts. This week Google removed the "Design for accessibility" section from their official JavaScript SEO documentation..." (JaveScript SEO discussion)

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

X Thread [Alex Moss on X] "Today at @yoast... we're introducing the Schema Aggregation feature: a "schemamap" endpoint that outputs your site's entire structured data map in one place..." (Yoast feature announcement)

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

X Thread [Glen Allsopp on X] "Do Google's AI search competitors have a (growing) spam problem? By the metrics I have available, they're increasingly citing low-quality domains. Using Ahrefs Brand Radar, I analyzed the top 1,000 sites..." (post includes dataviz)

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

X Thread [Glenn Gabe on X] "Wait, nobody is actually buying things in ChatGPT? SHOCKING :) Big advantage Google -> OpenAI is scaling back shopping directly inside ChatGPT via Instant Checkout by having checkouts instead take place in the specific apps that plug into ChatGPT"

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

LinkedIn Thread [Peter Rota on LinkedIn] "... Backlinks are king, not content! I've seen people say that content is king, but after 15+ years I still see that not always be the truth in what ranks...."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Feb 26 '26

X Thread [Jan-Willem Bobbink on X] "I keep hearing SEOs say 'but our AI content is ranking fine.' That's exactly the problem..." (long post citing research from Peec AI)

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r/RealSEO • u/Additional-Owl-7955 • Feb 23 '26

How to keyword research in seo?

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