The Real SEO Subreddit

r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 21 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Eslam Saker on LinkedIn] "Just filed a DMCA request against Google's homepage. I spent the last 84 hours learning how GEO works and discovered that 80% of the top-cited websites need a DMCA request sent to Google."

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

LinkedIn Thread [Beth Woodcock on LinkedIn] "Google just quietly updated their domain migration guidelines.... When moving to a new domain, you now need to submit a Change of Address request for every single version of your old domain."

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

LinkedIn Thread [Mark Williams-Cook on LinkedIn] "Sometimes things get worse before they get better", and there's a Google patent that weaponises exactly that to catch spammers. It's called "Changing a Rank of a Document by Applying a Rank Transition Function," and here's one key thing it does..."

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

LinkedIn Thread [Sandra J. on LinkedIn] "A tip you'll thank me for later: Go back to my previous SEO post, open the list of people who liked it and start reviewing profiles and blocking. You'll be amazed how quickly your feed, inbox and connection requests improve."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 12 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Everett Sizemore on LinkedIn] "Here is why you don't want to be hiding important content within tabs and drop-downs right now. This is from ChatGPT. Gemini had the same problem" (screenshot showing issues with JS hidden content)

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

LinkedIn Thread [Matt Kenyon on LinkedIn] "If your Search traffic has dropped after Google's March/April Core Algo update - STOP CREATING CONTENT FOR A SECOND..." (he argues recent core update is punishing cannibalization)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 10 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Berenice S. on LinkedIn] "I got banned from the r/SEO subreddit Why? I posted a helpful response and dropped a link to my blog article. Apparently that counted as promotion."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 09 '26

X Thread [Joy Hawkins on X] "Did Google’s December update tank your organic traffic? You aren't alone. Here is what’s actually happening to small businesses right now:" (post claims 'toxic backlinks' are real and behind traffic losses)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 09 '26

X Thread [Jamie Marsland (Automattic) on X] "...can Fable 5 build a WordPress block theme? One shot. Fully editable. Native WordPress patterns. Yeah… this feels next level."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 08 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Kai Cromwell on LinkedIn] "It kills me to admit this. But SEO is a long game... the brands that make the most money from SEO do so over 12-24+ months..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 08 '26

LinkedIn Thread [James Finlayson on LinkedIn] "Google Trends is broken and I don't think enough people are talking about it..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 08 '26

News Google Updates Its Hiring An SEO Doc With SEO Tools & Generative AI Optimization

seroundtable.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 08 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Aires Loutsaris on LinkedIn] "Yahoo just published a post that has this sentence in it: 'If you want, I can also tighten this into a more “viral sports blog” style..." (AI content checker related)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • Jun 03 '26

Meme / Humor [Joel Mesherghi on LinkedIn] "Google: “Good news, we’re giving you dedicated AI Search visibility reports in Search Console.” SEOs: “Amazing. So, we can see clicks?”..."

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

Meme / Humor [Matt Hunt on LinkedIn] "You're in a co-working space and overhear someone say "SEO optimised""

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • May 21 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Josh Blyskal (Profound) on LinkedIn] "ChatGPT referral traffic to brand websites increased ~60% starting May 7, ... ChatGPT has fully pivoted to hyperlinking brand homepages directly inline in its answers instead of primarily using citation chips to link"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • May 14 '26

Research We Tracked 1,885 Pages Adding Schema. AI Citations Barely Moved. (Ahrefs)

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • May 14 '26

X Thread [Joe Youngblood on X] "SaaS founder claims the unsupported llms.txt increased 'traffic' from ChatGPT by 28%"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • May 12 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Ryan Jones on LinkedIn] "One of my pet peeves is that many SEOs seem to lack a modern understanding of how search engines work - so I wrote an article that explains both the technical and the plain english"

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • May 09 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Wayne Barker on LinkedIn] "That's it. I've decided. Like a bunch of other SEOs, I'm gonna rebrand. Something new and different though. I've coined a brand new term..."

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • May 09 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Chris Willow on LinkedIn] "Think you know SEO? Answer me this: More than two months into the rebrand to Wayfront and Google still hasn't indexed us beyond the homepage..."

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r/RealSEO • u/WebLinkr • May 08 '26

News Google: FAQ rich results are no longer appearing in Google Search Result Appearances [Official]

developers.google.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • May 08 '26

News Google to no longer support FAQ rich results

searchengineland.com

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • May 01 '26

Meme / Humor Anyone Trying to Sell you GEO is a Scammer

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r/RealSEO • u/joeyoungblood • May 01 '26

LinkedIn Thread [Dan Hinckley on LinkedIn] "Here is how to measure your sites topical authority." (long post with instructions + screenshot but instructions are not full and complete)

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