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Confessions of an SEO™ Carolyn Holzman
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When I started marketing my own media publishing company, I discovered my true passion - SEO. SEO stands for "search engine optimization" and it's how websites and other digital properties are set up and presented to search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Youtube and more - so that customers who do not KNOW a business or service by name, and when looking for a solution to the problem seemingly "stumble" across the perfect fit for them. My story starts at the point when I decided to offer the same energy and effort to help other businesses who I thought were like me and my own business. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/confessions-of-an-seo/support
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Get Curious - Season 4, Episode 28
Welcome to Season 4 Episode 28 of Confessions of an SEO
Episode 7 of Confessions of an SEO Mountain Edition 2024.
In this week's show, I talk about what might be an inflection point for many agencies and seos. Its time to get curious, it's time to learn from the serps and stop telling Google it's all their fault.
If you're trying to follow the puck, you're already late.
NEW SERVICE: Helpful Content Diagnosis and path to correction. Deliverable is a video about your site and access to my notes during the evaluation.
email - confessions@americanwaymedia.com to get on the list and get on your way to a recovery.
You want to read my write up on what I observed in various sites that were decimated by the Sept HCU.
http://fixthedamncanonical.com
Its set to NAME YOUR OWN PRICE on Gumroad - so if you can't afford even $10, you can get it for $0.
To get your copy of Decoding Google's Helpful Content System - https://bit.ly/helpfulcontentsystem
Here's a test - please click on this link
American Way Media, INC - SEO Consultant
Confessions of an SEO - On Semrush's Top 10 SEO Podcasts
Suggest podcast topics on Confessions Hotline - 512-222-3132
Some tools I use and recommend:
Cora Software https://bit.ly/confessionscora
On page analysis tool - use it every day.
GSC Tool - https://bit.ly/gsctool
A chrome extension that helps me with repetitive tasks in search console and has a connector to the Google Indexing API so it doesn't go through 3rd parties.
Ziptie Monitoring Software - https://bit.ly/checkoutziptie
Software than monitors whether Google is serving your content or not.
Rank Week - https://bit.ly/conc-s-rankweek
For those who read these things - please click below - it's a short link to the Confessions of An SEO Knowledge Panel - Thank you for your click!
Confessions of An SEO ----------click here to help me with another test.
Interested in supporting this work and any seo testing?
Become a Confessions Supporter for $4.99 or a Confessions Sponsor at $9.99 or higher. Pick your level of support and sponsorship - https://anchor.fm/confessions-of-an-seo/support -
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Schadenfreude SEO - Season 4, Episode 27
Welcome to Season 4 Episode 27 of Confessions of an SEO
Episode 6 of Confessions of an SEO Mountain Edition 2024.
This week’s topic is Schadenfreude SEO - yes that is German and I’ll connect it together.
My passion is forensic seo. SEO is always problem solving but in my case I get to work on sites because it’s a bad problem.
I call this twisted joy 'Forensic SEO aka Schadenfreude SEO' - where I play detective on digital disasters and secretly revel in every clue.
I could be a bad person, or do I just take exceptional professional pride in this work?
NEW SERVICE: $349 for a Helpful Content Diagnosis and path to correction. Deliverable is a video about your site and access to my notes during the evaluation.
email - confessions@americanwaymedia.com to get on the list and get on your way to a recovery.
You want to read my write up on what I observed in various sites that were decimated by the Sept HCU.
http://fixthedamncanonical.com
Its set to NAME YOUR OWN PRICE on Gumroad - so if you can't afford even $10, you can get it for $0.
To get your copy of Decoding Google's Helpful Content System - https://bit.ly/helpfulcontentsystem
Here's a test - please click on this link
American Way Media, INC - SEO Consultant
Confessions of an SEO - On Semrush's Top 10 SEO Podcasts
Suggest podcast topics on Confessions Hotline - 512-222-3132
Some tools I use and recommend:
Cora Software https://bit.ly/confessionscora
On page analysis tool - use it every day.
GSC Tool - https://bit.ly/gsctool
A chrome extension that helps me with repetitive tasks in search console and has a connector to the Google Indexing API so it doesn't go through 3rd parties.
Ziptie Monitoring Software - https://bit.ly/checkoutziptie
Software than monitors whether Google is serving your content or not.
Rank Week - https://bit.ly/conc-s-rankweek
For those who read these things - please click below - it's a short link to the Confessions of An SEO Knowledge Panel - Thank you for your click!
Confessions of An SEO ----------click here to help me with another test.
Interested in supporting this work and any seo testing?
Become a Confessions Supporter for $4.99 or a Confessions Sponsor at $9.99 or higher. Pick your level of support and sponsorship - https://anchor.fm/confessions-of-an-seo/support -
An easy place to leave a review https://www.podch -
Buying IS Hard, Season 4, Episode 26
Welcome to Season 4 Episode 26 of Confessions of an SEO
Episode 4 of Confessions of an SEO Mountain Edition 2024.
In this episode I share an interesting PRE-SALE interaction that illustrates further than buying is not as easy as it looks!
NEW SERVICE: $349 for Helpful Content Diagnosis and path to correction. Deliverable is a video about your site and access to my notes during the evaluation.
email - confessions@americanwaymedia.com to get on the list and get on your way to a recovery.
You want to read my write up on what I observed in various sites that were decimated by the Sept HCU.
http://fixthedamncanonical.com
Its set to NAME YOUR OWN PRICE on Gumroad - so if you can't afford even $10, you can get it for $0.
To get your copy of Decoding Google's Helpful Content System - https://bit.ly/helpfulcontentsystem
Here's a test - please click on this link
American Way Media, INC - SEO Consultant
Confessions of an SEO - On Semrush's Top 10 SEO Podcasts
Suggest podcast topics on Confessions Hotline - 512-222-3132
Some tools I use and recommend:
Cora Software https://bit.ly/confessionscora
On page analysis tool - use it every day.
GSC Tool - https://bit.ly/gsctool
A chrome extension that helps me with repetitive tasks in search console and has a connector to the Google Indexing API so it doesn't go through 3rd parties.
Ziptie Monitoring Software - https://bit.ly/checkoutziptie
Software than monitors whether Google is serving your content or not.
Rank Week - https://bit.ly/confessionsrankweek
For those who read these things - please click below - it's a short link to the Confessions of An SEO Knowledge Panel - Thank you for your click!
Confessions of An SEO ----------click here to help me with another test.
Interested in supporting this work and any seo testing?
Become a Confessions Supporter for $4.99 or a Confessions Sponsor at $9.99 or higher. Pick your level of support and sponsorship - https://anchor.fm/confessions-of-an-seo/support -
An easy place to leave a review https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/confessions-of-an-seo-1973881
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Eye For An Eye SEO - Season 4, Episode 25
Welcome to Season 4 Episode 25 of Confessions of an SEO
Episode 3 of Confessions of an SEO Mountain Edition 2024.
This episode is subtle, well, it is ABOUT something subtle. Human behavior and how hard it is to take in new information when we know what we know.
How challenging it came be and yet, its kind of easy eventually - something comes in hot and totally new eventually becomes accepted as if it was ALWAYS that way.
I reference the episode from April 17th 2024 - The Three Stages of Truth https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/confessions-of-an/3-stages-of-truth-season-4-47SfIYHN3VK/
If you have questions or topic ideas, I want to hear from you - You can text Confessions - 512-222-3132
You want to read my write up on what I observed in various sites that were decimated by the Sept HCU.
http://fixthedamncanonical.com
Its set to NAME YOUR OWN PRICE on Gumroad - so if you can't afford it, you can get it for $0.
To get your copy of Decoding Google's Helpful Content System - https://bit.ly/helpfulcontentsystem
Here's a test - please click on this link
American Way Media, INC - SEO Consultant
Confessions of an SEO - On Semrush's Top 10 SEO Podcasts
Suggest podcast topics on Confessions Hotline - 512-222-3132
Some tools I use and recommend:
Cora Software https://bit.ly/confessionscora
On page analysis tool - use it every day.
GSC Tool - https://bit.ly/gsctool
A chrome extension that helps me with repetitive tasks in search console and has a connector to the Google Indexing API so it doesn't go through 3rd parties.
Ziptie Monitoring Software - https://bit.ly/checkoutziptie
Software than monitors whether Google is serving your content or not.
Rank Week - https://bit.ly/confessionsrankweek
For those who read these things - please click below - it's a short link to the Confessions of An SEO Knowledge Panel - Thank you for your click!
Confessions of An SEO ----------click here to help me with another test.
Interested in supporting this work and any seo testing?
Become a Confessions Supporter for $4.99 or a Confessions Sponsor at $9.99 or higher. Pick your level of support and sponsorship - https://anchor.fm/confessions-of-an-seo/support -
An easy place to leave a review https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/confessions-of-an-seo-1973881 -
Fast Food SEO Season 4, Episode 24
Welcome to Season 4 Episode 24 of Confessions of an SEO
Episode 2 of Confessions of an SEO Mountain Edition 2024.
This week brought my voice back and the jet lag induced exhaustion seems to be behind me.
While I was sleeping it off seems like the world kind of got a little interested in my theory that sites that were hit by the 2023 September HCU after seeing impressions increase like crazy in the spring/summer AND that were using TOC links on all their content - was due to the canonical attribution system not working - or not working for a while.
An unintended side-effect was the number of assumptions in the industry about the transparency (or lack thereof) shining through many of the objections to the possibility that the canonical attribution system either is or has been uncoupling jump links from the listed canonical.
Some even just focused on ONE THING - namely the URL with hashtags. Jump links have hashtags as to other html features - languages, comments etc
Sitelinks are a display feature in SERPs as a visual display of the TOC jumplinks. The fact they CAN appear in SERPS does not provide proof that the canonical attribution isn't broken.
If you have questions or topic ideas, I want to hear from you - You can text Confessions - 512-222-3132
You want to read my write up on what I observed in various sites that were decimated by the Sept HCU.
http://fixthedamncanonical.com
Its set to NAME YOUR OWN PRICE on Gumroad - so if you can't afford it, you can get it for $0.
To get your copy of Decoding Google's Helpful Content System - https://bit.ly/helpfulcontentsystem
Here's a test - please click on this link
American Way Media, INC - SEO Consultant
Confessions of an SEO - On Semrush's Top 10 SEO Podcasts
Suggest podcast topics on Confessions Hotline - 512-222-3132
Some tools I use and recommend:
Cora Software https://bit.ly/confessionscora
On page analysis tool - use it every day.
GSC Tool - https://bit.ly/gsctool
A chrome extension that helps me with repetitive tasks in search console and has a connector to the Google Indexing API so it doesn't go through 3rd parties.
Ziptie Monitoring Software - https://bit.ly/checkoutziptie
Software than monitors whether Google is serving your content or not.
Rank Week - https://bit.ly/confessionsrankweek
For those who read these things - please click below - it's a short link to the Confessions of An SEO Knowledge Panel - Thank you for your click!
Confessions of An SEO ----------click here to help me with another test.
Interested in supporting this work and any seo testing?
Become a Confessions Supporter for $4.99 or a Confessions Sponsor at $9.99 or higher. Pick your level of support and sponsorship - -
What Happened in Kelowna Definitely Won't Stay in Kelowna - Season 4, Episode 23
Welcome to Season 4 Episode 23 of Confessions of an SEO
Inaugural episode of Confessions of an SEO Mountain Edition 2024.
To celebrate, I lost most of my voice. Not sure if it was only my voice, I'm figuring out how to record in the tiny house.
In today's show after a brief quasi-rant, I rundown what happened in Kelowna BC last week. It was the reason there was no show last week - the summit that truly was.
here's some links that were mentioned
https://crackmycode.com/bico
If you have questions or topic ideas, I want to hear from you - You can text Confessions - 512-222-3132
You want to read my write up on what I observed in various sites that were decimated by the Sept HCU.
http://fixthedamncanonical.com
Its set to NAME YOUR OWN PRICE on Gumroad - so if you can't afford it, you can get it for $0.
It took 80 hours to compile data, analysis and reassess to get to the write up and complete on that.
Video playlist on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbEZjBoH6gzl8Mi4d4RQ2nCilj2u9yyz_
VIDEO 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rn7p5DpjZA
VIDEO 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyI6vHYRh4c
VIDEO 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Mdm2HDIZg
To get your copy of Decoding Google's Helpful Content System - https://bit.ly/helpfulcontentsystem
This is the conference I'll be spilling all the beans on the Helpful Content Data and answering as many questions.
Here's a test - please click on this link
American Way Media, INC - SEO Consultant
Confessions of an SEO - On Semrush's Top 10 SEO Podcasts
https://www.semrush.com/blog/seo-podcasts/
Suggest podcast topics on Confessions Hotline - 512-222-3132
Your SEO deals on Tools I use:
Some tools I use and recommend:
Cora Software https://bit.ly/confessionscora
On page analysis tool - use it every day.
GSC Tool - https://bit.ly/gsctool
A chrome extension that helps me with repetitive tasks in search console and has a connector to the Google Indexing API so it doesn't go through 3rd parties.
Ziptie Monitoring Software - https://bit.ly/checkoutziptie
Software than monitors whether Google is serving your content or not.
Rank Week - https://bit.ly/confessionsrankweek
For those who read these things - please click below - it's a short link to the Confessions of An SEO Knowledge Panel - Thank you for your click!
Confessions of An SEO ----------click here to help me with another test.
Interested in supporting this work and any seo testing?
Become a Confessions Supporter for $4.99 or a Confessions Sponsor at $9.99 or higher. Pick your level of support and sponsorship - https://anchor.fm/confe
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