Google Says Hyphenated Domain Names Are Okay For SEO via @sejournal, @martinibuster
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Google says hyphenated domains are OK for SEO, challenging one of SEOs longest-running assumptions.
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What An AI Brand Audit Reveals About Your Locations via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell
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Learn how an AI brand audit can improve your online presence and ensure accurate location information for your customers.
The CMO And CIO Friction Point: Navigating The AI Agent And AEO Ecosystem
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Your CMO and CIO are both talking about AI agents, and solving completely different problems. Here's the gap costing brands revenue.
3,000-page programmatic SEO launch: all indexed in ~2 months, impressions up, clicks lagging — normal?
Reddit: r/bigseo
I’m looking for feedback from people who have actually run programmatic SEO projects, especially on low-authority domains. I launched a programmatic SEO project for a real service business around early March. Basic setup: Existing low-authority 13 year old domain; Ahrefs ... …
Is 180,000 pages in "Crawled currently not indexed" in a 6,000 page website an issue?
Reddit: r/TechSEO
Hey, I thought this was not an issue before but my indexation rate is around 20% and doesn't increase, so now I think this might be an issue. Long story short, I have a 6,000 page games website. Each page has a browser game on it. There are also category pages like "eco... …
Infinite URL loops killing my crawl budget (Real estate site). Need technical SEO advice!
Reddit: r/bigseo
Hey guys, I run a real estate listing site (konutkurdu.com) and I’m facing a severe crawl budget issue. Googlebot is getting stuck in an infinite loop because my pagination and dynamic filters are stacking URLs endlessly (like adding /page/1/page/2... or repeating parame... …
Urgent SEO Help Needed : Japanese Hack URLs Keep Appearing in GSC Even After Cleanup
Reddit: r/TechSEO
I’m dealing with a website that was infected with malware (likely a Japanese SEO spam hack), and I’d really appreciate some advice from anyone who has handled a similar situation. What happened: My site originally had around 59 indexed pages . Suddenly, I noticed Jap... …
🟢 [Ranking] May 2026 core update
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The rollout was complete as of June 2, 2026. `core update`
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6Optimizing For Attention: How Eye Tracking Can Help Your International Strategy via @sejournal, @SequinsNsearch
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Eye tracking reveals what analytics can't: where different markets look first, what they skip, and why your "universal" layout is losing you conversions.
AI Mentions May Not Translate To Trust, New Analysis Suggests via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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Getting your brand into AI-generated answers may not be enough if the narrative isn't believable. A new analysis modeled believability across seven AI platforms.
Organic traffic up, branded & non-branded clicks up, but revenue down — what am I missing?
Reddit: r/bigseo
Hi everyone, thanks in advance for taking the time to read this. I'd really appreciate any insights or advice. I'm trying to understand a strange situation with my B2C ecommerce site, and I'm also fairly new to SEO, so it's possible I'm overlooking something obvious. Over th... …
My website started appearing in both Discover and Google News
Reddit: r/TechSEO
Hello SEO experts, my website (e-Commerce website) started appearing in both Google Discover and Google News. Both have appeared now in Google Search Console. Especially Google News appears special to me since I always thought this was more meant for newspaper ...
How are you accurately tracking LLM/AI search visibility beyond the "Direct" traffic spike?
Reddit: r/TechSEO
i’m trying to set up a reliable way to track our visibility and traffic coming from LLM search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, etc.). Right now, the standard referral data is mostly non-existent, and while we see spikes in Direct traffic, it’s a black box. Th... …
How to decide which AI search prompts to track
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Use this framework to build a focused, high-signal prompt set that shows you where your brand stands in AI search results.
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5Fix Your KPI Blind Spots: How To Finally Tie AI Search To Performance via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell
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Master AI Search measurement techniques and gain visibility into its impact on revenue, beyond traditional click data.
How To Build A Growth Marketing Team On A Startup Budget
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What does a growth marketing team actually cost to build right in 2026? The answer depends entirely on who you hire first.
The AI Convergence Problem
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Shared training data plus shared incentives equals everyone sounding like everyone else. Is your brand the one being averaged out?
9 ways to improve SEO rankings and traffic
SEMrush Blog
Rank in organic search and AI Overviews by improving E-E-A-T and finding low-competition keywords. Here’s how + more strategies. `E-E-A-T` · `AI overview`
SEO guidelines for a niche blog
Reddit: r/SEO
I'm looking for opinions from experienced SEO professionals regarding a niche heritage and history blog. The site contains long-form articles (typically 2,000+ words) focused on historical places, forts, temples, forgotten events, and regional heritage. There are no products... …
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