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- Structure Buys It, Delta Drives it - Season 6, Episode 40 (October 6, 2026)
- Google May Never Announce Another Core Update - Season 6 Ep 39 (September 29, 2026)
- Relieve The Grid, Own The Answers - Season 6, Episode 38 (September 22, 2026)
- The Fork In The Road in Google Indexation (September 15, 2026)
- The Short Term Memory Issue and How It Will Impact Digital Marketing (September 8, 2026)
- The SEO Identity Crisis - Doing The Same Thing Expecting Same Results (September 1, 2026)
- If it's Tuesday, We're In a Core Update - Season 6, Ep 34 (August 25, 2026)
- The Summer of GEO - Season 6, Ep 33 (August 18, 2026)
- Symptom Chasing vs. Single-Variable Testing Deconstructing the Semrush ChatGPT Study (August 11, 2026)
- You've Really Only Got 5 Seconds or You Are Burning Hostload- Season 6, Ep 31 (August 4, 2026)
- GoogleAgent: Google's Secret Agent with a Key - Season 6, Episode 30 (July 28, 2026)
- The Trust Sentinel - Google's Verification Clock Is a Forensic Warning (July 21, 2026)
- Symmetry Before Semantics: Why SEO Meaning Without Proof is a GEO Without Authority - Season 6, Ep 28 (July 14, 2026)
- Treat Google's Crawl Scheduler Like the Active Power Grid It Is - Season 6, Episode 27 (July 7, 2026)
- HouseFresh Reborn? Or Technical Reprieve - Season 6, Ep 26 (June 30, 2026)
- The GEO Paradox - Season 6, Ep 25 (June 23, 2026)
- The Tweak Trap and The Mechanics of Index Volatility - Season 6, Ep 24 (June 16, 2026)
- The Myth of the LLMs.txt file - Confessions S6, Episode 23 (June 9, 2026)
- What AI Models Want And How To Give It To Them (June 2, 2026)
- Structure is the Gatekeeper - Meaning is the Guest (May 26, 2026)
- Passing the Symmetry Gate for AI Visibility - Confessions S6, Episode 20 (May 19, 2026)
- Legacy SEO Practices Are Killing Your AI Visibility - Season 6, Ep 19 (May 12, 2026)
- Confessions S6, ep 18 Why We Need to Write for Machines First (So People CAN Find Us) - Season 6, Episode 18 (May 5, 2026)
- Helpful Content is a Math Problem, Not a Moral One - Season 6, Ep 17 (April 28, 2026)
- The 1% Club - Achieving Gemini Induction in the Age of Compute Tax (April 21, 2026)
- The Energy Economics of AI Answers - Season 6, Episode 15 (April 14, 2026)
- Parsing The Parsing of HTML - Response to SOTR (#105) - Season 6, Ep, 14 (April 7, 2026)
- The Next Evolution of Indexing - Season 6, Episode 13 (March 31, 2026)
- How To Make Your Content A Magnet for AI Citation - Season 6, Ep 12 (March 24, 2026)
- IP Laundering How Google Built an Answer Monopoly by Seizing YOUR Content (March 17, 2026)
- You Had the Authority All Along: Backlink Truths - Season 6, Ep. 10 (March 10, 2026)
- Is Google Cracking Down on AI Content- Season 6, Ep 9 (March 3, 2026)
- The Code is more like Guidelines Than Actual Rules - Confessions S6, Episode 8 (February 24, 2026)
- Bot Crawl Space and Time - Season 6, Episode 7 (February 17, 2026)
- The Mystical Listicle Is It Really Endangered in Google? - Season 6, Episode 6 (February 10, 2026)
- Crawled Not Indexed Solved - Season 6, Episode 5 (February 3, 2026)
- LLMs Don't Rank Sites - They Synthesize Trust (January 27, 2026)
- Too Many Tags On The Dance Floor - Season 6, Episode 3 (January 20, 2026)
- Blow Chunks in SEO - Season 6, Episode 2 (January 13, 2026)
- Horizontal Content Analysis Brings LLM Insight - Season 6, Episode 1 (January 6, 2026)
- Helpful Content Analysis Tool - Vizzex - Season 5, Episode 51 (December 30, 2025)
- A few of my favorite things in 2025 - Season 5, Ep 50 (December 23, 2025)
- A Good Kind of Sticker Shock - Season 5, Ep 49 (December 9, 2025)
- Written in the Logs: GoogleOther's Gemini Alignment - Season 5, Ep 48 (December 2, 2025)
- Vector Embedding for $2025 Alec! - Season 5, Episode 47 (November 25, 2025)
- Breathing Through the Noise - Season 5, Episode 46 (November 18, 2025)
- SEO vs GEO vs AIO equals IR Information Retrieval - Season 5, Ep 45 (November 11, 2025)
- The Halloween Google Update That Never Was - Season 5, Episode 44 (November 4, 2025)
- Topical Cohesion Is Designed — Topical Authority is different - Season 5, Ep 43 (October 28, 2025)
- Let the Games Begin - Season 5, Ep 42 (October 21, 2025)
- How Much Did That Content Really Cost? - Season 5, episode 41 (October 14, 2025)
- Duplicate Content Works Until It Doesn't - Season 5, Episode 40 (October 7, 2025)
- Monopoly Bingo - Season 5, Episode 39 (September 30, 2025)
- I'll Do It My Way - Season 5, Episode 38 (September 23, 2025)
- Happy 4th Birthday Crawl or No Crawl - Season 5, Episode 37 (September 16, 2025)
- Google Retains Custody of Chrome - Season 5, ep 36 (September 9, 2025)
- The Google Crawler Crisis of August 2025 - Season 5, Ep 35 (September 2, 2025)
- Is Mo Content Mo Better? Season 5, Episode 34 (August 26, 2025)
- AI SEO Confession - Season 5, Ep. 33 (August 19, 2025)
- Born In An Oven Does Not A Muffin Make - Season 5, Episode 32 (August 12, 2025)
- Pivoting Is Awareness Season 5, Episode 31 (August 5, 2025)
- NAVER what it seems - Google's Latest Crawler (July 29, 2025)
- Hreflang - International Tag of Mystery - Season 5, Episode 29 (July 22, 2025)
- How Google "Fixed" Their Biggest Asset (And Made You Do All The Work) (July 15, 2025)
- Google Core Update June 2025: Don't Be Afraid, Publish Now - Season 5, Ep. 27 (July 8, 2025)
- Every Tool Is A Weapon IF You Hold It Properly - Season 5, Episode 26 (July 1, 2025)
- The Fatal Flaw in Your Correlational Ranking Data - Season 5, Ep 25 (June 24, 2025)
- The Power Paradox - The AI Energy Crossroads (June 17, 2025)
- I'm Kind of A Big Deal - Season 5, Episode 23 (June 10, 2025)
- What's Mine is Mine - Season 5 Episode 22 (June 3, 2025)
- The DEMISE of DMARGE - Season 5, Epi. 21 (May 27, 2025)
- Google Agrees With Me About TOC Links - Season 5, Ep 20 (May 20, 2025)
- Top SEO Podcast on Semrush's Must Listen List - Season 4, Episode 2 (January 16, 2024)
- Testing A Testing Protocol For Indexers (May 14, 2025)
- Ain't Hard To Follow 1000 Cows - Season 5, Episode 19 (May 13, 2025)
- First to Crawl, Chance to Index - Meet GoogleOther (May 6, 2025)
- Accidental Indexing Momentum: From 1 page indexed to 57 in 3 days (April 29, 2025)
- SERP Inversion - Season 5 Episode 16 (April 22, 2025)
- Just EEAT it! (April 1, 2025)
- Indexers Gotta Index, right? (April 15, 2025)
- Is this the Golden Age or Gilded Age of AI (April 8, 2025)
- The March Core Update of 2025 is Over! (March 25, 2025)
- March 2025 Core Update and Indexing API (March 18, 2025)
- What 16 Million Pages Can Say Part 2 (March 11, 2025)
- What 16 Million Pages Can Say Part 1 (March 4, 2025)
- Trad Keyword Research Failing Us (February 25, 2025)
- Anchor Links OK But Not All Are - Season 5, Episode 7 (February 18, 2025)
- Content Over the Threshold - Season 5, Episode 6 (February 11, 2025)
- Healthy Relationship Between Site and Search - Season 5, Episode 5 (February 4, 2025)
- Scale Ruins Some Things - Season 5, Episode 4 (January 28, 2025)
- Helpful Content - Patent or SERPS? Season 5, Episode 3 (January 21, 2025)
- Schema Screaming - Season 5, Episode 2 (January 14, 2025)
- SEO Expertise and Lack of Awareness - Season 5, Episode 1 (January 7, 2025)
- Final Episode - Happy New Year's Eve - Season 4, Episode 50 (December 31, 2024)
- An SEO Christmas Eve - Season 4, Episode 49 (December 24, 2024)
- SEO Testing - A Reality Check - S4, Episode 48 (December 17, 2024)
- The Journey is as important as the SEO destination - Episode 47, Season 4 (December 10, 2024)
- Helpful Content in all the wrong places - Season 4, Episode 46 (December 3, 2024)
- Results on Helpful Content Classifier Testing Does HC read? - Season 4, Episode 45 (November 26, 2024)
- Over the Shoulder Launch into An Update - Season 4, Episode 44 (November 19, 2024)
- November Core Update, Really Google? Season 4, Episode 43 (November 12, 2024)
- Helpful Content System Does Not Read Content - Season 4, Episode 42 (November 5, 2024)
- I'm Your Huckleberry - Test to know if Helpful Content System Actually Reads - Season 4, Episode 41 (October 29, 2024)
- Does Helpful Content System READ content? - S4, Episode 40 (October 22, 2024)
- Hitting Google Like a Hurricane, Season 4, Episode 39 (October 15, 2024)
- No Such Thing As Helpful Content - S4, Episode 38 (October 8, 2024)
- Forbes is the new Reddit - Season 4, Episode 37 (October 1, 2024)
- Site Reputation Abuse Enforced Manually - Why? (September 24, 2024)
- Walking on Sunshine - Season 4, Episode 35 (September 17, 2024)
- Getting Stung By Your SEO Company - Season 4, Episode 34 (September 10, 2024)
- One Rule To Wring Them All - Season 4, Episode 33 (September 3, 2024)
- ReBroadcast - WOW! All the Blue Socks - Google Parameter Tool Gone (August 27, 2024)
- Spontaneous Something - August Core Update - Confessions Season 4, Episode 32 (August 20, 2024)
- Googlebot Worthy - Season 4, Episode 31 (August 13, 2024)
- The Mystery of the Negative SEO Canonical (August 6, 2024)
- The SEO Struggle Bus - Season 4, Episode 29 (July 30, 2024)
- Get Curious - Season 4, Episode 28 (July 23, 2024)
- Schadenfreude SEO - Season 4, Episode 27 (July 16, 2024)
- Buying IS Hard, Season 4, Episode 26 (July 9, 2024)
- Eye For An Eye SEO - Season 4, Episode 25 (July 2, 2024)
- Fast Food SEO Season 4, Episode 24 (June 25, 2024)
- What Happened in Kelowna Definitely Won't Stay in Kelowna - Season 4, Episode 23 (June 18, 2024)
- What's Canonical Got To Do With It? Season 4, Episode 22 (June 4, 2024)
- Short But Sweet - Season 4, Episode 21 (May 28, 2024)
- No Click Customers May Be The Future - Season 4, Episode 20 (May 21, 2024)
- Site Reputation Abuse Update - Who's Zooming Who? - Season 4, Episode 19 (May 14, 2024)
- Line Between Curiosity and Doubt - Season 4, Episode 18 (May 7, 2024)
- 3 Stages of Truth - Season 4, Episode 17 (April 30, 2024)
- Google Word Soup - Season 4, Episode 16 (April 23, 2024)
- The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Man Often Go Awry Season 4, Episode 15 (April 16, 2024)
- Fetch Worthy Content - Season 4, Episode 14 (April 9, 2024)
- Helpful Content - Invisible Ships - Season 4, Episode 13 (April 2, 2024)
- Helpful Content Palaver - Season 4, Episode 12 (March 26, 2024)
- Seemly Random - Helpful Content System - Season 4, Episode 11 (March 19, 2024)
- Go Fish Yourself - Season 4, Episode 10 (March 12, 2024)
- House Fresh Response: We're on a Mission from Gad - Season 4, Episode 9 (March 5, 2024)
- Is Google Killing Independent Sites - Season 4, Episode 8 (February 27, 2024)
- Forced Indexing, Season 4, Episode 7 (February 20, 2024)
- Tools of The Trade - Season 4, Episode 6 (February 13, 2024)
- The Emperor Has No Measurements - Season 4, Ep 5 (February 6, 2024)
- Can They Really Do That? - Season 4, Episode 4 (January 30, 2024)
- The AI Conversation We Have to Have - Season 4, Episode 3 (January 23, 2024)
- Deadly Passion, Terrible Joy Season 4 Episode 1 (January 9, 2024)
- No One Is An Island Unto Themselves - Season 3 Episode 31 (December 27, 2023)
- Paying It Forward in SEO - Season 3, Episode 30 (December 19, 2023)
- Bright Shiny New SEO People (December 12, 2023)
- Confessions - Different Day, Same Bot Time, Same Bot Channel (December 5, 2023)
- Notes From Nineveh (November 17, 2023)
- You Can't Handle The Truth S3 Episode 26 (October 27, 2023)
- Google and The Update - Season 3, Episode 25 (October 13, 2023)
- WWJD Confessions of an SEO - Season 3 Episode 24 (September 15, 2023)
- Just Say Scariest Environment - Season 3, Episode 23 (September 9, 2023)
- Happy Birthday & Happy Update (September 1, 2023)
- Code of Ethics in SEO - Season 3, Episode 21 (July 21, 2023)
- Helpful Content Update and Visitor Expectations - S3 Episode 20 (June 30, 2023)
- Summer Time - Season 3, Episode 19 (June 9, 2023)
- Penny Wise Pound Foolish (June 2, 2023)
- Greater Expectations (My Own) - Season 3, Episode 17 (April 28, 2023)
- Great Expectations - Season 3, episode 16 (April 21, 2023)
- The Being and the Doing of SEO - Season 3, Episode 15 (April 16, 2023)
- Are We There Yet? The End of an Update - Season 3, Episode 14 (April 7, 2023)
- After The Update, Season 3, Episode 13 (March 31, 2023)
- Google March Core Update is Over & little MC4 - Season 3, Episode 12 (March 24, 2023)
- Google March Core Update and Me - Season 3, Episode 11 (March 17, 2023)
- Keeping Up With Myself - Season 3, Episode 10 (March 10, 2023)
- I'm Claiming My Time Back - Season 3, Episode 9 (March 3, 2023)
- Strategy Optional? Season 3 - Episode 8 (February 24, 2023)
- No Serve For You! - Season 3, Episode 7 (February 17, 2023)
- Episode 5 and 6 - SEO Survivor - Season 3 (February 10, 2023)
- Nerd Logs - Season 3, Episode 4 (January 27, 2023)
- Indexation. Indignation. Season 3, Episode 3 (January 20, 2023)
- FOMO Free Zone - Season 3, Episode 2 (January 13, 2023)
- Are You With Me - Season 3, Ep 1 (January 6, 2023)
- New Year's Edition 2022 - Season 2, Episode 52 (December 30, 2022)
- Rethinking SEO - Season 2, Episode 51 (December 23, 2022)
- Google Search Status Dashboard - Season 2, Episode 50 (December 16, 2022)
- By The Numbers, Season 2, Episode 48 (December 2, 2022)
- The Dark Arts of SEO, Season 2, Episode 47 (November 27, 2022)
- SEO testing is my Parrot - Season 2, Episode 46 (November 18, 2022)
- Where Have You Been? Season 2, Episode 45 (November 11, 2022)
- The Thorny Path - Season 2 Episode 44 (November 4, 2022)
- What Fresh SEO Hell Is THIS? Season 2, Episode 43 (October 28, 2022)
- My Advice To "Early SEO" Carolyn - Season 2 Episode 42 (October 21, 2022)
- Is The Grass Greener? Confessions of an SEO - Season 2, Episode 41 (October 14, 2022)
- Evolution of SEO Testers (October 7, 2022)
- Season 2, Ep 39 - What a Sham(e) (September 30, 2022)
- S2, Episode 38 - Q4: Buckle Up Buttercup (September 23, 2022)
- S2, Ep 37 - The Telling of The Bees (September 16, 2022)
- Season 2, Ep 36 Success Disguised As Failure (September 9, 2022)
- S2, Ep 35 - The Update on the Update (September 2, 2022)
- S2, Ep34 Indexation Research - The Gift That Keeps On Giving (August 27, 2022)
- Season 2 - Ep. 33 - TL:DR - Too Long Didn't Read (August 19, 2022)
- Season 2, Ep 32 - Talking Up A Storm (August 12, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 31 Flirting With Madness (August 5, 2022)
- Season 2, Ep 30 SEO Success Status Code (July 29, 2022)
- Season 2, EP 29 - My SEO Client Win (July 22, 2022)
- S2, Ep 28 - A Little Venting and a Mobile Challenge (July 15, 2022)
- S2 - Ep 27 - How Do You Know Your SEO is Working? (July 8, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 26 - Mind Your OWN Business (July 1, 2022)
- Summer of Mobile OnPage & Upcoming Topics (June 24, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 24 Something Mobile This Way Comes (June 17, 2022)
- Season 2, Ep 23 - Everyone! Back into the Pool! (June 10, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 22 - One Week Into Google May Core Update (June 3, 2022)
- Season 2, Ep 21 - Google May Update, or bot... (May 27, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 20 - Part Kentucky Windage (May 20, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 19 - The 2% Solution (May 13, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 18 - Serp-Certified (May 6, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 17 Testing, Testing, 1..2..3... (April 29, 2022)
- Season 2, Ep 16 - Expectations Managed (April 22, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 15 - WOW! Its All The Blue Socks - Google URL Parameter Tool (April 15, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 14 - Turtles All The Way Down (April 8, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 13 - SEO Mythology Talk (April 1, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 12 - Call Me Ishmael (March 25, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 11 - Did You Get Indexed (March 18, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 10 - SEO on the Brain (March 11, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 9 - When Helping Hurts (March 4, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 8 - What I did Last Summer (February 25, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 7- SEO Testing is Dead, Long Live SEO Testing (February 18, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 6 - Lost In Search (February 11, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 5 - When Nothing Means Something (February 4, 2022)
- Season 2 Episode 4 - SEOs Use Their Words When They Fight (January 28, 2022)
- Season 2, Episode 3 Getting Emotionally Attached To Your Keyword? (January 21, 2022)
- Season 2 - Episode 2 - There's No Hyphen in Micromanager (January 14, 2022)
- Episode 54 Season 2 - Ep 1 - Indexation Liberation (January 7, 2022)
- Episode 53 - Countdown to 2022 (December 31, 2021)
- Episode 52 2021 Holiday Edition (December 24, 2021)
- Episode 51 Dear Google, This is a Mess (December 17, 2021)
- Episode 50 - Keep Calm and WTH is Happening With Indexation? (December 10, 2021)
- Episode 49 - Survey Says (December 3, 2021)
- Episode 48 - Shop 'Til You Drop AKA Google's November Update (November 26, 2021)
- Episode 47 - The Rebound SEO Agency (November 19, 2021)
- Episode 46 I Love Stupid SEO Ideas (November 12, 2021)
- Episode 45 - When to Say No to SEO (November 5, 2021)
- Episode 44 - Halloween Google 2021 Indexation Style (October 29, 2021)
- Episode 43 Fantasy SEO (October 22, 2021)
- Episode 42 Where Do You Go When You Have SEO Questions (October 15, 2021)
- Episode 41 - Show and Tell (October 8, 2021)
- Episode 40 Core Web Vitals...Field Evidence (October 1, 2021)
- Episode 39 Testing vs Testing (September 24, 2021)
- Episode 38 Newly Discovered SEO KPIs (September 17, 2021)
- Episode 37 Who Do You Believe, Google or Your Lying Eyes (September 10, 2021)
- Episode 36 What to Do Before Hiring an SEO Company (September 3, 2021)
- Episode 35 - Organic Raspberry Confidence (August 27, 2021)
- Episode 34 Indexed Not Found (August 20, 2021)
- Episode 33 - The Case of The Curious SEO Proposal (August 13, 2021)
- Episode 32 - SEO Projects Updates and Testing (August 6, 2021)
- Episode 31 - SEO Bits and Bobs (July 30, 2021)
- Episode 30 - State of Voice Search July Update (July 23, 2021)
- Episode 29 - Will Artificial Intelligence Kill SEO? (July 16, 2021)
- Episode 28 The Summer of Updates (July 9, 2021)
- Episode 27 - This Isn't Your Dad's SEO Anymore (July 2, 2021)
- Episode 26 - My SEO Pet Peeves (June 25, 2021)
- Episode 25 - Voice SEO (June 18, 2021)
- Episode 24 - CSI SEO (June 11, 2021)
- Episode 23 - Super Chill Core SEO (June 4, 2021)
- Episode 22 - What a RELIEF!!! (May 28, 2021)
- Episode 21 - Summer SEO Topics (May 21, 2021)
- Episode 20 - V is for Volatile - Part 2 (May 14, 2021)
- Episode 19 - V is for Volatile - Part 1 (May 7, 2021)
- Episode 18 - Play Hard Ball SEO Side (April 30, 2021)
- Episode 17 - Playing Hard Ball - Client Side (April 23, 2021)
- Episode 16 - What if I knew then what I do now (April 16, 2021)
- Episode 15 - Hiring an SEO Company (April 9, 2021)
- Episode 14 - What's Your Superpower? (April 2, 2021)
- Episode 13 - Google Updates - Personal and Public (March 26, 2021)
- Episode 12 - Part 2 of SEO Packages???? (March 19, 2021)
- Episode 11 Part 1 - Packages? We Don't Need No Packages! (March 12, 2021)
- Episode 10 Where do keywords come from? (March 5, 2021)
- Episode 9 - SEO Fairy Tales and Other Stories (February 26, 2021)
- Episode 8 - What is SEO Testing? (February 19, 2021)
- Episode 7 - When A Person Only Has a Hammer (February 18, 2021)
- Episode 6 Freshman Orientation - What The Hell Is Going On? (February 5, 2021)
- Episode 5 - My First SEO Client (January 29, 2021)
- Episode 4 - It's OK to Reinvent Yourself (January 22, 2021)
- Episode 3 - The Conundrum (January 15, 2021)
- Episode 2 - Why I Dislike Working with SEO Clients (January 8, 2021)
- Episode 1 - Why Do I Love being an SEO? (January 1, 2021)
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