search engine optimization

also referred to as: seo

10 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 4 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Feb 7, 2021 by Kevin Geary · across every show →

Everything said about search engine optimization, oldest first

Feb 7, 2021
Insight
Geary: Local businesses should create hyper-local content rather than broad national articles
“National SEO is very heavy into content marketing because that content marketing has a nationwide or even a global reach. Whereas if I was a small local roofer, I wouldn't be creating as much article based content targeting anybody in the United States. I'd wa…”
Kevin Geary Feb 7, 2021 ▶ 26:58 Why a Gorgeous Website Can't Convert a Soul
Nov 29, 2022
Insight
Winter: Track page 4-6 search impressions to spot early SEO traction
“If you can see that you have more and more visibility in Google, no clicks. I mean, visibility, so fourth, fifth, sixth page of Google, that means you're getting some traction. And this is something that you can see really quickly in just a week or two because…”
Tom Winter Nov 29, 2022 ▶ 10:39 He Called It a Leap of Faith Metric and It Closed Deals Faster
May 28, 2024 negative
Opinion
Gendelman: Hiring a cheap SEO agency was his most expensive mistake
“So hiring this very inexpensive company turned out to be the most expensive mistake I made.”
Vladimir Gendelman May 28, 2024 ▶ 17:15 He Lost 76% of His Traffic and Refused to Let a Single Person Go
Jul 16, 2024 positive
Insight
Merola: Startup blog content serves Google SEO over client personal preferences
“A blog has an SEO piece to it, and a lot of times that's the main primary goal of a blog is just to make sure that we're serving Google, as it relates to SEO, organic SEO rankings. That's real. It's not, we're not writing blog articles for you and making sure …”
Caitlin Merola Jul 16, 2024 ▶ 10:21 She Hit $1M and Tried to Maintain It. Her Soul Would Not Allow It.
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Spahr: Generative engine optimization relies heavily on traditional SEO authority metrics
“GEO takes its cues from SEO, and so search engine optimization has a variety of ways of telling just how authoritative a link is and how meaningful it is, and that's the current way in which we're measuring a lot of the generative engine optimization scores, i…”
Curtis Spahr Aug 26, 2025 ▶ 4:20 Earned Media Is Still King, But Not for the Reason You Think
Sep 26, 2025 positive
Insight
Agobin: Website SEO and YouTube compound value unlike transient social platforms
“So there's certain things and it's like SEO on your website and YouTube. Are the two biggest things that pop out as kind of this evergreen content. And if you think about it as profit per minute, every minute you put into doing amazing YouTube content or amazi…”
Todd Agobin Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 8:01 Poor People Add, Rich People Multiply - Billionaires Do Neither
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Agobin: Repurposing content into 3,000 backlinks boosts domain authority to 60–70
“And over the next year, if you wanted to do this, you could put together 3000 backlinks. Your domain authority on S on on your website, on your SEO, Would go up to 60, 70, and your hits per month will blow up.”
Todd Agobin Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 12:26 Poor People Add, Rich People Multiply - Billionaires Do Neither
Nov 4, 2025 negative
What-if
Archibald: Extreme frugality and avoiding marketing spend hindered agency growth
“We didn't spend anything on a marketing strategy. We didn't spend anything on SEO or PPC or anything like that. It was like bare bones, free tools, super cheap shit, whatever we could do to save the buck. And like, I think that in retrospect, that really is a …”
Jeff Archibald Nov 4, 2025 ▶ 8:36 He Sold His Agency Then Moved to a Mountain Town to Figure Out Who He Was
Mar 24, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Pines: AI Answers Basic Customer Questions, Killing Traditional SEO Traffic
“This was the early days of SEO. Like you had your clients have problems, you answer them and that's how you get traffic. So. It's not working like that anymore because AI can answer that. You don't need a person”
Ben Pines Mar 24, 2026 ▶ 21:11 Your Guests Are Getting Famous From Your Show And You Are Not
Mar 24, 2026 bearish
Opinion
Pines: Keyword-driven SEO content no longer works without real expertise
“And now what is happening, it's going through another shift where all that keyword research, all that SEO oriented, like put content in, get revenue out. It doesn't work anymore. So what does still work is like real expertise, but that's really hard to do.”
Ben Pines Mar 24, 2026 ▶ 19:01 Your Guests Are Getting Famous From Your Show And You Are Not
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