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
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…”
Nov 29, 2022
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…”
May 28, 2024 negative
Jul 16, 2024 positive
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 …”
Aug 26, 2025 neutral
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…”
Sep 26, 2025 positive
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…”
Sep 26, 2025 bullish
Nov 4, 2025 negative
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 …”
Mar 24, 2026 bearish
Mar 24, 2026 bearish
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.”