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Neil McCarthy

@goodnessneil

Consultant SEO et Inbound Marketing Goodness (France)

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Problem with the link?

09.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Updates for Google, ChatGPT and Bing, but is the web dead? - SEO News February 2026 Important news in February 2026: the web is not dead! Far from it. 2026 may even be the best year for small, authentic websites to get traffic compared to any previous year in the web’s short history.

Oh no! Now the web is dead too. www.seopress.org/newsroom/seo...

05.03.2026 18:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Its nice that you didn't throw @dannysullivan.bsky.social under the bus here. By my calculation, he talked so much in episode 102 that it became two episodes

02.03.2026 13:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What happened to episode 105? @johnmu.com @methode.bsky.social @divingfor.fun

28.02.2026 22:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

It depends

23.02.2026 16:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But did you get the heads up about John's post from Mark or were you already on it ?

23.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd be interested to know whether @rustybrick.com saw this before you or not. My experience is that he always gets there first (he says arriving 20 days late to the post)

23.02.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve long said this about Looker Studio dashboards vs manually compiled dashboards in Excel. I prefer the latter because, despite itβ€˜s name, people tend not to looker at automatically generated ones

21.02.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A Liar's Autobiography: Volume VI Graham Chapman reveals what it was like to be part of t…

Those following the thread might be interested by the story of this happening from the doctors point of view. One of the many stories in Graham Chapman’s (Monty Python) bookhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/486453.A_Liar_s_Autobiography

02.02.2026 06:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Second chance to catch my 2026 predictions for Google and SEO live. This time at #Pau #BΓ©arn

19.01.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Early signs are that OpenAI hasn’t enough about what advertisers want (control and reporting on subjects where ads are shown). I think that they should consider becoming Google Ad Search partners and save themselves a lot of hassle

18.01.2026 15:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

if drinking was an Olympic Sport, you could drink for Ireland!

27.11.2025 07:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely way better than Google Alerts!

21.11.2025 17:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Google have been trying hard to win this for a few years!

24.10.2025 06:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Title: Black Hat AI Manipulation: it’s so f*cking simple (no B-S from Alan Cladx)
Title: Black Hat AI Manipulation: it’s so f*cking simple (no B-S from Alan Cladx) YouTube video by Odys Global

@lilyray.nyc you should watch this to get a glimpse of black hat AI manipulation youtu.be/9Lu6CzAM9zY?...

02.08.2025 08:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Tu as fait une photo after ? Ou tu ne veux pas montrer les lignes jaunes πŸ˜€

14.06.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

By not launching it in France

21.05.2025 11:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just to update on this, @johnmu.com very kindly looked into this and solved it for me. The French belgian pages were showing up on a URL without "www". As an example HREFLANG referenced www.mysite.be but the site also existed (and was indexed) as mysite.be
My faith in HREFLANG is restored ;-)

21.05.2025 07:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's not a problem with 0 results. Pages from .fr domain are showing first, then pages from the .be domain. Ideally we don't want French users seeing the Belgian site in Google and HRFLANG has prevented this happening in the past. It may be specific to this one site. I'll check.

09.05.2025 10:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hey @johnmu.com, is Google ignoring HREFLANG instructions? For an international client I am seeing links to French belgian pages showing up in searches from France with this explination. HREFLANG indicates that these pages are for fr-be audience only. Any similar experiences @aleyda.bsky.social ?

09.05.2025 05:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google happy with AI results but studies show reasons not the be cheerful - Google News April 2025 Although Google is visibly proud of new AI features in search results, studies released in April 2025 are showing that the direct impact is less traffic for sites

Good Google SEO News roundup from last month www.seopress.org/newsroom/seo...

04.05.2025 09:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is worth noting that Google hasn’t identified as a search engine for a long time. It calls itself an answer engine.

24.03.2025 12:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

But I though the old acronym was deadπŸ€”πŸ˜‰

24.03.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Work or personal? Or both?

05.03.2025 11:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Great job on that article. Enriching and inspiring

07.02.2025 07:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Half a Million Dollars in Annual Recurring Revenue - 2024 Review - SEOPress The time has come for our traditional end-of-year review. Our best year thus far! $500,000 in annual recurring revenue (ARR) crossed πŸŽ‰ (+100K compare to last year) The milestone of $2 million in cumul...

Similar product, SEOPress says €500K recurring annual revenues. www.seopress.org/newsroom/fea...

07.02.2025 07:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So 7 months old :-/ Although in my capture they have taken the site name out of the grey background.

22.01.2025 18:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Google SERP with new favicon

Google SERP with new favicon

Hey @rustybrick.com something funny going on with favicons in Google SERPs. Rounded an placed on grey background. Is this new?

22.01.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Unfortunately mine won’t be out until January 8th. But it will be my 15th year of Google Search predictions.

18.12.2024 12:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Be nice if Bing would put the site name in the object of the mail they just sent from Webmaster reports. Where to begin ?

17.12.2024 07:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0