Ash Nallawalla

contd...

I am writing an article about In-house Hiring Practices. Not sure where I will publish it, but my blog and LinkedIn articles are good options. The survey will help to add real-life data and anecdotes.

Hiring Practices for In-House SEO Roles This anonymous survey seeks to understand how businesses of different sizes hire in-house SEO professionals. Your input will help reveal hiring trends across industries. The survey takes ~10-15 minute...

Please fill if applicable, or share my survey with any IN-HOUSE SEO you can find. Former in-house SEOs can also fill it in.

forms.gle/ix8QnF5nMEFr...

Microsoft's LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train AI models Microsoft's LinkedIn has been sued by Premium customers who said the business-focused social media platform disclosed their private messages to third parties without permission to train generative artificial intelligence models.

www.reuters.com/legal/micros...

1. Bombay's history before it became Mumbai
2. Ignorance of the C-Suite about Enterprise SEO
3. Amateur radio
4. New Zealand
5. Australia

Exploring Bad Business Choices and SEO Insights with Ash Nallawalla Today, we have an incredible story that traverses continents, careers, and the evolving digital age. Joining me is Ash Nallawalla, an SEO consultant with an extraor…

A different kind of interview with Jim Banks. Covers some personal history.

www.bdwjb.com/exploring-ba...

Raise the status of SEO within the business - Ash Nallawalla - SEO in 2024 - Majestic Raise the status of SEO within the business - with Ash Nallawalla

My interview with David Bain for SEOin2024 (book) is finally live.

majestic.com/seo-in-2024/...

How to Leave a Slack Workspace - Net Magellan I needed to leave a couple of workspaces (Slack’s official term, although some people might call them a Channel, Group, Community, etc) because the owners were getting a little too enthusiastic in…

www.netmagellan.com/how-to-leave...

Kalicube Knowledge Panels Course Review by Ash Nallawalla - Net Magellan The course is called “Triggering and Managing Knowledge Panels”. I paid full retail for this 12-month expiry course. It is a collection of videos and quizzes to be completed at one’s own pace.

I just published a review of Jason Barnard's course on knowledge panels, which I completed last year.

www.netmagellan.com/kalicube-kno...

I just reviewed my new backpack.

www.netmagellan.com/blackbriar-2...

I have just reported to Amazon two pirated copies of my book that are selling on Amazon using two author names. One is Kindle, the other is paperback.

If you are an author, I encourage you to look for pirated versions of your book by looking for similar descriptive text,

Are we becoming less curious about SEO? There was a time when SEOs loved to second-guess Google algorithms. What happened?

Check out my first article in SEL where I lament the decline in #SEO curiosity and encourage SEOs to resume the practice.

searchengineland.com/becoming-les...

Avoid Mega Menus Why didn't Cyrus Shepard conduct this insightful 50-site study in 2015? My greatest SEO success was in 2010-2015 when I consulted to NAB and Optus, two of Australia's largest household brands. A mega ...

I plug Cyrus Shepard's 50-site study in my article in LI.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/avoid-...

How Google is killing independent sites like ours - HouseFresh And why you shouldn’t trust product reviews from big media publishers ranking at the top of Google.

housefresh.com/david-vs-dig...

The 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 of my book 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗘𝗢 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 is now live on Amazon in the usual Amazon countries, except India, as I have chosen to no longer have a Kindle version.

www.amazon.com/dp/0645523224/

I bet many can relate to this.

Updated my CV.

The people who ruined the internet SEO experts got very rich filling the web full of garbage. But are they to blame or is Google?

Interesting click-bait title. Did we SEOs ruin the internet? 😃

www.theverge.com/features/239...

#1 Organic & No Clicks? Google Ads 2023 SERP Smackdown! As an agency and a business owner, this is frustrating. We have to watch the SERP to understand what the perfect ratio of organic & Google ads in 2023 and beyond.

An excellent article by Will Scott about the state of SEO vis-a-vis Google Ads, particularly in the higher-education sector.

www.searchinfluence.com/blog/google-...

List of 70+ SEO Podcasts - Net Magellan This is possibly the biggest list of SEO podcasts I have found. If you find one missing, please leave a comment with a link to it.

Added to my growing list of podcasts:

www.netmagellan.com/list-of-seo-...

National Blocks Their Own Site From Google Amid Election - Lakeside Digital Search engine optimization (SEO) is a marketing channel many businesses invest in ever year. One of the core foundations of SEO is making sure a website remains easily accessible by search engines lik...

NZ political party had blocked all robots from their website for at least a month.

lakesidedigital.co.nz/election-seo...

What's your engagement success rate on social platforms? Place the best score on top, with a total adding up to 10. If you use more platforms, make it 20. If you use more than 20, words fail me.
Facebook = 4
LinkedIn = 3
Twitter/X = 2
Mastodon = 1
Threads = 0
BlueSky = 0

Debunked: How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet - Net Magellan This is a comment on an article in Wired Magazine by Megan Gray on 2 October 2023. I think the writer has misunderstood how Google Ads work. When you search for "children's clothing"

www.netmagellan.com/debunked-how...

It's 'really the Google web': Microsoft CEO testifies about how hard it is to break into search Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified about competing with Google in digital search during the federal antitrust trial against Google in Washington, D.C.

//It’s ‘really the Google web’: Microsoft CEO testifies about how hard it is to break into search//

www.cnbc.com/2023/10/02/m...

Any opinions about NordVPN? I signed up some weeks ago and usually leave it off. It seems to be used by bad actors.

Latest fashion and light reading from Amazon.

Startup Founders with Their Heads in the Sand SEOs, do you come across business owners with their heads in the sand regarding SEO? I know someone in the US who manufactures an innovative electronic B2B product that he wants to keep a secret. Not ...

I just posted an article about startup founders who pay little or no attention to SEO. Have you seen any such examples?

www.linkedin.com/pulse/startu...

Earn more money from your site with Microsoft - Microsoft Advertising If you’re a small or medium business with big ambitions and looking to make more money from your site and save time, you’ll want to join our waitlist.

Microsoft starts an AdSense-like offering only for the United States.
about.ads.microsoft.com/en-us/h/a/pu...

Twins!! Hey folks, I hope you’re doing well, and wanted to catch you up to speed on some new life happenings. Namely: babies. Two of them at once. Lindsay and I welcomed healthy fraternal twin boys into th�...

Matt Cutts and partner had twins!
www.mattcutts.com/blog/twins/

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 became a "Proposed Recommendation" a few days ago. WCAG 2.1 is still the current one.

www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/