Charles Meaden
@charlesmeaden.bsky.social
Uber curious about all things SEO, data analytics and user experience. Brighton SEO speaker - also keen cook and dabbler in the kitchen
Todays rather lovely surprise, getting tagged by in the Google Search Central news for my BrightonSEO talk on Lessons Learnt From Crawling 1000's of websites
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Todays rather lovely surprise, getting tagged by in the Google Search Central news for my BrightonSEO talk on Lessons Learnt From Crawling 1000's of websites
Last Thursday, I gave my second #BrightonSEO talk - "Lessons Learnt from Crawling 1000+ websites" where I shared 12 useful lessons learnt from my success and failures crawling 1000's of web sites over the last 30 years
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Lessons Learnt from Crawling 1000+ Websites
First presented at BrightonSEO October 2025, this deck contains 12 important lessons for crawling websites based on our success and failures over the la…
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October 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Last Thursday, I gave my second #BrightonSEO talk - "Lessons Learnt from Crawling 1000+ websites" where I shared 12 useful lessons learnt from my success and failures crawling 1000's of web sites over the last 30 years
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@runbox.bsky.social any chance you could use this channel to update this on why your having downtime
As you don't update your website, the lack of information is frustrating
As you don't update your website, the lack of information is frustrating
August 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
@runbox.bsky.social any chance you could use this channel to update this on why your having downtime
As you don't update your website, the lack of information is frustrating
As you don't update your website, the lack of information is frustrating
In really no surprise to anyone, the latest research from the respected Pew Institute directly contradicts Google claims that AI Overviews have increased search usage
Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results
In a March 2025 analysis, Google users who encountered an AI summary were less likely to click on links to other websites than users who did not see one.
www.pewresearch.org
July 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
In really no surprise to anyone, the latest research from the respected Pew Institute directly contradicts Google claims that AI Overviews have increased search usage
Every so often you come across those WTF moments where agencies do the really bare minimum
Today was the agency who didn't install the tracking tags for the Adwords campaign, but instead gets the client to send an Excel sheet with the times & dates of the enquiries to cross match
Today was the agency who didn't install the tracking tags for the Adwords campaign, but instead gets the client to send an Excel sheet with the times & dates of the enquiries to cross match
April 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Every so often you come across those WTF moments where agencies do the really bare minimum
Today was the agency who didn't install the tracking tags for the Adwords campaign, but instead gets the client to send an Excel sheet with the times & dates of the enquiries to cross match
Today was the agency who didn't install the tracking tags for the Adwords campaign, but instead gets the client to send an Excel sheet with the times & dates of the enquiries to cross match
My Brighton SEO talk from last year "Scraping the SERPs using off the shelf tools to find SEO gold" has been finally released on YouTube
If you're going to BrightonSEO, look forward to seeing you there
youtu.be/Wa3KuzwUK9k?...
If you're going to BrightonSEO, look forward to seeing you there
youtu.be/Wa3KuzwUK9k?...
SERP-mining with off the shelf tools to find SEO gold - Charles Meaden - brightonSEO October 2024
YouTube video by brightonSEO
youtu.be
April 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
My Brighton SEO talk from last year "Scraping the SERPs using off the shelf tools to find SEO gold" has been finally released on YouTube
If you're going to BrightonSEO, look forward to seeing you there
youtu.be/Wa3KuzwUK9k?...
If you're going to BrightonSEO, look forward to seeing you there
youtu.be/Wa3KuzwUK9k?...
Reposted by Charles Meaden
OK, stop and read this article. Very important for anyone involved in Search -> A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major updates like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT
#google #ai #seo
#google #ai #seo
Google Is Searching for an Answer to ChatGPT
Big changes are underway for the internet’s most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
www.bloomberg.com
March 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Perhaps agencies shouldn't start a pitch with tell us if we are bullsh**ing and then do that
March 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Perhaps agencies shouldn't start a pitch with tell us if we are bullsh**ing and then do that
Handy visualisation tool from Google to visualise CRUX data at a domain and page level
cruxvis.withgoogle.com
As well as the top level scores, you get the elements that make the scores
cruxvis.withgoogle.com
As well as the top level scores, you get the elements that make the scores
CrUX Vis
CrUX Vis is an experiment by the Chrome team to help you explore the Chrome User Experiment Report data with visualizations and helpful links to articles, for a particular web page or origin.
cruxvis.withgoogle.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Handy visualisation tool from Google to visualise CRUX data at a domain and page level
cruxvis.withgoogle.com
As well as the top level scores, you get the elements that make the scores
cruxvis.withgoogle.com
As well as the top level scores, you get the elements that make the scores
Nicely summarises how to spot the many cowboys and snake oil SEO agencies
Have you ever been quoted £15,000 a month for SEO services and wondered what the bloody hell you’re actually paying for? You’re not alone. The SEO industry is crawling with chancers promising the earth and delivering so...
The Small Business Guide To Not Getting Ripped Off By SEO "Experts"
Have you ever been quoted £15,000 a month for SEO services and wondered what the bloody hell you're actually paying for? You're not alone. The SEO industry is
m.mtrbio.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Nicely summarises how to spot the many cowboys and snake oil SEO agencies
A great thread that nicely sums up how LLMs can help increase your skills and knowledge
If you're a practitioner—consultant, freelance, agency, or in-house—the phrase "system builder" might interest you (thanks to Kevin Indig for the term I'd been seeking for ages)
The idea is that LLMs enable practitioners to be effective beyond their original (and perhaps limited) skill sets
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The idea is that LLMs enable practitioners to be effective beyond their original (and perhaps limited) skill sets
🧵 1/9
February 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A great thread that nicely sums up how LLMs can help increase your skills and knowledge
This gives a glimpse of just how much Meta cares about data privacy
Djeez, it really is the Wild Wild West.....torrenting from corporate laptops to gather training data....oh dear. And 82TB is a lot of written content... www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
Did they think they could get away with it?
www.tomshardware.com
February 11, 2025 at 1:51 PM
This gives a glimpse of just how much Meta cares about data privacy
Using Enhanced Measurement in GA4 to track calls on phone numbers and email addresses. Google quietly removed that functionality in November
You still can and should be creating custom events for things like this
Hat tip to Steen Rasmussen for flagging this
www.linkedin.com/in/steenrasm...
You still can and should be creating custom events for things like this
Hat tip to Steen Rasmussen for flagging this
www.linkedin.com/in/steenrasm...
January 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Using Enhanced Measurement in GA4 to track calls on phone numbers and email addresses. Google quietly removed that functionality in November
You still can and should be creating custom events for things like this
Hat tip to Steen Rasmussen for flagging this
www.linkedin.com/in/steenrasm...
You still can and should be creating custom events for things like this
Hat tip to Steen Rasmussen for flagging this
www.linkedin.com/in/steenrasm...
If you're not scraping the search results are you sure you really know who your competitors are.
Our recent scrape of 6,500 results for a competitor audit, made our client change the minds about who they really were competing against
Our recent scrape of 6,500 results for a competitor audit, made our client change the minds about who they really were competing against
January 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
If you're not scraping the search results are you sure you really know who your competitors are.
Our recent scrape of 6,500 results for a competitor audit, made our client change the minds about who they really were competing against
Our recent scrape of 6,500 results for a competitor audit, made our client change the minds about who they really were competing against
Another of those incredibly useful features I didn't know was there
Little tip - You can right click and ‘Show Link In Browser’ and ‘Show Link in HTML’ in both the Inlinks and Outlinks tabs to make it more efficient to find specific links.
January 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Another of those incredibly useful features I didn't know was there
Todays handy hint
Waybackmachine also stores copies of a robots.txt
Helps solved a client issue to determine exactly when a certain resource was blocked
Waybackmachine also stores copies of a robots.txt
Helps solved a client issue to determine exactly when a certain resource was blocked
January 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Todays handy hint
Waybackmachine also stores copies of a robots.txt
Helps solved a client issue to determine exactly when a certain resource was blocked
Waybackmachine also stores copies of a robots.txt
Helps solved a client issue to determine exactly when a certain resource was blocked
If you watch just one SEO talk this festive season make sure its this one from @markwilliamscook.com
Simply the most useful talk I've seen all year
youtu.be/_AQ9UDqES80?...
Simply the most useful talk I've seen all year
youtu.be/_AQ9UDqES80?...
Improving your SEO with conceptual models - Mark Williams-Cook
YouTube video by SearchNorwich
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December 18, 2024 at 6:46 AM
If you watch just one SEO talk this festive season make sure its this one from @markwilliamscook.com
Simply the most useful talk I've seen all year
youtu.be/_AQ9UDqES80?...
Simply the most useful talk I've seen all year
youtu.be/_AQ9UDqES80?...
Anyone else seeing these "new" Product Site carousels in the Google SERPs
This was Nike Water bottles and seems to be dominated by the PriceSpy
www.google.co.uk/search?q=nik...
This was Nike Water bottles and seems to be dominated by the PriceSpy
www.google.co.uk/search?q=nik...
December 11, 2024 at 11:17 AM
Anyone else seeing these "new" Product Site carousels in the Google SERPs
This was Nike Water bottles and seems to be dominated by the PriceSpy
www.google.co.uk/search?q=nik...
This was Nike Water bottles and seems to be dominated by the PriceSpy
www.google.co.uk/search?q=nik...
To check how many searches Google Search Console is not showing to you, take the figure you're first shown and then apply this filter
Divide the second figure by the first to find out what % of queries are anonymised
Divide the second figure by the first to find out what % of queries are anonymised
December 6, 2024 at 6:00 PM
To check how many searches Google Search Console is not showing to you, take the figure you're first shown and then apply this filter
Divide the second figure by the first to find out what % of queries are anonymised
Divide the second figure by the first to find out what % of queries are anonymised
If only all CAPTCHAs were this easy
Excellent example from Conversion Hotel 24
From Andras Kobza
Excellent example from Conversion Hotel 24
From Andras Kobza
November 23, 2024 at 11:22 AM
If only all CAPTCHAs were this easy
Excellent example from Conversion Hotel 24
From Andras Kobza
Excellent example from Conversion Hotel 24
From Andras Kobza
Great article from @glenngabe.bsky.social on Googles site level classifiers
Also worth following @markwilliamscook.com for his posts on this
www.gsqi.com/marketing-bl...
Also worth following @markwilliamscook.com for his posts on this
www.gsqi.com/marketing-bl...
Documenting Google’s site-level evaluation and impact on search rankings using the ‘Gabeback Machine’ [Googler Quotes, Videos, Documentation and more]
Glenn Gabe explains Google's site-level evaluation and impact on search rankings based on documenting Googler quotes, videos, and documentation from over the years.
www.gsqi.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Great article from @glenngabe.bsky.social on Googles site level classifiers
Also worth following @markwilliamscook.com for his posts on this
www.gsqi.com/marketing-bl...
Also worth following @markwilliamscook.com for his posts on this
www.gsqi.com/marketing-bl...
Excellent talk from Katarina Dahlin on using ChatGPT, Make and Google sheets to optimise product descriptions.
Hat tip tp @hellemans.me for sharing
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Hat tip tp @hellemans.me for sharing
speakerdeck.com/katarinadahl...
How to Optimise 3,500 Product Descriptions for eCommerce in One Day Using ChatGPT & Make
My talk at Marketing Business Summit in Milan 17. November 2024 on 'How to Optimise 3,500 Product Descriptions for eCommerce in One Day Using ChatGPT & Make'.
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November 19, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Excellent talk from Katarina Dahlin on using ChatGPT, Make and Google sheets to optimise product descriptions.
Hat tip tp @hellemans.me for sharing
speakerdeck.com/katarinadahl...
Hat tip tp @hellemans.me for sharing
speakerdeck.com/katarinadahl...
Amazon internal search is pretty good apart from when it comes to looking up orders
It can't seem to cope with the actual order number which isn't much good when you're trying to reconcile a credit card number
It can't seem to cope with the actual order number which isn't much good when you're trying to reconcile a credit card number
November 18, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Amazon internal search is pretty good apart from when it comes to looking up orders
It can't seem to cope with the actual order number which isn't much good when you're trying to reconcile a credit card number
It can't seem to cope with the actual order number which isn't much good when you're trying to reconcile a credit card number