Corey
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Corey
@northcutt.com
🤵‍♂️ Chief Optimization Officer @ orbitmedia.com
🏢 Built + sold companies in an assortment of industries
🗣️ Talking SEO, CRO, AI, and business
As of yesterday, you can download and run OpenAI GPT models locally, privately. It benchmarks right in line with their hosted models. openai.com/open-models/
Open models by OpenAI
Advanced open-weight reasoning models to customize for any use case and run anywhere.
openai.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
about to open up a can of "it depends" on a client
July 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
a case could be made that Cloudflare has been more disruptive to SEO than AI
May 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Something true that sounds totally made up: symbolics.com has now been registered for 40 years.
March 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Despite the news, markets are rallying, already surpassing that annual average of ~7% YTD for equities. You just have to ignore the U.S.
March 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The FBI seized backpage(dot)com in 2018. They just allowed it to sell at a discounted drop auction for $259K (going into the pockets of TurnCommerce). It will now be flipped for millions by a private speculator. Thanks, Elon. www.namepros.com/threads/back...
information - Backpage.com: Drops as FBI budgets change
In 2018, the domain Backpage.com was among several seized after sex trafficking charges were made. The FBI took control of its DNS, pointing Backpage.com to a lander with a prominent message. For a do...
www.namepros.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
best version of this meme yet
February 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
It's 2025 and Shopify is still telling customers to write 320 character meta descriptions.
February 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Whois is dead! This seems like a much bigger deal than I see anybody making about it.

RDAP still obscures private registration data (pretty common nowadays), but looks way more reliable for figuring out who owns a domain name going forward.

domainnamewire.com/2025/01/28/w...
WHOIS is dead - Domain Name Wire | Domain Name News
The Whois system has been replaced with RDAP. It’s official. Starting today, Whois is no longer the definitive source of domain name ownership data. It’s now the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDA...
domainnamewire.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Testing Deepseek's limitations and I'm sure of one thing... it's Chinese.
January 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
🤔 Qualifying corporate SEO clients?

Here's a tip: Ask management to complete the Stanford marshmallow experiment.
December 9, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Did the bsky thing and leveraged my northcutt.com URL. Now how do I remove /profile/ …
December 8, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Tinkering with republishing my 2015 ranking factor fact check, parsing the Github leak as an extra source.

Meanwhile, there are these supporting myth-busting gems that I can't help but repolish and put back up, too. northcutt.com was filled with them. #seo

www.orbitmedia.com/blog/nofollo...
Myth-Busting: Do "nofollow" Links Have SEO Value? | Orbit Media Studios
The nofollow attribute is widely misunderstood in SEO. Examining the history and scientific results of nofollow shows something surprising.
www.orbitmedia.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Are we done using threads then? Thought something was up when I gained 100 (real-looking!) followers in a week.
November 25, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Best presentation at #brightonseo goes to Tacos El Gordo. 👨‍🍳🤌
November 21, 2024 at 6:43 PM
Chrome extension to port X subscriptions to bsky, worked like a charm! chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.
chromewebstore.google.com
October 18, 2024 at 8:38 PM
🧵 Underrated SEO reporting tip:

Instead of watching the Semrush dashboard reports, follow the Y/Y Growth Report. If those charts aren't purple you're in the wrong place!
October 9, 2024 at 1:31 PM
hi
October 9, 2024 at 12:17 PM