Programmatic SEO Newsletter #40

Zapier gets over 160k hits per DAY (!!) powered largely by programmatic SEO

→ If you search “best note-taking app”, Zapier ranks 2nd.
→ If you search “meeting scheduler”, Zapier ranks above Calendly.
→ If you search “Google Sheets integrations”, Zapier ranks 1st, above the… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Tom Alder (@tomaldertweets)
7:58 AM • May 22, 2024

"boring" online review site for moving companies.

started by a relocation consultant.

bootstrapped business.

monetization via affiliates.

estimated revenue is $1.2 million a year.

movebuddha.com

— staticmaker (@staticmaker1)
1:01 AM • May 22, 2024

This is one of the most interesting sites I've found.

It gets 3.1 million monthly visitors, and has survived every Google update so far.

🧵...

— Ian (@keywordian)
9:31 PM • May 22, 2024

Google Introduces Search Reviews Profile

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Starting today, you can see all of your written reviews in a new profile, and more easily manage or delete them.

Right now, this space is visible only to you.

Starting June 24, other Google users will be able to see your… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Gagan Ghotra (@gaganghotra_)
6:03 AM • May 23, 2024

This gained me 500 visitors per month.

I wrote a step by step guide on how I create programmatic seo pages.

— Matt Reid 🇪🇺 (@Matthew_Reid)
1:00 PM • May 23, 2024

NEW RESEARCH 🧵: How significant is the Google/Reddit partnership in relation to local search intent?

We analyzed 800 local SERPs to find out.

— BrightLocal 🇺🇦 (@brightlocal)
3:00 PM • May 23, 2024

So it’s become very popular lately for everyone to blame SEO for all the problems on the internet.

The main problem I have with this is that I think many of these people don’t even know what SEO is or what we do… and so many people are conflating SEO with spam.

They don’t… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc)
10:01 PM • May 23, 2024

I started building this pSEO website around FEB 2024.

By the end of this month, I will most probably have 10K+ sessions and apply for Mediavine.

✔️The DR is 3 (I built a few links myself)
✔️The answer is given straightaway to the reader, with no AI content. Basically, a content… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Mila (The Slowpreneur) 🍩 (@MilaChervenkova)
8:34 AM • May 24, 2024

This boring one-page website makes $18k+ a month.

What it does: calculates accurate daily calorie expenditure

974,000+ visitors a month and going strong.

tdeecalculator.net

(no need to like, repost, or comment "MACRONUTRIENTS" to get the URL 😂)

— Ian Nuttall (@iannuttall)
12:15 PM • May 24, 2024

Just noticed another example of same - users are spamming SAP Community forum with coupon codes.

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Some of them Google is ranking as featured snippet, seems like SAP is taking action and removing those questions from the forum because now those URLs from Google are going… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Gagan Ghotra (@gaganghotra_)
5:03 PM • May 24, 2024

E325: How to do SEO for a site using a mix of user-generated content (UGC) and AI - along with programmatic SEO.

This is an above-average technical SEO episode, but what I share will be valuable for anybody working on this.

Key lessons:
1. Focus on a clear information… x.com/i/web/status/1…

— Edward Builds (@showprogress)
4:41 PM • May 25, 2024

Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers:

— Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns)
1:36 AM • May 26, 2024

Ok, let's get this party started!

A couple weeks ago I said I was publishing the most important thing I ever wrote. I was wrong.

Documentation related to the Google Search algorithm leaked and I spent the weekend tearing it apart.

✌🏾

— Mic King (@iPullRank)
2:10 AM • May 28, 2024