Meredith's Husband | SEO for People Who Don't Like SEO

What if your website traffic is going down, and how do you start fixing it? Chasing bigger keywords feels like the obvious fix, but those are the ones you are least likely to win. As search starts to look more like an AI conversation, a small audience asking very specific questions is worth more than a big one that never needed what you offer. Answering very specific questionsMeasuring with the Generative AI report in Search ConsoleA clean technical SEO foundationYou will leave knowing which ...

Join the Mentoring Waitlist: www.meredithshusband.com/mentoring-waitlist Does it ever feel like you used to get plenty of leads from Google, but they've dried up? The cause is rarely one mistake, which is exactly why it takes longer to fix than most people expect. A long decline in leads usually comes from small issues stacking up over time, so the first thing to change is your expectations. Timestamps [0:00] Introduction [1:08] What declining impressions in Google Search Console show [1:4...

What actually helps your website get mentioned in AI search? A survey of 1,400 SEOs offers a ranked answer. The list is worth reading as a whole, and the practical takeaway is that strong SEO and specific, easy to extract content carry over to AI search more than the exact order does. Timestamps [0:00] Introduction [1:29] How the survey worked and why crawl access ranks first [3:03] Query answer match [4:33] Citable and specific facts [5:03] Organic rankings and fan out coverage [6:09] ...

How do you create a new habit when it's something you don't want to do? Common advice is to break the work into smaller sessions, but for a task you are avoiding, even those sessions are too big to start. Here are three tricks that help me, when I'm in that situation: Start ridiculously smallSchedule it before doing itCounting small steps as winsTimestamps [0:00] Introduction [0:45] The problem: SEO tasks you keep putting off [1:37] Point 1: Start ridiculously small [3:38] Point 2: Schedu...

The Goal: Leave this episode with less stress about blogging. It's hard to blog consistently when it feels like every post needs to be perfect. The obstacle is rarely the writing itself, since most of the overwhelm comes from expectations we place on ourselves. In this episode, I talk about: The overwhelm that comes before writingWhy 'done' is more important than 'perfect'What actually happens after you publishTimestamps [0:00] Introduction [0:30] Why blogging consistently feels overwhelmin...