Top SEO Tweets From 2019

Backlinks https://t.co/WlDxejpoCF

— Martin MacDonald 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇸🇺🇸🇧🇧 (@searchmartin) July 18, 2019

PDF:
❌ not mobile-friendly
❌ not accessible
❌ not easily trackable
❌ dead end for users (no navigation)
❌ not ideal for SEO

🖨️💾📨 made for printing, saving & sending
❌ bad format for web content

Solution: Publish all content in HTML first & offer PDF as secondary option.

— Eoghan (@rebelytics) December 8, 2019

Google Sheets is adding three new tools to help generate more compelling reports and better display data:

* Slicers
* Scorecard Charts
* Themes

Can’t wait to play with them! 🙌

More: https://t.co/ygaFyFEG7f pic.twitter.com/5C1zOBr0g9

— Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦 (@aleyda) August 1, 2019

Did Google say CTR is not a ranking factor?
kinda, yes.

Did a random Google developer documentation say clicks impact rankings?
kinda, yes.

Do I completely trust either source?
no, not really.

Am I gonna work to improve organic CTR anyway?
👏ofcourse👏

— Izzi Smith (@izzionfire) February 25, 2019

Ever wanted an SEO RPG ⚔️, whelp today is your day!

Check out https://t.co/WL63zArZWN!

Send me memes & any bugs 🐞 ya find. Happy questing! Happy SEO learning! Happy holidays!

Many, many thanks to all participants (see tweet ⬇️)!!

+ if you want context, see article ⬇️⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Ncgi5cWh08

— Alexis Sanders 🇺🇦 (@AlexisKSanders) December 10, 2019

I couldn't be more excited to announce that https://t.co/58xYBLE01S 2.0 is now live!!! 😀 The same #SEO #tools but improved, and a completely revamped UI for better usability! As always, feedback is welcome, let me know how we can make it even better!

— Max Prin (@maxxeight) April 15, 2019

pic.twitter.com/oBAvifzZ1v

— Tom Blackshire (@tomblackshire) February 28, 2019

Hey #SEO friends! I've finally added HowTo, FAQPage and Video to the #Schema generator! Also, you can now send the code directly to the Rich Results Test as well for testing 😀 https://t.co/3auxWKFJ4z pic.twitter.com/GPzoof4snH

— Max Prin (@maxxeight) June 3, 2019

Hello, I've been working with Google Analytics for at least 12 years and I still can't remember the difference between source and medium and I need to look it up every single time.

— Dana DiTomaso (@danaditomaso) July 19, 2019

My biggest SEO experiment has just begun!

1. New domain: https://t.co/RuH0lOmkwK
2. Will not 301 anything.
3. Will ask everyone to update links.

After this I expect maybe 20% of my previous link profile at least, up to 50% if I'm lucky.

— DEJAN (@dejanseo) August 24, 2019

[Critical Update] – SEMRush were falsely declared the winner of my backlink checker test and have now supplied an updated dataset.

This has had a significant impact on the results of the test-https://t.co/HpuHrkNakS

Please read the update for the full story on what happened. pic.twitter.com/uAAsRWh1oq

— Matthew Woodward (@MattWoodwardUK) September 25, 2019

A Developer's Guide To SEO https://t.co/GxZm3p4abU I did a brain dump of all the SEO advice I give developers when they're building sites. Have a look. It's also my last post as a member of the @portent team. Sniff.

— Ian Lurie 🇺🇦 @ianlurie@mastodon.social (@IanLurie) August 28, 2019

Howdy fellow marketers! 🤗

⚡️ I need your help ⚡️ I'm working on a massive list of female marketers that will be published on @sejournal 🔥

Please feel free to tag the names of your friends or other great female marketers that deserve to be included.

— Alexandra Tachalova (@AlexTachalova) February 27, 2019

Just dropped my biggest piece of content so far this year, a 4,000 word guide to doing an SEO audit:https://t.co/uLELUNlvby

— John Doherty (@dohertyjf) April 2, 2019

So… a client's category page mysteriously was not indexable and kept returning a 'soft 404' with the URL inspector. Turns out, it was because /404/ was in the URL as the category ID (and not anywhere else). We updated it to /43/ and it indexed immediately. pic.twitter.com/WNwnlXdALq

— Dan Shure (@dan_shure) April 30, 2019

Google sends 10X more traffic to websites than anyone else (including PPC)!!! #GoogleUncensored pic.twitter.com/wsHeIDI1Jl

— Britney Muller 🇺🇦 (@BritneyMuller) May 16, 2019

Imagine if SEO Twitter were an environment where people feel they could ask questions without prefacing them with “this may be a stupid question but,” or “I should already know this, but,”

No. One. Knows. Everything. About. SEO.

(2/2)

— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) November 8, 2019

An e-commerce client I've been working with had to remove all of their informative content pages (blog, how-to guides etc.) from their shop *for reasons*.

They decided to redirect the URLs of the removed pages to the home page.

Here's what happened to their SEO performance:

— Eoghan (@rebelytics) December 13, 2019

Why did the SEO expert cross the road?

To get hit with traffic 🚗

😜😜😜😜

You. Are. Welcome

— Andrew and Pete (@AndrewAndPete) January 3, 2019

HAHAHAAHAA!!!

It's incredible what you can find when browsing Google's other tools: https://t.co/Gk7tELzaEr

SEOs, can we put this myth to rest now? CTR MATTERS!!! pic.twitter.com/3cotxdUrlS

— Britney Muller 🇺🇦 (@BritneyMuller) February 21, 2019

Here’s how to sell SEO

1. Get a junior role at Google
2. Leave after a few months
3. Start SEO agency
4. Tell everyone you’re an ‘ex Googler’

5. 🤑

— Mark Rofe 🎄 (@iamrofe) April 13, 2019

Hi I'm John and I've worked in digital marketing for 10 years and I still use Google's UTM builder to remember the difference between Source and Medium.

— John Doherty (@dohertyjf) November 21, 2019

The unintended consequence of adding FAQ schema. It looks so pretty in the SERP… but where did all our traffic go? 🙄#seo #structureddata #schema #google pic.twitter.com/yy93nGo6m8

— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) June 13, 2019

Google (8/1/18): this site sucks
Google (9/27/18): yeah this site really sucks
Google (3/12/19): this site rules!
Google (7/22/19): never mind this site sucks
Google (9/25/19): yep this site definitely sucks pic.twitter.com/e8GCqPZQjV

— Lily Ray 😏 (@lilyraynyc) September 27, 2019

A lot of SEO budget is wasted because companies don't invest in decent developers, designers, UX experts and content producers first. Good SEO can't fix a bad website.

— Eoghan (@rebelytics) November 28, 2019

Google is going to start indexing podcasts and return audio results in SERPs. That means voice answers are going to be direct clips from audio content at some point soon.

— Dr. Pete Meyers (@dr_pete) May 7, 2019

This is the most detailed and clarifying guide on how to use ALT Text on images I've ever seen – written by someone who *actually* depends on alt text to read the web https://t.co/VcbjD5OL1V via @AxessLab HT @brad_frost

— Dan Shure (@dan_shure) May 6, 2019

Google: We want to deliver the most relevant, accurate results.

Also Google: pic.twitter.com/BROHNwoLRG

— Rob Ousbey (@RobOusbey) September 30, 2019

So I recently decided to put Moz, Ahrefs, Majestic and SEMRush to the test.

I looked at:

-How many links each tool finds

-How quickly they find new links

-Unique features

And I summed up what I found in this post:https://t.co/XsAwBaYSWN

— Brian Dean (@BrianEDean) March 28, 2019

Just stumbled upon a pretty awesome resource if you use Google Sheets called Sheets for Marketers – https://t.co/dZxn9MhKf7

It features over 100 templates for everything from on-page SEO to reporting to scraping to project management.

— Mic King (@iPullRank) July 21, 2019

I have published all of the 170+ main #SEO inspection points that I review when auditing a website here:https://t.co/H7LSABaV9u

I will continue to enhance this further over the coming days. pic.twitter.com/HhB6y8eOyu

— Andy Drinkwater (@iqseo) May 28, 2019

10 ways to optimize for BERT:

1. You
2. Can't
3. Optimize
4. For
5. A
6. Deep
7. Learning
8. NLP
9. Algorithm
10. Write for humans

— Izzi Smith (@izzionfire) October 25, 2019

New post showing my love for my favorite (non-SEO focused but) super useful for SEO tool: 9 Practical Ways to easily use Google Spreadsheets for (rather common) SEO tasks 👩🏻‍💻📈👌🙌🔥 https://t.co/agTTIuxzQ1 pic.twitter.com/fEiWEm7OTA

— Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦 (@aleyda) July 24, 2019

Should we get the SEO team involved in the redesign before launch?

yes yes yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes
yes yes yes
yes yes yes yes yes

— kelvin newman (@kelvinnewman) January 28, 2019

I think we went a little too subtle with sponsoring coffee cups at #BrightonSEO pic.twitter.com/2hkpBMP6hf

— Tim Soulo 🇺🇦 (@timsoulo) September 13, 2019

Paywalled content needs to be labelled in search results. Otherwise it's just bad user experience. I'm just going to keep repeating myself until Google does something about this. pic.twitter.com/9j0K3WMdcs

— DEJAN (@dejanseo) August 1, 2019

What percent of Google searches end with:
– zero clicks?
– paid ad clicks?
– clicks to Alphabet-owned properties like YouTube, Google Maps, & Android?
– and how many still go to the rest of the web?
My latest blog post has answers: https://t.co/2JsjIneVTw pic.twitter.com/45I6Ymuwnt

— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) June 18, 2019

I saw an SEO today
No own podcast
No hear me speak at X conferences
No selfies with Googlers
He just sat there.
Increasing websites' organic traffic.
Like a psychopath.

— Philipp Kloeckner (@pip_net) October 31, 2019

Hello, I am a SEO, you may know me from my greatest hits: “it depends”, “well sometimes it depends” and “good question but really it depends…”

— kelvin newman (@kelvinnewman) January 21, 2019

Thanks to @backlinko+@buzzsumo, we know two important things about content, social, & SEO:
1) 94% of content earns 0 links, up from 75% 4yrs ago
2) Social shares have no correlation w/ links, suggesting that optimizing for one doesn't bring the other
Via https://t.co/e5VWqG9pnH

— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) February 19, 2019

VERY happy today. With a little help from some existing resources I've managed to build a new formula to help automatically categorise keywords based on the users intent… 🙌 🙌 🙌 #keywordresearch #seo 🤓 pic.twitter.com/AMy5HpQ7bx

— Dan Brooks | SaaS SEO (@seodanbrooks) April 16, 2019

Just over a week ago, we moved a client from a very slow web host to a very zippy one. We only moved the site, didn't touch the content or anything else. Their conversion rate went up 28%!

Site speed matters, pass it on.

— Dana DiTomaso (@danaditomaso) November 1, 2019

We Analyzed 912 Million Blog Posts. Here’s What We Learned About Content Marketing

-Longer content = 77% more backlinks

-Headlines with a "?" get 23% more shares than headlines without a "?"

-List posts get 2x more shares than infographics

-Lots morehttps://t.co/DNPeYqIQ5j

— Brian Dean (@BrianEDean) February 19, 2019

Top 10 most common SEO answers to "Why am I not ranking?"

1. It depends
2.
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10. Links

— Cyrus SEO (@CyrusShepard) October 24, 2019

Rank #1 in 2013 …you're 330 pixels from the top
Rank #1 in 2019 …you're 1050 pixels from the tophttps://t.co/7jYDKvKr72

Interesting research by @orbiteers

— Brian Dean (@BrianEDean) May 10, 2019

Small company SEO problems: “We don’t have resources to implement those technical or content improvements.”

Big company SEO problems: “We don’t have approval to implement those technical or content improvements.”

— Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦 (@aleyda) April 15, 2019

Damn – you know I like site architecture for SEO. This is one the most articulate+detailed updated guides I've seen on specific tactics and implementation:

"An SEO’s guide to site architecture"
https://t.co/XhkfGSvkPv by @richardbaxter pic.twitter.com/Baxx5uTKPV

— Cyrus SEO (@CyrusShepard) March 6, 2019

After many years, the Beginner's Guide to SEO, the resource that, arguably, made my career, has been updated to reflect how SEO works in 2019: https://t.co/jvRAZJ2qL0
Congrats to @BritneyMuller who poured a ton of work into making this 10X better than the original! pic.twitter.com/BgESFLMvWy

— Rand Fishkin (@randfish) April 2, 2019

BIG DAY!

The New Beginners Guide To SEO is LIVE!!! https://t.co/Bt3p0ZuC6T

A lot of love, sweat and tears went into this & we are dedicated to continued improvements. ❤️

Enjoy!

— Britney Muller 🇺🇦 (@BritneyMuller) April 2, 2019

– You don't need to read every SEO article
– You don't need to listen to every podcast
– You don't need to follow the top 357 influencers on Twitter

• You DO need content
• You DO need links
• You DO need to do the work + learn from your wins/mistakes

— Cyrus SEO (@CyrusShepard) June 19, 2019

Keyword Stuffing, the offline version 😂🤣😂 pic.twitter.com/PrtcdldzAW

— Martin MacDonald 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇸🇺🇸🇧🇧 (@searchmartin) January 10, 2019

Today I optimize <title> tags.

Some consider it a lowly task. A job for interns.

On the contrary. It is—in fact—one of my most rewarding, happiest, + highest ROI jobs as an SEO 💥

— Cyrus SEO (@CyrusShepard) January 21, 2019

Ahrefs is working on general purpose search engine to compete with Google. Sounds crazy, right?
But lets talk about two huge problems with Google which they will never want to fix:

— Dmytro Gerasymenko 🇺🇦 (@botsbreeder) March 27, 2019

The 10 Most Critical SEO Success Factors 🚀
1 Keyword Targeted
2 Fresh &
3 Unique Content
4 Satisfies User Intent w/
5 Expertise, Authority, and Trust
6 Crawlable + Accessible to Search Engines
7 Speed
8 Built for Multiple Devices
9 Earns a High # of Clicks +
10 Quality Backlinks

— Cyrus SEO (@CyrusShepard) January 2, 2019

We Analyzed 5 Million Google Search Results. Here’s What We Learned About Organic Click Through Rate

– Titles with question (+14.1%)
– Titles between 15-40 characters (+8.6%)
– URLs w/ keyword (+45%)
– Titles w/ positive/negative sentiment (+7%)https://t.co/5yumNDfxDN

— Brian Dean (@BrianEDean) August 27, 2019