Google algorithms are all about signal input - with Kaspar Szymanski

David and Aleyda discuss the importance of leveraging AI to support you and accelerate your SEO workflows beyond content generation.Aleyda says: “Start leveraging AI for the day-to-day SEO tasks within your workflow in a smart way – in a way where you take care of the quality, but you use it to accelerate the tasks that you need to do.”What SEO workflows can be enhanced with AI?“There are now tools that use AI, like the Horseman SEO crawler, which integrates with the OpenAI API to provide you with suggestions and recommendations for the issues it finds when crawling your website. If it identifies that you have title or description issues, because they’re empty, duplicated, or too long, it will give you suggestions to make them shorter or populate them with descriptive information. You can develop your SEO recommendations much faster by using these tools to support you."

SEO and Data Consultant Lazarina Stoy offers up a new way of thinking about the way that you do your job, that is designed to give you more time and freedom to focus on what matters most now.Lazarina says: “Incorporate programmatic approaches. I’m specifically referring to rule-based automation for SEO best practices and AI-driven automation for process enhancements.""Mainly, this means taking some time to better understand different programmatic approaches and learning how to incorporate them in a responsible way – both for the brand voice of the company you’re working for and content quality. However, you’re not doing that just to put out content. You’re doing it to satisfy search intent and be helpful to users."

David and Katie discuss the importance of thinking better, and rushing less.Talking points include:- We can use AI to get stuff done faster- For everything?- What should we use AI for? - We shouldn't rush the thinking part- What thinking part?- AI can't do that; it doesn't know your audience, not truly.- AI can’t do thinking?- Understand your client's business first, plan your research, PRIORITISE and then figure out how to use AI to accelerate that plan and get results faster.

Carmen Dominguez shares with David Bain that in 2024 you should look after your CTR as the most precious KPI for your organic strategy.Talking points include:Why is your CTR so important?Why is click through rate a KPI?How do you keep track of your CTR - what software do you use?How do you identify the terms that you need to optimise for?How do you influence your CTR?What other KPIs do you track?

David and Adrijana discuss if you want to progress with your SEO career, you should stop overworking.Talking points include:How much work is overworking?What if overworking is your company culture?What if you’re your own boss?Is it not OK to overwork at the start of your career?If you’re an SEO manager, how do you ensure that you don’t overwork your team?How do you detect if you’re doing too much?When does overworking lead to burnout?How do you recover from burnout?

David and Irina discuss the importance of learning analytics To better understand user behaviour.Talking points include:What aspects of analytics do SEOs have to master?What do we need to know about GA4?— GA4 offers a lot of options on how we can analyse content consumption and user funnels. How do you analyse content consumptions and how do we measure where this fits into the bigger picture?What is a user funnel inside GA4 and how does this add value?Do you prefer using another tool like Looker to analyse your data?Do you add data from other ounces such as Search Console?Is there a decent alternative to GA4?Will the way in which data collection and analytics continue to evolve?

David and Becky discuss the importance of tracking the metrics that matter, i.e. the actions most aligned to your customer’s needs.Talking points include:What are the metrics that matter?What are the metrics that don’t matter?Is focusing on ROI and focusing on the metrics that matter the same thing?How do you know what you should be measuring?How can we better understand the customer journey?How do we know what the customer’s desired action is at each stage of the funnel?How do we get buy-in from our client to focus on the right metrics?How does this help to direct the future strategy?

David and Gemma discuss the importance of knowing the importance of proper analytics, after all the changes with GA4.Talking points include:What does GA4 mean for SEOs?What specifically are the needs of SEOs in terms of data?Is it too late to change now?How to use GA4 to lead your SEO strategyHow to use GA4 to lead your hollistic strategyHow to train internally about GA4

Araminta Robertson shares with David Bain the importance of targeting low volume, high ROI keywords in 2024.Key discussion points include:Why focus on keywords that have under 50 searches per month?What’s your perspective on targeting zero-volume keywords?How do you know if keywords are likely to be high ROI?How do you go about interviewing your salespeople or conducting customer research?What do you mean by targeting them with in-depth content?What tools do you use to assist you with this process?

David and Olesia discuss why you should build a database for your brand, company, product, service, offering & yourself.Talking points include:What is this database for?Is this for search engines?How does it help you understand your:- own marketing positioning,- Voice- customers better.Is this what users want instead of the SERP?