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SEO Is Not That Hard
Edd Dawson
351 episodes
7 hours ago
Send us a text Ever wondered why PBNs still tempt smart SEOs? We pull back the curtain on private blog networks—how they’re built on expired domains, why they deliver short bursts of rankings, and where the true costs and risks hide. From anchor text control and link velocity to detection patterns, manual actions, and painful clean-ups, we map the full lifecycle of a PBN so you can make informed choices about your link strategy. I share a straight-talking breakdown of link economics in 2025,...
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Send us a text Ever wondered why PBNs still tempt smart SEOs? We pull back the curtain on private blog networks—how they’re built on expired domains, why they deliver short bursts of rankings, and where the true costs and risks hide. From anchor text control and link velocity to detection patterns, manual actions, and painful clean-ups, we map the full lifecycle of a PBN so you can make informed choices about your link strategy. I share a straight-talking breakdown of link economics in 2025,...
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Episodes (20/351)
SEO Is Not That Hard
Link Building ep 2 : Understanding Blackhat - PBN's
Send us a text Ever wondered why PBNs still tempt smart SEOs? We pull back the curtain on private blog networks—how they’re built on expired domains, why they deliver short bursts of rankings, and where the true costs and risks hide. From anchor text control and link velocity to detection patterns, manual actions, and painful clean-ups, we map the full lifecycle of a PBN so you can make informed choices about your link strategy. I share a straight-talking breakdown of link economics in 2025,...
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1 day ago
7 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Link Building ep 1 : Backlinks - the Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Send us a text Want search visibility that survives the next update and shows up in AI answers? We dive straight into the real calculus of link building: what still works, what crumbles under scrutiny, and how to build a backlink profile that compounds rather than collapses. Drawing on two decades of building, buying, and selling sites, Ed breaks down backlinks into three buckets—good, bad, and ugly—and explains the risks behind each, from short‑term bumps to long, painful recoveries. We sta...
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4 days ago
12 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
The Complete Entity Series Megapod
Send us a text What if your site could be read like a map of meaning instead of a pile of keywords? Edd walks through a complete reframe of SEO around entities — the people, organisations, products, places, and ideas that define your niche — and shows how to turn that model into durable authority across search and AI. We start with how modern search reads the web: extracting entities, resolving ambiguity, and linking to public knowledge bases that feed Google’s Knowledge Graph. From there, w...
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6 days ago
2 hours 5 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 12 : Beyond Your Website: Building Off-Page Authority
Send us a text Authority doesn’t live on your site alone—it’s earned in public, where other trusted names choose to cite, invite, and stand beside you. We wrap our entities series by moving beyond links-as-votes and into the richer world of entity association: the patterns of mentions, partnerships, and consistent identity signals that teach search engines and LLMs who you are and why you matter. We start by reframing off-page SEO for the semantic era. Links still help, but the deeper win is...
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1 week ago
13 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 11 : Future-Proofing for Answer Engines
Send us a text Search is quietly rewiring how people find answers, and the biggest shift isn’t on the results page—it’s inside the models that compose those answers. We dig into a practical playbook for turning your content into the source that ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity cite, so your brand earns authority even when no click happens. First, we map the path from traditional rankings to AI citations and explain why “position zero” is now the reference text behind generative answer...
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1 week ago
12 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 10 : Speaking Machine - Your Practical Guide to Schema Markup
Send us a text Tool mentioned in the podcast: https://validator.schema.org/ Machines don’t reward guesses; they reward clarity. We walk through a practical, four‑step framework to make search engines and LLMs understand your brand, your people, and your offers without ambiguity. The focus is on schema markup that scales: JSON‑LD for clean implementation, @id for stable references, and a connected entity graph that links Organisation, Website, Person, Product, and Service into one coherent m...
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1 week ago
11 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 9 : Content That Builds Authority
Send us a text Ready to stop sprinkling keywords and start building authority that lasts? We take one neglected concept in your niche and turn it into a structured topic cluster that both readers and search engines recognise as a trusted resource. From mapping entities to designing a pillar page and the right cluster coverage, we show how to move beyond thin posts and build a small, focused library that stands up to scrutiny. We break down the hub-and-spoke model in plain terms: what belongs...
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2 weeks ago
13 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 8: Your Competitors Entities
Send us a text The prompt mentioned in the episode is: You are an expert SEO analyst specializing in Natural Language Processing and entity-based optimization. I will provide you with the text from a competitor's webpage. Your task is to perform a Named Entity Recognition (NER) analysis on this text. Please identify all the significant entities mentioned in the text. For each entity, classify it into one of the following categories: Person, Organization, Location, Product, Event, or Concept ...
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2 weeks ago
12 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 7 : The Audit - Identifying Your Core Entities
Send us a text Search engines understand the world through entities, not just keywords, and that changes how we plan, write, and structure content. We take the entity conversation out of theory and into practice by building a simple, durable audit you can complete today. The result is a living blueprint that gives your brand a clear centre of gravity online and helps algorithms connect your pages to real people, products, and ideas. We start by anchoring your commercial core with precise bra...
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2 weeks ago
14 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 6 : Fighting AI Fiction: Grounding Your Brand in Reality
Send us a text Tired of confident AI answers that crumble under scrutiny? We pull back the curtain on why large language models hallucinate—and how to stop the damage by turning your website into a source AIs can safely cite. Instead of treating models like fact vaults, we treat them like brilliant writers who need trustworthy notes. That shift unlocks a practical playbook: ground responses in real documents, use retrieval‑augmented generation, and structure your content around clear, unambig...
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3 weeks ago
13 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 5: How ChatGPT Really Thinks About Your Brand
Send us a text Forget neat rows of facts—your brand lives inside AI as a point on a vast map of meaning. We unpack how large language models like ChatGPT convert words into vectors, arrange them in a multi‑dimensional latent space, and “reason” by navigating probabilistic paths rather than retrieving certified entries from a knowledge graph. That shift explains both the astonishing creativity of LLMs and the stubborn problem of hallucinations, and it reveals why your content choices directly ...
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3 weeks ago
13 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 4 : Beyond 10 Blue Links
Send us a text The search results page is no longer a tidy list of links—it’s a dynamic canvas where knowledge panels, rich snippets, featured snippets, and AI Overviews signal who Google trusts. We dig into how entities underpin every one of these features and why your real goal isn’t just ranking higher, but earning eligibility across the SERP. By treating features as an external readout of the knowledge graph, you can diagnose gaps in authority, spot competitor advantages, and plan content...
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3 weeks ago
10 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 3 : The Knowledge Graph
Send us a text Most brands still try to “tell” Google who they are. We show how Google actually decides: by stitching together a ledger of facts from your site, LinkedIn, Wikipedia, news articles, and structured data—then trusting only what aligns. This is the Knowledge Graph at work, and it’s quietly steering whether you earn a knowledge panel, sitelinks, and richer visibility across search. We break down the four streams feeding the graph—public web pages, licensed datasets, human‑edited k...
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4 weeks ago
10 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 2 : How Machines Learn To Read
Send us a text Keywords don’t tell the whole story—entities do. We take you inside the three-step process machines use to read your content like a detective at a crime scene: highlighting potential entities, using context to resolve ambiguity, and linking each mention to a unique identifier in a global knowledge base. By the end, you’ll see why “Jordan” only makes sense when surrounded by the right clues—and how to present those clues so search engines and AIs make the right call every time. ...
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1 month ago
11 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Entities Part 1 : Things not Strings
Send us a text Most of us were trained to think in keywords—count them, match them, stuff them. But Google no longer sees the web as a bag of words; it reads the world as a network of entities, relationships, and intent. We unpack the “things, not strings” shift and explore how Hummingbird, BERT, and advances in NLP turned SEO from phrase-matching into meaning-making. Along the way, we show how entity clarity powers knowledge panels, fuels AI answers, and builds the kind of topical authority ...
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1 month ago
12 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Best of : Engineering as Marketing
Send us a text Tired of churning out endless blog posts that barely move the needle? There's a powerful alternative that smart brands are using to generate leads, backlinks, and unmatched brand authority. In this eye-opening episode, I dive deep into "engineering as marketing" – the strategy of creating free, useful tools that attract and convert your ideal customers. Unlike standard content marketing, this approach leverages your development resources to build something truly valuable that ...
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1 month ago
11 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Best of : Search Intent
Send us a text Ever wondered why some websites rank well but fail to convert visitors? The missing piece is likely search intent—understanding not just what people search for, but why they're searching in the first place. Search intent is the compass that guides effective SEO and content strategy. In this classic episode from the SEO Is Not That Hard archive, I break down the four critical types of intent that drive all searches: informational (seeking knowledge), commercial (researching opt...
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1 month ago
17 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Best of - The story of Broadband.co.uk
Send us a text Success stories in digital business rarely follow a straight line, and the 18-year journey of Broadband.co.uk perfectly illustrates the rollercoaster ride of building a sustainable online business. What began almost accidentally in 2004, when the term "broadband" suddenly became associated with home internet service, evolved into one of the UK's leading comparison websites before culminating in a successful exit in 2021. The early days reflect the experimental nature of the mi...
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1 month ago
22 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
The Speed of Satisfaction: Mastering Time to Value
Send us a text The deceptively simple concept of Time to Value might be the most overlooked factor in your SEO strategy. In this eye-opening episode, I break down why the speed at which users experience the core benefit of your website directly impacts your search rankings. Time to Value (TTV) is that magical moment when a visitor says, "Ah, I get it!" – the instant they realize your site delivers exactly what they needed. Whether it's finding the perfect product, getting a crucial answer, o...
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1 month ago
11 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Google Search Console data looking odd? Here's why..
Send us a text A major shift has occurred in how Google Search Console reports your website's performance data, and it all stems from a quiet technical change few noticed. Google has removed the "num=100" parameter from search results—a seemingly minor adjustment with far-reaching consequences for SEO professionals and website owners alike. This parameter allowed SEO tools to view 100 search results on a single page, gathering vast amounts of ranking data efficiently. Its removal has thrown ...
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1 month ago
16 minutes

SEO Is Not That Hard
Send us a text Ever wondered why PBNs still tempt smart SEOs? We pull back the curtain on private blog networks—how they’re built on expired domains, why they deliver short bursts of rankings, and where the true costs and risks hide. From anchor text control and link velocity to detection patterns, manual actions, and painful clean-ups, we map the full lifecycle of a PBN so you can make informed choices about your link strategy. I share a straight-talking breakdown of link economics in 2025,...