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Eli Schwartz

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Growth advisor to top Internet brands. // Best Selling Author of Product Led SEO | Subscribe:

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10 years ago, I was lucky to have a front-row seat to @zapier 's SEO strategy pivot. I recently caught up with @itsmemattb , the genius driving that strategy for the last few years, and captured some of his ideas in my latest newsletter.
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I find it shocking that companies are willing to spend millions of dollars on paid advertising each month, but then think $10,000 is a bit too much for SEO
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Consultants: are you raising your fees in 2022 due to inflation?
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I am always in search of great freelance content writers, designers, and growth consultants for clients. Please tag anyone you know that I should know!
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Don't be penny wise and pound foolish with your marketing $
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I know of some more brilliant in-house SEO folks ready to leave their current gigs for the right next one. If you are hiring, DM me!
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The world is underestimating how much of an apocalypse Google's new experience will be. Here are my predictions for what will happen once this becomes the default experience 🧵
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Have you ever participated in a Zoom meeting from the bathroom? Please anonymously share meeting habits in this survey:
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Love when Amazon discounts my book to move sales for THEM. You get the book cheaper because they say so.
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It's surreal to finally hold this in my hands!
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I find it shocking that companies are willing to spend millions of dollars on paid advertising each month, but then think $10,000 is a bit too much for SEO
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2+ years ago I began writing my book Product Led SEO, and I am excited to announce that it will be released on April 27th! If I can share an advanced copy, let me know!
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Content marketing is not SEO and SEO is NOT content marketing. SEO is a process to optimize content and websites and is just one of the many channels to market content. Effective content marketing thinks of all channels. #contentmarketing #seo
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Picking 10 people from social media to send a free book (USA only) or audiobook to. (Outside USA). Tag yourself or someone else if you are interested, and I'll pick names at the end of this week.
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To all the CMOs pivoting to SEO as they reduce advertising budgets due to recession fears: SEO traffic is not free traffic. It also requires investment and budget.
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For those of you that think SEO is dead or dying, what is your longest consecutive streak of days where you didn't do a Google search?
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Any SEO can build a content plan by downloading keywords from a tool. But, the smartest visionaries ask their potential users how THEY might search and then build content for them.
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If you are going to be at @shoptalk this week in LV and have adapted your strategies to #AI please reach out if you would like to be interviewed for an article I am writing.
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2 years
Mentoring an SEO consultant that just went out on her own & I gave her these tips given to me when I was new. What would you add? 1)No FB/Tiktok before 5 2)Schedule meetings around breaks- not back to back 3)Build a trusted advisor board 4)Don't be scared to say I don't know
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3 years
If Google charged you to use their search engine as "ad free" how much would you pay?
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3 years
Need one more review to hit 100. If you have read my book, I would so greatly appreciate a review from you!
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3 years
Does anyone else get asked by family to fix computers because you work on the Internet?
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For the price of just the airtime of 30 second #superbowl commercial ($6.5m) you could hire a VP of growth, a director of growth, an SEO PM, a dozen content managers and still have enough $ to write at least 10k pieces of content. I think #SEO might be the better investment.
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Eli Schwartz
2 years
Amazon India is discounting my book for the next few days on a summer deal. If you are in India or have an account in India, grab it!
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Just found out the price of my book is going up due to shortages in paper and shipping cost increases. Grab it now while Amazon still has it discounted
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My 8 year old son told me I didn't write a real book because my book was about SEO. "Real books have heroes" I tried to explain to him that SEO's can be heroes too like the time I found a disallow in a robots.txt. He was very unimpressed. #seo Twitter sympathy please?
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Amazon is price testing the paperback price on my book, so if you were looking to save $1.80 now is your time 😆😆
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3 years
I don't understand how Google can be so obsessed with speed on the web but then allow Chrome to be the travesty that slows down personal computing devices around the world with memory bloat.
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3 years
This is a pretty funny way to bid on a competitor @semrush 🤣🤣🤣Curious to know whether this works for CTR and QS too!
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3 years
The SEO job market is tighter than I've ever seen in my entire career. If you have 3 to 5 years of experience you are worth a lot more than you think! If you're in the US and I can connect you to a great new job with people willing to pay for your skillset, DM me.
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2 years
SEO is a demand capture channel NOT a demand creation channel. It really doesn't matter if you "rank" #1 on a query if no one searches for it. Paid search networks like Google Ads account for this with broad matching, but no such thing exists for SEO.
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Laying off an SEO team during a generational change in search is like throwing away your steering wheel while driving down a mountain. Lots of companies didn't get this memo, and as a result, there's some amazing talent currently on the market. If you are hiring either
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3 years
Not sure who needs to hear this, but copying your competitors SEO is not an SEO strategy.
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3 years
SEO pros, what is your favorite resource to continue expanding your SEO knowledge?
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3 years
Wanted to express some Friday gratitude to @danielwaisberg and @JohnMu for all that they do for the search community. Was particularly impressed with how they engaged about releasing more GSC data!
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3 years
For those of you that think SEO is dead or dying, what is your longest consecutive streak of days where you didn't do a Google search?
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Here's how I wrote about site speed in my book - 2 years ago . Thankfully, CWV did not make these words obsolete 😂
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Anyone up for an SEO agency that has guaranteed results but no spell check before they launch their Google ads?
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I hope someone at Google still has the keys to power up Google Plus. This is the moment they have been praying for
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SEO friends: I decided to do something about my dated personal website. Spent the last month talking to developers & I'm shocked at the cost. Came to the realization that with @Wix it would be easier & cheaper to have more reliability, tools, & security. What am I missing?
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Eli Schwartz
3 years
Digital marketing should just be marketing. Everything else should be called not-digital marketing.
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Great SEO's are not just marketers they are marketing scientists. They develop hypotheses, run experiments and develop strategies based on data and learning. Kind of like what scientists do.
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2 years
Your SEO is only as good as your ability to convert that traffic. SEO doesn't end when you get the click, you need to optimize the page for conversions.
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3 years
Make a prediction for SEO in 2022 in 3 words or less...
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Via @LinkedIn there are 9,500 "SEO experts" that have less than a year of experience. After their first year anniversary I guess they get promoted to "guru"? What happens in year 3?
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3 years
1/ In-house SEO's with 5+ years experience should not be getting paid less than $100k. If you are, it's time to find a job that values your skillset and is willing to pay for the input you make to the bottom line.
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Eli Schwartz
11 months
@StopAntisemites @ModelExpand Looks like @ModelExpand scrambled to update their leadership page to get rid of her.
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Eli Schwartz
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While a company iterates on finding product-market fit, it should focus all its efforts on the product and only use marketing to help define that fit. This is not the time to make massive marketing investments.
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Eli Schwartz
3 years
Still dead, but now I am an author instead of an economist.
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What's an SEO myth that you always feel like you are debunking for clients and managers?
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In anticipation of my book price going up on every retail site - Amazon dropped the price of my book even further. Grab it while it's discounted 😍
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3 years
Price on paperback and hardcover goes up tomorrow for my book. Grab it now at the pre-inflation prices with your post inflation $$$.
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If you are looking for a new SEO role and want to be the first SEO hire at an ecommerce company that just raise nearly a $billion DM me with a Linkedin profile
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1/ In-house SEO's with 5+ years experience should not be getting paid less than $100k. If you are, it's time to find a job that values your skillset and is willing to pay for the input you make to the bottom line.
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Eli Schwartz
3 years
Do you need the perfect holiday gift to buy your #SEO team? Or boss? I know a good book 😉
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2 years
If this recession thing happens, I think SEO will be more in demand than ever, thoughts?
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3 years
For this week only, the Kindle version of my book Product-Led SEO costs less than a branded click on Google and I hope offers more value than that paid click!
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3 years
Great marketing can't solve a bad product
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Eli Schwartz
4 years
There are only 9500 people in the US with SEO in their job title that have more than 10 years of experience
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3 years
Cool feature on chrome!
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AI in Google search is not magic. I will go deeper into this in an upcoming newsletter (subscribe via ), but an LLM uses a statistical model to predict the next word in a sequence based on probability.
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3 years
Need more digital marketing specialists to refer business. If you do something unique tell me, so I can know who to refer to you!
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4 years
Here's how Amazon gets reviewers to stuff in keywords in reviews
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Just found out that someone I warm connected for an SEO role was hired @Adobe making this my 10th person I helped find a new role in 2021 😍. If I can help you hire in #SEO /digital or be hired with a warm intro to people/roles that might be a good fit DM me!
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3 years
If you think SEO is as simple as stuffing keywords in a piece of text, try dictating an email with voice using Google's keyboard and watch Google add punctuation based on context and inflection. Your mind will be blown.
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3 years
Don't be the CMO that is willing to spend $150,000 per day on search and social ads but pays their Director of SEO, leading a team, less than $100k. Ping me if you are hiring I know a great candidate for you or if you are looking for a new job ping too!
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2 years
SEO is so hot now that I am getting cold mass emails for open positions from hiring managers. If you are looking for a role, let me know!
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3 years
You don't need people skills to be an amazing SEO, but an SEO with unparalleled diplomacy skills and innate customer empathy is a force to be reckoned with.
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3 years
So humbled that so many of you are buying and sharing my book. Thank you for pushing it to best seller!
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2 years
To everyone that thinks that bounce rate is a part of the Google algo, explain why WSJ, NYT, and so many other paywalled news properties still have high visibility in search if the paywall makes their bounce rate obscenely high.
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4 years
Does anyone have a case study of improving page speed actually leading to greater search visibility?
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1 year
After dealing with @Lenovo 's most premium level of support (who broke my computer) I finally understand why corporate IT departments prefer that their employees have Apple devices even if they're more expensive. 🧵
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3 years
Love the question "how long does SEO take?"
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2 years
Who are the in-house SEO's that want to start experimenting with freelancing? If that's you ping me so I can start sending you leads!
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My book, Product-Led SEO, is officially live on Amazon! For the first week ONLY, my publisher cut the price to $0.99, and I would be so grateful if you would check it out: ”
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2 years
For all the people mocking the idea of paying Twitter $20 a month for verified accounts, keep in mind all the people that pay $30 a month to LinkedIn just to be able to see who looks at their profile
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4 years
Who are the best in-house SEO people that I should follow on Twitter and recommend for speaking engagements?
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2 years
Domain authority is not a metric Google uses in its algorithm and in general is a weak signal of the quality of a website
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2 years
Do you use Bing Search Console?
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Despite Google being over 2 decades old, there are few ppl with more than 10 yrs of exp in SEO. I know 4 ppl with more than 10 yrs of SEO exp. open to new roles. If you are hiring DM me for intros. Also, if YOU are looking for a role I would love to intro you to hiring managers.
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Instead of saying "it depends" as the answer to an SEO question you don't know the answer to, say "this would be a great experiment". You will sound so much smarter and you will exercise 'your always be learning' muscle.
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Don't be the CMO that is willing to spend $150,000 per day on search and social ads but pays their Director of SEO, leading a team, less than $100k. Ping me if you are hiring I know a great candidate for you or if you are looking for a new job ping too!
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This week was the 1 yr anniversary of the release of my book and I would like to give away 10 copies! Tag yourself or anyone else below this tweet, and I will pick 10 winners next week. US winners will get a signed paperback others will get an audiobook.
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1 year
Most CMO's aren't aware that SEO isn't just an acquisition channel. Used effectively it can function to prevent churn, promote upgrades/upsells, and even reactivate dormant users. 🧵
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What is the first thing you do when you get access to a new GSC profile?
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This book changed my career 'Million Dollar Consultant' reveals secrets to high-earning consulting. Learn to: Attract top clients while still setting premium rates
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What's your go-to answer for how long SEO will take?
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In my hand I'm holding everything a beginner needs to know about SEO. Congrats @timsoulo @JoshuaCHardwick and the whole @ahrefs team for putting this together!
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2 years
As a solopreneur I am always working and always not working. Who feels the same?
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2 years
I once had a CMO tell me that at his company "marketing is a marathon, not a sprint and we always think about investments long into the future." Was a bit surprised when he later said that "if SEO didn't show ROI in 3 months it was a bad investment."
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I love being able to help other freelancers build their businesses. If you are a copywriter, PPC wizard, SEO auditor, writer... I would love to hear from you so I can send you business. Please drop your Linkedin URL's in your response :)
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An SEO tool, even a powerful one, is a tool just like a hammer is a tool. Having access to a tool doesn't make you a carpenter. The amount of smart execs who think hiring a junior person to download @semrush / @ahrefs reports and call it an SEO strategy is astounding.
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Eli Schwartz
2 years
If our friends on the other side of the marketing aisle, SEM/PPC folks, get to take credit for all spend and acquisition on branded keywords, why shouldn't SEO get the same latitude. An organic click is an organic click. Thoughts?
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