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Ross Tavendale

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MD at @type_a_media, a London #SEO agency famous for working a #4dayworkweek.

London, England
Joined March 2009
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Ross Tavendale
5 years
🚨4 day Work Week Job Claxon🚨. We're hiring for 4 positions from PR consultants, to social media managers to video editors. All full time, 4 day weeks. Please RT if you know someone who might be interested.
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Work & Life BalanceType A work a 35 hour week over 4 days, from Monday to Thursday, meaning you get 3 day weekends. This is the equivalent of getting 80 days off per year. You still get paid a full...
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Ross Tavendale
3 months
Aggressive!
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Grok
21 days
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Ross Tavendale
6 months
Haha this is so true. When I worked on about 15 years ago we just published pages and they hit page 1 like magic! 🤣.
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Jacky Chou (buying online businesses up to $1m)
6 months
“We ranked without building any backlinks”
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Ross Tavendale
6 months
A funnier observation is that Yahoo got more search share. Yahoo! From the 90s 😆.
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Chris Tweten 🍁 | SaaS SEO
6 months
Google got ~373x more searches than ChatGPT in 2024
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Ross Tavendale
6 months
The real immediate victim is rank trackers. It’s going to be near impossible to track this sort of SERP in any meaningful way without huge cost implications.
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Ross Tavendale
6 months
As SEOs there are a few ways to take this news. The immediate one is doom and gloom - our CTRs will be affected. The second one is optimism, it may usher in a golden age of content creation with more egalitarian distribution of clicks to smaller publishers. However, we do well.
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Google
6 months
✨ AI Mode expands on AI Overviews with more advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities. We're starting to roll it out to Google One AI Premium subscribers as an opt-in experiment in Labs. Sign up for early access →
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Ross Tavendale
6 months
Some appropriate music for reading this post .
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The Doors · The Doors · Song · 1967
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Sundar Pichai
6 months
We’re rolling out AI Mode to Google One AI Premium subscribers today, opt in on Labs. And just like AI Overviews, AI Mode will get better with time and feedback. Get details here: 
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Ross Tavendale
6 months
RT @natejhake: Google's AI Overviews = theft 🚨. And Google just got smacked with a lawsuit by Chegg -- and it's utterly fantastic ⚖️. I'm a….
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Ross Tavendale
6 months
RT @iqseo: @rtavs Little way off right now, but I will let you know when I am ready for testing 😊 Did you have a look at the Wordpress AI d….
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A standalone AI Content Detector Plugin for Wordpress. This free plugin will show you if it looks like AI has been used to write your website content.
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Ross Tavendale
6 months
Reflecting on the term 'enshitification' and how it applies to SEO software. 7 years ago, I started paying a popular SEO software under £300 p/m to use the service, now I pay over £1200. Using the same amount of data, same amount of users. 4x cost. Our agency prices have.
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
When your company insists on hybrid working and hot desking and you get in early.
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
As a stationary nerd who’s spent hundreds on fancy pens and notebooks, this free uni jet stream, I got with a Hobonichi journal, is hands down the greatest pen ever created.
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
100%. I feel the people that don’t take the time to do these things are the same that get frustrated with juniors. It’s usually down to a lack of cogent briefing.
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
Using AI without custom GPTs, artifacts or very detailed prompts is the equivalent of broad match in Google Ads. So if you’re not getting what you want out of it, you likely need to spend more time on setup and sanitisation before asking it to do things.
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
Strong, you say? 😜
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
Shocking numbers. We’re seeing the same across our clients. However, it’s a little more nuanced. If you were top 3 before AIO, less clicks. If you were p8-10 more clicks. Caveat, if there’s a PAA and AIO in the SERP it’s less clicks regardless of previous position. The.
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Wil Reynolds
7 months
CTRs when AI Overviews show up on Google are at an all time low, both on Paid and Organic. When they don't show up, we're in good shape with those CTRs growing. Check out our analysis of our client data over 12 months.
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
We’ve been running partially async and encouraging more writeups instead of meetings. It’s a double edged sword. Still very much believe in @37signals work methodology though.
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Jesse Pujji
7 months
Hot take: async work sucks.
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
Calling all senior technical SEOs and digital PRs. Fancy working hybrid 4 day weeks? Type A is hiring!.
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
if you want to burn a buttload of tokens, Gemini deep research should do it with a CSV upload. But damn, that's expensive.
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Ross Tavendale
7 months
Now that Google is blocking rank trackers from accessing SERP features like AIO - what are we using/doing to get round it?.
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