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“25 SEO Lies Web Devs Keep Repeating That Make SEOs Want to Cry - PodCast Checklist : r/SEO reddit.com/r/SEO/comments…

@harpreetchatha_ Maybe the real AEO/GEO is the SEO strategies we made along the way. 🤣

IG overtakes LinkedIn for the platform with the dumbest SEO vs GEO vs AEO take. We need a new awards category.

@DavidGQuaid Oh, interesting. All their history is hidden. Couldn't see a thing. That's the first thing I tried to see, given the nature of the post. 🤣

@IdleMusings101 Not sure if you can see their history but I assume they got drunk - their last SEO post was like 2 years ago

Amazing how many people post on Reddit passive aggressively and when you look at their profile they're struggling with alcohol addition @IdleMusings101

@DavidGQuaid Maybe they do. 🤣 But my point was that it's so strange to take debates so personally & throw personal insults. I mean, imo it's a win-win situation - either your pov gets validated or you know what knowledge gaps you have. So you learn & grow either way.

@IdleMusings101 I had them personally blocked for ages - so I assume they miss the debates/dopamine? Their "recent" post history is a little curious

@coldemailchris For the nurturing ecosystem, especially when it comes to sending emails with attachments and links, do you use the same infra as cold emails or something different, like say Brevo with email IDs procured from sendgrid/mailgun?

Stop following up No prospect wants to see another “Hi John???” in their inbox Instead, add leads to a “Nurturing Ecosystem” where you: - Email sales assets - Connect on LinkedIn - Warm call - Retarget with ads And actually present VALUE. Send value & insights, not spam.

@DavidGQuaid Looking forward to this

Releasing another David Quaid ™ banger: If you need to be visible for another brand in both AI and SEO - you don’t have to build a “spammy” listicle You can just play on how bad Google/BERT are at semantic SEO It’s amazing that some SEOs believe it’s brilliant and “solved” semantic SEO but actually it’s rather crap broadly speaking For example - instead of taking on a direct GEO tool comparison - I could write a post like this: “GEO tools are having a profound impact on marketing budgets; we peek into the future of AI with this comparison” This post will rank for geo tool comparison as well as some choice variations The secret through - is in the slug By naming the document and putting ai tool in the title - I’m ensuring that Bert will associate it with the semantic version I want it to Stay tuned for David Investigates Don-Don-Don (the scariest Don) Cc @edwardeachday

What's happening in the Google Trio of updates: Discover, the fastest Spam update and then the GCU in March 2026? @gaganghotra_ @harpreetchatha_ and @edwardeachday educate me on Discover traffic, affiliates and Google spam updates! youtube.com/watch?v=cfno63…

@rSEOReddit @WebsiteSquadron @edwardeachday Here's the award 🏆 for whoever came up with the tagline 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant

Is this the future of SEO Events? Live in-person networking cc @WebsiteSquadron @edwardeachday @IdleMusings101

@coldemailchris Playbook

I spent the last 45 days writing a 86-page book covering absolutely everything I know about how to successfully run outbound in 2026. When I say everything, I mean EVERYTHING. > Company context analysis and market evaluation > ICP definition and Pain-Qualified Segment (PQS) modeling > TAM mapping across 15+ industry segments > Offer creation and the three types of cold offers > The psychology of cold email and pattern disruption > 10 fundamental copywriting principles from 10M+ emails sent > 6 proven cold email script frameworks with real examples > 5 messaging angles to test across campaigns > AI prompts for generating full A/B test script matrices > Email sequencer setup and which tools to use at which volume > Domain setup rules and secondary domain best practices > Reserve infrastructure and inbox cycling strategy > Deliverability signals, spintax, and campaign settings > How to identify burned accounts and recover fast > The four types of data sources and when to use each > The Campaign Score Formula for predicting results before launch > Speed-to-lead system and why response time kills conversions > 5 reply templates covering 90% of responses > Follow-up strategy across email, LinkedIn, phone, and SMS > Pre-call workflow that lifts show rates from 30% to 70%+ > Post-meeting process: proposals, contracts, and onboarding I told you I meant EVERYTHING. The insights in this book come from the experiences of 10M+ emails sent, 20,000+ leads generated, and deca-millions in pipeline value created. This e-book is NOT free, but it costs less than a Chipotle bowl with guac. (There needs to be a slight level of gatekeeping for this one) Want to get access to it? Comment “Playbook” and I’ll DM you the link to it. [Must be following to receive]

@THArrowOfApollo 50M

50 million cold emails sent. Over $10 million in cash collected for our clients in 2025. What actually drove those numbers? I sat down and wrote out our 12 core frameworks that served us this year. Maybe one of them will serve you. Agencies love to brag about their own revenue. Very few of them will ever show you what their clients actually collected. That is the only number that matters. We've been doing cold email for Fyxer AI, RB2B, and a bunch of others. Fyxer went from product launch to a $30M Series B in under 10 months. Cold email drove $4.3 million in peak annual pipeline and signed them up 4,200 new users a month We've been working with RB2B for over two years. They are now an $8.2 million ARR company. Their lifetime net revenue is $11,136,602. Cold email drove 42% of that. And now we are launching their next business with @adam And those are just two of the stories I can share today. I have another 19 case studies drafted and ready to go that I am so proud of. One of them is a client we've closed $1M ARR for in just the last 6 months. These 12 frameworks look something like this. - The one change on a Fyxer campaign that took us from 25,000 emails per positive to 600 emails per signup (50x lift, same client, same offer) - The inbox matching trick that gives us 3x to 16x reply rate lifts without changing a word of copy - Why narrowing your ICP before you start sending is the single biggest mistake in cold email - Why we send one email every 60 days instead of running a 7-part spam sequence (and how this actually reaches more of your market, not less) I put together a visual guide of all 12 frameworks -- the full breakdown of each one, the data from our biggest campaigns, what everyone else is doing wrong, and a step-by-step playbook to run it yourself. Plus a 16-minute video walkthrough where I show you each framework end to end. Reply "50M" below and I'll send it to you.

@DavidGQuaid hated google? Must have been the publisher kind - "let's publish this - make it detailed!...Wait a min, why am I not ranking? I wrote it right!" Have seen more than a few of these -- actually, they are everywhere!😭

@IdleMusings101 I had 3 CMOs who hated Google - one was convinced Google would be shut down in 2016... And in front the CEO - loved Google. It was miserable sometimes

Something people think about VC-backed Tech startups that they have LOTs of SEO and PPC money. #Insidetech #vssaas #SEOsecrets Maybe the AI/GEO companies that begin with a P do When I went FTE with Kemp, I actually ran @primaryposition on Fridays and made 2x from SEO consulting than as head of Inbound. In my first year, my budget was so low that I had to use a freeware stock images site for blog posts....

@DavidGQuaid Also, yep, can vouch for the distrust of SEO being larger outside the US. Heck, a lot of founders don't even know how valuable it can be. 😅

We made 99% of our new income from Google. In year 2, we move dour budget from $100k pa to $120k per month..... as we grew so quickly. Our sales team were so delighted that they insisted on spending the money themselves. When I went from consultant to FTE - 12 months later - there 10 people in the marketing team. 1 was for SEO, PPC, Social (7 twitter accounts), YouTube/Video and PR 5 years later and our marketing team was 22 people - 2x Graphic design, 3 Web, Channel Marketing, Product Marketing, Corporate Marketing. and 1 SEO/PPC/Social..... The distrust of SEO is huge - its even larger outside the US in some roles

@DavidGQuaid Was working as the marketing head (team of 1 xD) at a lean YC company. Took their inbound traffic 0-60k, 100+ leads/mo when I left. Was the SEO, SMM, Email, Design, Sales Ops guy - all rolled into one xD So this is motivating, given the similarities. :D Thanks for sharing! :)

@itsalexvacca Email

Giving away the exact Custom Skills Folder we use inside Claude Code to write our cold email sequences at ColdIQ. Trained on the same emails that have generated over $10M for our clients. Plus the master prompt we engineered to clone their buyer psychology. I've tested every AI model for cold email. ChatGPT. Gemini. Grok. They all produce okay copy. But okay doesn't get replies. Claude Code is the first one that changed that. It doesn't come off as AI. It comes off as your best AE on a good day. How it works: > Drop in a target website, a LinkedIn URL, or a detailed ICP > It returns a 3-step outbound sequence > Fully optimised for Instantly > Under 45 seconds, start to finish It feels conversational. Opens strong. Ready to launch in your campaigns. Most people are still prompting ChatGPT to "write a cold email." This is what running 7-figure outbound in the background actually looks like. Want the Skills Folder, the master prompt, and the full system? → Like this post and follow me → Comment "EMAIL" and I'll send you the link.

I am. Intentionally. These lists - I'm not trying to spam Google or ChatGPT. I'm trying to destroy the GEO position that GPTs use Reddit and socials to build "trust models" - and ranking for SEO expert is just something I can do and do very quickly. I'd like to offer that we're on the same side, if you'll hear me out - I just wanted to provide context. Why is that important - because it destroys the argument that Brands are recommended by training - if I posted some of these last night (and I did) - then how could it be in grok, perplexity, chatgpt. I'm not saying its going to be in yours (actually hope not/not trying to do that) - or @JoyanneHawkins or @edwardeachday or @gaganghotra_ or @Hobo_Web But if you ask Google or Grok who the top SEOs to follow on Reddit are - 1) Its not citing just reddit - which is odd if the reddit training = true 2) its citing documents posted to Reddit. I understand listicles are spammy. These did not make any claims. I also didn't use any public Sub-reddits, ones that I founded from scratch - even though I have sub reddits totaling 700k folks... because it doesnt actually matter. 2) again odd - surely the bigger subs should have more weight than a private one? Doesn't matter - because I understand what Parastic SEO or co-ranking is here's the debate on LinkedIn - it demolishes the GEO claims.

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@edwardeachday @boris_ostojic_ @DavidGQuaid Seconded! This one introduced new interesting ways to think about internal links that I hadn't even considered. Love such episodes!

@boris_ostojic_ @IdleMusings101 @DavidGQuaid youre going to love it!

On how internal links can be used to shape authority @edwardeachday @DavidGQuaid youtu.be/mKy9_UCPEVM?si…

@edwardeachday @DavidGQuaid Yep totally

@IdleMusings101 @DavidGQuaid lets goo!! great ep !