E426: How to rank 1 on Google if you’re stuck ranking within the top 10. The common mistakes that keep a page at positions 5-10 instead of the #1 spot. If you are on page 1 of Google, but you can’t get to the number 1 spot, this podcast will tell you what to do. Recorded from the Grand Hotel Vilnius, in Lithuania. Answering https://www.reddit.com/r…

E425: People commonly overestimate backlinks and anchor text while underestimating the language that appears around your brand name. With proper language associated with your brand and website, you can rank #1 for many great keywords. Here’s what to do to achieve this, especially if you have a new site. 00:00 Off-Site Signals 00:17 Looking at Exist…

E424: The Google Algorithm Leak back in May revealed so much about the actual way Google works. Not how the representatives said it should work - but how it actually works. Revisiting the Leak months later, these are 7 of the most notable takeaways. Seven things that Google measures that will affect your search engine optimization efforts. A few of…

E423: Taylor Swift in 2024 had her biggest year by far. According to Google Trends, her interest doubled from its previous peak, and that same previous peak is now her new normal. But what caused this? Turns out it was a combination of preparation, partnerships, branding, and public relations. A healthy marketing mix. This podcast goes into each of…

E422: The founding story of Reddit - The Front Page of the Internet. And how Reddit created hordes of fake users at its beginning to make new users think they were part of a preexisting vibrant community. The story of how Reddit started is a legendary one with tons of lessons for founders and marketers. This is how Reddit got its first users and ev…

E420: Overlooked and underrated, High-Leverage Keywords are keywords that represent more than one acquisition. Keywords that could mean many users or customers. Keywords that can get you and your brand clout. Keywords that, just by ranking for them, can get you backlinks, allowing you to rank for even more High-Leverage Keywords. Bottom-of-funnel k…

E419: I share the three best digital marketing newsletters and read an example from the newsletter I picked as #1. If you want actionable digital marketing hacks, stories, case studies, and advice delivered to your inbox each week, this is for you. The insights shared in these newsletters, especially #1, are creative, fun, and will get you proven r…

E418: YouTube Shorts and YouTube Videos have the craziest velocity of Google rankings in both speed and percentage of content being ranked. 6/6 of my most recent YouTube Shorts are showing on the first page of Google for their keywords. As are SEO-targeted YouTube Videos from other companies. With YouTube Shorts and main videos, the coverage a bran…

E417: Immediately, when looking at the keywords LinkedIn Pulse is ranking #1 for, a handful of Parasite SEO pages can be easily identified. Marketers are doing some serious Parasite SEO with LinkedIn Pulse and it is ranking #1 for so many lucrative keywords. Here's what some of these wild keywords are and the super spammy way this is being done. 00…

E416: Lots of SEOs and digital marketers believe nofollow backlinks have no value. Multiple experiments prove otherwise. This episode shows two experiments where nofollow links result in an SEO ranking bump. Nofollow links contain value! Read it here: https://seosherpa.com/seo-experiments/ 00:00 Introduction to Today's Topic 00:20 Fascinating SEO E…

E415: An epiphany I have had time and time again. What’s become ordinary to me is still interesting as heck to lots of other people. Half of the battle with content marketing is good subject matter. That comes naturally to those genuinely interested in their topic. The other half of the battle is energy and enthusiasm. 00:00 Epiphany on Instagram F…

E414: 5 successful boring businesses and how they got their customers, clients, visibility, and awareness. Practical strategies anybody can copy. The many ways these boring businesses appear where their customers are. No need to complicate it with this one! 00:00 Introduction 00:18 Story 1: Mailbox Replacement Business 02:07 Story 2: Wealth Managem…

E413: Lots of people are saying Instagram is giving less visibility than it used to. I challenge that then share some fresh new hacks I have for TikTok, Instagram Reels, and LinkedIn. And why Snapchat is incredibly underrated, and how to use Pinterest if you’re a talker. 00:00 Introduction 00:37 The Instagram Algorithm Changes 01:13 TikTok's New Ge…

E412: Lots of top people are getting rejected from the SearchGPT beta. This guy, however, not only got accepted but also gave somewhat of a harsh review. He shares what it’s like (I share his screenshots), explains its limitations and problems, and compares it to his favorite AI tool. Then I share the pushback he received with his review. The sourc…

E411: I just gave this advice to my friend Vova, who’s today starting a new brand. He’s posting daily videos growing a new audience. I originally told him #9 from this new Shaan Puri post, “#9 - MrBeast’s 100 video rule.” Then realized the whole thing - all 9 rules - is worth sharing. In the past 5 years, Shaan Puri’s built audiences of: - 500k+ ne…

E410: A lot of SEOs and web developers rely on Google PageSpeed Insights. But there’s a dark truth behind this tool and others like it. The truth is that these tools are often wrong. Not only are they wrong, but they commonly are the cause of wasted resources and complacent underperformance. This is the reality. 00:00 Introduction: Controversial Op…

E409: I’m seeing a lot of upward trajectories on Google Trends. One I expected but many I didn’t expect. And a friend is using this to start a new brand. I’m seeing a lot of success. Here’s how to take advantage of these opportunities. As mentioned in the episode - "How a Digital Marketing Noobie Can Beat a Pro" - https://youtu.be/avWYynYI53I 00:00…

E408: The Google August Core Update began its month-long rollout on August 15th. It’s supposed to remedy the pain content-based sites felt from the September 2023 Helpful Content Update and the March 2024 update. Here’s the top information about it, what the SEO community is saying, and how I recommend moving forward based off this update. Read it …

E407: TwitterX’s newest version of its native AI, Grok, Grok 2.0 lets you generate images of anybody doing anything. And don’t get this mistaken for negligence. This was a deliberate stunt by the team at X to go viral and get people talking. It worked, and people are going crazy. Right now, you can generate images of anybody in your niche doing any…

E406: I spent 3 months hardcore going on podcasts and in those 3 months went on 30 podcasts. 10 appearances per month. But what’s crazy is those podcasts led to: - Exact match anchor text to pages that are now ranking - Increase image SEO - Brand mentions used by AI - And opportunities I’m only now realizing I didn’t properly capitalize off of I’m …

E405: Ryann_Wealth started a new self-branded (not faceless) Instagram and in two weeks got to 125,000 followers. He walks around his parent’s house talking about entrepreneurship. He is literally 14 years old. His new brand is already making money. Ryan is making use of the Curious Learner Bias. He is not an expert entrepreneur, nor does he claim …

E404: Here’s how long it takes to go viral on TikTok and Instagram. I’ve posted videos over 650 days in a row on TikTok and Instagram Reels. Over 1,200 videos. I’ve had viral hits more times than I can count. This is what you can expect. ------ Recorded from a lovely river boat café in Europe. Yesterday’s episode about How Long It Takes to Rank on …

E403: How long it takes to rank #1 on Google for seven keywords. Trending keywords and standard keywords. I share my results from four websites. Rankings from over the years. If you’re doing SEO and wondering how long before you see results, this episode answers that. #82 of The Edward Show (mentioned in the episode): https://youtu.be/YfWT_8xSRG8 F…

E402: What happens if you don’t link out to other websites? This SEO experiment tests this. The results are 100% clear - they, in fact, could not be any more clear. The clarity of the results is crazy. SEO Experiments from: https://seosherpa.com/seo-experiments/ 00:00 Today's SEO Experiment 00:36 Outbound Links 01:36 The Experiment 02:15 Setup and …

E401: Lukas Hermann of https://stagetimer.io/ is using a straightforward bottom-of-funnel SEO strategy. This strategy, along with his excellent craftsmanship, is enough to get him to $10,000+ MRR - increasing monthly. He has easy-to-understand information architecture, a nice site, and a solid product. But! - His product is a timer. He’s competing …

E400: Val Katayev was a 19-year-old immigrant kid who quickly lost a month’s worth of pay in a single day trying to figure out Google Ads during its early days. “I woke up to a $5,000 loss. Did I just lose a month's worth of income in my sleep? Yes, I did. I spent $6k on ads to generate $1k of revenue.” He was the only employee… and he was living i…

E399: If you Google yourself, what do you see? For me, I see social links, my site, and some photos. But the photos are really lacking, especially when I click into Google Images further… Really lacking. I’ve lived this big life that I’m proud of, with all these top people, and you can’t see any of that. I’m missing out on all this social proof, cr…

E398: The founder of Meetup.com, Scott Heiferman, sold Meetup.com a few years ago for $200 million. Then he went to work as an associate at an Amazon fulfillment center. Two decades before that, he sold a different company for $15 million. Then he went to work the counter of a McDonald’s. + How Avi Schiffmann got 5,100 backlinks for a $2,000,000 ga…

E397: I made this episode right before news of today’s financial crash went viral. The timing could not have been more perfect. This directly answers the question of whether or not it is worth investing in marketing during a financial crash or recession. The thread I’m sharing: https://x.com/ValKatayev/status/1589287819117109248 00:00 The Billion-D…

E396: Not all heroes wear capes. This is how to do marketing on 4chan. I used 4chan to make an unlistened-to video game music radio show, being recorded live in the middle of the night, go viral around the world. If you want some ideas for how to start a grassroots movement on 4chan, this is a good episode. Or if you just want a fun marketing story…

E395: SearchGPT is OpenAI’s GPT-enhanced search engine. OpenAI is coming directly after Google’s main business. Searchers no longer need to go into the results to get their answers. So digital marketers are wondering - “Is SEO still a viable channel?” The answer is yes and no. Not for SEO as we know it - not for top-of-funnel. For bottom-of-funnel,…

E394: Sharing popular SEO myths that many people believe not to be true! If you want to know what matters in SEO - what to focus on - and what to ignore, this podcast is perfect for you. If you’re active doing SEO and need something to get you going - also great for you. Lots of value in this one. 00:00 Introduction: SEO Myths and Personal Experien…

E393: The most straightforward way to get automatically Featured on Product Hunt without having to message support. Things covered: - Benefits of launching a technology product on Product Hunt. - The difference between the Featured page and the All (New) Page. - Can you Hunt your own product, which you are also a Maker of? - How to submit and fill …

E392: Avi Schiffmann, 21 years old, just spent 72% of his funding buying the Friend.com domain name. Avi paid $1,887,843.00 to buy Friend.com. And he spent $200,000 on a video from Sandwich Video. This was a crazy gamble that is paying off - Avi and his video are going super viral. But there’s more to the story than this. I share Avi’s insane backg…

E391: Instagram just launched AI avatars. You can train an AI off all your Instagram content and use it across comments, DMs, as a standalone website, as a bot people can talk with on Whatsapp and Messenger, and more. You can query your entire knowledge base on Instagram. You can train AI to recommend your brand. And - there’s no doubt this is goin…

E390: How I ranked 2 on the videos tab of Google and 2 on YouTube for a lucrative keyword only 8 hours after publishing my video - which took literally 30 minutes to make. Video is maybe the craziest opportunity that has existed in marketing. Not only is it great for building a brand and top-of-mind awareness… it’s also great for targeting conversi…

E389: How Morning Brew used repetition of the coffee cup emoji to get top-of-mind awareness in places like iMessage, Whatsapp, DMs, and more. How putting a product launch in the name of social profiles easily increases the efficacy of content marketing. “Bobby from Dupe.com.” How Bobby from Dupe hires an army of video creators on TikTok and IG Reel…

E388: Recent news - Reddit blocks all search engines other than Google from crawling it. This effectively means the only search engine that can recommend Reddit results is Google. This is only several months after Google’s $60,000,000/year deal with Reddit to access Reddit’s user generated content for training Google’s AI models. For a long time pe…

E387: This website has only 10/100 SEO Domain Authority. Yet, that’s enough for it to get 3,000 organic clicks a week from Google and hundreds of newsletter signups each month. It’s a niche site ranking for bottom-of-funnel keywords - and a nice story. If you want a digital marketing pick-me-up about how SEO doesn’t have to be hard, this episode is…

E386: Something crazy is happening with LinkedIn. This LinkedIn video - https://lnkd.in/d-n8eGUx - only has 1 like but is up to 17,000 impressions and growing by 1,000 impressions every 20 minutes. There have been rumors that LinkedIn is turbocharging videos, and this looks to be the case. The video came out on a company page of mine that only has …

E385: The reality of working at the big Madison Avenue marketing agencies. I worked at one of them, doing SEO for some of the biggest companies in the world. This is what I learned. If you have any doubts about your own marketing being good enough or about you being able to take on big incumbents, listen to this. The Product Hunt article mentioned …

E384: The best pieces of general marketing, sales, and optimization advice from this 100-post thread about growing a multimillion-dollar mobile app. The thread is an absolute beast, and the rapid-fire tips I share on this show are directly actionable. After making this pod, I’ve already started incorporating them myself. The thread in the podcast, …

E383: This link shares all the tools mentioned in this episode: https://edwardsturm.com/software/ By using the links on that page you are supporting the podcast. Thank you. I share every tool in my marketing stack, even when there are no affiliate programs for the tools. I only share tools I personally believe in and genuinely recommend. I don’t sh…

E382: Do this to save any meeting that’s not going as well as expected. A great way to turn a mediocre meeting positive is to end on a high note. This simple trick is very likely to leave the other person feeling good about you when the meeting ends. This is one of my favorite tools from my networking toolbox, and I’m looking forward to sharing mor…

E381: We look at Daydream, a Programmatic SEO implementation company, which has raised $6.3 million dollars in funding. Then we look at Programmatic SEO from Payscale. We end by deep-diving into Programmatic SEO from Wise. Wise has used Programmatic SEO to generate over 200,000 currency conversion pages. These Programmatic SEO pages have gotten Wis…

E380: Many of the top social media algorithms got their fundamentals from Google’s algorithms. Instagram is no different. Attributes that are important to Instagram are shared by Google, X, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and more. In this episode of the show, I break down trust attributes for Instagram’s algorithm and relate that to Google, Reddit, YouTu…

E379: How Jefferson Fisher recorded easy self-improvement videos in his car for the last 2.5 years, launched a low-produced podcast, and immediately became the #1 podcast in the world. The Jefferson Fisher Podcast ranks #1 on Apple Podcasts above: Joe Rogan, Andrew Huberman, The New York Times, Jon Stewart, and more. And how you can steal Jefferson…

E378: How to show up in Google’s new AI Overviews. In this episode you’ll get: - All the forms and features of Google’s AI Overviews. - Straightforward methods to be included in AI Overviews. - Crazy out-of-the-box methods people are using. 00:00 Introduction to Google's AI Overviews 00:33 AI Overviews’ Controversial Rollout 01:07 Optimizing for AI…

E377: Google’s rich answers give a dramatic boost in daily organic clicks from search. Many assume rich answers are near worthless for traffic; they’re not. This episode gives examples of rich answers, shares how much they decrease clicks, but also demonstrates they are not completely worthless. Having a rich answer still gives substantial traffic,…

E376: TikToker, News Daddy, got invited to the NATO Summit in Washington D.C. and got more access than top journalists. He shares footage from the event and what he learned. The #1 thing: we live in an era where short-form mobile video creators are more influential than the top journalists. Once I get you motivated with News Daddy’s videos, I give …