Managing Director @MerjCom. SME and Enterprise Digital Marketing x Engineering. Partner to global brands in FTSE100, FTSE250, S&P 500.

London, United Kingdom
Joined April 2009
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Agents are on your site right now, clicking, typing, checking out. Most companies can't tell which sessions are agents, or whether they worked. We spent 10 months finding where they break. Read our full research here: merj.com/blog/agent-interact…
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Proud to have FINALLY launched my first WordPress plugin. Automagically speed up your images and optimize their markup via your edge provider of choice (Cloudflare / Accelerated Domains / Imgix, etc). wordpress.org/plugins/edge-i…
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We analyzed billions of AI crawler requests to figure out how each crawler handles JavaScript rendering, assets, and other behavior. Here's what we found.
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Top Trending SEO Stories in #SEOFOMO news Today 👀 * Introducing Our Bing Webmaster Tools API Python Client by @ryansiddle * 10 SEO Trends for 2025 by @sachinshajik * Google's Dirty Little Secret, Anonymous Queries by @MattMelli Check them out 👏 news.seofomo.co/
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Bing Webmaster Tools API and documentation bugs uncovered and confirmed seroundtable.com/bing-webmas… via @ryansiddle
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🚨 SEO Research - Google ignores canonicals Our study of 595K domains found: 1) Google ignores canonicals with hreflang, lang, media, or type attributes. 2) 210 unique attributes used in canonicals across the set. 3) Many SEO tools do not report on it. merj.com/blog/how-extra-html…
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Super deep dive study on how Google Search indexes sites with JavaScript seroundtable.com/google-sear… by @vercel and @MerjCom
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I love this type of empirically sound SEO research by @giacomozecchini that yields actionable insights. It's a rare sight in a world often dominated by anecdotes with a good chunk of alchemy. It's a good primer on how Google's crawling pipeline appears to work, and how one can optimize crawl speed beyond the traditional techniques. I keep saying "Have empathy with Googlebot" and this is exactly that. Understand what is expensive for it and try to avoid it having to do that work. Also great to see that @nextjs is taking advantage of the recommended technique out of the box. merj.com/blog/managing-webpa…
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🗞️Does your business rely on data from web crawlers for campaigns, decision making and machine-learning inputs? In this research, @giacomozecchini shared 6 tests that were performed across 14 popular crawling providers. merj.com/blog/validating-ses…
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🔥 Happy Friday! New #SEO Weekly: 🤖 How do the AI algorithms drive search? 🛒 SEO accessibility resources via @cbrodzky 🗞️ Publishers, URL best practices? via @badams 📊🎨 A gorgeous Data Studio template with the GSC URL Inspection API via @lazarinastoy ipullrank.com/the-seo-weekly…
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Focus on Local? -> How Google Map Updates Can Impact Your Google My Business Positions "If your business or client's business is sitting smack bang on a boundary line, be aware they can be updated by Google Maps at any time." glennga.be/2TXwiBU via @GuideTwit
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The latest edition of #SEOFOMO w/ top latest news, resources & jobs has been just sent to 14.2K subscribers 🙌 featuring awesomeness from @lilyraynyc @glenngabe @MordyOberstein @ryansiddle @KorayGubur @olgazarzeczna @philnottingham @henshaw @Kirsty_Hulse @rick_viscomi & more...
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Scoring highly on CWV? Good work! You're not done yet, though. It's time to start asking how *smooth* your website is. chromium.googlesource.com/ch…
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We must free this ostrich trapped in a piece of wood
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The 202101 (January 2021) dataset is now available on BigQuery! Read the full release notes: groups.google.com/a/chromium…
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BTW something like this seems to work: pastebin.com/by9fYDfN
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I tried to get an AI to create a convo between SEO tools on which SEO tool is better, but it quickly became petty AF 😂
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Google Does Not Support Nested XML Sitemap Index Files tldrmarketing.com/seo/google… @ryansiddle
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The New York Times
@nytimes30 Nov 2020
The artificial intelligence lab DeepMind built a computer system that can identify the shape of a protein in mere hours. This long-sought breakthrough could accelerate the ability to understand diseases and help develop new medicines. nyti.ms/3fOIDyN
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