10 ways Claude can derail your SEO if you don’t check its work
Technical audits, title tags, link building, and indexing can all go sideways when AI applies SEO best practices without enough context.
Bryson Meunier is founder and CEO of AlgoFāv LLC, a boutique SEO and algorithmic strategy consultancy (algofav.com). He's been working professionally as an SEO since 2000, with in-house experience at Walgreens, Vivid Seats, and Intuit QuickBooks, and agency work at Resolution Media serving Apple, Lowe's, FedEx, and NBC. He's been a Search Engine Land columnist since 2009 and runs SEO Deathwatch, which tackles 'SEO is dead' narratives with data-driven counterarguments. He also created DRESSED, an AI-powered personal stylist app.
Technical audits, title tags, link building, and indexing can all go sideways when AI applies SEO best practices without enough context.
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Bryson Meunier | Apr 2, 2012 at 12:18 pm ETNot too long ago, the article Mobile SEO is a Myth got a lot of people fired up about the foolish notion that mobile SEO is a construct developed by salesmen to sell more SEO services. I responded in the comments to the author’s points, and have addressed this point in multiple articles over the years, so […]
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