Hello and welcome to The Recipe for SEO Success. Today it's Toon tip time. I'm going to share a short, sharp episode that gives you quick advice and helps make your SEO journey easier. And today I want to talk about E.E.A.T. (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness).

Kate discussed the importance of Google's EEAT framework for content creators to enhance their authenticity and authority in the digital landscape. She emphasized the need for content to reflect firsthand experience, demonstrate depth of knowledge, cite reliable sources, and establish a brand as a leader in its space. Kate also stressed the importance of transparency and strong signals in terms of reviews and testimonials.

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In today's Toon tip I'm answering a question from the Misfits Entrepreneurs Facebook group from Jo Green: What are the top things to do to help your website and articles show up in Google AI overviews or AI search that are easy to implement?

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What does the future of ecommerce look like?
Now, we’ve already done our SEO predictions episode covering the broad strokes, but today I want to focus on eCommerce.

What has changed, and what has stayed the same?
How can you continue to compete with the big brand names in this new age of AI?
Stick around and find out.

• What has changed in ecommerce over the last year
• What technical aspects you should learn
• What Google Shopping is
• How Google Merchant Center works
• Common UX mistakes ecommerce sites are making
• What differences you can make to product descriptions for voice search
• How AI is changing ecommerce business processes
• How Louis keeps up with all the changes in ecommerce
• Louis’s number-one tip for ecommerce owners

Useful resources:

• Ecommerce SEO-friendly UX: from crappy to kerching with Louis Smith (NEWBIE)

• Google Shopping

• Google Merchant Centre

• Microsoft Clarity

• Magai

• Hemingway

• Personal Branding Workbook

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It's time for my first SEO tip of 2025, and today we're going to be talking about SEO prompts for ChatGPT.

Now unless you've been living under a rock, you'll know that ChatGPT is an advanced natural language processing AI model. Developed by OpenAI, it's all about trying to understand and generate ‘human-like’, and yes, I'm doing air fingers when I say human-like, text based on the input it receives.

It's a valuable tool, we love it, and lots of people are using it for SEO. Now, I want to give you some examples of how you can use it, say some prompts that might be helpful.

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• Magai

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What’s important to Google this year

So it’s been a while, thanks for Tooning back in.
As I mentioned in the kick-off episode for the year, I took a little break to deal with some personal stuff, but now I’m back and ready to face everything SEO has to throw at us in 2025.
But what do we think is coming down the tube?
How much will Chat GPT influence SEO?
Do the old methods still work?
Today I’m joined by one of my favourite SEO’s to talk through our predictions for the coming year.

Tune in to learn:

• Why it’s important to focus on UX (user experience) friendly sites

• Why Google AI summaries are here to stay

• Why SEO needs to become a multi-channel approach

• Why we need to move beyond keywords and focus on user intent behind queries

• Why everyone (including SEO pros) needs to work on building up their EEAT (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness)

• Why video content is so important

• Why we should focus on collaboration instead of creation

• Why AI content is going to increase

• How building communities can lead to potential customers

• How you can use AI agents to streamline SEO processes

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Hey, we're back. It's 2025 and the Recipe for SEO Success podcast is back on the airwaves (or the earwaves or whatever podcasts are).

For those of you who have been following my story online, you'll know that 2024 wasn't my best year. Very sadly, my dad passed away, and that caused obviously a lot of upset and changes.

But never fear, we are back and I will be launching a series of episodes over the coming weeks and for the first part of this year, I really want to focus on Australian SEO talent. There are now dozens of SEO podcasts. When I started, there were very few. Now there are hundreds. Every software seems to have an SEO podcast, every publication.

But we seem to see the same guests appearing again and again, and they're often the celebrity guests who are also on the speaker circuit.

And since my audience is primarily real people, small business owners, ecommerce store owners, marketing managers, often who are trying to do SEO themselves with a very tight budget, I feel often these tips from the glamorous superstar SEOs aren't quite as relevant.

We'll also continue our reality SEO episodes where we talk to people who are doing the do who aren't necessarily getting paid as SEO experts. And also I will continue to do my tips,I really want to go back to the basics, what is happening in 2025?

How is SEO going to change? And of course it's always changing as it always has, we can't ignore the rise of ChatGTP and AI. So of course we'll be covering those in the episodes, but still core principles stay the same.

So that's going to be the focus. Aussie Experts for now, more tips and advice, more reality, and a real focus on getting back to basics. So if that sounds good to you, put this in your favourite, listen in and welcome back. I'm so glad to be back in my little seat in my little hut in my back garden talking SEO again.

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Hello, I just want to explain that we're going to be taking a little bit of a break on the podcast, probably about a month or so.

This is sadly because I've had some bad news from home and I need to return to the UK and spend some time with my family. So I hope you can bear with me while I get through this difficult time.

We will be back later in the year with more great episodes.

Thanks for listening. I wish you all well. Thank you.

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How to make your ecommerce store stand out with SEO

Do you struggle to get your products to rank high on the search engine results pages?

Last year we went through how you can improve user experience on site with Louis Smith.

And today we’ll cover some common mistakes ecommerce owners make that can lead to their products ranking poorly, or sometimes not at all.

Tune in to learn:

• How ecommerce SEO differs from service-based business SEO

• What features ecommerce owners can access in the SERPS

• Why you should get set up on Google Merchant Center.

• The biggest mistakes ecommerce sites are making

• What the best structure for product pages is

• Patrick’s top tips on how to make more engaging product descriptions

• How to use internal linking to cross-sell your products

• Why having a personalised brand can help you stand out

• What role schema plays in ecommerce sites

Useful resources:

• Google Merchant Center

• Google Keyword Planner

• SEMrush

• Ecommerce SEO-friendly UX: from crappy to kerching with Louis Smith (NEWBIE)

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