I get it now. It was always RIGHT THERE the whole time.

I was constantly noticing Google’s little reminders based on which site I was logged into via Google Analytics / Search Console….. regardless of the query lol. Fine, I get it. They want me to start spamming the SERPs with my target terms. It makes me wonder if it’s like some kinda virtual fidget toy for SEOs… ok then… let’s do that;

There’s nothing new about the data bits, it leads off to GSC (another SEO Fidget Toy?). That makes me think the real goal is to get me outta their SERPs and over into GSC. But hey, I do still keep a fairly good supply of tin-foil lying around, so maybe that’s just me.

What I’d ignored was the info in the drop-down below it. How to improve?? Jeez, maybe I’ve been doing this SEO thing wrong all along. Do tell me how I can improve it.

Get Found On Google

The first link just takes us back to the aforementioned data in the SEO Fidget Toy (SFT?). The bits after that lead us off to this page; ‘Help people find your site on Google’. Well damn… makes me wonder why I’ve spent 15yrs+ reading patents, papers and other information retrieval stuff.

Yea, fair play there actually lol. If it’s a product description page, a informational category page or home pages full of image heavy designs, having the “Google actually likes that ‘text’ stuff”, is a fairly common conversation I have far too often. Text? Who knew? Apparently a lot of folks.. moving along.

Shit… so all that irrelevant traffic I’m getting is something that I should be offering? Does this work in reverse?  Seemingly this article is also about business strategy. Nice.

Indeed this is in fact about business strategy. I knew it! Oh and shouldn’t that be ‘temporal’ or ‘on trend’? Hell, they didn’t even link up the word ‘trend’ (like that). That’s some free SEO advice from yours’ truly Google.

They then go on to talk about CTR and being “best in class” (a pre-requisite for working at Google). To which some of the advice is;

Loud and clear. Spam my local news outlets for links, instead of spamming Google with crappy ones. Check.

This is all coming together now. And so, given the example earlier, I will make separate pages for [hot chocolate] [coffee] and [sandwiches]. And work in the word [winter] into their titles. Please do continue…

Whoah there, I’ll handle the jokes here. Thanks. Anyway, we get it… more business strategy advice. I mean it’s true, I have no idea how to run my business. But hey, since you didn’t use my great idea earlier about adding that link to Google Trends, let’s just give that a go;

Huh… that’s odd. Maybe that one was off a bit. It’s definitely making a comeback.

And that’s it folks… just musing here this morning for shits and giggles. I was going to make a short social posting but uh… it got a bit outta’ hand.
Oh and don’t even bother trying… I am sure I now rank #1 for ‘SEO Sarsaparilla’ – all your ranks now belong to ME!!!

PS; on a more serious note, this page they also lead to, really isn’t all that bad a read. They even linked up the most recent Google Raters Guide (something that used to be ‘leaked’ hehe).