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Posts by Will Critchlow

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1. I would have guessed there'd be an AI overview for this

2. I wouldn't have expected "regular" search results to be this good

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TODAY! bit.ly/3Qbqi5h

@searchpilot.bsky.social founder @willcritchlow.bsky.social talks to our @patrickhathaway.bsky.social (co-founder & CEO of Sitebulb) about what enterprise SEO teams at large ecommerce sites need now, from their tools, workflows, and the businesses behind them.

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Beyond Crawl Data: What SEO Teams Really Need From Their Tools In this conversation, SearchPilot founder Will Critchlow talks to Patrick Hathaway, co-founder and CEO of Sitebulb, about what enterprise SEO teams at large retail and ecommerce sites need now, from t...

Hear the full conversation: www.searchpilot.com/beyond-crawl...

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Honing and refining an ideal customer profile is scary!

Saying no to prospects who aren't a good fit is even worse.

But both help you grow AND stay true to your values.

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The secrets to product development:

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The bet on trust - a snippet from my conversation with @patrickhathaway.bsky.social :

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Webinar - The Agentic Web: Future of Ecommerce in the AI Era | Sitebulb Will Critchlow, CEO of Search Pilot, and Katelyn Geary, SEO Manager at JD Sports, will discuss what the future of ecommerce SEO looks like, including the shift to agentic search.

Watch the whole conversation: sitebulb.com/resources/gu...

3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0
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GEO is SEO but with more panic...

...in conversation with Katelyn Geary and Patrick Hathaway:

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Webinar - The Agentic Web: Future of Ecommerce in the AI Era | Sitebulb Will Critchlow, CEO of Search Pilot, and Katelyn Geary, SEO Manager at JD Sports, will discuss what the future of ecommerce SEO looks like, including the shift to agentic search.

Watch the whole conversation: sitebulb.com/resources/gu...

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Katelyn Geary talking sense in discussion last week with me and Patrick Hathaway: "AI search is a team effort":

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This Test Revealed an Unexpected SEO Signal Hiding in Plain Sight We tested capitalizing the content of title tags. The results surprised us, and pointed to an unexpected SEO signal we think everyone should know about.

The full write-up:

www.searchpilot.com/resources/ca...

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Capitals can affect "named entity recognition" and other elements of natural language processing.

Check out the full story in the thread to see how we get from SHOUTING to an unexpected ranking factor:

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I don't like SHOUTING ON THE INTERNET so I was initially sceptical about a series of tests exploring capitals in titles.

In fact, what we learned from our analysis of the data was one of the most interesting test outcomes we've had @searchpilot.bsky.social .

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Webinar - The Agentic Web: Future of Ecommerce in the AI Era | Sitebulb Will Critchlow, CEO of Search Pilot, and Katelyn Geary, SEO Manager at JD Sports, will discuss what the future of ecommerce SEO looks like, including the shift to agentic search.

Starting now - join us live: sitebulb.com/resources/gu...

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SEO Is a System, Not a Channel: Lessons from Zalando, Omio, and idealo (Norman Nielsen) In this conversation with SearchPilot founder Will Critchlow, Norman Nielsen shares the systems behind growth that hold up across countries, channels, and leadership scrutiny. You will learn what it t...

Hear the full conversation: www.searchpilot.com/seo-is-a-sys...

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Learn more about:

- Measuring Total Impact
- Strategic Alignment
- Avoiding Short-Lived Trends
- Proving the Business Case
- Counter-Intuitive Discoveries

And learn the German word for "half-life" (halbwertszeit).

3 weeks ago 1 0 1 0
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I got to turn the tables and quiz him about how *he* thinks about it, and how his thinking has evolved from his work with @searchpilot.bsky.social.

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When we first started discussing working together, Norman Nielsen gave me a hard time about measuring the total impact of a testing program where you can't just add all the uplifts together.

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AI Content Is Cheap, Lost Traffic Isn't: A Roadmap for Testing What Works The focus of this webinar is to give a practical roadmap for testing AI content the same way we would test any other meaningful SEO change: with a clear hypothesis, a structured sequence of experiment...

Get the full recording here: www.searchpilot.com/resources/bl...

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First, let's look at some AI content hypotheses:

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My colleague Demetria gave a masterclass webinar in both sides of the AI-in-SEO story:

1. When, how, and why to use AI to help improve your website
2. How to measure the impact of website changes on AI discovery (GEO)

Here's a short clip but I'll link to the full thing below.

4 weeks ago 0 0 1 0
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We welcome @willcritchlow.bsky.social to our upcoming webinar panel on the future of ecommerce SEO.

Will is positioned at the intersection of technology, ecommerce, and SEO testing - and we can't wait to talk to him!

Secure your spot now: sitebulb.com/resources/guid...
#seo
#ecommerce

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Building an AI Fluent Team: A Candid Talk with Wil Reynolds | Business Class Lounge by SearchPilot, hosted by Will Critchlow Season 02 episode 11: Wil Reynolds, Founder of Seer Interactive

If you want the podcast version, it's here now:
shows.acast.com/business-cla...

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Building an AI Fluent Team: A Candid Talk with Wil Reynolds | Business Class Lounge by SearchPilot, hosted by Will Critchlow Season 02 episode 11: Wil Reynolds, Founder of Seer Interactive

I swap audio a lot with @wilreynolds.bsky.social , and we both listen while working out, doing chores etc.

He and I caught up for a conversation about everything search and AI, and ended up going deep into a few surprising areas around job security and more.

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AI Content Is Cheap. Lost Traffic Isn’t. A Roadmap for Testing What Works Most teams are publishing AI content and hoping for the best. This webinar gives you a proven testing roadmap, so you know exactly what's working before you scale.

Anyway. Register here for access and to get the recording even if you can't make it live:
www.searchpilot.com/ai-content-i...

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@searchpilot.bsky.social we have real performance data, so this isn't just an opinion. (Gah - I, a human, wrote that, then realised that the "it isn't x, it's y" is such an AI-content smell, but I refuse to be cowed. I'm going to write how I like so I'm leaving it in).

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My colleague Demetria has had a front row seat to see the impacts (positive AND negative) of AI-generated content on SEO performance.

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What's Going On With Search? From SEO to GEO in 2026 (with Tim Soulo) This week I sat down with Tim Soulo, CMO at Ahrefs, for a conversation that bounced between product strategy, marketing craft, data moats, and the new chaos of AI-driven discovery. If you have felt th...

Catch the full recording and write up here: www.searchpilot.com/resources/bl...

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I agree with @timsoulo.bsky.social : the AIO / GEO loopholes that you see people boasting about exploiting are going to get closed:

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