Ryan Jones

@ryanjonesseo.bsky.social

Marketing Manager @ https://seotesting.com/ Testing, changing, and ranking is what I do. Love all things NBA, NFL, football, and golf.

After an incredible nearly three years at SEOTesting, I’m now looking for a new opportunity in SEO leadership. SEO is where I do my best work, particularly at the intersection of strategy, testing, and commercial impact.

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What SEO tools should an agency use? That’s rarely a “which tool is best?” question. It’s a systems + margin question. When you’re juggling 10, 20, 50 client sites, the real pain isn’t lack of data. It’s: • Manual work • Tool sprawl • Weak reporting • Proving impact so retainers renew

“Should we replace Semrush?” That’s rarely a pricing question. It’s a strategic one. Most SEO teams don’t wake up wanting a new tool. They wake up needing to: • Prove impact • Improve workflow efficiency • Go deeper on links or technical SEO • Scale reporting without drowning in CSV exports 🧵👇

I'd be willing to bet that most of you following me use Google Search Console and Google Analytics every single day. So you're (hopefully) not confused as to what they do. But maybe you'd like to know more about how they can be used in perfect harmony! Here's a simple way to frame it:

We (quite rightly) talk a lot about search intent in SEO, and broader marketing in general. And yet we still find that one of our most common problems is ranking pages but not getting them to convert.

I've been seeing a lot on "chunking" for LLMs recently, and I wanted to give my take. Why are we acting like chunking is some new LLM hack? Isn't it just good content hygiene, anyway?

You're not "outgrowing" Google Search Console. You're just hitting its limits. And that usually happens when you start asking some of these questions: 👉 “Why can’t I see the full query dataset?” 👉 “How do I report this cleanly to stakeholders?” 👉 “What are competitors doing that we’re not?”

We've added a new tool to the Labs section of SEOTesting, and it's already proven to bring through some interesting insights into our existing content! It's called Content Evaluator, and it works in tandem with the Query Fan-Out Generator that's also available in the Labs section.

One of the things that's become clear as we research more about AI visibility (because I still refuse to call it GEO 😉 😅 ) is that it's not about writing more words. It's about writing in a way that machines can understand, while still keeping users front and centre.

LLM visibility tracking is a HOTTT topic right now. But there's still one huge problem: We still don't know the actual prompts people are typing into LLMs to land on our site! 🥲

We love a good framework in SEO, don't we? 😁 The PIE Framework. The ICE Framework. Even the Eisenhower Matrix. They’re all pretty damn good at helping us organize our to-do lists. But they don’t do much when it comes to telling us what actually works.

The hardest client breakups aren't when you fail. They're when you succeed, and they leave anyway. A painful truth for agencies: Clients don't churn because SEO didn't work. They churn because they couldn't see it working. 🧵🧵🧵

Most SEO teams hit a ceiling at a certain point. Not because of skill. Far from it, in fact. But because they never level up their testing process. Where you sit on the SEO Test Ladder determines your influence, your budget, and your long-term impact. Let's run through it! 👇

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Most SEOs don’t lose trust because their ideas are bad. They lose it because they can’t prove they work. Close the “Prove-It" Gap by running tests, showing evidence, and documenting results. Evidence builds trust. Guessing destroys it.

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"What exactly do you do all day?" If you work in SEO, you've heard this question from a client or a C-Suite exec. Or, you know, your Grandma who still thinks you work for Google! 😅