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Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Amen! 🙏🏻

Comment ID #6804361748 12/02/2025 07:50 pm

Tushar Grover commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Great to see one more year of good stories on this amazing site passed, congratulations Barry sir, looking forward to many more years of search coverage . hope the years ahead bring better health and growth in your life. upwards and onwards!

Comment ID #6804361490 12/02/2025 07:49 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Thank you.

Comment ID #6804359491 12/02/2025 07:43 pm

Zolux commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Great job Barry thank you for your amazing work, keep it up!

Comment ID #6804359199 12/02/2025 07:42 pm

DanielW commented on Google Officially Testing Blending AI Mode Into AI Overviews

"I don't see how this will encourage clicks to websites, which is something Google said they are working on." Guess they were full of shit. No surprise there, they can't keep posting impressive revenue numbers if users leave their site, that's the bottom line.

Comment ID #6804347174 12/02/2025 07:00 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

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Comment ID #6804332830 12/02/2025 06:13 pm

Aizaz Ahsan commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

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Comment ID #6804331020 12/02/2025 06:07 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

lol

Comment ID #6804277729 12/02/2025 03:56 pm

Mr Bob commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Trot out the ladies – nice one, Tina! Ahem… Barry, I’ve been hitting your site 7–8 times a day on weekdays since about three years before Penguin 1, back in the Matt Cutts days. Looking back, it was way easier and more fun, even though at the time it felt like the end of days, lol. This is literally the only website I visit consistently – the only one. I used to post as F1 Steve way back when. Wasn’t a fan of Durant at first, but he’s grown on me over the years. I honestly wanted to vote you in as president, but I couldn’t find your name on the ballot in my country. Lots of issues you’d need to fix as president of the world in waiting… but other than that, you are, and always have been, a star and a legend. – F1 / Steve / SaladTosser

Comment ID #6804272793 12/02/2025 03:45 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

thanks

Comment ID #6804240834 12/02/2025 02:38 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Great to have you - thanks! I'll see what I can do about SEO for AI for local.

Comment ID #6804240786 12/02/2025 02:37 pm

Ekees SEO commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Great job and congrats!

Comment ID #6804240686 12/02/2025 02:37 pm

Tina Willis Law commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

The only thing it took for me to comment was you saying that you actually read the comments. 😂 I'll add another female reader to boost those stats. And you indirectly answered a few burning questions I've had lately about best practices with Nano Banana infographics. I would love to hear more about ranking with AI for local businesses. Thank you!

Comment ID #6804239847 12/02/2025 02:35 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Comment ID #6804218983 12/02/2025 01:50 pm

OKmann commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Sorry, I meant it's hard to get a post approved by the moderators of the SEO subreddit

Comment ID #6804218731 12/02/2025 01:50 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

The posts are approved automatically, I dont' approve them manually.

Comment ID #6804216475 12/02/2025 01:45 pm

OKmann commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

In my experience, this website is much more active than many of the old forums and the SEO subreddit seems more tailored to basic SEO, not to mention it's very difficult to get a post approved by the moderators there. But thank you, I will look into Slack, that's not one I've considered. Keep it up, Barry!

Comment ID #6804215776 12/02/2025 01:44 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

there are plenty of online communities, including old forums, reddit, slack, etc.

Comment ID #6804208764 12/02/2025 01:29 pm

OKmann commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Thanks for your service 🫡 This website has been a lifesaver a handful of times. Is there a place online that people still go to meaningfully discuss SEO and seek help with issues? I almost feel like SEOroundtable could be a place for this type of discussion, but I don't want to clog the comments by asking for help all the time.

Comment ID #6804205851 12/02/2025 01:23 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

thanks

Comment ID #6804194767 12/02/2025 01:00 pm

Dark OG commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Congratz nga! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1a28ad9bb496b7ecf1f33805866a5b25fe7dd595d076fcd3c4b7d329bd0dd38e.gif

Comment ID #6804194462 12/02/2025 12:59 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Thank you

Comment ID #6804191778 12/02/2025 12:54 pm

John A. User commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Congratulations, Here's to another 22 years

Comment ID #6804191172 12/02/2025 12:53 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

thanks!

Comment ID #6804189005 12/02/2025 12:48 pm

konki commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Congrats man!

Comment ID #6804186366 12/02/2025 12:43 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Thanks!

Comment ID #6804178173 12/02/2025 12:25 pm

Hunar commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Congrats Barry!

Comment ID #6804176837 12/02/2025 12:22 pm

Ted Kubaitis commented on 100MB Video File Won't Have A Noticeable Effect On Your SEO, Google Says

Sigh... Oh JM... will you ever learn? Depends largely on the video player you are using. Also on whether or not you are autoplaying the video. It probably wont help your SEO but it can hurt your SEO in some cases. YouTube embeds are very bloated compared to other video players that support youtube videos. If you use a theme with a large HD video background you can expect your mobile-friendliness to go to shit.The people at the bus stop on slower connections might give up trying to get to the website. Having a single resource take a long time to load will block one of the few asynchronous connections you have. So if chrome on your machine has 5 async connections the rest of you page resources have access to four. If the video is served from your server then CDN vs. no-CDN might come into play on both the video and the static video player resources. It also wrecks your Core Web Vitals but I guess thats a non-issue unless you spent a lot of time and money tuning your core web vitals... but yeah sure a 100 MB Video file wont help you rank... but it can worsen your SEO if you're not careful. But it can help SEO if you want to get gray hat... there are parasite SEO tricks that work, there are indexing and referring domain tricks, oh yeah, YouTube SEO is actually a thing! So if you are trying to help a youtube video rank then embedding it on sites is beneficial for SEO. If the video helps sales, goes viral, or other engagement then that does help SEO. If you are building custom video widgets in javascript then it also depends on how you code it. JM isn't an SEO and shouldn't be pretending to be an expert...

Comment ID #6804173413 12/02/2025 12:15 pm

Barry Schwartz commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Thank you!

Comment ID #6804170225 12/02/2025 12:08 pm

Matt Jackson commented on Search Engine Roundtable's 22nd Anniversary

Congrats Barry!

Comment ID #6804170016 12/02/2025 12:08 pm

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