SEO in 2026

Adelina Bordea shares that small changes can make a big impact. Talking points include: What are the small changes you are talking about? How do you know which small changes will have the biggest impact? How do you know what changes to make? How do you measure the impact these changes have? How do you work with other internal teams to get these changes done? What if it's likely to take a long time...

Giulia Panozzo shares about the importance of investing in expanding your skillset. Talking points include: What is changing in SEO? What additional skills need to be learned? What soft skills need to be learned? What adjacent topics need to be learned? Where are some of the best places to learn? How often should you learn? How should you share what you learn in your own organisation? How can you...

Emina Demiri-Watson shares that SEO is much more than it has ever been. Discussion points include: What are the key new trends of SEO to stay on top of? - Search has developed (strong performance of UGC platforms such as Reddit, AIO roll-out, development of Perspectives, recent core updates and emphasis on brand in search, TikTok as a search engine…). - User journey is not linear - finally it's da...

Tevfik Mert Azizoglu shares how to go beyond Google and optimize different search channels. Discussion points include: What is search everywhere optimization? Witch platforms are key? How to select the platforms that are key for your business How to use AI to optimize strategy Read the full transcript of Tevfik's interview at: https://majestic.com/seo-in-2025/additional-insights/tevfik-mert-azizog...

Sukhjinder Singh shares the importance of working smarter to stay relevant. Talking points include: How do you stay relevant? How do you cope with what seems to be an ever-increasing rate of change? How do you deal with overwhelm? How do you work smarter and stay ahead? How do you stay on top of the latest technologies? How do you incorporate AI into your workflow? How will you continue to do this...

Krzysztof Marzec shares the importance of using data and knowledge from Google Ads and Analytics for better SEO! Talking points include: How does Quality Score helps to make better SEO? How should paid ads and SEO teams work more closely together? How does data from Google Ads campaigns improves content plan? What data is available? How can an SEO access all the data? What’s an example of how this...

Debbie Chew shares the importance of tapping into your first-party data. Talking points include: What are the most common forms of first party data? What tends to be the most useful first party data for SEO? How should SEOs work with other teams to find better first party data? How do we better understand our audience with first party data? How do we analyse first party data? What do you do if you...

Marco Giordano shares that SEOs need to get more familiar with analytics. Talking points include: What analytics knowledge do SEOs need to know about? Do you primarily use GA4? How much analytics knowledge is enough? How should SEOs be using analytics packages on an ongoing basis? How should analytics inform SEO strategy? Should SEOs be learning coding? Does this apply to non-technical SEOs? Read...

Nik Ranger shares why brand representation and interpretability matter in the era of LLMs. Talking points include: Why does AI rank matter? How do you measure visibility on LLMs? What is the impact of this on visibility? What are typical gaps in the model’s understanding and what does a brand do to deal with this? How to maximise brand representation How does this impact purchasing decisions? What...

Sanja Markovic shares that a site migration is like moving house. Talking points include: What do you mean by a site migration? How do you prepare for a site migration? How much time do you need to prepare? What teams should be involved? When is a site migration considered to be successful? What are the most common reasons why site migrations fail How to avoid making mistakes in a site migration?...

Nikki Halliwell shares the importance of using a migration briefing document before you start working on a migration. Talking points include: What are the key elements in a migration briefing document? Who do you work with? How do you sell the need for this? Where do you gather information from? What issues are likely to be solved by creating a migration briefing document? Read the full transcript...

Emma Russell shares 5 SEO tasks when migrating your site in 2025. Emma's key points are: 1. Understand if it’s an opportunity for growth 2. Benchmarking what you have now 3. List all of your requirements 4. Make friends with dev 5. Test test test Read the full transcript of Emma's interview at: https://majestic.com/seo-in-2025/emma-russell

Andrew Optimisey shares about he importance of controlling all of your domains. Talking points include: What does controlling all of your domains mean in practice? Who should be responsible for your domains? When should you buy a new domain and when should you build a new project on an existing domain? When should you change a domain for an existing project? When should you let a domain name expir...

Helen Pollitt shares the importance of understanding the cost as well as value of organic traffic. Talking points include: What is the difference between the cost and value of organic traffic? Why do we need to know the cost? How do we calculate the value? What do you mean by organic traffic in all forms? How do you prefer to calculate ROI? How does this lead into defining an SEO strategy? How oft...

Andy Frobisher shares that it’s time to get serious about the internet and energy consumption. Talking points include: What companies are trying to go net zero? Does this have a positive business case? What does this mean for the overall size of pages on websites? What are the best ways to reduce the page speed of a web page in 2025? What does this mean for algorithms moving forward? What does thi...

Bastian Grimm shares that inventory management is now more important then ever. Talking points include: What do you mean by Inventory management? How do you know which content to focus on? What do Google do when they can’t keep up with crawling and indexing the web? Should you get rid of some content? What content should you get rid of? What’s an example of poor quality content, produced by AI? Wh...

Kaspar Szymanski shares that SEO in 2025 is all about signal input. Talking points include: What do you mean by SEO signals? Are Google and Bing looking for the same thing in terms of SEO signals? So the same signals apply to LLMs as well? How do you ensure that SEO signals are consistent? Why do regular, annual SEO audits help with SEO signals? What are the key things to be looking for in an SEO...

Tin Dudajek shares the growing importance of schema markup. Talking points include: How would you summarise the current state of Schema? Why is it continuing to gain importance in 2025? What is schema used for in modern SEO? (data management) Why is Schema so important for AI? What content needs to be optimized for Schema for AI? Where is AI using these schema enhanced pages? What tools do you use...

Keith Goode shares that SEO Product Management is the natural progression of Technical SEO. Talking points include: What is SEO product management? What does the day-to-day life of an SEO product specialist look like? Why is SEO Product Management the natural progression of Technical SEO? Why does SEO Product Management help you go from just building audit lists to implementing changes? Should eve...

Cathryn Stormont shares the importance of keeping track of the performance of core web vitals and overall site user experience. Talking points include: Why are your core web vitals so important to UX? How can you improve your core web vital scores? Are these metrics likely to change or be added to over the next couple of years? Are there any other key metrics that are important for UX?

Montserrat Cano advises the importance of getting to know your audience by undertaking market and competitor research to help overcome risks. Talking points include: How do you undertake market and competitor research to help overcome risks? Why does this work both in primary and global markets? Why does it help to overcome bias? You also talk about Avoiding Logical Fallacies in SEO & Broad Ma...

Maria Scheibengraf shares that in your international SEO efforts, translation and SEO shouldn't be separate tasks performed by separate professionals. Discussion points include: Why does translation and SEO need to be the same task? What happens if these tasks aren’t tackled together? Surely technical SEO and content creation are quite different tasks? What aspects of SEO do people who are transla...

Joseph Kahn explains why adapting to the Local SEO Evolution is key. Talking points include: What changes in local search algorithms are you referring to? How is ‘features with AI’ affecting local SEO? How do you optimize for "near me" searches ? What do you mean by optimizing for location-based queries using AI? How do you leverage user-generated content for local SEO using AI?

Sean Barber shares why tracking LLM traffic matters. Talking points include: Why does tracking LLM traffic matter? How do you go about doing this? What LLMs are driving the most traffic at the moment? How should an SEO optimize for LLMs? What are some specific steps that SEOs should take to optimize for LLMs? Why is this important compared with other SEO activities? How is the LLM space evolving?...

Edward Ziubrzynski explains why global EEAT needs to be a local strategy. Talking points include: What do you mean by EEAT being a local strategy? How could an EEAT strategy vary in different locations? What local considerations do brands generally need to be aware of? How do you strategically roll this out if you’re a big company? How does this improve your SEO? How do you measure the success of...