SEO Shortcuts From a 25 Year Veteran - Bill Hartzer

E608: Legendary SEO, Bill Hartzer, joins the pod! Bill Hartzer has been in the industry for 25 years and is extremely well known, having shared stages with many other top SEOs. He is an expert in black hat SEO, gray hat SEO, and of course white hat SEO and shares crazy SEO gems that very VERY few digital marketers, let alone SEOs, know. In this episode, Bill gives shortcuts both for local SEO and normal website SEO: - How to boost visibility in Google Maps. - How to build trust to a new website. - How Bill uses AI to game link building. - How to get URLs indexed en masse. - How entity SEO is the new hotness. - How backlinks don’t matter nearly as much as they used to - what matters now. What an honor to have Bill on the show, this one is a treat. ⭐️ Bill’s website: https://www.billhartzer.com/ ✨ Bill on 𝕏: https://x.com/bhartzer 🌟 Bill on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhartzer/ 🧲 Compact Keywords - My SEO Course - Get paying customers through SEO - Clear step-by-step video breakdowns - SEO templates to be copied and adapted for your products and services: https://compactkeywords.com/ 00:00 Welcoming Bill Hartzer 02:53 Driving Directions Hack for Local SEO 03:48 The 100 Phones Experiment 24:17 Entity SEO and Its Importance 35:58 Technical SEO and Site Maps 41:19 Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and Their Impact 52:39 TwitterX and Club TLDs: A Frustrating Experience 54:35 Bill’s AI Content Strategy and SEO Insights 01:23:29 Evolution of Social Media Influence 01:29:21 Backlinks vs. Engagement: The Debate 01:36:08 Conclusion and Final Thoughts The Edward Show. Your daily search engine optimization podcast: https://edwardsturm.com/the-edward-show/ #seohacks #seotips #blackhatseo #searchengineoptimization