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Hi everyone! I’m officially #OpenToWork & exploring new full-time opportunities in SEO, content & digital marketing.
If you come across any relevant roles or if you’d simply like to reconnect please feel free to send me a message or drop a comment below. Your support means a lot.
I’m currently ranking Top 10 on Google and Bing for competitive keywords like “Best SEO Copywriter South Africa” proving my ability to create content and SEO systems that actually rank. Now I’m looking to bring those skills into a long-term, full-time position where I can contribute to growth, performance, and strategy.
I’m open to positions such as:
• SEO Copywriter
• SEO Specialist
• SEO Team Lead
• SEO Content Manager
• Marketing Content Manager
• Technical SEO Specialist
Open to roles in:
📍 Johannesburg / Gauteng
📍 Durban
📍 Cape Town
And more
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Good list. I'd add a 6th: the "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" box under Settings → Reading. It often stays ticked after a staging launch and adds noindex to every page. Small note on #4: multiple H1s aren't a problem on their own for Google; a clear heading structure matters more.
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Want to isolate this AI-driven query data in your own accounts?
Run this custom Regex filter under Performance > Query > Custom (regex) in GSC:
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Have you checked for AI query footprints across your client sites yet?
What patterns are you seeing?
Drop your findings below! 👇
#SEO #SearchEngineOptimization #GoogleSearchConsole #GenerativeAI #AEO #TechnicalSEO #AISEO
Useful regex. Before blaming AI agents for every spike, it's worth checking the opposite effect: when Google stopped supporting the num=100 results parameter in September 2025, many sites saw desktop impressions drop overnight because rank-tracker scrapes stopped counting....
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Nice result. One caution for anyone copying steps 2 and 3: don't noindex a page and block it in robots.txt at the same time. If it's blocked, Google can't crawl it to see the noindex, so it can linger in the index. Noindex first, let it drop out, then block if you still need to save crawl.