

No Hacks: Web Strategy for the AI Age
Slobodan "Sani" Manić
No Hacks is the weekly podcast about website optimisation, SEO, and web strategy in the age of AI search. If you work on websites and want to understand how AI agents, LLMs, and AI-powered search are changing everything, this is your show.Your next million website visitors won't be human. And most websites are completely unprepared. AI agents can't navigate them. LLMs don't cite them. Search engines no longer rank them the same way.Each week we dig into what's breaking, what's working, and what to do about it, covering AI SEO, AI Overviews, agent experience optimisation (AXO), CRO, structured data, and the future of organic search and discovery.Built for SEO professionals, web strategists, developers, and CRO specialists who'd rather adapt early than scramble later.Hosted by Slobodan Manic, consultant and speaker on Agent Experience Optimisation and AI-ready web strategy.New episodes weekly. Subscribe to the companion newsletter at nohacks.co/subscribe
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Nov 30, 2021 • 34min
42: Key Insights From the 2021 State of Technical SEO
In this episode, we bring you the key insights from the 2021 State of Technical SEO report, a collaboration between Aira and Women in Tech SEO. We discussed the impact of technical SEO, the biggest risks, and the most influential signals that reveal how the industry measures performance.Links in this episode:https://aira.net/state-of-technical-seo/introduction/If you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.

Nov 23, 2021 • 33min
41: Experimentation as a Business Philosophy With Luka Nikolić
Luka Nikolić is a CRO analyst in the Danish iGaming company Better Collective where he is in charge of optimizing a number of the company's affiliate websites for higher conversions. In this episode, we talked about experimentation as a strategy as opposed to a tactic. Luka shares why it’s better to adopt a mindset of experimentation to make the right decisions and deliver value to customers.Links in this episode:https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukanikolic/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rgdeboer_decision-making-at-netflix-activity-6851129157179576321-90yGhttps://hbr.org/2020/03/building-a-culture-of-experimentationhttps://medium.com/disney-streaming/how-we-scaled-experimentation-at-hulu-82d62a4779behttps://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/demystifying-seo-with-experiments-a183b325cf4cIf you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.

Nov 16, 2021 • 37min
40: The ROI of SEO-driven Content With Maeva Cifuentes
Maeva Cifuentes, CEO of Flying Cat, has helped companies like Hotjar, Stonly, Operto, and Avantio reduce their dependence on paid ads and turn organic search into a leading revenue channel through scalable SEO content.In today’s episode, we tried to answer if it’s really possible to measure the ROI of SEO-driven content. Maeva shared her insights on how to handle common SEO objections and which specific KPIs to track to justify how impactful your SEO efforts are. Links in this episode:https://flyingcatmarketing.com/masterclass-keyword-stacking/https://www.linkedin.com/in/maevaeverywhere/If you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.

Nov 9, 2021 • 32min
39: Creating Landing Pages That Convert With Annie Maguire
Annie Maguire is a Conversion Copywriter who has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Loreal, Samsung, Visa to help them understand their target customers better so they can make more money online. In this episode, we dove deep into the role of copy in CRO and the importance of customer research. Annie shared her proven 5-step process for creating landing pages that convert. Links in this episode:https://learn.anniemaguire.com/how-to-conduct-analyze-apply-customer-researchhttps://anniemaguire.com/https://marketingexamples.com/copywriting/rewriting-landing-pagesIf you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.

Nov 2, 2021 • 37min
38: Case Study: How We Fixed A Client’s Core Web Vitals and 3x Their Mobile PageSpeed Score
In this episode, we talked about an actual case study on how we fixed our client’s Core Web Vitals scores. We discussed the main issues we encountered, how we addressed them and our key wins. We shared how we achieved an LCP score of 2.4s (originally 19.8 sec) for one of their key pages.Links in this episode:https://www.nohacksmarketing.com/podcast/029-optimizing-your-core-web-vitals-with-googles-free-performance-focused-tools/https://www.nohacksmarketing.com/podcast/022-google-rolls-out-page-experience-update-what-you-need-to-know/https://www.nohacksmarketing.com/podcast/012-how-to-prepare-your-e-commerce-website-for-core-web-vitals/https://www.nohacksmarketing.com/podcast/core-web-vitals/If you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.

Oct 26, 2021 • 24min
37: Reviewing Jon MacDonald’s Opting In To Optimization
Jon MacDonald, founder and president of e-commerce CRO agency The Good, is back. This time to have a more in-depth discussion about his much-awaited book, Opting into Optimization, out today! We broke down the common mistakes in CRO, his proven playbook for increasing conversions and how focusing on your customer experience drives everything. Oh, and how Kim Kardashian can help your CRO efforts!Links in this episode:https://thegood.com/opting-in-to-optimization/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlAj3VxIKlQhttps://thegood.com/books/https://www.nohacksmarketing.com/podcast/031-opting-in-to-optimization-with-jon-macdonald/If you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform!No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.

Oct 19, 2021 • 29min
36: How To Get Your B2B Brand Messaging Right With Sara Lattanzio
Sara Stella Lattanzio is a B2B Marketing Strategist, one of LinkedIn’s must follow and an Anti-buzzword marketer. In this episode, we delved into why brand messaging is important especially in B2B. Sara shares her actual framework to ensure that your brand message is clear and speaks to your audience.Links in this episode:https://www.linkedin.com/in/saralattanziohttps://www.gong.io/If you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.

Oct 12, 2021 • 24min
35: Why Digging Into Analytics Will Help Your Paid Media Strategy With Blake Strozyk
Blake Strozyk is a Performance Marketing Manager at Refine Labs where he oversees several high-growth B2B SaaS company accounts. In this episode, we discussed how to ensure that your paid media drives quality traffic and essentially pipeline. Blake shared the key metrics to look into and how digging into Google Analytics can help make your PPC and paid social strategy more effective.Links in this episode:https://www.linkedin.com/in/blake-strozyk/https://www.refinelabs.comhttps://analytics.google.comIf you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.

Oct 5, 2021 • 29min
34: Are Mobile Interstitials Acceptable in 2021?
In this episode, we talked about mobile interstitials or what we often call popups which in 2016 was tagged as a negative ranking factor. But Google’s John Mueller recently announced some updates regarding the use of interstitials. Is it now acceptable? We discussed what changed and how to use it without affecting rankings.Links in this episode:https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-onhttps://www.nohacksmarketing.com/podcast/031-opting-in-to-optimization-with-jon-macdonald/https://www.nohacksmarketing.com/podcast/30-trust-the-cro-process-with-khalid-saleh/https://www.nohacksmarketing.com/podcast/022-google-rolls-out-page-experience-update-what-you-need-to-know/https://www.nohacksmarketing.com/podcast/mobile-first-2021/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWn-A9xj7A&t=2101sIf you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.

Sep 28, 2021 • 29min
33: How To Run a Google Tag Manager Audit With Neal Cole
Neal Cole is an Optimisation Consultant at REO Digital and Conversion Uplift. He specializes in web analytics, conversion rate optimisation and data visualisations. According to Neal, Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a necessity in 2021. In this episode, we discussed how to get started with a GTM audit, why you need one and how often you should run an audit.Links in this episode:https://tagmanager.google.comhttps://analytics.google.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nealcole/If you learned something new today, we would appreciate it if you can leave us a review on your favorite podcast platform.No Hacks is a podcast about web performance, technical SEO, and the agentic web. Hosted by Slobodan "Sani" Manic.


