

The Edward Show
Edward Sturm
Daily SEO advice, hacks, and interviews with some of the top voices in search engine optimization, as well as sit-downs with many undiscovered talents.
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Mar 12, 2026 • 1h 53min
How Cody Schneider Uses AI Agents to Automate SEO, Ads & Growth
Cody Schneider, growth strategist and founder building AI-driven marketing and data infrastructure. He explains using Search Console feedback loops, AI agents that refresh and publish content, and systems for automating ads, experiments, and analytics. He covers internal linking, tracking conversions, scaling publishing while avoiding AI slop, and when heavy automated publishing makes sense.

Mar 10, 2026 • 1h 35min
Unicorn Clicks, NavBoost & Google's Real Ranking Signals
Alejandro Meyerhans, SEO practitioner and founder focused on link building and tooling. He discusses Unicorn Clicks and why Google rewards certain engagement. He explains NavBoost as a navigation/engagement signal. He breaks down modern link graphs, referral traffic relevance, the Google API leak, and how AI helps build SEO tools.

Mar 10, 2026 • 44min
Google Is Crushing Anchor Links: The New Local SEO Link Strategy (2026)
Joy Hawkins, founder of Sterling Sky and local SEO tester, explains how link building rules have shifted. She outlines why exact-match anchor links are risky now and how recent Google updates hit small businesses. Short, practical takes cover safer link sources, press release pitfalls, Reddit and award sites, and low-budget tactics for local visibility.

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Mar 9, 2026 • 1h 14min
Can You Rank on Google Without Backlinks? Legendary SEO David Quaid Answers
David Quaid, an experienced SEO and growth strategist known for hands-on experiments and technical SEO, breaks down whether sites can rank without backlinks. He discusses content scaling, internal linking and topical authority. He explores programmatic SEO, site-level quality signals, pogo-sticking, exact match domains, and risks of large-scale AI content. Practical examples and real experiments drive the conversation.

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Mar 8, 2026 • 11min
Google Just Dropped an AI Update for Search Console (And It's Huge)
A major AI feature in Google Search Console now lets users ask natural-language questions of their performance data. Practical prompts reveal transactional and high-intent keywords and quick low-hanging fruit ranking opportunities. The conversation also covers reports that ChatGPT is stepping back from in-chat shopping and why users research products there but rarely complete purchases.

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Mar 6, 2026 • 2h 13min
The AI Clickbait King: How One SEO Built 9,000 Websites
Nebojša "Vujo" Vujinović, an SEO entrepreneur and domain investor with 20+ years building sites, explains scaling a network of nearly 9,000 websites. He discusses buying and evaluating expired domains, large-scale content workflows with AI and human review, backlink strategies and detection of penalties, monetization via sponsored posts and ads, and controversial tactics that sparked major publicity and fallout.

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Mar 6, 2026 • 12min
The Autonomous SEO Site Strategy (That Ranks, Builds Links & Sells for You)
A breakdown of autonomous niche websites that rank, build backlinks, and publish content automatically. Discussion of using close-match domains and homepage optimization for competitive commercial keywords. Exploration of AI-driven site creation, automated link building, and journalist outreach. Coverage of tactics to isolate sites from main brands and when this risky, gray-hat approach might make sense.

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Mar 5, 2026 • 12min
Google's New AI Patent Could Replace Your Website
They unpack a Google patent that could let search create AI-made pages from your website tailored to each user. They explore how Google might add CTAs, product feeds, or chatbots to those pages. They dissect an older patent about faked ranking shifts to catch manipulative SEO reactions. They cover why patience, consistent link building, and clear brand documentation matter as search becomes more AI-driven.

Mar 4, 2026 • 1h 49min
How TikTok Lives Built a $15–18M SEO/PPC Agency (Founder Works 8 Hours/Week)
Jake Tlapek, founder who scaled a founder-led SEO/PPC agency into multi‑million revenue using TikTok Lives, and Gagan Ghotra, marketing and agency operator driving tactical questions. They discuss TikTok Lives as an inbound engine. They cover converting attention to retainers. They explain productized services, hiring senior specialists, trust transfer from founder to delivery, pricing lifts, and protecting margins.

Mar 3, 2026 • 47min
AI SEO at Scale: Patterns, Penalties & the Wix Case Study
Harpreet Singh, an SEO consultant who builds AI-driven content strategies, breaks down large-scale AI publishing and its pitfalls. He discusses Wix’s rapid scaling of “how to make money” articles and the Mount AI pattern of scaling then crashing. They cover detectable AI patterns, citation and linking footprints, risk vs reward when scaling, and practical fixes like interactive elements and prioritizing commercial pages.


