In this festive episode of The SEO Show, Michael and Arthur come together to celebrate the holiday season and reflect on the past year. Kicking off the episode with a cheerful "Merry Christmas," they reminisce about their previous holiday discussions, including light-hearted topics like eggnog and cricket, before diving into the main focus of the episode: the growth and evolution of their podcast.
As they look back on 2022, Michael and Arthur express gratitude for their listeners and the increase in downloads, highlighting the many guests they interviewed throughout the year. They share exciting plans for the upcoming year, including the introduction of monthly SEO news episodes. These episodes will recap significant happenings in the SEO world, such as algorithm updates and industry trends, providing listeners with valuable insights.
The hosts also discuss the idea of incorporating more voices from the Local Digital SEO team into the show. This initiative aims to bring fresh perspectives and expertise to the podcast, enhancing the content for their audience. They encourage listeners who are knowledgeable about SEO and interested in being guests to reach out.
In addition to these new segments, Michael hints at a wish list of potential guests he hopes to interview in the future, including some high-profile names. The episode wraps up with a light-hearted note about their upcoming break for the holidays, during which they plan to release previously recorded episodes to keep the content flowing for their audience.
As they bid farewell for the year, Michael and Arthur wish everyone a happy holiday season and express their excitement for what 2023 will bring. They encourage listeners to subscribe and leave reviews, emphasising the importance of community support in helping the show grow. With a festive spirit, they conclude the episode, leaving listeners with a sense of anticipation for the new year ahead.
00:00:00 - Introduction and SEO Services
00:00:17 - Welcome to the SEO Show
00:00:40 - Christmas Reflections
00:01:42 - Thank You to Our Listeners
00:02:13 - Plans for 2023: SEO News Episodes
00:03:05 - Involving the Local SEO Team
00:04:03 - More Guests on the Show
00:05:19 - Holiday Break and Vault Episodes
00:06:01 - Looking Forward to 2023
00:06:23 - Closing Remarks
MICHAEL:
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INTRO: It's time for the SEO show where a couple of nerds talk search engine optimization so you can learn to compete in Google and grow your business online. Now here's your hosts, Michael and Arthur.
MICHAEL: Ho, ho, ho. Merry Christmas. Wow. Same as last year, I'm having flashbacks. Oh, did we do this last year? Exactly this. I do not remember at all. Because it's a magical time of year. It is. My favorite time of year. Yes, it's Christmas time on the SEO show. I literally, I think this is exactly the conversation we had last year. We have a bit more interesting stuff to cover this time around. Do we? Yeah. Well last year in this episode, in this episode, last year we spoke about eggnog and test match cricket. Yeah. Unfortunately, Australia's playing the West Indies. So it's not that well. Interesting. Got minus double tunning and then tunning in the same test match. And Steve Smith, not even getting out once. Did you watch? Not really. No, I was doing stuff all weekend, but look, let's talk the SEO show, not cricket. Okay. We're coming into the down period of the year where we take time off. So we just wanted to quickly do this Christmas episode like we did last year and say, thanks for tuning in to our show over 2022. Hopefully you learned some stuff and you found it useful. We can see the downloads have grown quite a bit over the year. Yeah. It's been a very big year. A lot of guests that you interviewed. Yes. Lots of guests. We had guests. There's more to come next year. Do we have any big plans for next year? Well, I have, I have three things that I wanted to call out for what we're planning for next year. You haven't run these past me before, so I'm finding out with everyone else.
ARTHUR: Yeah.
MICHAEL: Well, you, you are aware, but yeah, we'll find out. Right. The first one, we're going to start doing SEO news episodes. Okay. Because lots of stuff happens from month to month and like, you know, we'll give each episode a theme. but we thought it would be good to do regular once a month episodes that recap the month that was in SEO. Okay. So just a little chat about everything that's happened. Yeah. A little chat about things that happened, glitches, indexing things, algorithm updates, um, scary, whatever, you know, just basically trolling through the news from the past month and calling out the stuff we think is interesting. Do you have a nice catchy name for that episode segment? Whatever you want to call it last month in SEO. Wow. exciting on the SEO show. I don't know. Let's workshop that in the new year. We're trying to grow our fan base. Yeah. Well, if anyone out there has a cool idea, reach out on Twitter or our website or something and let us know. But for now, whatever, it's a news type thing. And this segues, I think into the next topic. Now this one we haven't even really discussed that much or with the people that might be doing it, but we think it would be good to bring in more of the local digital SEO gang into the episodes we do here.
ARTHUR: We discussed this briefly. We discussed this.
MICHAEL: They have no idea that we are talking about them coming on the show, but I guess if they listen, they might now, but those news episodes, for example, maybe the team who they already do this stuff for our clients, right? Like we give updates on what's going on in the world of SEO to our clients. They can bring those chats in here. Maybe get a few new voices on the show. That's not us all the time. Why not? Why not? Well, I can think of a few reasons. I guess if it fails, if it was terrible to listen to, but I have full confidence in our team. I don't think it's going to fail.
ARTHUR: Yeah.
MICHAEL: Yeah. If anything, I think it will be, there'll be better than us. Maybe probably more prepared a lot of the time. Um, what's number three more guests. Okay. Wow. So didn't think I needed to run that one past you, but there's guests that will approach like we've done so far. But then if there's people listening right now that know a thing or two about SEO, you're interested in coming on, reach out and we might be able to have you on the show. Do you have like a wish list of people you want to interview that you haven't already? Well, maybe one or two. Oh yeah. There's a few names that I haven't reached out to yet. Do you want to drop them on the podcast or? We'll reach out to them. There's probably four or five more that would have been on the list. Pretty much everyone I've reached out to said yes so far. Is there like one particular person that you're dying to interview? There is, I can see you smirking. No, there's not no one that I'm dying to. Let's go. Uh, Larry Page, co-founder of Google. Okay. We'll bring him on. Shoot high. Aim for the, what is it? Aim for the moon. If you miss you amongst the stars or something like that. Yeah. Anyway, um, we're going to take a little break now with this show for the next few weeks, loosely, it could be three or four weeks, I guess. So over the summer, what we'll do is publish some episodes from the vault so that there's new SEO content coming out for people. You could listen to it on Christmas day, New Year's day, if you wanted to. We're going to have content coming out. Christmas day. Unwrap your presents and have the voices of Arthur and Michael in the background talking about link building. I am concerned for you if that's what you choose to do with your Christmas, but it's an option. But look, that's it, right? Is there anything that you wanted to spring on me? No, I don't want to spring anything on you. I would never do that. Okay. I'm looking forward to next year. I'm hoping to maybe introduce some people myself. Oh, that's what we'll do. Arthur will do more solo interviews.
ARTHUR: Yeah. Just me. Yeah.
MICHAEL: Cool. Add that to the list. Add it to the list. That's it. All right. Pave as well. Have a happy, I guess, Christmas and new year. And we'll talk to you in 2023. I thought you were going to sing like a… Can I press the button? Do it. Merry Christmas, y'all.
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