The Complete Unscripted SEO Podcast Episode Guide

Every conversation from the Unscripted SEO Podcast in one place. Real conversations with SEOs, agency owners and practitioners. Search by guest, episode or topic, or click any column heading to sort. 187 episodes and counting — updated September 2026.

187 episodes
Episode Guest Topics Date
Chris Panteli: Digital PR, Brand Signals and the Zero-Risk Link Chris Panteli Link BuildingBrand & Entity 2026-09-25
Laurent Cohen: We Are Indexing Voice Agents, Not Pages Laurent Cohen Technical SEO 2026-09-25
Laura Smith: Localize, Don't Translate, and Get Remembered Laura Smith Local SEO 2026-09-23
Ross Hudgens on GEO: Versus Pages, CRO and the Co-Citation Vote Ross Hudgens AI Search & GEOLocal SEO 2026-09-22
"80% of the work that comes across my desk": Bradley Benner on what agencies are still selling Bradley Benner 2026-09-22
Dave Valentine: It Has Never Been Easier to Start a Business, or Harder to Scale One Dave Valentine 2026-09-15
Cahill Camden: podcasts as the trust channel AI can't flood Cahill Camden AI Search & GEOBrand & Entity 2026-09-15
Cyrus Shepard: the disavow test that did nothing, brand signals and de-optimizing after HCU Cyrus Shepard Brand & Entity 2026-09-15
Martin McGarry: an ex-black hat on the spam flooding Google, WordPress exploits and perspective in AI search Martin McGarry AI Search & GEO 2026-09-13
Nick LeRoy on the SEO Job Market: If You Can Bullet-Point It, You're Replaceable Nick LeRoy 2026-09-11
HouseFresh after Google: the two-minute AI visitor Gisele Navarro AI Search & GEO 2026-09-09
SEO SaaS Panel: Patrick Stox, Ben Wills and Ben Senescu on Building Tools in the AI Era Ben Wills AI Search & GEO 2026-09-03
"I Don't Think The Industry Actually Thinks SEO Is Dying" – Laura Hoot on Discoverability and the New Order of Operations Laura Hoot 2026-09-02
Another Tuesday of Google Taking Control: Lisa Raehsler on AI Max Lisa Raehsler AI Search & GEO 2026-09-01
One Word Changed the Answer: Ben Wills on Unscripted SEO Ben Wills 2026-08-19
SEO Is the Batter to Your AI: Stephanie Long on Vetting Humans and Verifying Machines Stephanie Long AI Search & GEO 2026-08-18
Gert Mellak: Your Search Console Impressions Are Bots Gert Mellak Analytics & Data 2026-08-17
Why Your Google Business Profile Now Matters More Than Your Website Isaac Justesen Local SEO 2026-08-14
The $10 SEO Tool: Ben Senescu on How Open Source Broke the $99 Ceiling Ben Senescu 2026-08-14
Ann Smarty on LLM Consensus, Reddit, and Losing Control of Your Own Brand Name Ann Smarty AI Search & GEOBrand & Entity 2026-08-12
Episode Recap: Malte Landwehr of Peec AI on Consensus, Query Fan-Outs and AI Content Guardrails Episode Recap AI Search & GEOContent Strategy 2026-08-10
Greg Digneo On Building An Audience You Actually Own Greg Digneo 2026-08-10
The Content Quality Ratio: When Pruning Beats Rewriting Content Strategy 2026-08-10
Gareth Hoyle On Creatives Who Skip The Business Gareth Hoyle 2026-08-09
Erica D'Arcangelo Will Not Publish AI As Her Own AI Search & GEO 2026-08-08
Chris Garrett On The Over-Caffeinated Human Brain Chris Garrett 2026-08-08
Nick Eubanks: Distribution Is The Last Moat Nick Eubanks 2026-08-07
Drew Dorenfest On Getting Verified By Crawlers Drew Dorenfest Technical SEO 2026-08-07
Do Google's Patents Still Hold Up in an Agentic Web? Chris Green AI Search & GEO 2026-08-06
Apurva Bose On Local Links As Real Relationships Apurva Bose Link BuildingLocal SEO 2026-08-06
Melissa Popp: Go Fix Your Google Business Profile Melissa Popp Local SEO 2026-08-06
Jake Melendy On Speed-To-Lead For Home Services Jake Melendy 2026-08-05
Matt Mellinger On Search Console Data You Can Actually Trust Matt Mellinger Analytics & DataBrand & Entity 2026-08-05
Jeremy Moser: It Was Always Just Good SEO Jeremy Moser 2026-08-04
Bradley Benner On Relevance Over DR Bradley Benner 2026-08-04
Dan Kurtz on Bots as a Customer Segment, Markdown, and the Agentic Flywheel Dan Kurtz AI Search & GEOTechnical SEO 2026-08-03
The Tail Can't Wag the Dog: Tom Malesic on Firing Toxic Clients and the Culture That Outlasts Them Tom Malesic Agency & Freelance 2026-07-30
Money, Time, Energy, Identity: Colby Wegter on Why Most Freelancers Fail at Scaling Agency & FreelanceBrand & Entity 2026-07-28
Run Your Context Window: Type.ai's Stew Fortier on AI Writing, Hallucination and the Ouroboros Problem AI Search & GEOContent Strategy 2026-07-28
Cap the Team, Raise the Price: Lorraine Ball on 19 Years of Running an Agency She Could Actually Sell Agency & Freelance 2026-07-28
Jon Henshaw on AI Hype, Google's Sources of Truth, and the Long Game for Human Content Jon Henshaw AI Search & GEOContent Strategy 2026-07-28
Track Reddit as a Competitor: Zack Kadish on Enterprise SEO and the Shrinking SERP 2026-07-28
Fortresses of Mentions: Olesia Korobka on Brand SEO, Knowledge Graphs and a Web Without Websites Brand & Entity 2026-07-28
Mike Ginley on Digital Trust, Multi-Channel Visibility, and Fixing the Foundation First Mike Ginley Brand & Entity 2026-07-28
George Little on B2B Branding, AI Tooling, and the Human-Bot Sandwich George Little AI Search & GEOBrand & Entity 2026-07-28
Gazelles, Not Elephants: Daniel Molina on Building a Local Service Agency That Scales Local SEOAgency & Freelance 2026-07-28
SEO's Identity Crisis Is Our Own Fault — Stephan Bajaio on Fixing How We Define the Work Brand & Entity 2026-07-28
Use AI Like Iron Man, Not the Terminator — Mike Montague on Human-First AI Marketing AI Search & GEO 2026-07-28
Kristiyan Yankov on SaaS Link Building That Still Moves the Needle in the AI Era Kristiyan Yankov AI Search & GEOLink Building 2026-07-28
The Content Ladder: How to Get Found at Every Rung of the Buyer's Question — Alyssa Evans (Grow Your Strategy) Alyssa Evans Content Strategy 2026-07-27
Property-Management SEO Done Right — Alex Zweydoff on the Unscripted SEO Podcast Alex Zweydoff 2026-07-24
Search Everywhere Optimization: Driving Business Results, Not Just Rankings David Wilson 2026-07-21
How One Freelancer Ranks in 50 German Towns With Programmatic SEO Jonathan Schüßler Agency & Freelance 2026-07-21
Optimize Your Brand, Not Just Your Website — Sonia Urquilla (SEO by Sonia) Sonia Urquilla Brand & Entity 2026-07-20
Benjamin Behrooz on Empathy, Blue-Collar Marketing & the AI Silver Lining Benjamin Behrooz AI Search & GEO 2026-07-19
The Two Types of SEO Left: Zak Ali (Finder) on Surfaces, Retention & Terminal-Native Workflows Zak Ali 2026-07-15
You Don't Rank Pages Anymore, You Rank Entities: Federico Fancinelli on GeoSonar's GEO Research Federico Fancinelli AI Search & GEO 2026-07-09
Trust, Not Clicks: Joshua Altman on the Fractional CCO Role Brand & Entity 2026-07-08
Christopher Gimmer on Bootstrapped SaaS, AI Overviews & the New Rules of Link Building Christopher Gimmer AI Search & GEOLink Building 2026-07-08
Erika Braeger on Confident Teams & What AI Actually Cites Erika Braeger AI Search & GEO 2026-07-06
Matthew Slaymaker on Ads, Creative Strategy & Honest Marketing Matthew Slaymaker 2026-07-03
Adrian Nikolov on Organic Growth Engineering: Making AI Do SEO's Job Better Adrian Nikolov AI Search & GEO 2026-07-02
Rob Bonham on SEO in the Agentic Age Rob Bonham AI Search & GEO 2026-06-29
Holly Homer on Affiliate Marketing, AI Slop, and Being Replaced by Your Own Words Holly Homer AI Search & GEO 2026-06-29
Patrick Stox on Building in the GEO Era Patrick Stox AI Search & GEO 2026-06-26
Bradley Benner on Relevance, Entity Associations & the Future of Link Building Bradley Benner Link BuildingBrand & Entity 2026-06-22
Joel Miller on AI, Human Marketing & Surviving the Attention Economy Joel Miller AI Search & GEO 2026-06-15
Drew Dorenfest: SEO for Small Businesses, Cited Content & the Trailer Editor Mindset Drew Dorenfest Content Strategy 2026-06-03
Grant Simmons on Entity SEO, LLMs, and the Future of Search Visibility Grant Simmons AI Search & GEOBrand & Entity 2026-06-02
From Corporate to Creator: Joe Zeplin on Going Full-Time YouTuber Joe Zeplin (YouTuber) 2026-05-29
Justin Oberman: All Marketing Is Showmanship and AI Search Is a Consensus Engine — Unscripted SEO Podcast Justin Oberman AI Search & GEO 2026-05-28
Brittany Trafis: AI Search Is Not SEO 2.0 — Unscripted SEO Podcast Brittany Trafis AI Search & GEO 2026-05-28
Chris Garrett: The Myth of the Pure SEO and Why Bing Matters More Than Ever — Unscripted SEO Podcast Chris Garrett 2026-05-28
Julia Bocchese: Pinterest Is a Search Engine and Small Businesses Are Sleeping on It — Unscripted SEO Podcast Julia Bocchese 2026-05-28
Ernesto Ortiz: Algorithm Updates Only Hurt the Incomplete — Unscripted SEO Podcast Ernesto Ortiz 2026-05-28
Stephan Bajayo: There Is No Rank in an LLM — Unscripted SEO Podcast Stephan Bajayo AI Search & GEO 2026-05-28
Tom Malesic: The Website Is the Center of Everything — Unscripted SEO Podcast Tom Malesic, EZMarketing 2026-05-28
Robert Spinrad: Good SEO Is Good AI Visibility — Unscripted SEO Podcast Robert Spinrad AI Search & GEO 2026-05-28
Greg Digneo: Visibility Is the New SEO — Unscripted SEO Podcast Greg Digneo 2026-05-27
Kate Hendrickson on Strategy, Accountability & the Over-Tooled Business Kate Hendrickson 2026-05-11
Nick Eubanks on SEO, Digistore24, and the Moats That Still Matter Nick Eubanks 2026-05-04
Content Marketing Mastery with Cauveé: How to Build Your Personal Brand Empire Cauveé Content StrategyBrand & Entity 2026-05-03
International SEO: Unlocking Global Markets with Christina Spaulding Christina Spaulding 2026-05-01
13 Years at REVOLVE: What Paul Baterina Learned About Long-Tail Pages, Link Building & LLM Visibility Paul Baterina AI Search & GEOLink Building 2026-04-30
Why Your Customer Is the Hero (and You're Not) — with Bruce Ashford Bruce Ashford 2026-04-23
What AI Visibility Really Means — And Why It's Not a Buzzword Alejandro Meyerhans AI Search & GEO 2026-04-06
The Science and Strategy of Link Building with Alejandro Meyerhans Alejandro Meyerhans Link Building 2026-04-03
GROAS Autonomous Google Ads: What Full AI Management Actually Looks Like David Pourquery AI Search & GEO 2026-03-26
Brandon Leibowitz on Schema, AI Overviews, and Playing the Long Game in SEO Brandon Leibowitz AI Search & GEOTechnical SEOBrand & Entity 2026-03-26
Hot, Warm, Cold: Greg Merrilees Intent Framework That Turns Website Visitors Into Actual Leads Greg Merrilees 2026-03-26
Charlie Birch on Where Brand Strategy Meets SEO: What Every Founder Needs to Know Charlie Birch Brand & Entity 2026-03-24
Timothy Malmros on Black Hat SEO, Drop Domains & the Canonical Trick Timothy Malmros Technical SEO 2026-02-27
Benas Leonavicius on Freelancing, AI Search, and Building an SEO Agency Jeremy Yang AI Search & GEOAgency & Freelance 2026-02-09
Jeremy Yang on Paid Ads Strategy and the SEO-SEM Divide Jeremy Yang 2026-02-06
The Golden Rule Applies To Businesses Too: Kyle Merrick Kyle Merrick 2026-02-04
Local SEO Strategies for Home Service Contractors: From Word of Mouth to Online Leads Wyatt Bonicelli Local SEO 2026-01-21
Dave Gulas of EZDC 3PL shares lessons from 20+ years in sales Dave Gulas 2026-01-10
Brand Building and SEO Strategy: Key Insights from Charlie Sells Charlie Sells Brand & Entity 2026-01-10
Lorrie Thomas Ross on Marketing in the AI Era Lorrie Thomas Ross AI Search & GEO 2025-12-08
Why Communication Skills Trump Technical Knowledge: Lessons from Josh Squires of Amsive Josh Squires Technical SEO 2025-12-02
Navigating Multi-Channel Marketing in the Age of LLMs with Claude Zdanow and Chris Becker Claude Zdanow AI Search & GEO 2025-11-04
Katie Wagner: SEO & Journalism Are The Answer To LLMs AND Google Too Katie Wagner AI Search & GEO 2025-10-20
Erica D'Arcangelo on Hybrid Teams, Human Content, and the Icarus Effect: Navigating Marketing in the Age of AI Overviews Chris Turnbull AI Search & GEOContent Strategy 2025-09-30
SEO Evolution – Chris Turnbull on Local SEO's Surprising Stability Chris Turnbull Local SEO 2025-09-15
Entity Optimization and AI with Jason Barnard Jason Barnard (Kalicube) AI Search & GEOBrand & Entity 2025-09-10
Write for Humans, Rank for Algorithms: Daniel Alfon's LinkedIn SEO Strategy Daniel Alfon, LinkedIn Expert Link Building 2025-09-03
Anthony Prichard & Paritosh Pareek: Video SEO & WordPress Optimization Melissa Popp 2025-08-28
Melissa Popp: Why Digital Marketers Need to Stop Reverse Engineering Google Melissa Popp 2025-08-12
SEO in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Jason Berkowitz Jason Berkowitz AI Search & GEO 2025-07-08
Marisa Cali: Leveraging Events For Branding & Long-Term ROI Marisa Cali Brand & Entity 2025-07-04
Flynn Zaiger On SEO Agency's Current Critical Evolution Flynn Zaiger Agency & Freelance 2025-06-30
Drewbie Wilson: Why 90% of Business Owners Can't Convert Their Leads Drewbie Wilson 2025-06-30
SEO Calculators and Digital Assets with Steven Schneider Steven Schneider 2025-06-16
Local SEO for Health & Wellness: Expert Insights from Darcy Sullivan Darcy Sullivan Local SEO 2025-05-30
Bridging SEO with Multi-Channel Marketing: My Conversation with Melissa Popp Melissa Popp 2025-05-12
From Tactical Links to Strategic Authority — Daniel Horowitz on Enterprise SEO After the HCU Link Building 2025-05-09
SEO for Fun & Profit with Scott Hendison Scott Hendison 2025-05-07
Laura Lee: Enterprise SEO, Leveraging SME expertise & Cross-Functional Collaboration Rai Hyde Cornell 2025-04-26
Episode Recap: Psychology Meets Marketing with Rai Hyde Cornell Rai Hyde Cornell 2025-04-25
From Quality of Content to Quality of Conversation — Grady Teske on B2B Marketing in an AI World AI Search & GEOContent Strategy 2025-04-25
AI-Powered Lead Qualification: Insights from Our Interview with Bryan Shankman of Lead Truffle Bryan Shankman AI Search & GEO 2025-04-21
Grinding Out Success: How Tyler Mumford Left Corporate Sales to Build a Thriving Stump Grinding Business Tyler Mumford 2025-04-09
What PPC Can See That SEO Can't — Lisa Raehsler on AI Overviews, Remarketing and Competitor Bidding Lisa Raehsler AI Search & GEO 2025-04-09
Dominate the Third You Control — Chris Rodriguez on Keyword Difficulty, Self-Made Links and the New First Slot Link Building 2025-04-04
Knowledge Is Democratized, Experience Isn't — Michael "Buzz" Buzinski on Wisdom, E-E-A-T and Why Culture Drives Retention Brand & Entity 2025-04-02
Your Narrative Is Your USP — Joshua Ramsey on Fractional CMO Work, the Knockdown List and the Trauma Egg 2025-03-28
UX & SEO Merge: Siege Media's Jesse McDonald on Search Experience Optimization Jesse McDonald 2025-03-11
Téa Phillips: How Entrepreneurs Transform Personal Projects into Thriving Businesses Téa Phillips 2025-03-11
"How Do You Know Any of This Was You?" — Gus Pelogia on Proving SEO Impact at Indeed 2025-02-20
Building Relevent Links & Agencies with Bradley Benner Bradley Benner Link Building 2025-01-24
The People First Framework With Keith Breseé Anthony Prichard 2025-01-02
Killer SEO Quotes on: Link Building Mordy Oberstein Link Building 2024-12-28
Mordy oberstein on brand Mordy Oberstein Brand & Entity 2024-12-27
Mordy Oberstein Mordy Oberstein 2024-08-28
Grant Simmons Grant Simmons 2024-08-28
Simon Schnieders 2024-08-28
Lidia Infante Christina Spaulding 2024-08-28
Sam Partland Jason Barnard (Kalicube) 2024-08-28
Jason Barnard 2024-08-28
Rand Fishkin 2024-08-28
Barry Schwartz 2024-08-28
Joy Hawkins 2024-08-28
Neil Patel 2024-08-28
Kate Toon Rachel Smalling 2024-08-28
Julia & Serge 2024-08-28
Dixon Jones 2024-08-28
Josh Peacock 2024-08-28
Nick LeRoy Nick LeRoy 2024-08-27
Jen Boland 2024-08-27
Jamie I.F. 2024-08-27
James Brockbank 2024-08-27
Julian Goldie 2024-08-27
Ash Nallawalla on Enterprise SEO and the Accidental SEO Manager Mark Gillilan 2024-08-27
Joe Fisher on Boosting Ecommerce Sales with Grandchild Pages Mark Gillilan Ecommerce 2024-08-27
Apurva Bose on Growing Small Local Businesses Beyond the SEO Norm Mark Gillilan Local SEO 2024-08-27
Kevin Indig on Becoming a Fortune 500 Growth Advisor & Breaking Traffic Plateaus Kevin Indig 2024-08-27
Gareth Hoyle on Running a Resilient SEO Agency Through Industry Change Gareth Hoyle Agency & Freelance 2024-08-27
Gerry White 2024-08-27
Doug Bradley 2024-08-27
Liam Quirk 2024-08-27
Ryan Darani on the Brutal Reality of Six-Figure SEO Freelancing Ryan Darani 2024-08-27
Mark A Preston on Trading SEO Hours for Equity and Semi-Retirement Mark Gillilan 2024-08-27
Tom Marriott, The SEO Punk, on Cutting Through Surface-Level SEO 2024-08-27
Brie E Anderson 2024-08-27
Cory Beevers 2024-08-27
Kev Wiles 2024-08-27
Erika Varangouli 2024-08-27
Martin MacDonald Melinda Martin 2024-08-27
Danny Richman 2024-08-27
Joe Davies Ryan Jones 2024-08-27
Ryan Jones Ryan Jones 2024-08-27
Charles Floate 2024-08-27
Kasra Dash 2024-08-27
Mike Blumenthal 2024-08-27
Nina Payne 2024-08-27
Kristine Schachinger 2024-08-27
Forecasting SEO Revenue Before You Rank: Jeremy Rivera Jeremy Rivera 2024-08-27
James Dooley on Scaling a Nine-Figure SEO Lead Generation Empire James Dooley 2024-08-27
Cindy Krum Cindy Krum 2024-08-27
Crystal Carter 2024-08-27
Kristina Azarenko Cyrus Shepard 2024-08-27
Cyrus Shepard Cyrus Shepard 2024-08-27
Lily Ray 2024-08-27
Edd Dawson 2024-08-27
Kevin Gibbons on the Real Challenges of Growing an SEO Agency Kevin Gibbons Agency & Freelance 2024-08-27
Nikki Pilkington on No-Nonsense SEO for Small Businesses Nikki Pilkington 2024-08-27
Harry Evans on Audience-First SEO and Growth Marketing Harry Evans 2024-08-27