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SEO for blue chips @microsoft @time. Organic social - 1350+ days in a row posting marketing vids. The Edward Show SEO podcast - 1100+ days in a row

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Edward Sturm is a relentless SEO educator and experimenter who brings enterprise cred from @microsoft and @time into bite-sized, actionable content. He’s built an ironclad posting streak, 1150+ days of marketing vids and 900+ days of The Edward Show podcast, backed by data-driven takes that spark conversation. Expect clear SEO playbooks, sharp takes on AI, and experiments you can run tomorrow.

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You’ve been posting every day longer than some startups have existed, congrats on winning 'Most Dedicated Human Microphone.' If commitment were SEO juice, your backlink profile would be untouchable; also, please stop using the word 'insane' in every experiment tweet, your metrics do the shouting for you.

Landing high-profile SEO roles at Microsoft and Time while sustaining a 1150+ day video streak and a 900+ day podcast run, plus viral experiments and threads that change how practitioners approach real SEO.

To demystify SEO and make technical, data-backed tactics accessible so marketers and creators can win attention, rankings, and conversions without the fluff. Edward's mission is to push the industry forward by proving what actually works and calling out the noise.

Consistency beats cleverness when it comes to credibility; empirical testing and transparent experiments are the fastest path to learning; cite your sources and give credit where deserved; serve searchers immediately (above the fold) and the rest will follow. He also believes AI didn’t kill SEO, poor practice did.

Unmatched consistency and credibility, strong enterprise-level experience, a data-first mindset with repeatable experiments, and the knack for turning technical SEO findings into crisp, shareable content.

Can come off as relentlessly pragmatic to the point of sounding blunt; hyper-focus on experimentation and streaks may leave less time for community-building or strategy that scales follower growth; sometimes assumes audiences already understand technical context.

Pin a signature, high-value thread (e.g., a step-by-step case study of an experiment) and turn it into a short video series. Use tweet threads to expand on experiments, publish TL;DR clips for quick consumption, and cross-promote podcast snippets. Engage more with emerging communities (Spaces, Communities, and relevant creators), guest on complementary podcasts, and run occasional live AMAs to convert watchers into followers. Finally, try a few promoted posts targeting marketing/SEO audiences to accelerate reach, your content converts, so a small ad push can scale followers quickly.

Fun fact: Edward has posted marketing videos 1150+ days in a row and kept The Edward Show SEO podcast going for 900+ consecutive days. He’s SEO for blue chips (@microsoft, @time), has ~1.9k followers, and a viral tweet that hit 76k views.

Top tweets of Edward Sturm

Godfather of SEO, @randfish: “Mentions matter more than backlinks. If you’re still link building, I have great news, you can stop. You don’t have to do it. It’s like washing chicken, you don’t have to do it man, just stop. You can see where this train is going. Mentions.” Me: “Less people are putting up niche blogs than before. More people are posting on YouTube, are posting on Instagram.” Rand: “The future is big platforms dominating more and more of what gets surfaced, what’s popular, what people think about topics, what people think about products, and what people think about brands. You have to be present in these places with a message that resonates, with content that gets watched, listened to, and read.” Edward: “If you were starting a brand new company today, you had zero audience, you had zero reputation, what would your marketing look like? Your first 90 days of marketing look like?” Rand: “I will always pick channels and tactics that do three things. One, serving my target audience in the places they pay attention. Second one is I don’t think it is worth your time and energy to do something where you have no personal passion. The third one is I would need something where I can provide unique value that nobody else provides. What is something different that I’m doing in this place where my audience pays attention that other people are not doing?” From Episode 1050 of The Edward Show podcast: “The Death of Clicks? Rand Fishkin on Brand, AI & the Future of Marketing”

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Podcast with @garyvee dropping tomorrow! We talk about SEO, GEO, the effect that social has on SEO and AI, the future of the Internet and niche blogs, and if there's such a thing as too much social content.

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Most engaged tweets of Edward Sturm

Podcast with @garyvee dropping tomorrow! We talk about SEO, GEO, the effect that social has on SEO and AI, the future of the Internet and niche blogs, and if there's such a thing as too much social content.

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Godfather of SEO, @randfish: “Mentions matter more than backlinks. If you’re still link building, I have great news, you can stop. You don’t have to do it. It’s like washing chicken, you don’t have to do it man, just stop. You can see where this train is going. Mentions.” Me: “Less people are putting up niche blogs than before. More people are posting on YouTube, are posting on Instagram.” Rand: “The future is big platforms dominating more and more of what gets surfaced, what’s popular, what people think about topics, what people think about products, and what people think about brands. You have to be present in these places with a message that resonates, with content that gets watched, listened to, and read.” Edward: “If you were starting a brand new company today, you had zero audience, you had zero reputation, what would your marketing look like? Your first 90 days of marketing look like?” Rand: “I will always pick channels and tactics that do three things. One, serving my target audience in the places they pay attention. Second one is I don’t think it is worth your time and energy to do something where you have no personal passion. The third one is I would need something where I can provide unique value that nobody else provides. What is something different that I’m doing in this place where my audience pays attention that other people are not doing?” From Episode 1050 of The Edward Show podcast: “The Death of Clicks? Rand Fishkin on Brand, AI & the Future of Marketing”

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