resources

my information diet for staying current on AI and SEO.

seo blogs & publications

  • ahrefs blog data-driven SEO research from the tool I pull most of my keyword and backlink data from
  • search engine land where I first hear about most algorithm updates
  • search engine journal tactical how-to guides. less news, more "here's how to actually do it"
  • kevin indig growth memo newsletter. consistently the best thinking on where SEO meets product

seo people

  • lily ray the person I check first after every google update
  • chris long Go Fish Digital. sharp on technical SEO and link building at scale
  • eli schwartz product-led SEO. asks "should this page exist at all" before "how do we rank it"
  • will critchlow SEO testing and experimentation
  • aleyda solĂ­s international SEO

ai people & channels

  • andrej karpathy makes neural networks make sense even if you don't write code. his "let's build GPT from scratch" video is the best intro to how LLMs work
  • ethan mollick the rare academic who builds with the tools he studies. his AI usage frameworks actually hold up at work
  • swyx (shawn wang) first to surface AI news that matters. runs the latent space podcast
  • boris cherny claude code creator
  • thariq claude code team
  • elevenlabs voice AI experimentation. consistently early on new model demos
  • AI Explained model breakdowns and news
  • AI jason vibe coding and practical experiments
  • claude code releases changelog and updates

podcasts

  • latent space the AI engineer podcast (Swyx & Alessio). gets technical without losing the thread
  • no priors AI, technology and startups (Elad Gil & Sarah Guo)
  • dwarkesh podcast deep dives with AI leaders

newsletters

  • simon willison one of the best at experimenting with LLMs in public. reads everything, tries everything, shares what he finds
  • eugene yan RAG, evals, prompting strategies
  • ben's bites daily AI digest

tools I use daily