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    <published>2026-03-25T13:40:11-04:00</published>
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    <title>How to Optimise for Google Discover in the Age of AI</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk for the SEO charity event SEO for Paws, where I provided a basic introduction to optimising for Google Discover.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1457850</id>
    <published>2025-10-28T11:27:27-04:00</published>
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    <title>The Most Common Technical SEO Issues for News Publishers</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at the 2025 News Reach conference in Dortmund, where I spoke about the most common technical SEO issues affecting news and publishing websites.</content>
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    <published>2025-10-28T11:36:42-04:00</published>
    <updated>2025-10-28T11:39:38-04:00</updated>
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    <title>30 Years of SEO Bullshit</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at the 2025 Nottingham Digital Summit, where I spoke about the SEO industry's obsession with spam and quick wins since its inception, and how Google's disinformation and lies have contributed to the industry's conflicts.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1371425</id>
    <published>2025-05-19T08:22:25-04:00</published>
    <updated>2025-05-19T08:24:39-04:00</updated>
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    <title>Managing Googlebot's Greed</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my May 2025 talk at Hive MCR in Manchester. I spoke about the technical SEO foundations of Googlebot crawling, some theories on different levels of crawl queues, and tips on maximising crawl efficiency.</content>
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    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1365075</id>
    <published>2025-05-06T02:50:10-04:00</published>
    <updated>2025-05-06T02:53:21-04:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/googles-ai-overviews-the-new-search"/>
    <title>Google's AI Overviews - The New Search</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk a the 2025 WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress where I spoke about the impact of Google's AI Overviews, how to optimise for them, and what the other chatbots have done to compete with search.</content>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1335146</id>
    <published>2025-03-04T08:44:40-05:00</published>
    <updated>2025-03-04T08:46:56-05:00</updated>
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    <title>Site Migrations for News Publishers</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at the 2024 News and Editorial SEO Summit where I dove into site migrations for news publishers, looking at different types of migrations and their risks and best practices.</content>
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    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1327170</id>
    <published>2025-02-18T11:01:50-05:00</published>
    <updated>2025-02-18T11:03:48-05:00</updated>
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    <title>The Future of SEO: The Impact of AI on Search</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at the WAN-IFRA Bangalore AI Forum, where I talk about the impact of Google's AI Overview on search and what we can expect from generative AI search engines in the near future.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1192806</id>
    <published>2024-05-29T02:35:50-04:00</published>
    <updated>2024-05-29T02:44:40-04:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/wnmc24-google-ai-overviews-66674d38-5c9a-4803-961a-43a1f774d90b"/>
    <title>WNMC24: Google AI Overviews</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my presentation at the 2024 WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress where I showed what we currently know about the impact of Google's new AI Overview feature.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1155194</id>
    <published>2024-03-06T16:52:25-05:00</published>
    <updated>2024-03-06T16:56:02-05:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/crawling-and-indexing-and-ranking-in-google-in-2024"/>
    <title>Crawling and Indexing (and Ranking) in Google in 2024</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my presentation at Pubcon 2024 where I look into the processes involved in crawling, indexing, and ranking pages in Google search.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1149026</id>
    <published>2024-02-21T08:22:41-05:00</published>
    <updated>2024-02-21T08:25:13-05:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/technical-seo-for-publishing-sites-in-2023"/>
    <title>Technical SEO for Publishing Sites in 2023</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at the 2023 News and Editorial SEO Summit, where I looked at the current state of technical SEO for news and media websites.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1027042</id>
    <published>2023-05-15T11:02:15-04:00</published>
    <updated>2023-05-15T11:04:05-04:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/news-seo-is-the-cutting-edge-of-all-seo"/>
    <title>News SEO is the cutting edge of all SEO</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at YoastCon 2023 where I showed some of the lessons I've learned about Google's inner workings from years of working with news publishers.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1009518</id>
    <published>2023-03-23T08:25:30-04:00</published>
    <updated>2023-03-23T08:27:52-04:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/seo-in-2013-2023-and-2033-the-more-things-change-dot-dot-dot"/>
    <title>SEO in 2013, 2023, and 2033 - The More Things Change...</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at Friends of Search 2023 where I looked back at the past 10 years of search and SEO, and make some predictions about where the industry is heading in the next decade.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/998684</id>
    <published>2023-02-27T10:26:44-05:00</published>
    <updated>2023-02-27T10:29:52-05:00</updated>
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    <title>The State of SEO for Google News</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at the Glide Publishing event in December 2022 where I gave an overview of the state of SEO for news publishers, with a focus on best practices for technical SEO and editorial SEO for Google News.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/959062</id>
    <published>2022-11-25T09:46:22-05:00</published>
    <updated>2022-11-25T09:48:22-05:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/the-latest-in-technical-seo-for-news-publishers"/>
    <title>The Latest in Technical SEO for News Publishers</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at the 2022 News and Editorial SEO Summit where I gave an overview of the newest developments in technical SEO for news websites.

More info: https://newsseo.io</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/887277</id>
    <published>2022-06-27T07:33:32-04:00</published>
    <updated>2022-06-27T07:57:33-04:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/almost-everything-you-need-to-know-about-crawling-indexing-and-especially-rendering-in-google"/>
    <title>(Almost) Everything You Need To Know About Crawling, Indexing, and Especially Rendering in Google</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at Friends of Search 2022 in Amsterdam and Brussels where I spoke about crawling, indexing, and rendering in Google's search ecosystem.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/887288</id>
    <published>2022-06-27T07:47:38-04:00</published>
    <updated>2022-06-27T07:57:49-04:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/technical-seo-trends-in-2022-and-beyond"/>
    <title>Technical SEO Trends in 2022 and Beyond</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at inOrbit 2022 where I spoke about the current state of technical SEO and where I see things heading in the near future.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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  <entry>
    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/887290</id>
    <published>2022-06-27T07:50:27-04:00</published>
    <updated>2022-06-27T07:58:12-04:00</updated>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://speakerdeck.com/badams/technical-seo-for-news-publishers"/>
    <title>Technical SEO for News Publishers</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at the News and Editorial SEO Summit 2022, where I spoke about key aspects of technical SEO for news publishers.

More info: https://newsseo.io</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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    <id>tag:speakerdeck.com,2005:Talk/1160982</id>
    <published>2024-03-19T09:35:35-04:00</published>
    <updated>2024-03-19T09:38:46-04:00</updated>
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    <title>Prioritising Technical SEO Fixes</title>
    <content type="html">Slides from my talk at SMXL Milan in 2020 where I spoke about my approach to technical SEO audits and how to prioritise actions based on a 9-cell priority matrix.</content>
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      <name>Barry Adams (@badams)</name>
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  <title>Barry Adams (@badams) on Speaker Deck</title>
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