SEO Consultant, Product Advisor, Speaker, Author, Community Builder | Ex Ahrefs & IBM. “The Technical SEO’s technical SEO” Tech SEO Connect, Triangle SEO Meetup
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Joined June 2013
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Patrick Stox retweeted
Look who is hosting a Reddit AMA this week! @patrickstox 🔥
Seldom will you find that much SEO experience in one person. From SEO at IBM to years of looking at thousands of sites when working with @Ahrefs, Patrick has definitely seen it all!
Come over and ask your questions about SEO and GEO/AEO here: reddit.com/r/SEO_for_AI/comm…
(And make sure to subscribe to the subreddit too!) 🙏
Patrick Stox retweeted
Join us Tuesday at Pendo for The End of Marketing as We Know It: Perspectives from the C-Suite, co-hosted with AMA Triangle.
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Watching OpenAI DevDay, I kept thinking about how early @letaidocom (Letaido) / Agent A from Ahrefs brought together many of the capabilities now getting the spotlight.
Here are five capabilities Letaido offered back in April:
1. Always-on infrastructure. A dedicated environment where work can just keep on going, even if your laptop isn't open.
2. Shared workspaces to build together as a team.
3. Persistent memory so you have more context.
4. Agents that plan and execute multi-step tasks. They break down tasks and just keep working until things get done.
5. Software, apps, and dashboards that you can publish live to the web or for internal use.
Letaido also offers native access to Ahrefs data through your connected account, plus a choice of AI models. Check it out at letaido.com/
#ahrefspartner
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The GOAT of technical SEO, ex-Ahrefs and IBM, @patrickstox agreed to run the AMA session in the /r/seogaps community on Sep 30.
Here are 3 questions I asked him:
- What are the biggest myths now about what helps to improve visibility in AI?
- How would you define the AEO or AI SEO Strategist role?
- What's your goal now after leaving Ahrefs: building a consultancy or your own agency?
This is a good time for you, too, to ask Patrick something you have doubts about in your job, communication with customers, forecasts, assumptions, and so on.
Patrick Stox retweeted
Believe it or not, we [@Ahrefs] have DOUBLED our API/MCP limits on all plans! 🔥
AI is making it stupidly easy for marketers to build their own tools.
The bottleneck isn't code anymore, it's quality data.
@Ahrefs operates one of the largest marketing datasets in the world, and now all our users can pipe it directly into whatever they're building.
Exciting times!
Patrick Stox retweeted
New: 2026 Google Ranking Factors Expert Survey
We surveyed 131 top SEO practitioners to score which factors most affect Google's organic search rankings.
The experts contributed over 13,000 data points across 9 MAJOR AREAS:
1. Relevance
2. Backlinks
3. Content Quality
4. Brand & Reputation
5. User Signals
6. Technical SEO
7. Internal Linking / Site Architecture
8. UX Signals
9. Google AI Ranking Factors 🆕
Big thanks to all of our contributors!
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Let's be honest: You're not doing any real work today. You can still make your time useful by checking out this interview with @patrickstox, @bensenescu, @JeremyRiveraSEO, and I on the future of SaaS marketing tools for SEO and AI Visibility.
youtube.com/watch?v=pVo2nQbT…
Patrick Stox retweeted
Ask ChatGPT what your company does.
Did it get it right?
Grant Simmons is coming in from Virginia Beach to explain why AI gets brands wrong, and what actually fixes it.
Patrick Stox retweeted
📹 Technical Optimization for AI search: In the 6th episode of the AI Search Roadmap series I go through the top mistakes, principles, best resources and do's and dont's for technical optimization for AI search with the amazing @torylynne, @Jammer_Volts, and @patrickstox:
* Top tech optimization errors for AI search
* Steps and criteria for technical optimization for AI search
* Tools and resources for tech optimization for AI search
Thanks to @Similarweb for the episode and series sponsorship!
Watch it fully here: youtube.com/watch?v=Gi7tWAib…
Patrick Stox retweeted
Work in SEO or digital marketing and live in the Triangle?
Our free monthly meetup is back on Monday, August 17 in Raleigh.
Patrick Stox retweeted
T-shirt King. No one knows more about T-shirts than independent SEO consultant for hire @patrickstox, who blew chunks with me!
Too bad we didn't talk about T-shirts, but if programmatic SEO is just another word for reallllllly crapppppppy SEO in the AI era. Mount AI here we come @glenngabe!!!
Look for a new episode EACH Tuesday here or on the @SERanking channels!
Next up.... Irina Maltseva!
Patrick Stox retweeted
Our next meetup is later this month, and it's a big one!
@noahlearner is flying in from Denver, Colorado to present "Solving Business Problems with SEO Knowledge."
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Ahrefs' Domain Rating (DR) API endpoint is now 100% FREE. 🔥
Now that AI lets anyone spin up their own tools and automations, the bottleneck isn't coding anymore — it's access to quality data.
And DR is one of the best shortcuts out there for sizing up how authoritative a website really is.
So we're just giving it away!
Grab it here:
docs.ahrefs.com/en/api/refer…
New to DR?
It rates the strength of any site's backlink profile on a 0–100 scale.
More here: ahrefs.com/blog/domain-ratin…
Now go build something cool. 😉
Patrick Stox retweeted
Today we released the May 2026 core update. We'll update our ranking release history page when the rollout is complete: status.search.google.com/inc…
Patrick Stox retweeted
We're trying something new at the Triangle SEO Meetup this month!
Instead of a single presentation, we're doing what we are going to call "SEO Show and Tell".
Patrick Stox retweeted
Technical SEOs, your final boss fight is here.
Introducing Keyword Hunt, a technical SEO puzzle by @snippet_digital
20 keywords are cloaked across the site using real technical SEO, AI SEO, and edge engineering.
The first 10 to crack get permanent Elite status in the Hall of Fame.
Happy hunting: keyword-hunt.com/
Patrick Stox retweeted
We're (soft) launching Agent A — a top 1% marketer on your team.
And we're giving free 1-month access to all paying customers of @ahrefs! 🔥
If you wanna learn more, I broke down what Agent A is (and how it's different from just giving Claude Code access to Ahrefs' API) over on r/ahrefs.
Would love to hear what you think.
Patrick Stox retweeted
#SearchCentralLive in Toronto 🧵2026 (This thread took already too long of my time 😆 find all slides here jcchouinard.com/google-searc…)
Patrick Stox retweeted
80 minutes of the one and only @patrickstox breaking down the biggest myths in SEO.
Just dropped: youtube.com/watch?v=5Pfjbza2…
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I had a great time at the Triangle SEO Meetup last night.
@iPullRank dropped a ton of knowledge on AI SEO/GEO.
It was awesome and terrifying at the same time.
Great to catch up with @patrickstox and @matthewgkay.
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