We first talked about SEO automation and how often automating some of the more mundane and receptive SEO tasks can be a huge win-win for both your agency and your clients. Pam has been able to automate some of her daily SEO tasks using Python and spreadsheets; she said doing this is both science and art. It is good advice, SEOs should look to automate reporting, billing and other administrative tasks when possible. But, not all SEO can be automated.

We also spoke about XML sitemaps and the fact that they should not just be published once and forgotten about. She said the sitemaps need to be managed over time, over content and features changes, and then audited. Don’t just push all your URLs to Google in your sitemap files, make sure the content you push is valuable and make sure the content is actually there. CMS platforms can often automate this, but sometimes it can lead to a lot of URLs being submitted to Google you probably do not want to submit.

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