The Unscripted SEO Podcast
Unfiltered. Unpredictable. Unforgettable.
Step into the thrilling chaos of real-world SEO with the Unscripted SEO Podcast by SEO Arcade.
Hosted by SEO veteran Jeremy Rivera and surprise industry guests, this is where authentic stories collide with actionable strategies—no scripts, no fluff, just raw SEO truth.
Whether you’re an SEO pro hunting for an edge or new to the game craving straight-talk advice, tune in for raw conversations, unexpected insights, and insider tips you won’t find anywhere else.
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Explore the Podcast by Topic
Hundreds of unscripted conversations, organized into deep-dive hubs. Pick a topic and binge the best insights from real SEO practitioners.
My Top 21 Killer SEO Interviews
Start here — a hand-picked roundup of the sharpest minds in search and the must-listen episodes that prove it.
See the lineup →AI & The Future of Search
How the best SEOs are adapting to AI search, LLMs and generative results.
Explore topic →Technical SEO
Crawling, indexing, site speed and architecture from real practitioners.
Explore topic →Local SEO
Maps, citations and review strategies that actually move the needle.
Explore topic →Link Building & Authority
Earning real editorial links and building lasting digital authority.
Explore topic →Content Strategy & Marketing
Planning, creating and scaling content that ranks and converts.
Explore topic →Brand, Entity & Visibility
How top SEOs think about brand, entities and being found everywhere.
Explore topic →SEO Agency Life & Freelancing
The unfiltered truth about running an agency and going freelance.
Explore topic →Small Business Growth
Entrepreneurship lessons and growth tactics for small businesses.
Explore topic →Digital Marketing & Paid Search
Growth, PPC and paid search insights from the interviews.
Explore topic →Recent Episodes
Money, Time, Energy, Identity: Colby Wegter on Why Most Freelancers Fail at Scaling
Agency coach Colby Wegter on colour-coding your calendar to find leverage, killing hourly pricing, the expectation conversation that tripled his client retention, and the four-level pyramid that turned a $5K deal into $15K.
Run Your Context Window: Type.ai’s Stew Fortier on AI Writing, Hallucination and the Ouroboros Problem
Type co-founder Stew Fortier on why Claude and GPT get different jobs, the qualifier words that pull better writing out of a model, what happens when AI content becomes training data, and the one prompt habit that fixed his own keyword strategy work.
Cap the Team, Raise the Price: Lorraine Ball on 19 Years of Running an Agency She Could Actually Sell
Lorraine Ball capped her agency at ten people, refused to let any client exceed 30% of revenue, answered the phone on the first ring, and sold in 2021. The capacity math and positioning advice behind it.
Jon Henshaw on AI Hype, Google’s Sources of Truth, and the Long Game for Human Content
Coywolf founder and Raven Tools co-founder Jon Henshaw on why it's still SEO, what the Paramount Plus feed taught him about how Google decides what's true, the 404 Media Google News failure, and the case against overbuilding your software.
Track Reddit as a Competitor: Zack Kadish on Enterprise SEO and the Shrinking SERP
Conductor's Zack Kadish on climbing from keyword research to Senior Director, cutting enterprise red tape, cross-domain cannibalization, why forums and AI overviews are eating enterprise traffic, and the one kickoff question worth stealing.
Fortresses of Mentions: Olesia Korobka on Brand SEO, Knowledge Graphs and a Web Without Websites
Fajela founder Olesia Korobka on why the blog-post retainer refuses to die, links as references instead of juice, entity homes in a world where AI crawlers ignore your schema, and the SEO for Paws charity behind the episode.
Mike Ginley on Digital Trust, Multi-Channel Visibility, and Fixing the Foundation First
Freelance consultant Mike Ginley on winning back small businesses burned by agencies, why SEO is the foundation but no longer the whole building, what LLMs can't do, and the billing problem every consultant has.
George Little on B2B Branding, AI Tooling, and the Human-Bot Sandwich
George Little of BrandZap on writing B2B copy for one person, the three buckets of AI use, self-hosting open-source models for consistent output, and why you should stop putting AI gradients on every feature.
Gazelles, Not Elephants: Daniel Molina on Building a Local Service Agency That Scales
Red Palm Studios owner Daniel Molina on why he turns down whales, the SOP detail most agencies skip, seasonal PPC in the trades, his three-part local SEO mix, and why brand is swinging back to the person behind the logo.
SEO’s Identity Crisis Is Our Own Fault — Stephan Bajaio on Fixing How We Define the Work
Stephan Bajaio, Conductor co-founder and now Vibe Logic, on why SEOs keep losing the org chart argument, what search really is, and how to communicate the work to executives who don't get it.
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