Chris Long

@chris_nectiv · Philadelphia, PA · joined 13 Jul 2016

Co-founder at Nectiv. AEO/SEO for $20M+ ARR B2B and Technology companies.

14 296Followers

476Following

5 736Posts total

9.5KViews on collected posts

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Chris Long@chris_nectiv23 Sep

This is freaking awesome SEOs. Gitlab's "Reddit Response Workflow" is publicly available via their Employee Handbook. It contains best practices, flair guidelines, top subreddits + more: https://t.co/jnF29da4e6

1.1K views · 13 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Chris Long@chris_nectiv23 Sep

Whoa, didn't know this. Google counts an AI Overview as "a single position in search results". So if you're included in an AI Overview, your position is fixed, no matter what part you show up in. https://t.co/QxKxPljR75

1.9K views · 35 likes · 2 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

Chris Long@chris_nectiv22 Sep

@chris_nectiv can you filter ai mode on its own yet, or is it mixed into web? 49 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Chris Long@chris_nectiv22 Sep

@chris_nectiv this makes average position even harder to interpret now 79 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Chris Long@chris_nectiv22 Sep

Interesting: Google has confirmed that Search Console is reporting "positions" for AI Mode results. John Mueller states that this is "roughly to bottom, left to right" https://t.co/7gpgJp3iMF

3K views · 44 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Chris Long@chris_nectiv22 Sep

Alrightly, testing creating markdown files on every page on the Nectiv site + an dedicated sitemap.xml that lists all of them. Let's see if there's any impact on AI crawlers or bots. https://t.co/OFqGbdL1k6

2K views · 17 likes · 0 reposts · 7 replies Open on X →

Chris Long@chris_nectiv22 Sep

Two Words: AI Overviews 1.3K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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7 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views1 259this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.81%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.19%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	1 259	924	1.36×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.81%	3.62%	2.43×
Engagement rate	1.19%	1.52%	0.78×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

1.3K22 Sep

1.9K23 Sep

1.1K

Last 7 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.95%22 Sep

1.19%

1.77%

0.00%

2.29%23 Sep

1.23%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes53.3%121 in total

Reposts3.5%8 in total

Replies7.5%17 in total

Quotes0.9%2 in total

Bookmarks34.8%79 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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