<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>liam hayward | seo blog</title><description>Thoughts, experiments and lessons from deep in the SEO mines. SEO, digital marketing, and the occasional nerdy deep dive.</description><link>https://liamhayward.co.uk/</link><language>en-gb</language><item><title>the seo handbook is live</title><link>https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/launching-the-seo-handbook/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/launching-the-seo-handbook/</guid><description>I&apos;ve launched the SEO Handbook — the reference guide I wish existed when I started in SEO. On-page, technical, content, AI search: it&apos;s all in there.</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>april 2026 update: code, lots of code</title><link>https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/april-2026-update/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/april-2026-update/</guid><description>A quick update on bookmarklets, tinkering with Astro, building Chrome extensions, and getting up and running on GitHub.</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>is the ai job takeover a self-fulfilling prophecy?</title><link>https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/ai-job-exodus/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/ai-job-exodus/</guid><description>As talent flees &apos;AI-threatened&apos; industries for human-centric trades, we might be accidentally creating the very vacancy AI is being built to fill.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>a guide to llms.txt</title><link>https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/llms-txt-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/llms-txt-guide/</guid><description>No major LLM provider officially supports llms.txt yet — but that could change. Here&apos;s what it is, what it&apos;s trying to solve, and whether you should bother.</description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>the seo metagame</title><link>https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/metagame-nerfed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://liamhayward.co.uk/blog/metagame-nerfed/</guid><description>SEO has a metagame, just like competitive gaming — dominant tactics get exploited, then nerfed. A look at Mark Williams-Cook&apos;s brightonSEO 2025 talk.</description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>