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Howdy Notebookers!

Today’s note is based on one of the best Google Discover breakdowns I’ve ever seen. Harry Clarkson-Bennett published an absolute banger called How Google Discover REALLY Works where he ties real proxies from the Google Leak to his own Discover wins and losses. It’s one of those rare posts where someone actually connects the dots between what Google claims Discover is, and what the leak suggests is happening under the hood.

It lines up with everything I’ve observed from clients who consistently earn Discover traffic. The wins aren’t random. They follow patterns. And thanks to the leak, those patterns are a lot less mysterious.

Harry is Director of SEO at The Telegraph, so he’s the perfect person to write about this as he’s got a ton of first-hand experience about what works in Google Discover.

I’ve even created an all-new GPT to predict the Google Discover performance of your headlines!

Let’s get into it!


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