Patrick Stox

Today is my last day at Ahrefs after 6.5+ years. Incredibly proud to have helped shape such an amazing product.

I plan to do some consulting and build some things. Let me know if you need help. Potentially open to the right in-house opportunity.

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Once again, if you couldn't make it, you can watch the Tech SEO Connect Livestream.

We have amazing content, but also amazing experiences. This is how day 1 went and why you might want to be here in person.

We always try to have the best local pastries, donuts, and snacks. I was amused when Mike said he ate 3 donuts and they were the best donuts he ever had, especially when we had just talked about him losing a bunch of weight. Sorry Mike! We also have amazing baristas with some of the best local coffee, not your typical hotel or convention center terrible coffee. We did drip, espresso drinks, and coffee mocktails in the afternoon.

We had a piano player, a violinist, a sketchnote artist recording the sessions, a sign painter who does a lot of signs for local businesses, the poetry fox who is the official poet Laureate of this city and he dresses as a Fox and writes custom poems for you on a typewriter. I know several folks who got multiple.

We had custom Lego figurines, tshirts, and hoodies for people.

Then we setup a bar in a 1930s train car and another bar on a covered basketball court. We had a guy on stilts juggling. We had some amazing snacks and English muffin pizzas.

Then we had another party with 4 DJs including the amazing Lily Ray.

Today is going to be even wilder.

If you couldn't make it to Tech SEO Connect in person, you can still see all the amazing content on the free Livestream. Sign up at techseoconnect.com

What you miss by not being here is all the amazing food, experiences, and conversations. Last night we had welcome drinks in a 1930s art deco bar, amazing tapas and more drinks (always including non-alcoholic) at another local restaurant, and we had @VeryWellVersed rapping at another local venue after that.

That was the welcome night. I'll share more about day 1 of the conference soon, but I will confidently say we are the first conference to put a bar in a historic train car.

It's hard to believe @techseoconnect is just 1 week away. Things really came together and this is going to be such a fun event with so many amazing speakers and attendees.

For those that can't make it in-person, did you know we livestream these sessions for free every year on our YouTube? This year we setup a registration form so you can get the livestream reminder. techseoconnect.com

Hate it because it's not a good take.

Yes, they transfer a tiny amount of authority.

But they don't support hreflang, crawl priorty, last mod, or as many pages. Try this with a big site and have thousands of these html pages with all the links. Bunch of useless pages.