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Will Critchlow interviews CMOs, VPs and other marketing leaders to understand how they really think about leadership, management, finance, and more. The Business Class Lounge podcast is designed to be interesting to marketing leaders who want to improve, to founders and CEOs who recruit and manage them, and for practitioners who aspire to senior roles.
The Business Class Lounge is a podcast from SearchPilot. SearchPilot helps large websites prove the value of SEO by making SEO tests easier, faster, and more accurate. You can find out more about SearchPilot at www.searchpilot.com.
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LLMs don't rank anything. So what are you optimizing for?
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Sep 11, 2026 |
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Beyond crawl data: what SEO teams really need from their tools with Patrick Hathaway
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Aug 17, 2026 |
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SEO Is a System, Not a Channel: Lessons from Zalando, Omio, and idealo with Norman Nielsen
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Jul 11, 2026 |
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From SEO to GEO in 2026 with Tim Soulo
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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Product management lessons for SEO with Abby Gleason
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May 11, 2026 |
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Wayfair's Framework for Picking SEO Tests with Rodney Pérez
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Apr 10, 2026 |
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Building an AI Fluent Team: A Candid Talk with Wil Reynolds
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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GEO, Fanout, Agents: Mike King’s Take on Where Search Is Really Heading
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Inside adidas: How a Global Brand Builds an Insight-First SEO Program with Matthew Morrissey
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Google Product Grids and AI Mode: The Ecommerce SEO Playbook with Brodie Clark
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Experimentation lessons from CRO - a conversation with Ryan Lucht
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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SEO vs. GEO: Aleyda Solis on eCommerce Search in an AI-First World
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Future-Proofing E-Commerce SEO for 2026 and Beyond with Ross Hudgens
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Sep 12, 2025 |
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Search Isn't Dead - SEO Trends with Rand Fishkin
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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Smarter search strategies in a world of rising PPC costs
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Beyond Google - How AIs and LLMs are Changing SEO Forever
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Product-led SEO in AI times with Eli Schwartz
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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An engineer's perspective on SEO with Abishek Rajendra
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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From evading Matt Cutts to being effective in the corporate world with Todd "Oilman" Friesen
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Guessing what Google wants
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Will it make the car go faster?
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Lessons from paid search: spend, budgets, reporting and more
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Misconceptions SEOs have about money
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Turning SEO into the channel you always wished it could be SearchPilot 114 subscribers Analytics Edit video
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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(Part 2) Reflecting on things I've heard about SEO from senior leadership
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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(Part 1) Reflecting on things I've heard about SEO from senior leadership
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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"Not paying attention" - does the Google leak change anything?
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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SEO experimentation for ecommerce
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May 29, 2024 |
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Is Google getting less serious?
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May 21, 2024 |
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Some mysteries explained - Is Google saving costs?
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May 07, 2024 |
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What does Google uncertainty mean?
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Google subscription, anyone?
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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SearchPilot Live - early Googlebot and Search Console lessons for SEO testing
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Why experiments are valuable to make meaningful decisions
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Disentangling internal linking - the SEO element you can control
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Google is huge
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Live with Will - Build or Buy to support your experimentation program? (6 March 2024)
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Live with Will - Downtime, Fiction, and the customer benefits of bootstrapping (27 Feb 2024)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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Live with Will - Googlebot, Gemini (formerly Bard), Googlebot crawling for SEO testing (14 Feb 2024)
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Live with Will - Is Google getting worse? Is the web getting worse? (02 Feb 2024)
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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Live with Will - SEO isn't dead, search statistics should be part of company public reports (wild), and Google's SGE (23 Jan 2024)
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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Live with Will - SEO Testing Pains: Seasonality, Sophistication, Statistics, and Other Compounding Effects (16 Jan 2024)
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Jan 19, 2024 |
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Live with Will - CRO and SEO: Testing metrics that you care about (10 Jan 2024)
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Live with Will - Back to Basics (3 Jan 2024)
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Jan 05, 2024 |
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Live with Will - ISO27001, GDPR, and Steering committees (20 Dec 2023)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Live with Will - Search Console, The Bear and New Features in SearchPilot (12 Dec 2023)
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Live with Will - Usage data as ranking factor (5 Dec 2023)
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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Building growth teams at rocket ship startups with Brian Hale (VP at DoorDash and ex-VP at Facebook)
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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From Etsy and Glossier to Fractional CMO for startups with Stephanie Chang
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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From Smart B2B Campaigns to Babylon with Adam Monago
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Lessons from having been a marketer at startups and big enterprises with positioning expert April Dunford
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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The hardest and most exciting job in search? SVP & GM, Search at Yahoo! Brian Provost shares his plans
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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How to use finance as a marketing superpower with Ringier Group CMO Jes Scholz
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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From internet marketer to CMO via eBay, The Guardian, Secret Escapes and now Wise.com - with Cian Weeresinghe
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Defining the mission of a dictionary - with former Merriam Webster Chief Digital Officer Lisa Schneider
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Marketing leadership lessons from a decade at HubSpot with Kieran Flanagan
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Trailer: Business Class Lounge by SearchPilot
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Dec 05, 2022 |