What I'm working on right now.
A short, honest snapshot of where my attention is this month. Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now movement — and a way of keeping me accountable. I update this page on the last weekend of every month.
Working on
Three things have my attention. Yuan Packaging is still the live client build; this site is now being shaped into a clearer organic-growth system rather than just a large library of pages.
Yuan Packaging — international brand build
A family-run packaging manufacturer in Huai'an, Jiangsu. I'm leading the English-first site, export-ready messaging, trust signals, and the outbound funnel aimed at distributors and trade shows in SEA, AU and the EU.
This month: wireframing the product-line page templates (corrugated, mailers, custom prints), writing the export-grade copy in EN with ID translations queued, and standing up the GA4 + Search Console baselines so we can measure from launch day.
Blog, guides, and the ebook funnel
This week: added focused Sydney service pages for marketing consulting, SEO, LinkedIn marketing, AI marketing systems, and marketing analytics. The key is keeping the main nav light while using the topic hub, resources hub, sitemap, body links, and llms.txt to make deeper pages discoverable. Most recently, I strengthened contextual routes for the AI marketing stack, marketing portfolio, funnel fundamentals, and Google indexing guides, then tightened search snippets on the core about, contact, resources, FAQ, stack, work, portfolio, and now pages.
Making the site easier to choose from
The blog is now broad enough that a visitor can get lost. Current work is turning the content library into clearer routes: the updated Pain-Point Quiz, the Marketing Topics Hub, a guided blog archive with query-aware search, and short contextual links from broad service pages into specialist pages only when they are useful. I added a foundation-first path inside the quiz for visitors who need marketing fundamentals, what marketing means now, or funnel basics before choosing a specialist route. I also brought the blog archive paths closer to the quiz routes with foundations, social/content, and expansion entry points.
Looking for
I have capacity for one more client engagement and I'm actively interviewing for the right full-time role. Happy to be specific about both.
One more brief
Where I'm most useful: SEO/content systems, LinkedIn profile-to-pipeline work, AI-assisted ebook or quiz funnels, overseas brand expansion, and GA4/measurement work where the dashboards are not yet telling the right story.
B2B preferred. Honest about what I haven't done before.
Growth Marketing Consultant
Sydney, or remote AU/APAC. Strong preference for teams where measurement is taken seriously and where AI tooling is welcomed rather than feared.
Open to contract-to-perm.
Reading & learning
A short, current list. Books I'm 30 pages into, papers open in tabs, courses I'm dipping in and out of.
- Hooked — Nir Eyal · re-read for the trigger ladder. Holding up better than I expected.
- Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines (Mar 2026 release) — feeds straight into the YMYL piece.
- The Mom Test — Rob Fitzpatrick · for the customer interviews I'm doing on Yuan's overseas distributors.
- HeyGen + ElevenLabs voice cloning — tightening the loop between script → avatar video → LinkedIn carousel.
- Andrej Karpathy's "Software 2.0" reread — useful frame for how AI is changing what marketers actually do.
Recent travel
A lot of China this year — mostly threaded around the Yuan Packaging work, but I keep stretching the trips at both ends. Each stop, briefly:
Recent updates
A short changelog of things that actually shipped, not things in my head.
- 4 Jun 2026 Tightened search snippets on the homepage, Sydney service pages, quiz, topic hub, resources hub, and process page so priority routes have cleaner titles and meta descriptions in organic results.
- 4 Jun 2026 Retargeted the keep-reading blocks on social media, content marketing, persona, budget-tool, and marketing strategy articles so search visitors can follow the new social/content route instead of dropping back into a broad archive.
- 4 Jun 2026 Updated the Pain-Point Quiz with a seventh social/content route so visitors whose issue is audience definition, social strategy, personas, or content systems now land in the matching topic cluster.
- 4 Jun 2026 Added a social and content marketing topic cluster so social media strategy, content marketing, personas, and lean tool-stack articles have a clear route without adding another top-level nav item.
- 4 Jun 2026 Refined the homepage and About Person schema so Anthony's entity now reflects the current service clusters: SEO, indexing, AI search, LinkedIn lead generation, funnels, analytics, paid search, social strategy, and international expansion.
- 4 Jun 2026 Aligned crawler discovery files by keeping the XML sitemap focused on canonical pages and expanding llms.txt with the full 33-post blog archive for AI agents and answer engines.
- 4 Jun 2026 Fixed a truncated SEO article title tag so the Google indexing guide presents a complete, readable search snippet while preserving the longer visible H1 and social card title.
- 4 Jun 2026 Expanded the blog archive sorter with funnel, social, paid search, and expansion filters plus clearer result-count feedback so visitors can narrow the growing content library without adding more items to the main navigation.
- 4 Jun 2026 Refreshed the Pain-Point Quiz so it now shows all six routes and sends each result into current article paths across SEO, LinkedIn, AI, funnels, analytics, and expansion instead of leaving visitors to browse the full archive cold.
- 4 Jun 2026 Completed Twitter/X card metadata across indexable pages by deriving explicit titles and descriptions from the existing Open Graph snippets, improving share previews without adding visible clutter.
- 4 Jun 2026 Regenerated the blog index ItemList schema from the current 33-post RSS library so the archive's machine-readable post count and URLs match the live blog instead of mixing in resource pages.
- 4 Jun 2026 Filled the remaining breadcrumb structured-data gaps on the homepage, blog index, guides hub, and hire page so search engines can read the site hierarchy consistently without adding visible navigation weight.
- 4 Jun 2026 Added RSS feed discovery to the main resources, topics, quiz, and now hubs so readers, crawlers, and feed-aware tools can find the current blog library from more entry points.
- 4 Jun 2026 Aligned blog Article structured-data modified dates with the refreshed sitemap so crawler-facing freshness signals match the related-reading and schema improvements shipped today.
- 4 Jun 2026 Closed the remaining blog FAQ schema gap by adding matching FAQPage structured data to the future-of-work guide so its visible questions are machine-readable for search and AI answer systems.
- 4 Jun 2026 Added topic-aware keep-reading blocks across the blog so search visitors can move from an individual article into the right SEO, LinkedIn, AI, analytics, strategy, or international expansion path without adding weight to the main navigation.
- 4 Jun 2026 Added image alt metadata for social previews across indexable pages and stamped local image dimensions onto visual-heavy pages to reduce layout shift without changing the design.
- 4 Jun 2026 Updated llms.txt so AI agents can see the refreshed quiz routing, topic hub, RSS feed, and international SEO cluster as the canonical map of the site.
- 4 Jun 2026 Refreshed feed.xml from the current blog library so the RSS feed now carries all 33 canonical blog posts for readers, crawlers, and AI agents.
- 4 Jun 2026 Added a contextual reading section to the Marketing Consultant Sydney page so broad commercial visitors can move into the core marketing, strategy, B2B funnel, and quiz resources without adding more top-level navigation.
- 4 Jun 2026 Ran a technical SEO coverage audit across all HTML pages, confirmed indexable pages have titles, descriptions, canonicals, and sitemap coverage, and tightened metadata/canonical signals on noindex utility pages used for redirects and embedded animations.
- 4 Jun 2026 Expanded the Marketing Pain-Point Quiz results with three-step reading paths for SEO, LinkedIn, AI systems, lead funnels, analytics, and expansion, then added an international SEO cluster so every quiz route has a clear topic destination.
- 4 Jun 2026 Added guided reading paths to the blog archive and made the Marketing Topics Hub available inside the existing Resources dropdown across the site, giving visitors a clearer route without adding heavier top-level navigation.
- 4 Jun 2026 Updated the Marketing Pain-Point Quiz so it now routes visitors into the current SEO, LinkedIn, AI systems, lead funnel, analytics, and international expansion clusters instead of only the older guide set.
- 4 Jun 2026 Added specialist Sydney commercial pages for SEO consulting, LinkedIn marketing, AI marketing systems, and marketing analytics, then kept them out of the main dropdown so the nav stays simple.
- 3 Jun 2026 Built the Marketing Topics Hub, refreshed sitemap.xml, expanded llms.txt, and added clean redirects so crawlers and AI agents can find the strongest page for each marketing theme.
- 27 May 2026 Published Best SEO Marketing Tools in 2026 Ranked by ROI, adding a ROI-first SEO stack guide covering Google Search Console, Semrush, Ahrefs, Surfer SEO, Screaming Frog, AI production layers, rank tracking, free tools, GEO, and stack combinations by growth stage.
- 27 May 2026 Published What Does Crawled by Google Actually Mean for SEO, adding a technical SEO guide to Googlebot crawling, crawled-but-not-indexed diagnostics, AI content quality, AI crawlers, and crawl visibility workflows.
- 26 May 2026 Published The Future of Work: What the Data Means for Marketers, adding a data-backed guide to AI agents, skills disruption, human-centric AI, GEO, attribution complexity, reskilling, and future-proof marketing operations.
- 26 May 2026 Published Google Ads in 2026: What the Data Actually Tells You, adding a data-backed paid search analysis covering benchmarks, Australian CPCs, Performance Max, AI Overviews, attribution, creative quality, and audit priorities.
- 26 May 2026 Published How to Get Your Pages Indexed by Google in 2026, adding a step-by-step guide to Search Console checks, indexing blockers, sitemaps, internal links, backlinks, quality requirements, timelines, and index monitoring.
- 26 May 2026 Published How Google Indexing Works (and Why Your Pages May Be Invisible), adding a practical guide to Google's crawl-index-serve pipeline, indexing diagnostics, de-indexing risk, AI Overview visibility, and indexation monitoring systems.
- 26 May 2026 Published How to Get Your Pages Indexed on Google, adding a beginner-friendly guide to Search Console checks, indexing blockers, sitemap submission, internal links, AI Overviews, and a 2026 indexing checklist.
- 26 May 2026 Published Google Indexing: How It Works and How to Fix It, adding a technical SEO guide to crawling, rendering, indexation, Search Console diagnostics, sitemaps, internal links, AI content quality, and funnel impact.
- 26 May 2026 Published Marketing Fundamentals: A Complete Guide for 2026, adding a beginner-friendly foundation for the 4 Ps, 7 Ps, audience research, full-funnel channels, measurement, AI, and compounding systems.
- 26 May 2026 Published Marketing Strategies That Actually Work in 2026, adding a systems guide to AI-assisted content, GEO, full-funnel marketing, first-party data, short-form video, LinkedIn, measurement, SEO, retail media, and specialist expertise.
- 26 May 2026 Published How to Do a Trademark Search Before You Scale Your Brand, adding a practical brand protection guide for USPTO searches, Nice classes, common-law checks, AI trademark tools, and competitive intelligence.
- 26 May 2026 Published Social Media Marketing: A Strategic Guide That Actually Compounds, adding a systems guide for platform ROI, short-form video, AI workflows, UGC, social commerce, social SEO, attribution, and LinkedIn B2B growth.
- 26 May 2026 Published Marketing AI Tools: A Practitioner's Guide to Building a Stack That Compounds, adding a funnel-stage framework for content, SEO, LinkedIn, automation, attribution, video, visual, and measurement tools.
- 26 May 2026 Published What Is Marketing? A Complete Guide for 2026, expanding the strategy cluster with a systems-first explanation of AI-assisted production, measurement, funnel diagnosis, AEO/GEO, automation, and compounding growth.
- 26 May 2026 Published LinkedIn Lead Generation Content Types That Actually Convert, adding a funnel-stage guide to carousels, thought leadership, video, case studies, lead magnets, polls, newsletters, paid forms, comments, AI workflows, and lead-focused metrics.
- 26 May 2026 Published How to Build a Personal LinkedIn Content Strategy That Converts, expanding the LinkedIn cluster with a five-phase profile, pillar, posting, engagement, and measurement system.
- 26 May 2026 Published LinkedIn Content Strategy for B2B: 7 Pillars That Drive Pipeline, with a hero image, Article schema, sitemap entry, blog index listing, and links to the LinkedIn Growth Framework and Content Calendar lead magnets.
- 25 May 2026 Updated the hire page with clearer package and pricing guidance: Marketing Diagnostic Sprint, Funnel or Content System Build, and Fractional Growth Support, with indicative AUD starting points and service OfferCatalog schema.
- 25 May 2026 Launched the Marketing Pain-Point Quiz as a first interactive lead-magnet diagnostic. It now recommends SEO, LinkedIn, AI systems, lead capture, analytics, or market expansion next steps and links each result to the right guide, topic cluster, or service page.
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25 May 2026
Added root
ads.txtwith a clean no-ad-inventory placeholder and updated the backlink plan to track foundation profiles, directories, editorial guest posts, and partner mentions separately. - 25 May 2026 Added and expanded four new gated PDF assets: AI Marketing Stack Template, SEO Audit Checklist, Content Calendar Template, and LinkedIn Growth Tracker. Each now includes explanations, worked examples, mini case studies, and application sections, not only worksheets.
- 25 May 2026 Added the LinkedIn Content Calendar as a gated PDF asset, with a 30-day calendar, hook bank, format matrix, metrics tracker, and Make-ready lead metadata.
- 23 May 2026 Added the Marketing Portfolio Template as an 8-page gated PDF asset and connected it to the Marketing Portfolio hub, Resources, and the guide funnel.
- 23 May 2026 Added the AI Search Optimization Checklist as an 8-page gated PDF asset for the AI Search hub, including answer-structure, schema, E-E-A-T, internal-linking, and tracking QA.
- 23 May 2026 Started the category-cluster SEO architecture with three pillar pages: AI Search Optimization, Marketing Portfolio, and AI Marketing Stack, then linked supporting posts back to the new hubs.
- 22 May 2026 Added the new SEO Foundations Playbook to the gated guide funnel, with an 18-page PDF, branded cover, workbook sections, and Make-ready guide metadata.
- 22 May 2026 Created the Google Business Profile for Anthony Ligyat as a service-area business and submitted it for Google verification/review. Waiting on approval before local SEO impact can start.
- 22 May 2026 Added WhatsApp as an APAC-friendly contact path across the homepage contact strip, contact page, hire page, and footer links, using wa.me/61468398693.
- 22 May 2026 Updated the slim site-wide announcement bar to promote the SEO Foundations Playbook as the newest guide, with a direct path into the gated download flow.
- 21 May 2026 Cleaned up the site navigation: Work now includes the hire page, Resources groups the hub, Guides, and Blog into one dropdown, the sitemap covers the blog archive and posts, and the old Excelerate URL redirects to the canonical case study.
- 21 May 2026 Adjusted the contact flow so the message form appears first and the inline Calendly scheduler sits underneath as the secondary option for people who prefer a call.
- 21 May 2026 Reframed the hire page around buyer pain points: funnel leaks, unclear performance, market expansion, and content systems.
- 21 May 2026 Added nurture-ready guide lead fields to the download gate and created the 7-day ebook lead nurture operating playbook for Make/Sheets follow-up.
- 21 May 2026 Added an inline Calendly booking section to the contact page and routed high-intent CTAs there, so visitors stay on-site while booking a 30-minute call.
- 21 May 2026 Moved Erik Protzman's verified Excelerate recommendation onto the homepage, with Review schema and a link to the full case-study recommendation.
- 21 May 2026 Refined the homepage brand marquee into a hybrid system: wordmarks stay logo-only, icon-only marks get labels, Yanghe uses a dark card so the full logo is visible, and all six resource articles now cross-link to blog posts.
- 21 May 2026 Refreshed the site identity into a fuller brand lockup across the navbar, favicon set, Apple touch icon, and default social sharing card.
- 21 May 2026 Updated the six long-form resource articles with visible Last updated dates, matching Article schema, and stronger author/freshness signals for E-E-A-T.
- 21 May 2026 Fixed the guide download UX: the thank-you state now appears before the browser save window and stays visible, with a manual Download again fallback.
- 20 May 2026 Connected the guide gate to Make.com: downloads now append to the Anthony Ebook Leads Google Sheet, trigger a Gmail notification to hello@anthonyligyat.com, and clean up the sent copy from the sending Gmail account.
- 20 May 2026 Launched the gated Guides hub with four PDF downloads: AI Content Playbook, LinkedIn Growth Framework, International SEO, and Ebook Funnel Framework.
- 19 May 2026 Launched the blog with 12 SEO-focused posts across AI marketing, LinkedIn, content strategy, analytics, and international SEO.
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May 2026
Big site update — installed GA4 (G-2TK2YBBFRC), unblocked GPTBot / ClaudeBot / Google-Extended / anthropic-ai / CCBot in
robots.txtso this site can be cited inside AI Overviews and answer engines, shippedllms.txt, added Resources and Now to the main nav, and tightened Article schema on both case studies. Audit doc is in the repo. -
May 2026
Migrated hosting from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages — same repo, faster edge, simpler config (
wrangler.toml). - May 2026 Added a Formspree contact form — name, email, subject, message — submissions route directly to hello@anthonyligyat.com. Replaced the email-only fallback.
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May 2026
Fixed a structured-data error: Review schema's
itemReviewedtype corrected fromPersontoProfessionalServiceon homepage and Excelerate case study. Requested re-indexing in Search Console. - May 2026 Testimonial section upgraded to a two-column grid. Added a small circular headshot in the hero so the face is visible immediately on mobile — no scroll required.
- Apr 2026 Published International SEO checklist — sixth long-read, with the 30-item launch list I'm running at Yuan and an architecture diagram for ccTLD vs subdirectory decisions.
- Apr 2026 Published Personas done properly — fifth long-read on Jobs-to-be-Done and the ten-conversations rule.
- Apr 2026 Published AI Overviews & BERT — fourth long-read on the trajectory from BERT's bidirectional attention to AI Overviews, and what gets cited inside an AIO answer.
- Apr 2026 Added FAQ + Privacy Policy + a sticky-TOC scroll-spy on long-reads. Plus a 404 page that links somewhere useful.
- Apr 2026 Added the verified Erik Protzman testimonial on the home page and case study — pulled from a written recommendation he supplied directly.
- Apr 2026 Shipped motion system across anthonyligyat.com — IntersectionObserver reveals, animated stat counters, reading-progress bar on long-reads.
- Apr 2026 Published the first three SEO long-reads — E-E-A-T, YMYL, Schema & Rich Snippets.
- Apr 2026 Yuan Packaging — first round of distributor interviews complete; six markets surveyed for messaging fit.
- Mar 2026 Wrapped the Excelerate Consulting nine-month case study — final read of the LinkedIn 60K weekly impressions arc.
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