Stories About Ryan Restivo
YESEO app embraced by newsrooms looking to amp up SEO while keeping data safe
One year after the launch of YESEO — a free Slack app created by Ryan Restivo during his 2022-2023 RJI Fellowship — the app is helping news organizations increase the visibility of their stories through guided search engine optimization.
AI takes ONA23 by storm
ONA 23, the Online News Association’s annual conference held last week in Philadelphia, demonstrated just how quickly artificial intelligence and machine learning have become a dominant focus in the industry, even as news organizations largely remain cautious about integrating Large Language Models like ChatGPT into workflows.
Introducing the YESEO app
The Slack app is free to use and is installable in any workspace.
How I preserve user privacy in the YESEO bot
Breaking down each bot command with the privacy, data and share options.
Adding pre-publish options to the SEO Slack tool
Using keywords, AI and automation for pre-publish insights.
How a SEO tool can help all types of journalists do their work better
A solution must be useful for first time users as well as those more expert in SEO.
How do you make a Slack bot that users of all levels can interact with and get insights from?
SEO is beyond a technical problem, it’s also a user experience problem.
Why you should care about your news site’s SEO
Common challenges, core basics and practical first steps.
Making sense of your core web vitals
Learn how the loading speed, accessibility and other performance metrics of your news site stacks up.
Building a Slack-based tool to improve SEO for your newsroom
Search is ubiquitous in our day to day life and journalism needs to get better at it.