After a bad October-November period, one of my sites had lost 16% of its Organic Keywords. Not the worst thing in the world, but as one of the KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) that I like to track it was enough to require my attention. In cases like this there can be dozens of potential reasons …
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It doesn’t matter how many times I write about this subject I always end up coming back to it. Due to various reasons, the SEO community still believes that long-form content is better. Better than what exactly though? The idea has always bugged me. Long-form content is better than concise content? Really bucko? As an …
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In this article, I wanted to write about the absurdity of prices. In the United States, the Federal Minimum Wage is $7.25/hour meaning the minimum any State can legally provide is $7.25. Some States minimum wage is higher than this, but none can be lower legally. We will use this as a metric to compare …
Here’s another statistic that is widely reported as improving. In September 2017 the average household income in the United States was reported as an all-time high of $59,039 on average. This seems like a good thing and instils confidence in the administration and the economy. However it ignores the fact that more young adults are …
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One key thing about statistics is that they can be made to look great. In a world obsessed with data and statistics we’ve actually become amazing at making things that are in fact quite bad look great. In Austerity Britain, we have cited better employment rates almost every year since the Recession of 2008 began. …
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Not many of my followers know that I’m British, but it’s true. I am inescapably British for better or worse… I moan about the Weather and drink more Tea than is healthy. Unfortunately there’s a lot of things about being British that really suck. Whether it’s Brexit, or the fact we’ve had Conservative Government’s rule …
Democracy is defined as; “Government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.” – Dictionary.com Democracy is widely accepted as the most liberal form of governance, offering freedom for the masses …
This year has been crazy. I liquidated my partnership in SEO AI with my old business partner Charles Floate. Released Version 2 of On-Page Mastery and built over 20 websites in the 6 months since I left the agency. This year has been a real learning experience, but especially when it came to building 20 …
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I recently wrote about situational link building in response to a lot of silly reactions I had seen and heard of happening after the “medic update”. In that post, I argued that trying to use links to build your way out of an algorithmic slap isn’t necessarily the best idea. Unfortunately, I’ve seen the other …
Being involved in SEO for a long time has meant that I’ve met a lot of people, some of whom I would consider good friends. Part of that friendship is hearing about the latest successes and “failures”, offering advice and generally saying “there, there” when something horrific happens. This year we’ve had two fairly large …
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