All my articles on Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Extracting entities from web pages is an essential task for both planning out content and on-page optimization. Numerous free tools on the market help you achieve this. In this article, we’ll explore three popular tools that are available for free. We’ll use the same excerpt of content from a Healthline article to compare the quantity …
Like many people, perhaps including you, I’ve been exploring the possibilities around OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool. I’ve already used it for many of the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) use cases discussed on social media and elsewhere in detail over the last couple of months. In this insights article, I’ll share some interesting data about whether the …
In this article, we’ll talk about updating blog content and how you should do it. We’ll also explore several scenarios that cover the why, when, and what. TL;DR – You should update your blog content with a strategy that contains different methods and tactics depending on why you are updating the content, and the total …
Does the size of the featured image or its “dimensions” affect Google’s organic search rankings? That’s something that I decided to put to the test. This is where I should tell you to read on to find out the shocking truth, except it’s not that shocking for reasons you’ll soon understand. Disclaimer: The sample size …
There are many opinions within the SEO community. In many cases, some people believe that a particular approach helps or doesn’t help with gaining better rankings or more organic traffic from Google. However, there are very few definitive studies or insights available. While there are hundreds of thousands of websites using a table of contents …
The concept of a champion list is not new, but you might not have heard of them before. In this article, I’ll explain what they are, why they matter, and how you can use them to improve your search engine optimization. What Are Champion Lists? Champion lists are a precomputed list known singularly as a …
If you use WordPress, you should use a more extensive robots.txt file to optimize your website’s crawlability for SEO. This boilerplate helps with crawl rate optimization by better utilizing the crawl budget that Google has assigned for your website, as it prevents Googlebot from attempting to access unimportant pages while ensuring they can still access …
One thing everyone bemoans, including myself, is how much time things take with Google/SEO now. Of course, if you’re building niche sites on an aged domain that’s pretty much a cheat code. All the same, it takes a while. Whether you’re building on an aged domain or a new one, the conventional advice is that …
In this article, I’ll be teaching you all about the best web hosting for SEO. But this isn’t a typical review. Instead, I’ll be discussing what makes good hosting by explaining high-level technical concepts. I won’t be recommending five or even ten good hosting companies because, in reality, there are only two that you’d ever …
Thin Content is a term which describes web pages with low value, low quality, or duplicate content. TL;DR – If your site has thin content you should fix it. Even a single thin page, or section of a page, can harm your sites rankings by lowering its quality scores. There are not always obvious signs that …
I have a problem with the ‘by the averages’ approach set of tools… And so should you! These tools focus on content analysis which is achieved via cross-comparison of any number of competing pages. Once the data is gathered from each competitor it is then compared to your own content. You’ll probably have heard of …