Even better, many on-page improvements are super quick and easy to do. Follow this checklist for perfect on-page SEO every time: If you’re looking for a reusable interactive checklist to use time and time again, here are a few other… Read more ›

SEO is how you do that, and the basics are quick and easy. Follow these tips to rank your small business higher in no time. If you only do one thing as a small business owner, make it to claim… Read more ›

In this article, I’ll share eight of my favorite SEO reporting tools to help you create a comprehensive SEO report for free. Price: Free Google Search Console, often called GSC, is one of the most widely used tools to track… Read more ›

In this article, I’ll share how you can automate your SEO reporting easily using just two tools: Ahrefs and Google Looker Studio (GLS). In theory, automating SEO reporting should help: But, in reality, these types of projects can get complicated… Read more ›

In this article, I’ll share my favorite Ahrefs’ SEO experiments we’ve run over the years and what they show us about how Google really works. Google recently downplayed the importance of links, but what happens if you disavow the links… Read more ›

Content pruning sounds pretty appealing: delete a ton of content and see your organic traffic improve. But pruning has risks (like deleting useful pages and useful backlinks), and benefits are not guaranteed: So how does pruning actually work? And when… Read more ›

This article lists a complete tool stack that will allow you to track all the metrics that matter in content marketing, such as traffic, keywords, and audience growth. There are seven tools on the list: These are all popular tools… Read more ›

When enterprise content marketing is done well, it can drive tons of leads, conversions, and, ultimately, revenue. In addition, it can help with things like brand perception and awareness. There’s a misconception that big enterprise websites rank for everything. They… Read more ›

Very few blog posts create new information. Most serve to remix, curate, and copycat existing content, transferring the same core information from one website to another. If all your content does is shuffle common knowledge around, then I have bad… Read more ›

In this guide, you’ll learn the three best practices of reporting and eight types of information that make a solid content report, including the actual KPIs used by content marketers. From my experience, I’ve learned that having three key features… Read more ›