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Writing is the lifeblood of most online businesses. Whether that’s blog articles, landing page copy, or product descriptions, the written word is necessary to attract and convert readers. But there…
Affiliate marketing and blogging go together like cookies and milk—they’re made for each other. I’ve been monetizing my blogs with affiliate marketing for over 10 years and even recently sold…
Content is still king for online businesses. Want to rank on Google? You need content. Want social media followers? More content. I’ve personally published thousands of articles across dozens of…
Examine.com was able to reach over 1 million monthly visitors from Google search results. The best part? It did so without any manual backlink outreach or even having a focus…
Reality check: Not all bloggers earn money. Of those who make money, not all make a living. And not even all make a decent side income. But what’s also true…
If you rank on page two of Google or beyond, you’re practically invisible. In fact, almost all of the traffic to our blog comes from first-page Google rankings: Unfortunately, nobody…
Google advanced search operators are special commands and characters that filter search results. They do this by making your searches more precise and focused. For example, the site: operator restricts…
Social signals are all the engagement metrics (e.g., the number of likes, shares, or comments) your content gets on social media. They generally reflect how visible and engaging your content…
The beauty of SEO is that searchers are actively looking for your product/service or the problem you solve. This usually means higher-quality leads, which makes SEO a fantastic lead-generation channel.…
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Helpful content generally offers a good page experience. That’s why today, we’ve added a section on page experience to our guidance on creating helpful content and…
In the past three years, we’ve grown Pet Keen from 0 to nearly 3 million organic visits per month. A big part of this success comes from backlinks. So in…
Every company on Twitter has the same features at its disposal to create a standout profile. Here are those features: But how many SaaS companies make use of them all?…
Monday, April 17, 2023 Google Search now shows an expanded display of shipping and return information on Google Search text results for merchant sites. We’re also making it easier to…
As the new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) go live this month, a new light is being shined on website accessibility. But in honesty, this is something almost no SEOs…
Ahrefs offers a wide range of free SEO tools for digital marketers on a tight budget. In this article, I’m going to walk you through each tool and when to…
Thursday, April 13, 2023 Today, we’re making a change so that video thumbnails only appear next to Google search results when the video is the main content of a page.…
Sometimes, all you need are ideas to get your creative juices flowing. So I want to give you marketing ideas to riff off. That’s why I asked 18 marketers for…
Here’s my selection of the software that SEO agencies use to get their work done and manage their teams successfully. Accurate data is important for SEO agencies to make good…
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 Every day, we’re discovering, indexing, and serving billions of web pages, and a significant portion of pages we discover are spam. In 2022 we launched multiple…
Have you ever wanted to learn SEO away from your computer screen? We just published a beautiful hardcover book teaching the fundamentals of SEO. Here it is in all its…
SEO writing tools help you improve your content. Here are the top reasons why you need them and the tools I use to improve my writing. 1. To find the…
But what makes a good affiliate marketing website? What products does it promote? And how does it get people to visit and purchase its recommendations? To answer these questions, let’s…
Healthline is one of the biggest health niche websites. We’re talking tens, if not hundreds of millions of clicks every month with fierce competition. It doesn’t get much more exciting…
Affiliate marketing can be a lucrative career, with some high-ticket commissions in the hundreds or even thousands of dollars per sale. I’ve been in the affiliate space for over a…
For example, say you have these keywords: It’s clear that they all mean the same thing, so you don’t need to create different pages for each of them. You can…
Looking for the best type of blog to make money? Let’s look at some data first: About 15% of bloggers make a full-time income from blogging ($30K a year). About…
Monday, April 3, 2023 When we launched the Search Central Virtual Unconference series, we got a lot of feedback to organize events in multiple languages. On February 17, 2023 we…
I wanted to find out how going viral impacts SEO for different businesses. I thought that with all the news coverage and links these sites received that their businesses would…
If you want your blog posts to get search traffic, optimize them for SEO. But that doesn’t mean shoehorning as many keywords as possible. Keyword stuffing doesn’t work anymore. How…
A majority of all website visits worldwide are attributed to mobile devices. Optimizing your website for mobile has never been more important in SEO. In this article, I’ll kick things…