How Mai Theme Helps You Rank in Google
How Mai Theme for WordPress has brought my blog back from the brink, to the point where I am getting first page and even #1 Google Rankings.
Why Website Publishing Is the Best Business or Side Gig to Start in 2023
Starting a website publishing business is the best option, especially as a side gig for if you're busy and short of precious time! Here's why
Recovering from Google’s Helpful Content Update
What is this Google's "September Helpful Content Update", how do you recover, and why would Google do this to their publishers?
Did AI Kill SEO? Is SEO Dead?
Is Search Engine Optimization dead? Why are people worried about automation and AI when it comes to SEO? What is our advice?
26 Biggest WordPress SEO Mistakes Publishers Make and How to Solve Them
WordPress SEO mistakes are sadly common. Here are the biggest mistakes that we see bloggers and publishers make, and how to fix them.
How to Detect ChatGPT and Humanize Your AI-Assisted Writing
Blog automation such as ChatGPT are increasingly popular for content creation but how can you use AI and still rank and convert to sales?
Genesis Framework SEO Settings and How to Use Them
The Genesis Framework for WordPress comes with a lot of SEO settings and customizations that impact your SEO directly or indirectly, some of which are not entirely clear to a user who has not seen them before. Let’s make sure you get the most out of these SEO settings! What is SEO? SEO stands for …
WordPress Themes for SEO: How Templates Impact Ranking in Search Engines
WordPress Themes have a profound impact on your SEO, but many website publishers trust that all WordPress Theme vendors have made their themes SEO-friendly. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is affected by so many factors, from content quality to SEO keyword research, to backlinks to readability, it is difficult to know what changes have had the …
SEO Keyword Reports: Search Engine Optimization Reporting Done Right
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is a key component of website marketing, and your SEO Keyword Reports are a crucial element of success.
Topical Authority and Going Off-Topic in SEO
How topically focused does your site need to be to do well in Google rankings? Does going off-topic harm your "Topical Authority" and SEO (search engine optimization)?
The Wrong Way to Start Blogging
Why do some bloggers have so much growth and respect while others fail no matter how hard they work?
What to Check When Reviewing Your Website
In this tutorial, we look at what you need to learn and what to check when reviewing a website. Auditing SEO in six different areas will help you determine your site’s health and make improvements so it’s performing at peak efficiency.
What Causes Duplicate Content Issues?
Everyone wants their site to rank the best it possibly can in search engines. Bloggers leverage SEO tools and webmaster tools, write high-quality unique content, and focus on building effective internal links to improve their SEO. Yet, duplicate content issues can still rear their ugly head to hurt website rankings. I frequently audit our website …
How to Setup 301 and 302 Redirects for WordPress Pages and Posts?
Are you looking to redirect your existing WordPress posts and pages to a new URL? There might be several reasons for redirection, like you want to transfer your site or pages to a new domain, looking to change URLs for SEO, etc. If you are not sure what redirection is and how to do it, …
How to Rank (and Convert) with Landing Page SEO
SEO is tricky but it is also a relevant marketing practice. Do you know that landing page SEO is trickier than any other marketing tool? With landing pages, you convert the readers into customers. But, how you do that plays an important part.Most landing pages are not designed according to SEO needs. They are designed …
How to Choose an SEO-friendly Theme For Your WordPress Blog – 5 Tips
Starting a new WordPress blog is easy but sustaining it in a competitive web world is difficult. There are so many WordPress powered websites on the internet, how is your website or blog different? If you use the right plugins, features, and widgets, then you’ll be able to optimize your blog. Not only plugins, but …
How to Stop 301 Redirects from Hurting Your SEO?
URL redirects have become an essential thing for every website today. You may need to redirect your webpage or a blog post to a new URL for important reasons. These steps can’t be avoided as you don’t want to provide your visitors blank pages, 404 error pages, etc. If you have been redirecting URLs for a …
SEO Best Practices for Your Website
In this post, we'll review SEO best practices for your website—everything from focus keywords, SEO titles, meta descriptions, alt text, categories, headings, internal linking, external linking, and avoiding/fixing broken links—so you can make sure you are keeping Google, and most importantly, your users, happy.
Should I Combine My Websites?
I originally wrote this post in 2017 after we finished merging websites for a customer. Since then, we’ve worked on quite a few customer projects focused on combining websites. Short of creating a formal case study, I decided to update this post with three real-world examples for you to review. I’ll also update this post …
