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Tactical SEO guides, frameworks, and playbooks. Actionable strategies you can implement today.

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Research 28 min read

The Crowd and the Index: Le Bon, Google, and the Psychology of Search

In 1895, Gustave Le Bon explained how crowds think. In 2024, his framework explains SEO better than any ranking factor study. The industry doesn't optimize for algorithms. It optimizes for each other.

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Technical 12 min read

URL Structure Migration: The Art of Moving Without Disappearing

The complete guide to URL migrations that don't destroy your traffic. Redirect mapping workflow, monitoring checklist, and the organizational failures that kill most migrations.

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Analytics 16 min read

SEO Vanity Metrics Are Astrology for People With Spreadsheets

Domain Authority, DR, Trust Flow, "keywords ranked for," and every other made-up number the SEO industry uses to avoid discussing what actually matters: money.

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Local SEO 18 min read

Local Pack Ranking Analysis: The Geography Tax Nobody Talks About

Everyone sells you local SEO. Reviews, citations, GBP optimization. But 45% of local pack ranking is distance — something you can't optimize. Here's what the data actually shows.

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Analytics 24 min read

SERP Feature Opportunity Analysis

Position 1 is dead. The game now is featured snippets, PAA boxes, knowledge panels, and image carousels. How to audit which features you can actually win.

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Links 12 min read

Free Backlinks From Fortune 500 Sites

Not theory. Actual methods that work. The Fortune 500 link ecosystem has holes. Here's where they are.

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Technical 18 min read

Mobile-First Indexing: The Complete Guide

Google finished mobile-first indexing in July 2024. After 8 years of industry panic, here's what actually happened and what you need to do now.

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Technical 22 min read

Cyber Defense SEO: When Hackers Kill Your Rankings

Google Safe Browsing flags 10,000+ new sites daily. A hacked site gets deindexed. Real bash commands to detect, prevent, and recover from the attacks that end organic traffic.

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Technical 18 min read

Defensive SEO: The Moat Nobody Builds

HubPages lost 62% visibility and never recovered. JCPenney lost 90% overnight. The September 2023 HCU hit 500+ sites. The history of SEO is a graveyard. Here's how to avoid joining it.

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Technical 14 min read

Site Architecture is a Ranking Problem, Not an Organization Problem

Everyone treats site architecture as a navigation problem. It's not. It's a PageRank distribution problem. Your structure determines where authority flows.

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Analytics 12 min read

Why Your SEO Data is Misleading You

Most "data-driven SEO" is pattern-matching on noise. Here's how to extract real signal from the metrics that actually matter.

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Content 4 min read

Search Intent Mapping

Wrong intent = wrong content = no rankings. Here's how to identify what searchers actually want and match your content to it.

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Research 4 min read

Keyword Research That Doesn't Suck

Most keyword research produces spreadsheets nobody uses. Here's a four-step process that ends with a prioritized list you'll actually execute.

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Research 4 min read

How to Steal Any Competitor's SEO Strategy

Your competitors already did the research. Use Wayback Machine, Ahrefs history, and search patterns to reverse engineer what works.

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Technical 4 min read

The Log File Analysis Shortcut

Server logs reveal exactly how Google crawls your site. Most SEOs ignore this goldmine. Here's the fast way to extract actionable insights.

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Technical 4 min read

Index Bloat: The Silent Traffic Killer

More indexed pages isn't better. Thin and duplicate pages dilute your site's quality signals. Here's how to find and fix index bloat.

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Technical 3 min read

The Redirect Audit That Matters

Redirect chains, loops, and broken redirects silently kill your rankings. Here's the quick audit that finds them before they cause damage.

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Technical 12 min read

URL Structure Migration: The Art of Moving Without Disappearing

Change URL patterns without losing rankings. The redirect mapping workflow, monitoring checklist, and why most migrations fail from abandonment, not incompetence.

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Content 4 min read

The Content Refresh Formula

Updating old content beats creating new content. Here's exactly which pages to refresh and what changes actually move rankings.

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Analytics 3 min read

Find Cannibalization in 5 Minutes

Multiple pages competing for the same keyword means none of them win. Here's the fast way to find cannibalization using just Search Console.

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Research 3 min read

How to Read a SERP in 60 Seconds

Before writing anything, read the SERP. 60 seconds tells you what Google wants, who you're competing against, and whether you can win.

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Links 3 min read

Why Your Internal Links Are Worthless

That nav link in your header? Google mostly ignores it. The "related posts" widget? Also mostly ignored. Here's what actually passes value.

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Research 16 min read

How to Know If You Can Rank (Before You Write a Single Word)

Keyword difficulty scores are garbage. Here's the actual process for figuring out whether you have a shot at ranking, what it would take to win, and when to walk away.

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Links 3 min read

The Only Link Worth Building

One relevant link from a page that gets traffic beats 100 links from ghost sites. Here's how to find and win the links that matter.

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Analytics 4 min read

Diagnose Any Traffic Drop in 30 Minutes

Traffic down? Don't panic. Follow this exact sequence to identify the cause. Works every time, in under 30 minutes.

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Analytics 3 min read

The Search Console Trick That Finds Opportunities

The striking distance filter nobody uses. Find keywords you already rank for and can actually win. Takes 5 minutes.

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Technical 4 min read

The Technical SEO Checklist (The Real One)

Forget 200-point audits. Here's what actually breaks rankings: indexation, crawlability, and speed. The focused checklist that matters.

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Technical 2 min read

Convert All Your Images to WebP

A simple Python script to batch convert all images to WebP format. Up to 80% smaller file sizes with minimal quality loss. Copy, paste, run.

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