Google Core Updates: Stop Analyzing Them Like It’s 2013

  NOTE: This is Part One of a post I drafted back in March of 2019! My goal at the time was to shed light on what I saw were a lot of misconceptions around how people were viewing core updates. I think the entire paradigm of how we view core updates should be completely different than

How To Access Organic Twitter Analytics (For anyone, for free)

Just yesterday I published “Predicting Content Success With Twitter Analytics“. And then wondered why not many seemed to find this as exciting as me. Then I realized. Folks are still confused about how to even get Organic Twitter Analytics. I’m not surprised. I just spent the last 45 minutes trying to activate it for another Twitter account

Predicting Content Success With Twitter Analytics & “Favorited Rate”

UPDATE: Getting access to Twitter Analytics seems to be unclear in some cases. I posted this for anyone needing info on how to access it (please let me know if you still have trouble). If you already have access to Organic Tweet Analytics, read on for one way to come up with content ideas… Do you

No! Google Sets Being Retired For Good From Google Sheets

I don’t do many “news” style posts. But as a keyword research junkie, I was really upset to discover “Google Sets” (the Wonderwheel-like data you could access in Google sheets) has been retired from the new Google Sheets (along with other things like Spell Check and Web Clipboard). You can still access Google Sets temporality until

An In Depth Comparison of Yoast SEO Vs All In One SEO

NOW UPDATED FOR 2017! PLEASE NOTE: I originally reviewed the Yoast SEO Plugin vs All In One Plugin in February of 2014. This post is being completely updated for 2017 – I have updated comparisons of all the critical feature sets, but plan on doing a little more review on their help and support. If you’re

The Ultimate List Of Keyword Research & Management Tools

The following list is the result of weeks of researching and testing over 15 keyword research, management and analysis tools. It is the only list I know of for keyword tools that is this extensive. Below this list is an explanation of my overall keyword research process. Features / Benefits Of The Ideal Tool Bulk

A Big “Yes” To Yesware: Insanely Easy Email Tracking

In short: I can’t believe this tool is free. I mean, there are paid versions – but I can’t believe the free version is free. And even though 90% of my time spent doing SEO is not on link building, I am what you’d call a “heavy user” of email.  I know a promising tool when I see

How I’d Plug Up (W)hole Foods New Website

Purely In Jest… the (w) thing. How Would I Fix The New Whole Foods Website? We’ll get to that. As well as (spoiler alert!) a demo of a new tool I haven’t seen anyone talk about. Keep reading… It was 11:30pm and I was looking up organic food retailers in the New Hampshire and Maine

Getting the CEO To Care About SEO

Let’s face it. CEOs care about SEO when the importance of it is obvious to them. And this might not just be about the bottom line. It can be about how their company is seen in the public eye (ie: negative Google suggest phrases). It could be about relationships with important people like journalists and

Review Of A New SEO Browser Browseo

What The Heck Is An “SEO Browser”? I assumed, from this description, I was about to find myself downloading and installing an actual browser – one especially made to browse the web like an SEO. Nope! Rather, think of Browseo more like a virtual browser. Or a “browser within a browser”. Its a web app