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First of all, if you’re reading this website you deserve a big THANK YOU. You’re serious about blogging and more importantly, you’re serious about writing, and that gives you a special place in my heart. I LOVE writers, and I love you because you’re a writer. Don’t ever stop being a writer, no matter what […]

Let’s get this out of the way. Google is a search engine that processes over 40,000 search queries every second. That’s 3.5 billion searches a DAY. Now, I’ve been in SEO for over 10 years and for the last few years there’s been a lot of talk about SEO being dead. SEO IS NOT DEAD, it’s just […]

So you’ve got your WordPress website up and running. Well done! But to get the best out of it you need some plugins. Plugins can enhance SEO, as well as user experience for your website, and they are one of the things that make WordPress so great. But before you go crazy, bear in mind […]

IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR MORE TRAFFIC TO YOUR WEBSITE THEN IT ALL STARTS WITH KEYWORD RESEARCH. SEO Starts (and ends) With Keywords Research It’s all too easy to get carried away blogging and forget about the importance of Google for driving traffic. Google is a monster. Google is huge. Google is God! Well, I wouldn’t go that […]

Of all the schemes that have come and gone over the past 10 years there’s one that’s held amazingly steady, and that’s the practise of PBNs. A PBN is a private blog network, and it’s exactly as the name suggests, a private blog network. The idea is you build up your own catalogue of blogs and strategically place links back […]

1) Numbers and Lists I started with this, because it’s the headline I used in this very article. People love lists. It allows them to compartmentalise. It makes them manageable, easy to remember and allows the eye to fly down a page, taking or leaving what it wants. It’s been proven that numbered lists are shared more on social […]

Running a successful website is like running a high performance sports car. Every detail needs to be honed to perfection. It starts with a scientifically proven design, which needs to be sleek, aerodynamic and aesthetically pleasing. Then, to run efficiently it needs the highest grade premium fuel, or in the case of a website, top […]

If you’ve read my keyword research tutorial you should be familiar with the process of how keyword research is a fundamental part of SEO. For this post I’ve decided to give you a nugget that is usually reserved only for major SEOs. It uses a professional tool called SEMRush and it works by tapping into, […]

I heard a question on Facebook the other day that I found quite interesting: Hi fellow bloggers, so I have a question. How do you handle not limiting your creativity by using SEO and keywords? Once I started researching keywords, it blocked my creativity! Seriously, while I get more traffic now, before I liked my posts […]

If you’re in any way interested in SEO then you need to know there’s a plethora of tools available, so many in fact it can be daunting. But any good SEO will have a core set of tools they refer to on a daily basis, and one of mine is Majestic SEO. What Is It? […]