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Not every link pointing to your site is helping you. Some are neutral. A small percentage might be actively harmful. The question is how to tell the difference, and what to do about the bad ones. A backlink audit is the process of reviewing every link pointing
Shopify is designed to make selling online simple. It handles hosting, security, payment processing, and checkout. What it does not do is give you full control over your technical SEO. The platform makes certain decisions for you, and some of those decisions c
Schema.org lists over 800 types of structured data. Most of them do nothing for your search visibility. Google only supports rich results for a small subset, and even within that subset, some types deliver dramatically better results than others. This guide fo
Most link building advice falls into one of two categories: tactics that stopped working years ago, or tactics so vague they are useless. "Create great content and the links will come" is not a strategy. Neither is blasting 500 outreach emails from a template
Featured snippets are the boxed answers that appear above the first organic result in Google. They pull content directly from a web page and display it in the search results, giving users an immediate answer without requiring a click. Google calls this "positi
YouTube is the second-largest search engine on the planet, with 2.58 billion monthly active users (DataReportal, 2025). That is more people than use any social platform except its parent company's own search engine. And yet most creators treat YouTube SEO as a
WordPress powers roughly 43% of all websites on the internet, according to W3Techs. That dominance means more WordPress SEO guides exist than anyone could read in a lifetime. Most of them say the same thing: install Yoast, write good content, done. The reality
SEO isn't dead. It's not even close to dead. Here's what actually happened: Google added an AI layer on top of its existing search results. ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini all run queries against Google (a process called query fan-out), pull the top-ranking pa
"Running shoes" gets 200,000 searches per month. "Best trail running shoes for wide feet under $100" gets maybe 150. But the person typing that second query is ready to buy. They know the terrain, they know their foot shape, and they know their budget. All the
AI assistants don't have their own search index. When someone asks ChatGPT for a product recommendation, it generates search queries and sends them to Google. It pulls the top results, reads the first 900 characters, and synthesizes an answer. If you don't ran
Local SEO is a different discipline from the organic SEO most people think of. When someone searches "plumber near me" or "best coffee shop in Austin," Google pulls from a completely different set of ranking signals than it uses for informational queries. The
In January 2025, Google AI Overviews appeared in 6.49% of search results. By March, that number hit 13.14%. It doubled in two months. That data comes from Semrush and seoClarity's joint research, and it tells a clear story: AI Overviews are expanding fast, and