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When & how to disavow backlinks in 2021

When & how to disavow backlinks in 2021

Written for an experiment in Dr Pete’s 2021 Mozcon session.

Author t-capPosted on 2021-04-282021-07-20Categories PostsTags SEO

SEO Forecasting in Google Sheets

SEO Forecasting in Google Sheets

A free forecasting template, all calculated natively within Sheets. In a genuinely unrelated incident, I ended up starting work at Moz two weeks after this was published.

Author t-capPosted on 2021-02-012021-07-20Categories PostsTags Analytics

Organic traffic down YoY? It’s not what you think…

Organic traffic down YoY? It’s not what you think…

Brief exploration of the impact of ITP 2.1 on channel reporting in Google Analytics. Some client sites I looked at were overlooking huge gains in organic search performance over the last few years.

Author t-capPosted on 2020-08-052020-08-15Categories PostsTags Analytics, SEO

What Google’s Star Rating Rich Snippet Changes Mean For You

What Google’s Star Rating Rich Snippet Changes Mean For You

Mixture of rant and tactical advice around Google’s decision to get a bit stricter about “self serving” rating schema.

Author t-capPosted on 2019-09-172019-10-17Categories PostsTags SEO

“Impressions” is an Undervalued SEO KPI

“Impressions” is an Undervalued SEO KPI

We’ve been sleeping on metrics (and commercial outcomes!) that old school marketers and PRs would kill for.

Author t-capPosted on 2019-09-022019-09-16Categories PostsTags Analytics, SEO

What is a Ranking Factor?

What is a Ranking Factor?

Digging into the distinction between things that correlate with rankings, things that influence rankings, and ranking factors.

Author t-capPosted on 2019-07-232019-09-16Categories PostsTags SEO

5 Reasons Legacy Brands Struggle With SEO (and What to Do About Them)

5 Reasons Legacy Brands Struggle With SEO (and What to Do About Them)

A post bringing together some of my repeat experiences with larger clients.

Author t-capPosted on 2019-03-132019-03-13Categories PostsTags SEO

DA is the Wrong Metric for Reporting on Link-Building

DA is the Wrong Metric for Reporting on Link-Building

This article originally appeared over at https://www.distilled.net/resources/da-is-the-wrong-metric-for-reporting-on-link-building/. That URL 404s at the time of writing, hence the new location here.

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Author t-capPosted on 2019-03-132021-09-20Categories PostsTags SEO

How to rank for head terms

How to rank for head terms

In effect, this is the blog of my SearchLove London 2018 deck – but should as such be quicker & easier to digest for people who weren’t there on the day.

Author t-capPosted on 2018-11-22Categories PostsTags SEO

How Do Sessions Work? – Whiteboard Friday

How Do Sessions Work? – Whiteboard Friday

This is my 2nd Whiteboard Friday appearance, but actually the one I recorded first. It’s about a pet peeve of mine, or at least something that seems to come up *constantly* in SEO work – the surprisingly finicky definitions in Google Analytics.

Author t-capPosted on 2018-11-062018-11-06Categories PostsTags Analytics

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