Category: Posts

Sometimes, you can’t have any more pie. Perhaps the pie is infinitesimally small. Or perhaps the rest is already taken. Or perhaps you already have the entire pie. In these cases, to progress, you must make the pie itself larger.

Information architecture is a broad topic, which arguably includes almost everything that we traditionally call technical SEO, and a lot of UX. In this post, I’m going to focus more narrowly on quickly identifying simple changes to a site’s internal navigation that can boost the performance of your key landing pages. At its most basic, this is a process you could execute in half an hour.

Back in Google’s early days, people navigated the web using links, and this made PageRank an excellent proxy for popularity and authority. The web is moving away from primarily link-based surfing, and Google no longer needs a proxy — so what, in 2017, is the point in links?

(Spoilers: We’re not done with them yet…)

Which is the better predictor of rankings – branded search volume, or Domain Authority?

A deep dive into one of the pieces of research that went into my SearchLove San Diego presentation.

If you don’t have a physical presence, there are some situations where you can still rank for local queries. Learn whether you should, how to identify queries to compete for, and recommendations on how to optimize for them.