If you followed the previous post about getting started with Pelican, you should have a Pelican website up and running on your local machine. This is where a lot of web development tutorials stop and that has always frustrated me. There are a million and one places to learn how to code online but just […]
I’ve been thinking about the best way to put a “course” together to demonstrate the overlap between web development and SEO. There are a lot of directions this could go in but I wanted to strike the right balance between technical depth and feasibility for someone who hasn’t done much in the way of web
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If you’re new to web development—especially if you are coming from adjacent territory like marketing or product management, you’ve probably begun to understand the basics of variables and for loops but there’s a big gap between where you are and how things get done in the wild. The goal of this post is to introduce
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Whether you’re just an SEO rookie or you’ve been playing along for years, you probably know that SEO is all about keywords, content, and links. To “do SEO,” all you need is a website, some content, and you need to figure out how to get some links so your site can rank. The more you
You are probably here because you have more SEO data than you know what to do with and precious little time to make sense of it. A framework is exactly what you need. An SEO measurement framework draws the relationships between all the metrics that you collect and the levers that you can pull to
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Freshness matters. It matters to searchers, therefore it matters to search engines, therefore it should matter to you. The best tool to ensure that search engines have your site’s freshest content is your sitemap. This post explains why pinging search engines with your sitemaps is important for SEO and how to optimize the process and
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Keyword stemming is the process of removing all modifiers of a keyword, including prefix, suffix, and pluralization, until only the root of the word remains. For example, “consulting” and “consultant” would be stemmed to the same root, “consult.” This technique is useful for SEO keyword research because it helps to identify and group similar keywords.
Pssst… have you heard about Google Search Console’s BigQuery integration?? The thing I enjoy most about SEO is thinking at scale. Working at Postmates was fun because sometimes it’s more appropriate to size opportunities on a logarithmic scale than a linear one. But there is a challenge that comes along with that: opportunities scale logarithmically,
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The Google Search Console Fetch and Render Tool is like putting on a pair of Googlebot goggles and looking at your own site through those lenses. If you have a simple website, (WordPress for example) that hasn’t been modified too much, you may not appreciate why this is important. But the more complex your site
I’ve been spending a lot of time working with sitemaps lately. They are a critical component of getting sites indexed by search engines and a great way to learn about your competition’s architecture and search strategy. They literally map out the content that your competition is trying to add to search engine indexes and where
