Pillar pages have been an effective way to group and present website content to users and search engines for some time. In this post, I will define what a pillar page is, how it can help your SEO efforts, and share some examples of pillar pages in action. So let’s […]

Earning a degree is a good thing for some professions. After all, you wouldn’t want a doctor who learned his trade via YouTube videos taking out your appendix, would you? Of course not. But for other professions, you can learn just as much, if not more, than a college curriculum’s […]

Before you click out of this article thinking, “not another keyword research guide,” let me tell you something I’ve learned first-hand from working with national news publishers: Keyword research for publishers is entirely different. The skills, processes, checklists, and tools you currently use won’t be as helpful in this niche. […]

In the search engine optimization business, we spend so much time thinking about Google algorithms, sitemaps, and backlinks that we sometimes lose sight of the primary goal: providing useful information to human visitors. In the past, it was easy to understand why. You could cram your page with keywords, slap […]

As search engines evolve to understand language in a more sophisticated way, relationships are becoming ever more important in SEO. Semantic search is here to stay so it’s time to pay attention to connections and associations to take your SEO content to a new level.  Using entities in your content […]