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SEO

What Google Wants With Your Money or Your Life (YMYL)

As a professional, your content is your beacon. It’s what gets people to notice you; it gets them to learn more about you this works the same in a Google Ranking check.

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Marketing

Don’t Be Transparent, Be Authentic Instead

Some people tend to tweet, blog, post, and status-update their little hearts out. Be it on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, their own blog, or whatever. They say it’s all about being “transparent,” and transparency is good. But I think we need to be careful. Transparency may seem trendy. It may seem noble or humble. But […]

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SEO

6 Quick Ways to Spy On Your SEO Competition

Some competitors may not compete with you on SEO. Other competitors are siphoning traffic away from you. SEO competition is complex, use these 6 tips to improve ranking.

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Marketing

Add Breadth And Depth To Your Marketing

Back from a short vacation. It was a beautiful week at a cottage by the lake. Most days were hovering around a warm 22° Celsius (72° Fahrenheit), but with a couple of frosty mornings that caused a dense fog to cover the entire lake. It was absolutely gorgeous. Before I left, I appeared as a […]

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Interviews

How to Secretly Dominate Your Market

In this podcast, coach and speaker Ed Rush grilled me on copywriting, marketing, SEO, and positioning, and how to use these to secretly dominate your market.

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SEO

Kickstart Your Results With an SEO Keyword Audit

When refreshing existing content, the first goal is to match the audience’s search intent to improve rankings. For that, perform an SEO keyword audit.

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SEO

4 Keyword Research Tips (Hint: It’s Not About Keywords)

When it comes to SEO keyword research tips, my mantra is and always will be to create quality content and a quality user experience. Everything else is gravy.

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SEO

Do Page Builders Affect WordPress SEO?

An SEO consultant asked for my advice on the best plugins for WordPress SEO, and wondered if page builders like Beaver Builder or Elementor can affect it.

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Books

The Death of The Salesletter

In late 2005 (and early 2006), I predicted the death of the text-heavy, long-scrolling sales letter and the birth of an interactive, content-driven, multimedia model.