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How easy is it for you to detect SEO incidents?
ContentKing users were 2x as likely to respond that detecting newly introduced SEO issues is "very easy" than non-ContentKing users.
See more on how SEOs detect issues in The State of SEO Quality Assurance in 2021. A first-of-its-kind research, ContentKing asked 1,200+ SEO professionals how they deal with technical issues and unwanted changes on their site.
News
A reminder on qualifying links and our link spam update
You best tag those links. G has quickly transitioned from a subtle nudge to... 'you better mark up those affiliate and guest post links before we throw a manual penalty your way!' π
Content
41 SEO quick wins you can do within an hour
Kevin Gibbons of Re:signal shares a crowdsourced list of SEO tips for short-term impact. Some of these are cracking!
Mastering internal linking: The key pro-tips
This is super useful from DWX. Add a site type and page type and discover internal linking best practices for your selection. Great stuff! π₯
Tech
How to Improve Page Speed from Start to Finish (Advanced Guide)
One of the most comprehensive guides on pagespeed I've read in a long time from Patrick Stox. π
Should You Have a Trailing Slash at the End of URLs?
To trailing slash, or not to trailing slash, that is the question.
Great, practical guide to trailing slashes by Patrick Stox π₯
Comprehensive Tutorial for Data Science and Visualization for SEO
This an OUTSTANDING piece of work from Koray TuΔberk GΓBΓR. He covers things like how you can retrieve and animate search results over time, extract semantic entities from Wikipedia, and much more! π₯
Google Page Experience Audit (15 Steps + Free Audit Template)
Olga Zarzeczna with an extremely good guide to carrying out a Google Page Experience Audit.
39 Page Speed Optimization Tips (To CRUSH Your Load Time)
A comprehensive guide to page speed optimisation by the team at seobility. π
Pagination for SEO: Perspectives and Methods
Super comprehensive guide by Koray TuΔberk GΓBΓR on all things pagination. Must read! π
Case Study
How to Grow a Blog (from 0 to 15k Monthly Visitors) tactics, no fluff and other stuff
Samuel Schmitt describes his exact strategy for growing a blog from scratch to over 15k unique visitors every month, in less than 2 years. I'm sure you'll love the transparency in the post!
Hi there π,
Here's our top 10 most popular posts from 2021 π₯
Until the New Year!
Andrew Charlton