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Helpful content update complete
The rollout of the helpful content update was complete as of September 9, 2022.
Tech
Analyze SERP Backlink Profiles in Bulk for SEO Using Python
This is such a cool tutorial by Greg Bernhardt! He shows you how to write a Python script to scrape SERPs for a given keyword and analyse the top X sites to find many Insights including:
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- Backlinks count
- Referring domain count -Top anchor text count by backlinks
- Top anchor text count by referring domain
- % where a query one-gram is in an anchor text
- Average ahrefs link rank of backlinks
Processes & Frameworks
How We Increased Traffic 110% By Reducing Content Cannibalization
You probably use keyword clustering to create new content, but how about to help reduce cannibalization? This excellent guide and case study from Andy Chadwick shows you how! 💡
How to make an SEO strategy
Tom Critchlow applying the learnings from the fantastic book: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy to describe how to build out SEO strategies. Great stuff! 🔥
Infinite Scrolling: When to Use It, When to Avoid It
Solid guide on the user and SEO implications of infinite scrolling by Tim Neusesse 🙌
Why SEO Documentation Fails
Another smash hit from Adam Gent on why SEO documentation can fail, and the benefits of shared understanding. Lots of examples and practical advice as always!
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Hi there 👋,
Google has officially completed the rollout of the helpful content update...and there has been slightly more activity. Have you noticed anything? (I've still seen nothing across my sites).
Okay...my Post of the Week is very, very good. Sam Underwood has put a ton of effort into a new guide on the Ahrefs blog: 11 ways to improve e-commerce category pages for SEO. What I love about this one is that it includes references from the likes of John Mueller and Ryan Levering, as well as his own case studies which validates what he's saying.
A resource I'm sure everyone will continue to reference when they work on e-commerce sites. 🔥
Until next week!
Andrew Charlton