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The Only 6 SEO KPIs Your Boss Actually Cares About
However many metrics you track to do the work, the report you put in front of leadership should be small. Six KPIs — chosen for what they tell a business, not a technician — and why they win trust and budget.
Jun 12, 2026
The Vanity Metrics Quietly Wasting Your Time
Keyword count, total impressions, site-wide average position, total pageviews — accurate, flattering, and useless. A critique of the SEO metrics that buy false peace, and the honest replacements that can deliver bad news.
Jun 11, 2026
GA4 for SEOs: What to Track and What to Ignore
GA4 answers the question Search Console cannot — what people did after they arrived. An analytical breakdown of the four signals tied to value, the vanity metrics to ignore, and how to read it without being misled.
Jun 11, 2026
Guest Posting Isn't Dead — It Just Grew Up
The SEO internet keeps declaring guest posting dead. The teenage version — articles as packaging for a smuggled link — deserves the funeral. The grown-up version, where the article is the point, is alive and worth doing.
Jun 10, 2026
How We Earned 40 Backlinks From One Data Study
A year of low-return outreach, then one original data study that earned dozens of editorial links — many from writers we never contacted. The honest account of why it worked: the question, the data, the packaging, and the compounding tail.
Jun 10, 2026
Digital PR: How to Earn Links Without Begging
Cold outreach stopped working because it asks for favours. Digital PR inverts the deal: create stories, data, and tools publications genuinely want to cover, and earn higher-quality links as a consequence of being useful.
Jun 10, 2026
"Build It and They Will Link" Is Half True
Quality is the entry ticket to earning links — but linkable and linked are not the same thing. The half this comforting aphorism leaves out is the half that quietly sinks most content programmes.
Jun 09, 2026
Why Buying Links Is a Slow-Motion Disaster
Buying links does not fail loudly. The costs arrive gradually — wasted money, penalty risk, lost control, and a dependency trap — long after the purchase, and far larger than the shortcut ever appeared to save.
Jun 09, 2026
The Link-Building Tactics That Still Work (And Those That Don't)
An analytical breakdown of link-building tactics into three groups: the ones that still work, the ones that have stopped, and the dangerous middle that produces links of the wrong kind.
Jun 09, 2026
I Added 300 Internal Links in a Week — Here's What Moved
A deliberate experiment: roughly 300 internal links added in one week, nothing else changed, watched for weeks. The patterns that emerged — which pages moved, why discovery responded first, and what internal linking cannot fix.
Jun 08, 2026
Anchor Text: The Small Detail With Outsized Impact
The words inside a link are chosen in half a second and rarely revisited — yet they shape how search engines understand your pages. Why 'click here' wastes the signal, why exact-match over-optimisation backfires, and the healthy middle.
Jun 08, 2026
Internal Linking Is the Cheapest SEO Win You're Ignoring
Teams pour their scarcest resources into backlinks and content while neglecting the one lever they control completely. Why internal linking gets ignored, what it actually delivers, and the compounding cost of waiting.
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