Best WordPress SEO Plugins Compared (2026)
The right SEO plugin handles 80% of your on-page optimization automatically. The wrong one bloats your site, slows down your pages, and gives you a false sense of security with…
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How to Build Backlinks: A Complete Guide
Backlinks are still the single strongest ranking signal in Google’s algorithm. That hasn’t changed in 18 years, and I don’t see it changing anytime soon. I’ve built links for 850+…
Link Building Strategies That Actually Work in 2026
I’ve built links for 850+ clients over the past 18 years. Most of what you read about link building online is recycled advice from 2019 that doesn’t work anymore. Some…
Best Free SEO Tools for Bloggers and Marketers
You don’t need to spend $200 a month on SEO tools. I know because I ran my first 50 client sites using nothing but free tools, and some of those…
Blog Commenting for SEO: Does It Still Work?
Blog commenting used to be the easiest way to build backlinks. I know because I did it. A lot of it. When I started blogging in 2008 at age 15,…
FAQ Schema Guide: How to Add FAQ Structured Data
FAQ schema can double the space your page takes up in Google search results. I’ve added it to hundreds of articles across client sites and my own, and I’ve watched…
Guest Posting Services: How to Find and Vet Them
I’ve spent over $47,000 on guest posting services in the last 6 years. Some of that money bought links on real sites with real traffic. A lot of it went…
On-Page SEO Checklist: The Complete Guide for 2026
On-page SEO isn’t glamorous. Nobody brags about it at conferences. But after optimizing 850+ client websites over 18 years, I can tell you this: on-page SEO is the single biggest…
WordPress Permalink Structure: Best Practices for SEO
Your WordPress URLs are either helping you rank or silently hurting you. Most people never touch their permalink settings after installing WordPress. That’s a mistake I’ve seen cost sites thousands…
SEO Basics: A Complete Beginners Guide to Search Engine Optimization
I started my first blog in 2008 without knowing what SEO was. I published articles, shared them on social media, and wondered why nobody found them through Google. Once I…
Best SEO Tools for Bloggers and Marketers in 2026
I’ve spent over $30,000 on SEO tools across my career. Some of that money was well spent. A lot of it wasn’t. The SEO tool market is crowded with products…
On-Page SEO: The Complete Optimization Guide for 2026
I updated the title tag, meta description, and heading structure on a single blog post last month. No new backlinks. No design changes. No technical overhaul. Just on-page SEO optimization.…