Find out about my battle-hardened writing workflow

Find out about my battle-hardened writing workflow

7 Easy Stages To Publish (and Share) Your Content One thing I’ve learned over the years is the importance of workflow. It releases my brain to do creative or difficult stuff. Start here. Do this, then that, then that, then that and finally that. And I’ve got something...
How To Write Blogs Everyone Needs To Read

How To Write Blogs Everyone Needs To Read

Photo by John Schnobrich on Unsplash 8 things you’re doing wrong and 7 ways to overcome them Is your business blog underperforming? I see so many that are. By the time you finish this piece, you’ll know exactly what you need to do to make your business...
Has the January 2020 Google Core update affected your website?

Has the January 2020 Google Core update affected your website?

Photo by Rajeshwar Bachu on Unsplash Weighing in quickly in the new year, Google announced its latest core update on Monday, the 13 January. Later today, we are releasing a broad core algorithm update, as we do several times per year. It is called the January 2020...
How I streamlined my newsletter workflow with AWeber Curate

How I streamlined my newsletter workflow with AWeber Curate

IMPORTANT Update, 22 August 2016: For the last two issues of The Week in Writing For SEO, I’ve hit serious problems which have delayed the newsletter. They seem to be caused by the HTML generated by Curate because the test e-mail doesn’t work properly in...
The Writer’s Guide to Voice Search

The Writer’s Guide to Voice Search

Google released an amazing statistic last week – some 20% of searches on mobile are now by voice. Allowing for about 50% or more searches being mobile these days, we can conclude more than 10% of searches are voice searches. Don’t listen to the doubters Have you...
Read The Writer’s Guide to Google Search Console

Read The Writer’s Guide to Google Search Console

Not long after I published The Writer’s Guide to Google Webmaster Tools last year, Google went and rebranded its free service as Google Search Console (GSC). I’ve just updated the piece and renamed it. I hope you find it useful – if you’d...
Update: Header tags and how you use them in SEO Copy

Update: Header tags and how you use them in SEO Copy

I returned to my post Header tags and how you use them in SEO Copy recently and added some more tips. It was popular before, but now it’s an essential read if you’re wondering about how you should be using h tags in your content. The updated post...
The Writer’s Guide to Local SEO

The Writer’s Guide to Local SEO

If you’re primarily a writer, you’re almost certainly happy with the primacy of on-page content in SEO. There’s one notable exception, though – Local SEO. While your organic results can help your Local SEO results, they’re not the whole story, and there are a...
Update: What does SEO mean?

Update: What does SEO mean?

As Writing For SEO matures, I’ve been reviewing some of my more popular, yet older, posts. It may be that Google still likes them and continues rating them well in the SERPs, but I can see the information is out of date, and in some cases I no longer agree with...