Keyword and topic clustering for SEO has been a hot topic for years, but one of the things I’ve noticed is that there’s been a distinct lack of discussion around how to actually do it. There’s just been a torrent of theory and a handful of (rather expensive) tools which say they’ll do it for you. With that in mind, I thought I’d spend a bit of time putting together a really … [Read more...] about Keyword & Topic Clustering For SEO With R
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Sentiment Analysis For SEO Using Google Sheets
If you’ve had the dubious pleasure of working with me over the last ten or so years, you’ll have heard me talk about three things pretty regularly: how chili is the greatest food on the planet (if you disagree, you’re wrong), obscure black metal/ witch house/ synthwave/ industrial bands and sentiment analysis and how it relates to SEO. I was recently lucky enough to be … [Read more...] about Sentiment Analysis For SEO Using Google Sheets
Bulk Resizing Images With R & Magick
I recently had to resize an awful lot of images for a client’s site in order to improve their load time. The site is very image heavy, but some of these images were over 6mb, which has serious ramifications for SEO and general user experience, especially on mobile. In today’s post, I’m going to take you through the solution I came up with, using R to resize the images to … [Read more...] about Bulk Resizing Images With R & Magick
Fear, Uncertainty And Doubt: Google’s SEO Panic Engine
By now, you’ll have heard the news and probably read Matt Cutts’ latest post (that link’s no-followed, Matt, don’t worry), where he talks about how Google will be taking a dimmer view of guest blogging in the future. In his words: So stick a fork in it: guest blogging is done; it’s just gotten too spammy. Like I say, you’ll probably have seen the post by now, you’ll … [Read more...] about Fear, Uncertainty And Doubt: Google’s SEO Panic Engine
Finding And Reclaiming Lost Links Caused By Site Problems
As an SEO, one of my biggest pain-points is that many developers don't take links into account when they're rebuilding a website, meaning I have to do a lot of link reclamation work whenever a new site goes live. Today, I'm going to take you through one of my approaches to reclaiming links that have been lost due to site issues rather than the site owner deciding that they … [Read more...] about Finding And Reclaiming Lost Links Caused By Site Problems