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Debunking the myth of feeding the beast
What really works to make digital content successful in the 2020s? Realistic strategies for posting and navigating algorithms
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108 postsOriginal writing on the current state of digital content, including SEO, UX, social media, legacy media, software, independent publishers, AR, VR, emerging tech, and everything in between.
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How often should your business publish content?
The answer: you don't need to publish web content nearly as often as you think.
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Meta title tag best practices: Covering Google's recent changes
For more than a decade, Google displayed whatever you wrote as a meta title tag, even as it revised your meta descriptions and pulled feature snippets out of context. Read about the recent changes to Title Tags.
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The human cache never fully clears
Viral metaphors are callous in the after-era.
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Grading competitive content performance: A quantitative scorecard for website publishers
To evaluate competitors' content strategies and success, I've developed a four-point competitive scorecard that provides clients with just enough data to understand how owned organic content performance compares to similar sites.