Updated: April 20, 2024. Free EEAT checklist (EEAT audit template) to help you audit your website in terms of E-E-A-T/YMYL/Helpful Content/Google Quality template coming soon. Does your site have all it needs when it comes to E-E-A-T/YMYL, Google Helpful Content, and widely understood Google quality? A free 76-point Google Quality Audit Template (worth $500) will be available exclusively for subscribers of my SEO newsletter in early May 2024. All you need to do to get it is subscribe to my SEO newsletter. I created this audit template based on Google’s own guidance and documentation around ..read more

Updated: April 3, 2024. Discover how to become an independent SEO consultant. Get insights from a seasoned professional and achieve success in the world of SEO. Since I began doing SEO in 2012, my biggest dream has been to work as an independent SEO consultant. However, it was not until a decade later that I was able to realize my dream. It wasn’t an easy journey, and I made plenty of mistakes along the way. If only I had known then what I know now, I could have achieved my goal in half the time or less. In this article, I will share with you 10 essential steps to become an independent and suc ..read more

Updated: March 7, 2024. Here I’m showing you step by step how to audit your site with Google Search Console only. SEOs when doing SEO audits always use a site crawler like Sitebulb or/and Semrush Site Audit as the main tool and a bunch of other SEO tools. But is it possible to perform a technical SEO audit using only Google Search Console? It turns out it is! In my in-depth SEO audit guide, I showed you how to perform a technical SEO audit using standard SEO auditing tools. Here, on the other hand, I will show you how to do that using Google Search Console only. This is going to be super inter ..read more

Updated: March 5, 2024. A new cool E-E-A-T/YMYL/Helpful Content/Google Quality template coming soon. Does your site have all it needs when it comes to E-E-A-T/YMYL, Google Helpful Content, and widely understood Google quality? A free 76-point Google Quality Audit Template (worth $500) will be available exclusively for subscribers of my SEO newsletter in mid-March. All you need to do to get it is subscribe to my SEO newsletter. I created this audit template based on Google’s own guidance and documentation around: Helpful Content E-E-A-T/YMYL pages Core Algorithm Updates While it’s difficul ..read more

Updated: March 5, 2024. An in-depth and highly sarcastic guide to AI content creation for SEO purposes. Using AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to create content for SEO is very tempting. I’m pretty sure that when ChatGPT first came out, almost everyone thought they got superpowers and could create content on a massive scale. This statement holds some truth. ChatGPT or any other LLM has the potential to speed up content creation.  However, putting your content creation on autopilot always sacrifices quality and depth.  Sadly, I see lots of folks still using AI in this way as i ..read more

Updated: February 15, 2024. Here is the introduction to the Cora SEO tool, my top SEO tool for 2024 and on. Cora SEO Software is an advanced SEO diagnostics tool created specifically for expert-level search engine optimization. Using sophisticated statistical analysis, Cora measures and evaluates over 121555 potential ranking factors. It then identifies which factors have the highest correlation to top rankings for a given keyword and set of search results. It almost sounds too good to be true but it isn’t. In this short guide, you will learn the basics of how Cora works and why you should add ..read more

This interview will change your SEO game forever. This episode of the SEO Podcast by #SEOSLY features Ted Kubaitis, who is the founder of SEO Tools Lab (the Cora SEO tool), an SEO speaker and host of the weekly SEO show, SEO Fight Club. I invite you to subscribe to the SEO Podcast by #SEOSLY to keep learning SEO with me and the SEO experts I interview. Follow SEO Podcast by #SEOSLY You can subscribe to the SEO Podcast by #SEOSLY on popular podcast platforms. Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsSpotifyRSSPandora Interview with Ted Kubaitis from SEO Fight Club (video) Get ready to dive deep into the ..read more

Updated: February 4, 2024. I’m Olga Zarr, with a decade of SEO experience under my belt. This guide is my no-nonsense approach to becoming an SEO expert. It’s distilled from years of trial, error, and success. I’m cutting through the clutter to give you the straight path I wish I had when I started. We’ll cover foundational steps, practical insights, and the mindset you need. Ready to get serious about SEO? Let’s get to work. How to become an SEO expert (video) Here is the video I’ve recorded for you that discussed exactly how to become an SEO expert in 31 steps. How to become an SEO expert ..read more

Updated: January 31, 2024. Learn all about the bulk URL inspection in Google Search Console (how to bulk inspect URLs using the Search Console URL Inspection API). Understanding the crawl, index, and serving status of pages on your website is critical for monitoring SEO health and troubleshooting issues. However, gathering this page-level intelligence in Google Search Console (GSC) has traditionally been tedious for large websites. Thankfully, the release of bulk URL inspection capabilities has transformed how teams can analyze website crawlability at scale. This quick guide will cover everyth ..read more

Learn how to do SEO testing, what SEO testing is, and how to level up your SEO game big time. This episode of the SEO Podcast is the interview with Lee Witcher, the creator of the Tested SEO Training, one of the hosts of SEO Fight Club, and an experienced (16 yrs) marketing consultant online/offline using analytics and database to maximize marketing ROI. Lee is the person who teaches SEO magic. I’m not kidding! I invite you to subscribe to the SEO Podcast by #SEOSLY to keep learning SEO with me and the SEO experts I interview. How to do SEO testing (video) How to do SEO testing (audio) You ca ..read more