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Digital PR

Media Pitch Examples: What Gets a Reply, and What the Data Says

The top result for media pitch examples promises twelve templates that get journalist replies, and prints a reply benchmark with no dataset behind it. Behavioral data on 405,964 pitches puts the measured response rate at 3.43 percent. Here is what belongs in the email, and what to expect from it.

August 30, 2026
15 min
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Technical SEO

Faceted Navigation SEO: Which Filter URLs to Block, and Which to Keep

Ask three ranking guides what to do with your filter URLs and two will tell you to canonicalize them. Google's own documentation, updated at the end of 2025, recommends blocking them in robots.txt and calls canonical tags less effective in the long term.

August 30, 2026
19 min
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SEO Strategy

SEO Dashboard: What to Put On It and What to Leave Off

Every SEO dashboard guide hands you the same list of metrics and never says which ones to leave off. The harder question is what each tile is for, and which of them will quietly mislead the person reading it.

August 30, 2026
14 min
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SEO Strategy

Share of Voice: How to Measure It Without Faking the Denominator

Every guide to share of voice gives you the same formula and leaves the denominator undefined, which is the only part that decides what the number means. This is the specification to write down before you calculate, and why two tools will never agree.

August 29, 2026
15 min
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AI Search

AI Visibility Tools: How to Choose One and Judge Its Numbers

Every AI visibility tool reports a percentage, and no two of them calculate it the same way. This is how to judge one by the validity of its measurement rather than by the length of its feature list.

August 29, 2026
18 min
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SEO Strategy

SERP Features: The Full Map, and Which Ones You Can Actually Earn

Every guide to SERP features publishes a different list, running from five items to thirty-seven, and none of them says which ones you can actually influence. Google names the parts of its own results page and draws that line explicitly.

August 29, 2026
15 min
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Content Strategy

LinkedIn Marketing Strategy for B2B: What Actually Leaves a Trace

Almost every LinkedIn guide is written for a social media manager whose scoreboard is engagement. If your scoreboard is pipeline and search visibility, LinkedIn's four surfaces need judging on a different question: which of them leaves something a person can still find six months from now.

August 28, 2026
14 min
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Digital PR

Earned Media: What It Is, and Why AI Answers Run on It

Earned media is the coverage you did not pay for and did not publish yourself, which is exactly why it is worth more. It is also, on the current evidence, most of what AI answer engines are willing to cite.

August 28, 2026
15 min
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SEO Strategy

Title Tags: How to Write One Google Will Not Rewrite

Almost every guide to title tags gives you a character count, and Google's own documentation says there is no limit. The more useful question is which titles get replaced, and what to do about the ones that already were.

August 28, 2026
15 min
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Technical SEO

External Links and SEO: When to Link Out, and When to Nofollow

Most advice about links is advice about getting them. The other half of the job is what your own pages point at, which attribute each of those links needs, and the fact that a good outbound link quietly stops being one about two years after you publish it.

August 27, 2026
10 min
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Content Strategy

Content Planning: How to Decide What to Publish Next

Most content planning advice turns keywords into a calendar and assumes every topic becomes a new post. On a site that has already published for a year, the more useful question about any given topic is whether it should be a new page at all.

August 27, 2026
10 min
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SEO Strategy

Search Intent: How to Read It Before You Write a Page

Most guides teach search intent as a step in keyword research, which is useful right up until you have already published the page. The more valuable question is how to tell, from the results page alone, whether the page you have is answering the wrong kind of question.

August 27, 2026
11 min

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