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Digital PR

Toxic Backlinks and the Disavow Tool: When to Use It, and Why Google Says Almost Never

Google's own documentation says most sites will not need the disavow tool, and that using it wrongly can hurt them. Here is the two-condition test that decides it, and the seven situations that look like they qualify and do not.

September 7, 2026
15 min
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SEO Strategy

Keyword Cannibalization: How to Prove It Before You Merge Anything

Two of your own pages ranking for one query is not automatically a problem, and merging them is not automatically the fix. Here is the two-part evidence test that tells you which situation you are in, and the four things you can do about it.

September 7, 2026
16 min
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SEO Strategy

Google's /goto Redirect: What It Changes, and What It Does Not

Google now sends search result clicks through a redirect on its own domain instead of linking straight to the destination. Searchers will not notice; anyone buying rank data should.

September 7, 2026
17 min
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Digital PR

Link Building Tools: What to Buy, and When

Most link building tool lists are written by companies selling one of the tools. This one groups them by the job you are doing, prices each tier as published, and says which ones a two-person team can skip.

September 6, 2026
19 min
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AI Search

How to Rank on ChatGPT: What OpenAI's Crawler Docs Say

ChatGPT's retrieval layer is usually described as Bing's index. OpenAI's own crawler documentation names four bots and no index at all. Here is what is actually documented: which token governs citation, and whether per-engine work earns its place.

September 6, 2026
15 min
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AI Search

Agentic SEO: What to Delegate to an Agent, and What Never To

Every agentic SEO platform sells the same promise: the system acts instead of reporting. The useful question is not whether an agent can do the work, but which SEO tasks stay recoverable when it gets one wrong.

September 6, 2026
16 min
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Web Development

Largest Contentful Paint: Find the Element, Then the Budget

The browser does not always time the element you expect, and it can change its mind while the page is still loading. This guide covers how to find the element Largest Contentful Paint is measuring, which of its four sub-parts is slow, and who owns that half of the problem.

September 2, 2026
15 min
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SEO Strategy

Trial and Demo Page SEO: Which Conversion Endpoints Deserve to Rank

When a free trial page and the signup form behind it share one URL, that URL gets asked to do two jobs at once and does both badly. Here is how to decide which conversion endpoints belong in the index, and the split-URL pattern that stops the choice being a trade-off.

September 2, 2026
15 min
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SEO Strategy

SaaS Feature Page SEO: Which Features Deserve a Page, and What Goes On It

If you have shipped a page for every feature you ship, the set is probably competing with itself. Here is the test for which features earn a page, how a feature page differs from a use-case page, and how to stop your own pages competing with each other.

September 1, 2026
15 min
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Content Strategy

The Content Brief: What Goes In One, and the Template We Use

A content brief decides the outcome of an article before anyone writes a word. Here is the full format, field by field, including the four fields that decide whether the page is worth publishing at all, plus a worked example and a template you can copy straight off the page.

September 1, 2026
14 min
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SEO Strategy

SaaS Pricing Page SEO: How to Make Your Price Crawlable, Rankable and Quotable

A SaaS pricing page is usually briefed as a conversion asset and never checked for whether a crawler can read the price at all. Here is how to decide what to publish, how to mark it up, and how to confirm what Google actually stored.

September 1, 2026
14 min
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Technical SEO

Crawl Budget: How Google Decides What to Crawl

Google refreshed its crawl budget documentation in July 2026, and the two most-read third-party guides still describe the version it replaced. This covers how crawl capacity and crawl demand work, the three signs the problem is yours, and why noindex costs you a crawl rather than saving one.

August 31, 2026
18 min

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