18 July 2026
Worth your feed @AboveTheFoldHeresy. We torch the landing-page 'best practices' everyone copies blindly. If a guru told… We read it, you probably should too.…
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17 July 2026
Does flattening a deep silo actually move rankings? One 2,400-page rebuild Question: a recipe site had its content buried four clicks deep (home → category → subcategory → tag → post). Would flattening the structure to t…
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16 July 2026
Is there an observable exact-match anchor threshold before things go wrong? Everyone warns about over-optimized anchor text, but at what ratio does it actually correlate with trouble? I tried to find a waterline. — Acros…
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15 July 2026
Publishing cadence vs depth: does a faster clock actually win? "Publish more often" is gospel for new sites. But does raw cadence correlate with growth once you control for total quality output? — I compared 23 sites' fi…
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14 July 2026
Do you rank better by being mentioned alongside the right entities? Co-citation theory says appearing in the same contexts as authoritative entities in your niche teaches search engines you belong in that set. Observable…
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13 July 2026
Does pruning thin pages lift the rest of the site? Re-examining the claim. Content pruning, removing or noindexing weak pages, is sold as a way to concentrate authority. Does the surviving content actually rise? — I gath…
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12 July 2026
Can the algorithm tell first-hand experience from rewritten research? The extra "E" in E-E-A-T is experience. But can rankings actually distinguish a hands-on review from a competent desk summary? — I assembled 35 review…
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11 July 2026
SERP teardown: is Google deliberately diversifying domains in the top 10? You rarely see one site own 5 of the top 10 anymore. Is there an observable host-crowding limit? — Across 60 queries I counted how many top-10 slo…
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10 July 2026
Is branded search the leading indicator of authority growth? Many operators watch backlinks. But branded search volume (people Googling your site's name) may predict organic growth earlier and better. — Using 19 sites wi…
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09 July 2026
Does "covering the full topic map" actually raise the whole cluster? Topical-map theory says completing every subtopic in a cluster lifts all pages, not just the new ones. Is there evidence the cluster rises together? — …
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08 July 2026
Worth your feed @SplitTestStreet. Real tests run by real operators this week — what we shipped, what won, what… We read it, you probably should too.…
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07 July 2026
Does FAQ schema help you get cited by AI answer engines? With AI Overviews and chat answers pulling from pages, operators are adding FAQ markup hoping to get quoted. Does structured Q&A actually raise citation odds? — I …
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06 July 2026
SERP teardown: what "People Also Ask" reveals about query intent. People Also Ask boxes are often treated as a content checklist. Read closely, they encode how the algorithm models the query's intent. — I pulled PAA sets…
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05 July 2026
Unlinked brand mentions: ranking signal or wishful thinking? The "implied links" idea (from an old Google patent) says mentions of a brand without a hyperlink could still count toward reputation. Tempting, hard to test. …
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04 July 2026
Do author bios actually move rankings, or just satisfy auditors? E-E-A-T (experience, expertise, authoritativeness, trust) guidance pushes detailed author boxes. But does adding a bio change anything measurable? — I trac…
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03 July 2026
Does internal link position beat anchor text? A teardown. We obsess over internal anchor text. But a links-position hypothesis says links higher in the main content pass more weight than footer/sidebar links to the same …
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02 July 2026
Does dwell time influence rankings? Untangling a stubborn myth. "Long dwell time tells Google your page is good" is repeated endlessly. Google denies using analytics dwell time as a ranking factor. The truth is more inte…
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01 July 2026
Where is the "thin content" threshold, really — and is it about length? Thin-content penalties get blamed on short pages. But I've seen 400-word pages rank and 2,000-word pages get ignored. I tried to locate what actuall…
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30 June 2026
Co-citation: does appearing alongside authority sites help, even unlinked? Co-citation — being mentioned in the same documents as established authorities, without a direct link between you — is a classic information-retr…
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29 June 2026
SERP teardown: which niches are most volatile, and what that means for strategy? Ranking stability varies wildly by niche, yet advice is one-size-fits-all. I measured volatility directly to see how strategy should bend. …
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28 June 2026
Quick rec — @ConversionLabNotes keeps a tight feed on Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO). If today's post landed, that one's for you.…
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27 June 2026
Internal anchor text: does exact-match help or trip a filter? For external links, over-optimized exact-match anchors risk penalties. Internally, you control every anchor — so should you use exact-match keyword anchors ev…
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26 June 2026
Does a Wikidata entry earn you a Knowledge Panel — and does it help traffic? For brands and authors, the entity-SEO promise is: get into Wikidata, get recognized, get a Knowledge Panel, win trust. I tracked 22 small bran…
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25 June 2026
Do hub pages pass more authority than equivalent links from body content? A hub (pillar) page linking to 20 cluster articles vs those same 20 links scattered through body content — does placement change what flows? I fou…
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24 June 2026
What gets a page cited in AI Overviews? A teardown of 200 citations. As AI Overviews and chat answers eat informational traffic, the new question isn't "do I rank" but "do I get cited." I collected 200 AI Overview citati…
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23 June 2026
Does publishing cadence build topical authority, or just volume? There's a belief that consistent cadence (X posts/week) earns Google's trust. Hard to separate cadence from the volume it produces. I tried. I grouped 34 s…
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22 June 2026
How fast does content decay, and does query type change the rate? "Refresh your content" is universal advice. But decay rates aren't uniform, and treating them as such wastes refresh budget. I tracked clicks-over-time fo…
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21 June 2026
Entity salience beats keyword density — but by how much? Keyword density died years ago; the replacement question is whether entity salience (how central a named entity is to the document, per NLP APIs) predicts ranking …
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20 June 2026
SERP teardown: what "People Also Ask" reveals about query intent depth. PAA boxes are usually mined as keyword lists. Read structurally, they expose how Google models a topic's intent tree — useful for content architectu…
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19 June 2026
Do author bio pages actually move E-E-A-T, or are we cargo-culting? We attach author boxes, link bios, add sameAs to LinkedIn — assuming Google rewards it. What's the evidence that any of it ranks? I compared 90 article …
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