The agile SEO blog

July 03, 2020

A recent report published by Moz’s Peter Meyers asked the telling question, “How Low Can #1 Go?”  Organic blue links have continued to be pushed further and further down the SERP. In the article above, a search for “lollipops” displayed the following result.  Looks like bad news for SEOs.  But let’s look at the glass...

June 30, 2020

Pagination is a common technique used for the design of websites that offer a large amount of content to their users. For example, e-commerce websites commonly use pagination in order to display their products in a more organized manner.  However, what you may not know is that some popular Content Management Systems (CMS) incorrectly treat...

June 25, 2020

How many times have you been writing in a Google Doc or in Gmail and Google automatically completes your sentence? These surprisingly accurate suggestions are already leveraging AI and automation into your SEO work without you even realizing it. This advanced capability is freely available and accessible. For example, Write with Transformer is a tool that...

June 19, 2020

As RankSense’s first intern hire in 2020, I came in with a bit of uncertainty and few expectations.  As RankSense was a fairly recently founded startup, I was oblivious to the company culture, work style, and customs. Hearing that the team was fully remote was quite surprising to me, and to be honest, it scared...

June 16, 2020

Last year I wrote about a huge bet I made when I decided to move our software to the emerging Cloudflare Workers platform. I thought it would be a good move for us so I’m glad it actually turned out to be a game changer! The main benefit has been that it has allowed us...

June 12, 2020

The buyer’s journey—the transition of a potential buyer throughout different stages, was previously known to follow a linear path, each step occurring before the next. This is no longer the case. Research conducted by Google showed that with all the different devices and the various ways people interact with brands and websites, each consumer develops...

June 05, 2020

Hamlet sits down with Barry Schwartz, a contributing editor for Search Engine Land and owner of the Rusty Brick, a web-based consulting firm, at the TechSEO Boost Conference in Boston, M.A. to explore how technologies like spreadsheets and Python can be useful to automate and scale tedious and repetitive SEO tasks. Watch the full interview:...

May 29, 2020

For this RankSense webinar, we were very excited to be joined by Craig Smith, the Founder and CEO of Trinity Insight, to talk about scaling SEO work. During this webinar, Craig explored how to get more work done faster with less resources, so you can drive the performance of your SEO program and make your...

May 21, 2020

Programming can be thought of as a communication vehicle among ourselves, developers, and computers to solve difficult problems, but oftentimes we outsource our coding needs.  Why would we want to code if we can hire someone to do it for us? In reality, coding is not just an extra skill to have under your belt;...