How to speed up SEO analysis: API advantages for SEO experts

All you need to know about using APIs for better, more productive SEO tasks — content curation, keyword analysis, link monitoring, site performance, etc.

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Eight shortcuts to find long tail keywords (and how to use them)

It’s tempting to go after broad, high-volume keywords with huge audiences (and equally huge competition). But there’s an equally large — albeit more distributed audience — to be reached by targeting lower-competition, long tail keywords.

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Identifying dead links for more effective link analysis

Link analysis projects can be difficult and time-consuming, especially for websites with larger link profiles, which is why optimising your workflow and improving the integrity of your data is so important. In the last couple of years, I’ve been lucky enough to work with websites that have tens of thousands of domains pointing at them, […]

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4 Ahrefs and SEMrush alternatives that bring innovation to competitive analysis

You can never have enough of SEO research tools. 4 great Ahrefs and SEMrush alternatives / supplements are Serpstat, Rankedy, SpyFu, and CognitiveSEO.

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A NodeJS Script for Accessing the Google Search Console API

One of the biggest challenges for SEOs is Google itself. The black box of Google, as Dan described it to me early on at my time at LSG, limits its displayed metrics in Google Search Console to representative calculations. Google causes even more SEO indigestion when you try to claw out a site’s historical performance […]

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Moz Local Review 2017 – Does It Work?

Last year, Local SEO Guide paid Moz Local about $17,000. Our primary goal was to use it as a one-stop shop to push some of our clients’ info to the main data listings aggregators. While the service worked for our needs, it was not without its share of hiccups. Our contract is up for renewal […]

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