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Google's @ methode said if you redesign your site, the rankings may go haywire (and he also gives some sound advice on what to do to reduce the rankings going crazy too...)

Google: If You Redesign Your Site Your Rankings May Go Nuts Gary Illyes from the Google Search Relations team posted another PSA on LinkedIn. This time he said,

Our top 10 SEO tools to use in 2023 (tried and tested):

1. meetglimpse

2. keywordinsights

3. ahrefs

4. alsoasked

5. semrush

6. screamingfrog

7. keywordsinsheets

8. jsoncrack

9. googlesearchc

10. awebranking

Which tools are you currently using and recommend?

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Google Search research paper on black SEO practices

Google Search Research Paper Says SEO Practices Tends To Be Very Low Quality A Google research paper named Generative Models are Unsupervised Predictors of Page Quality paints a negative connotation of SEO practices. It has a section named

2023 Stack:

Wordpress
WP Engine
WP Rocket
Semrush
Clearscope
Headline Analyzer
Imagify

Here are the patterns you can use to build out better topical clusters. If you're not sure how to proceed, these are the *core* pages you need to build:

1. What is
2. Best X
3. Topic vs Topic
4. How to
5. Topic [alternatives]
6. Common (issues, mistakes, benefits).
7. Types of [topic]

Use these and build build build!

Happy 2023 🥂

"Doing SEO is the ONLY way to learn "

Wrong! 👎🏽

You can also learn from the biggest names in the industry.

Here are five of the most genius to level up your SEO Game:

#1 "How I Increased My Organic Traffic 652% in 7 Days With the "Skyscraper Technique 2.0", by https://backlinko.com/skyscraper-technique-2-0

#2 "From 126 to 121,883 Unique Visitors in Under 6 Months," Michal from https://t.co/o6JIdbW7IU

#3 "Ranking in 24 Hours in a Competitive SEO Niche" by https://keywordchef.com/ranking-in-24-hours-in-the-competitive-seo-niche/

#4 Does Traffic Improves SEO and Affects Google Rankings? Apparently yes. Little hacks by https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/7013/traffic-boosts-organic-rankings-new-research-reveals-interesting-facts/

#5 I shared this one before, but it's SO GOOD (probably my favorite, so much to learn!): "Scaling an Outdoor Niche Site to a $175K Exit" by https://thewebsiteflip.com/case-study/outdoor/

Case Studies of Outdoor Niche Site: Flipped for $175,000 We acquired a website in the outdoor vertical in April 2020 for $23,000 at a 75X multiple. Learn how we grew the site to earn $4,000/mo and then sold for $175,000.