Musings

Moz’s Crawl Test Is the Best Thing Since Sliced Bread and the Beatles

I wish I knew about this tool sooner. Moz's Crawl Test is going to save me so much time doing Obstacle Analysis Reports. For the past years, I've been doing my OARs manually, by analyzing Screaming Frog crawls. While it will still be necessary to use SF crawls and manual research for some things, I…

Using Video to Increase Conversions If I Had an Ecommerce Website

I learned today that videos of products make potential buyers 144% more likely to purchase. It is mind-numbingly cheap to make a simple product video that is good enough to increase conversion. Here’s what you need: Lights and a mic. A reviewer or even just a narrator. An apple or another common object to compare…

Things I’ve Learned About Networking to Sell a Service

I assume that this is going to be rather fluid list- changing over the coming months as I learn new nuances that I'd like to remember. Selling a service is very different from selling a product. Selling SEO consulting services (which I sell), for example, is quite a different process from selling a house or…

Facebook Using Artificial Intelligence to Describe Your Uploaded Photos

Go to Facebook and look at a photo containing a person or people that has been uploaded by you or one of your friends. Right click on the photo and inspect it. Look for the image's alt tag. Chances are you'll see something like this: Or this: Facebook is using a machine learning artificial intelligence…

Is Google’s Algorithm Populating Answer Boxes with Its Own Independent Research?

If you search “Best games to play for YouTube” you’ll receive an answer containing H2s from my article, The 23 Best Games for YouTube in 2016. This is what the above the fold SERP looks like: Here’s where it gets interesting. Google is leaving out answers and providing only the games it views as most…