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Google EEAT

E.E.A.T. All You Can! – Part 2

This is the second of a three-post series that is taking a detailed look at the Google E.E.A.T. guidelines and content quality rating in general. In the first post, I explained how a former client had 1,322 pages of A.I. generated content deindexed by Google.
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Google EEAT

E.E.A.T. All You Can! – Part 1

Experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. The four pillars of valuable content, at least according to Google. But do we actually understand what these words mean, and how they should be applied to content? Not just the words on the

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Mac Wheeler Happy New Year

Let Me Send a Happy New Year 2024 To You All

One of my New Year’s resolutions this year, is to update this site more frequently. This has been on my radar for some time. However, when you spend all day working on content-related projects for clients, the last thing

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Windows 10 & Office 365 Cannot Connect Over OpenVPN – Fixed!

Today I finally solved a technical problem I have had for years and never been able to find a solution for. I first noticed this issue when I began using OpenVPN. I soon discovered that while an OpenVPN connection

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Facebook Marketing Done Wring

How Not to Do Facebook Marketing: A Practical Example

So, it’s been a while since my last post, and as usual, it has taken something exceptional to prompt this one. In this post, I am going to look at an attempt at Facebook marketing that did almost everything wrong and try and explain why.
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B2B Social Marketing

The Greatest Mistake You Can Make with B2B Social Updates

The inspiration for this post comes from a client I do some work for from time to time. They are absolutely convinced that they need to be constantly putting out social updates via Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Nothing inherently

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Content-Marketing-Focus

Content Marketing: The Risk of Losing Focus

It’s been a while, well several years actually, since I last updated this blog of mine. So figured I would post my first update since 2012! What triggered this event? An article I read today that talks about the content marketing paradox.
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The Relationship between Content and Bounce Rate

If you are working as a content writer, then you need to understand what bounce rate is, and what you can do to improve it. In this short blog post I take a look at this important visitor behavior metric in more detail.
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The Right Rate: How to Calculate Your Pricing

The difference between having a successful career as a content writer, and failing miserably, can often be down to something as simple as charging the wrong rate for your services. If you are struggling to work out the right

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