December 5, 2019 / Nate Holman
Here’s why content freshness should be part of your SEO strategy. One of the SEO ‘constants’ over the past decade or so – in fact, you could say a building block of Google’s core algorithm, in its effort to best interpret and respond to user behavior – is content freshness. How Does Fresh Content Matter […]
read full articleJune 25, 2017 / Nate Holman
There’s a reason why quality content — Optimized, Fresh, Factual (or trusted/authoritative), Engaging, and Relevant content — comes up as an SEO recommendation consistently in my own work as an SEO consultant as well as across the web, including sources like Search Engine Land and Kissmetrics. O.F.F.E.R., for short. Yes, that might be a made-up acronym 🙂 But it’s not arbitrary: as hard as it is to quantitatively […]
read full articleSeptember 19, 2015 / Nate Holman
Today I wanted to take a look at how social media trends influence SEO…and vice versa. (Given the fluidity that typifies the digital space, we wouldn’t want it any other way.) When I pull up a preliminary “SEO social media” search on Google, the first thing I notice isn’t the relevance of the results – or the results themselves. It’s that […]
read full articleJune 9, 2015 / Nate Holman
Why you should know the rules, and then break them. (Sometimes.) Despite the overwhelming ubiquity in digital copywriting – everyone wants good SEO – there’s no magic formula to original, share-worthy content. The numbered-list format, for example, only works if you understand WHY your audience is drawn to click: a promise of usefulness in the post/article itself. What I want to […]
read full articleDecember 13, 2012 / Nate Holman
While in the job hunt over the past few months, I’ve come to realize the value of “it isn’t what you say, but how you say it” – not just in the packaging of all I represent as a job seeker to potential employers – but in the aesthetics of my work. It doesn’t mean […]
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