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Do Ping Sites Still Work in 2026? What Actually Gets Your Pages Indexed
Back in 2018, I published a list of the top 10 ping sites to help you get your blog indexed faster. A lot has changed since then. Most of those tools are gone, and the ones that remain no longer do much for Google. So I rewrote this post from scratch. You will learn what…
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Do Dates on Your Blog Affect SEO and AI Visibility?
You spend a weekend updating an old blog post. New screenshots, fresh tools, current prices. Then you search for it on Google, and right there next to your result is a date from 2017. Who clicks on a 2017 article in 2026? Almost nobody. Dates look like a tiny detail, but they quietly shape how…
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How to Interlink Blog Posts in WordPress (4 Best Ways)
Once you have more than a handful of posts, many of them will be related. Linking them together is called internal linking, and it is one of the easiest on-page SEO wins. For example, this link to our on-page SEO checklist is an internal link. With a few posts, internal linking is easy. With hundreds,…
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How to Find and Fix Broken Links in WordPress (Easy Method)
Every blog collects broken links over time. Sites you linked to shut down or reorganize, you delete or rename your own posts, an image gets removed, or a typo slips into a URL. Each one sends a reader to a dead end, wastes Google’s crawl on pages that do not exist, and leaks the value…
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Thin Content in SEO: How to Find, Fix, and Prevent It
When Google launched the Panda update in 2011, sites full of thin content lost much of their traffic overnight. Panda is now part of Google’s core ranking systems, and since March 2024 the helpful content system is too. Thin content is still one of the most common reasons a blog stops growing, and in 2026,…
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How to Submit Your Blog to Search Engines (Google, Bing, and More)
Search engines usually find new sites on their own, but it can take weeks. Submitting your blog directly gets it discovered faster, shows you exactly which pages are indexed, and alerts you to problems. In 2026 it matters even more: AI search tools such as ChatGPT search and Microsoft Copilot rely on search indexes like…
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10 Best Google Keyword Rank Checker Tools (Free & Paid)
Once you have done keyword research and published the post, the next question is whether it ranks. Searching Google yourself does not answer it: results are personalized, vary by country and device, and checking fifty keywords by hand every week is a job nobody keeps up. A rank checker does it for you, records the…
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How to Do Keyword Research for Your Next Blog Post (5 Easy Steps)
Keyword research is finding the exact words people type into Google when they want what your post offers, and checking that you can realistically rank for them. Do it before you write and the post has a target, a structure, and a reason to exist; skip it and even a great post can sit at…
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How to Optimize Images for SEO: 10 Important Tips
Images make posts easier to read and can bring their own traffic from Google Images and visual search. Handled badly, they slow your pages, hurt Core Web Vitals, and can even get you a copyright claim. Image SEO is mostly a set of small habits you apply every time you upload. These are the 10…
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9 Best Backlink Checker Tools (Free and Paid)
Backlinks (links from other sites to yours) are still one of the strongest signals Google uses to judge authority. Checking them helps you see which content attracts links, spot spammy or lost links, and find new link opportunities by studying your competitors. I tested the main options again for 2026. Here are the 9 best…
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9 Ways To Increase Your CTR in Google Search Results
Ranking on page one is only half the job. Two results sitting next to each other can get very different numbers of clicks depending on how their title, description, URL, and extras look, and in 2026 the search page is busier than ever: AI Overviews sit above the results on many queries, and rich results,…
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How to Change an Old Post URL in WordPress (Without Losing Rankings)
Changing the URL (slug) of a post that already ranks is nerve-wracking. Done carelessly, it can cause 404 errors, broken links, and lost traffic. Done right, you usually keep your rankings. I generally advise against changing URLs just to add a keyword. But sometimes you have to: a partner asks you to remove a brand…