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I Watched AI Search Engines Erode My Site Traffic for a Year. Here’s What I Built to Fight Back.
For the past year I've been watching HighTechDad traffic decline despite solid SEO and high Domain Authority. AI search engines were consuming my content without sending traffic back. So I built AI Visibility Analyst (AIVA), a service that audits any page against 28 deterministic rules to tell you exactly where you stand with AI visibility. Here's the story behind it.
Read more →May 30, 2012
5 Reasons Why You Should Repurpose Old Content from your Blog
I have often been asked: why the heck do you have those automated tweets of old content coming from your blog? What is the reasoning? They are outdated and might not be topical, could be viewed as out of context and, in my case, might be talking about technology, products or services that are over a year old. Think about it,…
Read more →September 24, 2007
Blog: WordPress version 2.3 scheduled to be released Sept 24, 2007
A fairly significant update to WordPress is slotted to be released today (09.24.07) with some interesting new features, including: Plugin Update Notification Tags! Improved Post and Draft Management Pending Review Advanced Visual Editor Buttons Pretty URLs Updated Default Blogroll Other "advanced user" stuff More details on the features/changes are below: Plugin Update Notification Not only are you now notified about…
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