by Stephen James Hall | May 19, 2026 | Learn Google SEO, Local SEO, SEO, SEO & Google, SEO Trends & Strategy (2018) |
The following tools are not all “SEO tools” in the usual marketing sense. They are tools I use to understand how a website is being seen, loaded, parsed, indexed, and interpreted. That distinction matters. Good SEO is not just about finding keywords or chasing...
by Stephen James Hall | May 18, 2026 | Consultant, Learn Google SEO, SEO, WordPress SEO |
Media SEO is the process of making the images, videos, and other files on your website easier for people and search engines to understand. In WordPress, that often starts in the media library, but good media optimization begins before you upload the file. Images and...
by Stephen James Hall | Apr 25, 2026 | Organic SEO, SEO |
Sitemaps remain one of the simplest and most useful structural tools in technical SEO. They help search engines discover content, understand site structure, revisit updated pages, and crawl websites more efficiently. While modern search engines can discover many pages...
by Stephen James Hall | Apr 3, 2026 | Organic SEO, SEO |
Google SEO for Beginners (Revised) This article was originally written over 10 years ago. This is a Google-specific SEO introduction for beginners with some level of web design or WordPress proficiency. For this tutorial and for Google SEO in general, it’s...
by Stephen James Hall | Jan 23, 2026 | Learn Google SEO, Local SEO, SEO |
Internal linking is not about optimization tricks; it is about helping pages—and people—find their way through a site. What Is Internal Linking? Internal linking is the practice of creating hyperlinks that connect one page of a website to another page within the same...
