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What The Hell Happened to Cointelegraph.com?

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Get The .Com Or Die Trying (Literally)
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five big takeaways from the December 2025 Google core algorithm update
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five big takeaways from the December 2025 Google core algorithm update

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Ahrefs Acquires Detailed.com, Acquihires Glen Allsopp
Signaling Theory: a lesson in branding from Q.ai
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Signaling Theory: a lesson in branding from Q.ai

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What The Hell Happened to Cointelegraph.com?
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What The Hell Happened to Cointelegraph.com?

One of crypto's early, big news sites, Cointelegraph.com saw its traffic drop from 5m down to basically zero... but why? I've got the answers:

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Case Study: How We're Making Our Newsletter Rank Everywhere
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Case Study: How We're Making Our Newsletter Rank Everywhere

The Goal: To have our Rank Theory newsletter pop up when people search some version of "what are the best SEO newsletters" in LLMs like ChatGPT/Perplexity, as well as appear in Google's AI Overview + organic search for versions of "best SEO newsletter." The

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what to do when the domain you acquired won't even rank for branded queries
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what to do when the domain you acquired won't even rank for branded queries

Last week I saw a write up on Search Engine Roundtable linking to a Reddit post about, well, I'll just do a block quote: I launched a brand-new website on a new domain, everything looks solid: Here’s the strange part: the site refuses to appear in SERPs

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canva's content ranks for EVERYTHING

I've been wanting to write about this topic for a while. Canva is a DR 92 site that crrrrrrushes it on content. One of the best I've seen. This post is going to be about looking at their success and trying to pick it apart, to

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The Top 15 Best SEO Newsletters to Subscribe to in 2026

Updated May 2026 This list, in addition to my own newsletter, contains all the newsletters I, myself, personally read in addition to all the newsletters that Google's stupid algo expects to see on my list that I may not read, but this is my sacrifice to the algo

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this pdf tool has some of the best SEO i've ever seen in my LIFE

There's a lot to this, so I'm gonna put the most impressive shit up front to capture your attention like a siren as you sail between these cliffs SO I CAN DRAG YOUR ASS INTO THE WATER* AND DROWN YOU** * this amazing post ** educate you about

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How To Build A Brand: Part I

It's not news that Google('s algorithm) hates you and your middle-man affiliate site. The question is: what are you doing about it? I wrote in a recent newsletter (which you should subscribe to, if you haven't already) about the big push to elevate sites

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the future of aged domains in a post-LLM world
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the future of aged domains in a post-LLM world

What's Next For Aged Domains In Our Recursive AI Hellscape? I want to talk about something I'm just getting into, how I got there, and what I'm doing... I think you're gonna find it interesting. The quick summary of this is: can

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canva's content ranks for EVERYTHING

I've been wanting to write about this topic for a while. Canva is a DR 92 site that crrrrrrushes it on content. One of the best I've seen. This post is going to be about looking at their success and trying to pick it apart, to

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this pdf tool has some of the best SEO i've ever seen in my LIFE

There's a lot to this, so I'm gonna put the most impressive shit up front to capture your attention like a siren as you sail between these cliffs SO I CAN DRAG YOUR ASS INTO THE WATER* AND DROWN YOU** * this amazing post ** educate you about

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stop obsessing over SEO metrics that don't matter
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stop obsessing over SEO metrics that don't matter

Hello, it's me: human version of old man yells at cloud here to talk about SEO metrics. I've been seeing more and more people on social media/in my private SEO group talking about how their DR (domain rating) is increasing or can someone please tell

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Ahrefs Acquires Detailed.com, Acquihires Glen Allsopp
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Ahrefs Acquires Detailed.com, Acquihires Glen Allsopp

Ahrefs is a late entry to SEO's Game of Acquisitions, but their deal with longtime industry favorite Glen Allsopp (aka Viperchill) shows that they are not playing around. Glen announced the acquisition at the end of last week via X: I've been friendly with Glen ever

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Signaling Theory: a lesson in branding from Q.ai
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Signaling Theory: a lesson in branding from Q.ai

Why a premium domain is a critical asset for a stealth startup

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3 Min
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Get The .Com Or Die Trying (Literally)
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Get The .Com Or Die Trying (Literally)

A terrifying example of a brand's story being overwritten and how the founder's second startup increased organic traffic after upgrading to a .com.

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the future of aged domains in a post-LLM world
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the future of aged domains in a post-LLM world

What's Next For Aged Domains In Our Recursive AI Hellscape? I want to talk about something I'm just getting into, how I got there, and what I'm doing... I think you're gonna find it interesting. The quick summary of this is: can

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The Story of FlattenTheCurve.com

How I Took a Hand-Registered Domain to a Million Page Views in Seven Days In early March 2020 I hand-registered a domain name and built a one-page website that saw over a million page views in just seven days. This is the story of how powerful the right domain can

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