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Choosing a profitable blog niche, shown as a wide subject narrowing to one specific audience

Freelancing & Online Business

How to Choose a Profitable Blog Niche: The Checks That Actually Settle It

A method for choosing a profitable blog niche, built on the thresholds ad networks publish: what Journey, Mediavine, Raptive and AdSense each require before they will pay you.

Sep 27, 2026 · 12 min readRead

Content & Marketing

Email List Building Guide: What the Free Plans Actually Give You in 2026

An email list building guide rebuilt on checked facts: what Kit, beehiiv and MailerLite free plans include today, and what Gmail now requires before you send.

Sep 27, 2026 · 12 min readRead

Desk scene showing a digital product creation workflow, from draft file to storefront checkout

Freelancing & Online Business

Digital Product Creation Tutorial: The Steps, and What Each Platform Actually Takes

How to build and sell a digital product, with the platform fees checked against each company's own pricing page and worked through on a $29 sale.

Sep 27, 2026 · 13 min readRead

Creating a services page that converts: a page layout leading a visitor from headline to proof to a short enquiry form

Website Growth

Creating a Services Page That Converts: The Eight Decisions, and a Real Audit of Ours

What a services page has to answer before anyone gets in touch, why most enquiries die at the form, and an honest audit of Anobee's own contact page against the same checklist.

Sep 26, 2026 · 12 min readRead

Structured data for bloggers: a blog post's hidden JSON-LD labels feeding the parts of a search listing

SEO & AI Search

Structured Data for Bloggers: What Google Actually Reads, Audited on This Page

Which schema types earn a blogger anything, what Google's docs actually say about Article versus BlogPosting, and a live Rich Results Test audit of this page's own markup.

Sep 26, 2026 · 13 min readRead

Search intent analysis: a written guess about a query checked against the formats that actually rank on the live SERP

SEO & AI Search

Search Intent Analysis: How to Read a SERP, and How to Audit Intent on Pages You Already Have

Search intent analysis done from primary sources: Google's own query categories, what the SERP tells you, and the two traps in Search Console query data, shown on this page's own numbers.

Sep 25, 2026 · 13 min readRead

XML sitemap best practices: a sitemap file feeding URLs to a search engine crawler, checked against Search Console

SEO & AI Search

XML Sitemap Best Practices in 2026: What Google Uses, Checked Against a Real Sitemap

What Google reads in an XML sitemap (lastmod, not priority or changefreq), how often the file should update, and what a real Search Console sitemap report shows: 94 submitted, 73 indexed.

Sep 22, 2026 · 12 min readRead

Conversion rate optimization: a website funnel with the biggest visitor drop highlighted for testing

Website Growth

Conversion Rate Optimization Guide (2026): The Process, the Traffic Math, and a Real GA4 Audit

How conversion rate optimization works, whether your site has enough traffic to A/B test, what to do if it does not, and a real GA4 audit that found a key event measuring nothing.

Sep 22, 2026 · 13 min readRead

Competitor content analysis: a spreadsheet comparing your page against the pages ranking above it

SEO & AI Search

How to Conduct a Competitor Content Analysis: 7 Steps, With the Analysis Run on This Page's Own Keyword (2026)

A competitor content analysis in seven steps: check your position, pull the real top 10, audit in a spreadsheet, sort four gap types, test AI citations, plan, re-check. Run for real on this keyword.

Sep 21, 2026 · 12 min readRead

SEO for affiliate marketing: a comparison page ranking in search results and earning a commission from a reader's click

SEO & AI Search

SEO for Affiliate Marketing in 2026: 10 Strategies to Rank Commercial Pages and Earn From Them

How to do SEO for affiliate marketing in 2026: buyer-intent keywords, Google's reviews and affiliate policies, sponsored links, disclosure, AI Overviews, and reading Search Console honestly.

Sep 20, 2026 · 14 min readRead

SEO & AI Search

Entity Optimization for AI Search: How to Make Your Brand and Author Unambiguous to AI Systems (2026)

What entity optimization for AI search involves, what Google's documentation supports, the CLEAR framework, and what Anobee found auditing its own entity signals against three AI citation runs.

Sep 20, 2026 · 13 min readRead

Perplexity SEO: a page being cited as a source inside a Perplexity answer

SEO & AI Search

Perplexity SEO: How to Get Cited in Perplexity Answers, With Anobee's Own Citation Data (2026)

How Perplexity picks sources, what its two crawlers actually do, why Google's top 10 matters more here than anywhere, and what three runs of Anobee's citation test show about getting cited.

Sep 20, 2026 · 13 min readRead