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Freelancing & Online Business

How to Set Up a WordPress Blog Step by Step (2026 Beginner's Guide)

A step by step WordPress blog setup guide with the hosting costs checked properly, including what you actually pay on day one rather than the headline monthly rate.

May 13, 2026 · 18 min readRead

Free SEO tools arranged by keyword research, analytics, technical checks and reporting

SEO & AI Search

Free SEO Tools for Bloggers: 10 Tools and What They Showed on a Real Blog

Ten free SEO tools for bloggers, with real results from Anobee: 3K Copilot citations in Bing, 13K fake impressions, and the Google report that hides its questions.

May 10, 2026 · 12 min readRead

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Website Growth

Image Optimization for SEO: A 10-Step Checklist, Tested on Anobee's Own Images

Image optimization for SEO in 10 steps, with real results from Anobee's own images: PageSpeed data, a compression test, and why a sharp screenshot can still be unreadable.

May 10, 2026 · 13 min readRead

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SEO & AI Search

Robots.txt Guide for Beginners: What Google Actually Supports

A beginner's robots.txt guide checked against Google's own specification: the four fields it supports, the ones it ignores, and how to test the file now the old Tester is gone.

May 10, 2026 · 12 min readRead

Google Analytics setup in four parts: create the GA4 property, add a web data stream, install one Google tag, and verify the data, with a warning not to install the tag twice

Website Growth

Google Analytics Setup: How to Set Up GA4 on a Website, Step by Step

How to set up Google Analytics 4 on a website: property, data stream, one Google tag, verification and the settings that limit your reports, with screenshots from Anobee's own GA4 property.

May 10, 2026 · 14 min readRead

Buying a domain name, showing a search for an available address and the registration that follows

Freelancing & Online Business

How to Buy a Domain: 7 Steps, and the Renewal Trap Nobody Mentions

How to buy a domain without overpaying, with registrar prices checked: what a .com actually costs at renewal, which registrars include privacy free, and what to do if your name is taken.

May 10, 2026 · 14 min readRead

What digital marketing is: the nine online channels a business can use to reach customers

Content & Marketing

What Is Digital Marketing? The 9 Channels, and How to Choose One

What digital marketing is, the nine channels that make it up, and how to pick the one to start with. Includes a channel comparison table and the rules each channel actually imposes.

May 10, 2026 · 16 min readRead

An internal linking strategy shown as a hub page connected to the cluster articles that link back to it

SEO & AI Search

Internal Linking Strategy for Bloggers: What an Audit of 64 Posts Showed

An internal linking strategy for bloggers, with real numbers. I crawled this site's 64 articles and found 42% had two or fewer inbound links, and two had none at all.

May 8, 2026 · 18 min readRead

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SEO & AI Search

SEO Content Checker: 5 Free Tools Tested on the Same Article (2026)

We ran one live article through five free SEO content checkers on 3 November 2026. The scores ranged from 64 to 87, and none of them checked whether the content was useful.

May 8, 2026 · 9 min readRead

An on-page SEO checklist sorted into three priority tiers, from eligibility checks through to compounding improvements

SEO & AI Search

On-Page SEO Checklist: 19 Checks in Priority Order, With Results From 89 Real Articles

An on-page SEO checklist of 19 checks in priority order, with real results: 89 live articles passed every title and meta check, and 11 had no links from other articles.

May 8, 2026 · 14 min readRead

Deciding which old blog posts to update, based on where each one currently ranks

Content & Marketing

How to Update Old Blog Posts for SEO: What to Change, What to Leave

A content refresh process for old blog posts: how to pick which post to update, what to actually change, and why the most repeated tip on this topic is one Google answers no to.

May 8, 2026 · 14 min readRead

Freelancing & Online Business

How to Build a Freelance Portfolio with No Experience: 7 Proven Steps

Learn how to build a freelance portfolio with no experience using 7 proven steps. Discover sample projects, case studies and tips to land your first clients fast.

May 3, 2026 · 16 min readRead