SEO Archives


Announcing my Technical SEO Course on CXL Institute

If there was one thing that I could teach people in SEO, it was always the technical side of SEO that came up first. Mostly, because I think it’s a skill that doesn’t suit too many SEOs and there is already enough (good or bad, you’ll be the judge of that) content about the international, […]

Keyword Gap Analysis: Identifying your competitor’s keywords with opportunity (with SEMrush)

Keyword research can provide you with a lot of insights, no matter what tool you’re using they all can provide you a great deal of insight into your own performance but also that of others. But while I was doing some keyword research I thought about writing a bit more about one specific part: gap […]

Calculating Click Through Rates for SEO, based on Google Search Console Data (in R)

Updated June 4, 2019: Added a YouTube video which will guide you through the setup process in RStudio and how to run the script yourself. Averages lie & average click-through rates aren’t very helpful! Here I said it. What I do believe in, is that you can calculate click-through rates (CTR) for your own site […]

Love and/or Hate?! – SEOs & Developers

“I hate my developers,” “We deployed the wrong thing(s),” “Somebody put up a Disallow in my robots.txt that wasn’t meant to be there,” “The whole site is deindexed.” These are just some of the quotes that I’ve heard over the years on the relation between developers/engineers. Where usually, the developers are the ones that receive […]

Specializing as an SEO – Growing as an SEO (4/4)

The previous three blog posts in this series talked about writing better job descriptions for SEO roles and levels and seniority for SEOs but also but growing on a more personal level. In the last blog post in this series, I want to talk about either being a generalist or specializing as an SEO. But […]

Growing as an SEO (3/4) – Training & Personal Development for SEOs

The previous two blog posts in this series talked about writing better job descriptions for SEO roles and levels and seniority for SEOs. In this blog post, I want to mostly talk about how to grow as an SEO: the fundamental part of this series, how do you get better, what do you grow in, […]

Growing as an SEO (2/4) – Levels & Seniority in SEO Roles

Since I’ve joined RVshare, I needed to think a lot about these questions (again): what people do I need to hire? What experience level do they need to be at? This made me reflect back on hiring for my teams at Postmates and The Next Web and my views on different levels in certain functions. […]

Why & What alerts in SEO are becoming more important

We have all been there, haven’t we? Quotes like: “SH*T, my sitemaps are broken”, “I have no-indexed half my pages” or: “I have been kicked out of a search engine with way too many pages” sound familiar? Honestly, I can’t blame you. It’s getting harder and harder to keep track of all the changes that […]

Growing as an SEO (1/4) – Writing better Job Descriptions for SEO Roles

Writing a resume isn’t fun (IMHO) and writing job descriptions is probably even less fun. Over the last years I’ve written many of them, usually following a similar template that would help us define what the role is about. Which isn’t always a good thing, depending on the seniority of the role you want to […]

Sitemaps; Setup, Monitoring & Metrics for Analysis

In my effort to write longer posts on a specific topic I thought it was time to shed some light on something that we’ve been working on during the last months at Postmates and something that I never thought of as a topic that could become interesting: sitemaps. They’re pretty boring in itself, it’s a […]