The Importance Of Establishing Your Goals As A Freelancer

  • Nick LeRoy
  • September 27, 2021
  • May 26, 2024

As an SEO I consider myself a problem solver. Pages not indexed? What’s stopping Google from crawling/indexing them? Pages indexed but not ranking? What’s the state of the on-page optimization and or link profile? Massive organic search traffic drop? Which pages and sources are being impacted most? You’ll notice a common theme here, a goal (indexing/ranking/traffic) has […]

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How Much Should an SEO Freelancer Expect To Make?

  • Nick LeRoy
  • September 1, 2021
  • July 22, 2024

When people talk about freelancing they immediately think of two things: The freedom of not having a boss. The Scrooge McDuck vault of cash that all freelancers have. The first point re: the boss is mostly true although when it comes down to it, all you’re really doing is switching from having 1-2 bosses to however many […]

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FIRED To $165,036.20 in 8 Months. My Freelancing Story

  • Nick LeRoy
  • August 16, 2021
  • July 23, 2024

April 2020 Picture this: it was a normal day of work. I was a Director at a large, global marketing agency based in Minneapolis overseeing the SEO Team. COVID-19 had struck and like many companies during this time, the company was losing revenue left and right. I wasn’t too concerned as SEO is a very […]

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3 Unique Ways To Increase Your Newsletter Audience

  • Nick LeRoy
  • March 27, 2021
  • April 22, 2022

I’ve been writing the #SEOForLunch newsletter for over four years. It’s been a passion project of mine that until last year I simply let grow organically. Let’s be honest, top-notch content helps you retain your subscriber base, but you want your list of subscribers to grow to justify the effort and time going into generating the content. […]

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Early Take: How COVID-19 Is Impacting Website Performance

  • Nick LeRoy
  • March 17, 2020
  • April 22, 2022

Most of you are reading this post from your own home very likely working in some sort of remote capability. This is just one side effect of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. In a time where schools are locked down, sporting events are canceled, and many restaurants are limited to take out, you might think the […]

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Portfolio SEO: Canonical Gifting Content Across Web Properties

  • Nick LeRoy
  • August 11, 2019
  • April 22, 2022

Let’s start this post by acknowledging the obvious. In a perfect world, all websites owned by an entity would be consolidated into a single domain. However, in the real world, this simply isn’t feasible. Whether it be different brands or a completely different audience, many SEOs are challenged with accomplishing organic growth across multiple web […]

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How We Achieved A Google Page Speed Score of 100 With WordPress

  • Nick LeRoy
  • July 28, 2019
  • April 22, 2022

Google officially announced site speed as a mobile ranking factor as of January of 2018. While site speed has always been a key component to a good user experience, it wasn’t until this official rollout that many site owners took site speed seriously. I too was guilty of holding my clients to a high standard while my […]

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