Seeing the Google Ranks of a TOP Development Blog and how you can achieve those rankings

Let’s look at some rankings today.You can still get Your One Year FEE for Squirrly SEO 2020: Smart Strategy!

$125.96 USD (for up to 7 sites), payable only ONCE each year.

That’s a once in a lifetime offer.

HubSpot (traded HUBS (NYSE)) saw our new PRO version and said:

“Using machine learning algorithms that have analyzed over 600,000 sites over 7 years, Squirrly audits websites based on internal architecture, keyword utilization, backlinks, web authority, and more. Its artificial intelligence enables it to identify the gaps that are keeping your site from ranking as well as you’d like so that you can focus on the activities that will give you the fastest results.

The idea is to achieve big breakthroughs from fewer activities, saving you time and money”

Why did such a huge brand in Digital Marketing decide to cover Squirrly SEO?
– because Squirrly SEO went farther than any plugin ever has.

Look: (click the image to see it full-size and understand the WHOLE SEO funnel that Squirrly SEO helps you WIN)
If you go to the following page, you will see that no other plugin comes close. Most of them cover just two steps from the Complete SEO Workflow.

Which means that you’re just wasting your time with them, because they can’t help you win.

Upgrade today, because you can’t lose rankings due to the switch. ( – the video on that link explains)

Also, watch this to see why no plugin for SEO can offer you what Squirrly offers you.

Then see here why Squirrly is the fastest SEO plugin on WordPress, without a doubt.

You can even use the PRO you buy today with other SEO plugins, if you just can’t quit them. Watch this video here. It will help you bring more search traffic, even if you use them together, because only Squirrly offers you benefits and features that really move the needle in SEO and brings results.

What results? – see many small business owners and bloggers here who have reached the first page of Google only with our solution.

For just $87 USD / year this amazing PRO version can be yours for 3 of your sites.

Or, for just $125.96 USD / year, for up to 7 sites.

You can even buy multiple licenses to make more room for more sites in your account.

However, this offer will be gone soon, so make sure you’re not going to miss out on this.

Now, here’s an amazing video:

In this video, I’ll show you how a mobile game development blog got great rankings (first page of Google) just by posting long content and sharing it on social media.

See the Video.
Getting SEO Value out of Social Media.The content is about 2000 to 3000 words, SEO optimized with Squirrly SEO. The whole site structure is setup in the plugin. All he had to do after having these, was to share on multiple communities and groups on social media.

He got thousands of views from sharing, and then thousands of views when the SEO effect kicked in.

Oh, yeah. He has almost NO backlinks to his website, and the SEO still worked.

I also show a couple of other stuff in this video.

Keep ranking,
Florin Muresan
CEO of Squirrly

Give it a good read.

This Darth Friday is Better Than Darth Vader Pizza with BackStreet Boys on Top.

“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.” – Darth Vader in SW Episode V.Darth Friday is just around the asteroid field, and the Dark Side of the Force is making us drop thousands of dollars, starting tomorrow at 2 PM, London Time, United Kingdom.

“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” – Darth VaderIf you manage to regain control and defeat your fear, you will see that all those amazing plans are just:All the Agency-sized versions of:StarboxContentLookSquirrly SEOSquirrly SocialSquirrly SPY“You have controlled your fear. Now find the page here >> ” Darth SquirrlyIt’s your Destiny to come and check out this Extra Larger Than Life package for agencies.

We also have cool packs for smaller businesses and smaller needs (like the one called: Small Size. Big Rankings).

But this email wouldn’t be the same if we couldn’t mention Larger Than Life. If you haven’t listened to this song in a while, now’s the time to do it.

May the Force be With You,
Florin Muresan
Sith Lord at Squirrly.

PS: If you were wondering what’s the connection between Star Wars and the Larger Than Life clip from BackStreet Boys you seriously need to watch this video.

PSS: the large space-ship, looks like something the Empire would cook up.

PSSS: This all started due to seeing the Darth Vader Pizza Email. Marketing lesson inside.
Software for the Next Sith Lords.Each software sparks with power that was only beheld by giant corporations a decade ago… and each software puts that kind of power in your hands, so that you may rise to Victory.
Read our Blog >>YouTubeTwitterInstagramSpotifyFacebookLinkedInMediumWebsiteThe Squirrly Software is the heir and successor to the King Makers of old.

Silently dictating who will be the next Queens and Kings of the www, Squirrly awaits new challengers like you to pick it up and seize the power.

Each software sparks with power that was only beheld by giant corporations a decade ago… and each software puts that kind of power in your hands, so that you may rise to Victory.

Strive. Learn. Grow. Give it your all and remember that you are in the company of other queens and kings: Ann Handley, Sarah Arrow, Kim Beasley, Brian Dean, Neil Patel, HubSpot, WPengine, Kinsta, Elegant Themes, Microsoft, BBC.

Every audience and every niche needs a King. Content is NOT king. You are.

Our apprentice and master King Makers work their silent craft in London (United Kingdom), Valencia (the Kingdom of Spain), Cologne (Germany) and Cluj-Napoca (Transylvania).

Proudly registered in the United Kingdom, since 2012. We offer insanely great marketing software to 6,455 Subscription-Paying Customers in over 90 countries.

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 Chance to Study 4 Competitors and Receive All of Squirrly’s Products for Free

It’s Here! Squirrly SPY 
The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here. We’re opening the doors to our exciting new product: Squirrly SPY

Part of it is software-driven, part of it is arranged by humans (our own team of experts), so that when you buy a competitor report, you get the best quality there is for the data in the reports.The Doors Are Opening With a Blast (a B-I-G One. The biggest. You’ve never seen anything like it). This is it:
Your only chance to buy 4x reports from Squirrly SPY and get access to all the amazing info I showed you in today’s video!

Here’s the thing: a Squirrly SPY report costs $50 USD. 4x reports = $200 USD.

However, if you buy the Christmas offer we have on sale right now and reply to this email: you will get the other FOUR Best-Selling products from the Squirrly Company for free. For one year.

Squirrly Digital is on sale today. $229 USD / year. Gives you access to:

– Squirrly SEO 2020: PRO Plan 7 sites (1 year)
– Squirrly SOCIAL One Team Plan (1 year)
– Starbox PRO (1 year)
– ContentLook One Website Plan (1 year)
– Squirrly SPY – 2x reports

However, if you buy and reply here, I will give you 4x reports, instead of 2.That will already pay for all the other 4 products.
You’ll get an unfair advantage over your competitors! And you’ll gain access to four best-selling and insanely great marketing software.

This is what you need.
Squirrly Limited – United Kingdom.

We deliver insanely great marketing software to 6,455 B2B customers in over 90 countries.Copyright © 2020 Squirrly, All rights reserved.
Hey, you are a user of Squirrly, the only tool that helps you optimize content and measure its success. For both humans and search engines.

Our long awaited product is ready. Sales start today

Our long awaited product is ready. Sales start today.

As promised, Squirrly SPY launches today, and we’re happy to give you a special discount on your purchase.

A quick note about the way we structured this product. If you want you can just skip ahead to the next section with the product and the Special Launch Offer.

Until now, only our Starbox product was based on a One Time Payment.

However, after talking to people and seeing how they prefer to buy, we’ve decided to offer a “per report” pricing method.

You only pay once for a report.

This puts Squirrly SPY in a special place, because other products for spying on competitors only offer monthly payments. A monthly payment makes sense for a product like Squirrly SEO, where value is delivered in time across many months.

However, unless you’re in super-stalker mode, you won’t need to constantly spy the website architecture, the keywords and everything else from your competitors. (however if you need that, we have a tool for that as well)

Most of the people who helped us test the concept for this new product preferred to buy a total of 4 reports, on average. One for their site. Three for main competitors.

Thank you for following the launch series and all our latest emails.Official Website for Squirrly SPYThe Official Launch Day is Finally Here 😀
Spy on Your Competitors TodayTo buy your Squirrly Spy reports and start spying on your competitors, you can go to the official website.

In the previous days I’ve shown you the video where I go over a few Spy reports and I’ve also given you access to the Google Drive folder which held many samples.

Since the reports have a human-made component, we can’t offer huge discounts as we sometimes do for purely software-based products.However: It’s Launch Day for Squirrly SPY and we have an incredible offer!Official Listing Price:

$50 USD / reportToday… and only today:
– buy the Squirrly Digital Plan ($229 USD / year, ever year. price doesn’t change. It includes the 77% Discount). offer page here
– Squirrly Digital gives you 2x Squirrly SPY reports
– Reply to this email and we’ll give you an extra 2x Squirrly SPY reports if you purchase the special discounted Squirrly Digital Plan.Read that again.
Now: this basically gives you for (almost) the price of 4 reports not only the reports but also 4x other best-selling products from the Squirrly Company.

So you can pay $50 USD today here for your first report.

Or go here and purchase Squirrly SPY reports (4 of them) through Squirrly Digital’s offer for Christmas.Think about it: You’ll walk away with Four Competitor Reports featuring all the amazing analysis aspects from Squirrly SPY and you will also GET (for almost free)- Squirrly SEO PRO for one year
– Squirrly Social – One Team Plan for one Year
– ContentLook – one website plan – for one year
– Starbox PRO – full support for one year.Spy on Your Competitors Today
Squirrly Limited – United Kingdom.

We deliver insanely great marketing software to 6,455 B2B customers in over 90 countries.

2021 Gifts For You

You are awesome! To welcome you into a brilliant 2021 with us, I bear gifts:You are wonderful and it makes me really happy to see that you’re with us for 2021.

We have 12 different types of gifts and prizes for you to help you in 2021. Yes, 12 types. Some of them are limited to the first ones who claim them, some are available for all. Thank you for being with us and supporting us to be able to build all these amazing products and programs.

Last year, you’ve helped us achieve incredible milestones:

– Reaching 7,479 paid subscriptions sold for all our products.
– Launching the word’s First Artificially Intelligent SEO Consultant. In a Plugin. Powered by Machine Learning and Cloud Services.
– Releasing the World’s First guarantee for Search Engine Optimization made with a software tool.
– Launching the New Affiliate Program (over 450 of you have decided to join us as affiliates)
– A Brand New release of Squirrly Digital Pack: One License. All Squirrly Products.

… and a few others, which will be shown in a future note.

So many great things were made possible, through your help and your on-going support for the Squirrly Company and our family of products.

We must give you some goodies (free software, free reports, Premium Trainings for free and games with prizes) in return:
 Starbox – the Author Box for HumansUltimate Edition of the Website Analysis Plugin (this is Premium. For you, it’s free)Keywords that Your Competitors UseGoogle Drive Folder with Multiple Squirrly SPY reports to see how big sites manage their content and how they win with SEO and contentGoogle Drive Folder with reports used to land a big Sillicon Valley corporation in the automotive industry as clients. Can be easily copied and replicated.Content Marketing Game – see multiple other software and gifts from Squirrly awarded to those who play (directly from Chrome, Opera, Safari, Firefox), without any downloads.Prize Drops in the following email from usPrize Drop in this email. Click and be the first to claim.10,000 Visits from Social MediaBook with Marketing Case Studies – Prize Drop. Click and be the first to claim.Education Cloud Premium ClassesStarbox PRO Lifetime Access – Prize Drop. Be the First.
Below, you will find details about how you can access the gifts:

All of these have been updated and some even re-designed for you for 2021. And Education Cloud has 22 Available Premium Classes Now.

1) With Starbox, you’ll be able to make the authors on your blog shine like stars. It’s a great tool for personal branding. The website was just updated over the last few days. Totally worth checking out and redeeming your free copy. There’s a lot you can do on the free edition.

You can see better screenshots on our site here.

2) Website Analysis Plugin – it’s the best thing you can have inside your WordPress to check that all your SEO stats for every single page are in order: from optimization scores to Loading Speed.

The Ultimate Edition is what you’re getting from this email… and this email only. Because the Ultimate Edition is the premium version of the plugin. However, you can’t buy it anywhere on the web. You can’t download it anywhere else.

It’s only here. Only for you.

3) Keywords that Your Competitors Use.

We’ve recently made the official release of Squirrly SPY – the best tool for SEO competitor analysis.

To showcase some of its power, we’ve sent two hundred reports already to people who brought us new members inside our DMSuperStars community.

Oh, yeah, and to top that up, their friends also received free reports with keywords from their competitors.

If you know you’ve got competitors who are really getting a lot of search engine traffic, it’s 100% worth checking out what keywords they are using.

You can get that for free if you invite people into our DMSuperStars community (and if they join, of course). You just need one of them to join, so that both of you get the report.

Go here and start.

4) Google Drive with Multiple Squirrly SPY Reports:

See how different websites manage to structure their audiences, their content, their keywords, their URLs and more. Google Folder.

There’s a lot to learn by opening these reports and seeing how different websites are built.

This video helps you navigate such reports (especially helpful if it’s the first time you look at reports)

5) Google Drive Folder with Plan You Can Copy to Land Big Clients.

Google Drive folder here.

You can use it to see how we pitched and the data we presented. Can be easily replicated by others.

6) Content Marketing Game – Play without any downloads, from Opera, Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Win Prizes

Some of our best training materials and Software Products are given as prizes inside the game. Play and win.

See the full list of prizes available today.

See how to start playing.

7) Prize Drops in the Following Emails

Keep opening our emails and you will be able to find more prize drops.

8) Prize Drop in this email.

Get a great ebook on Content Marketing written by our best writers at Squirrly.

The first one to claim it will receive it.

9) 10,000 Visits From Social Media – Premium Class. 8 Valuable Lessons Inside.

This is stuff you won’t hear about social media from other people.

Everybody thinks of a few posts when it comes to social media, but in order to win the Social Media game you need real tactics and an amazing strategy, if you’re looking to get traffic, and not just impressions.

This is the Course that will teach you the Strategy and the Tactics.

10) eBook with Marketing Case Studies from many brands.

There are many different things they applied which brought these brands huge growth and really made a difference in their marketing efforts.

Now it’s all yours to read. Be the first to claim. See the link. Follow the exact instructions. If you’re the first, and also followed the instructions well, this prize drop will be yours.

11) Education Cloud

All of the latest lessons in all of the modules have been added !!! Every module is now complete.

This is a major update to our learning platform. Back in January 2020 we had only 6 Premium Classes Available. Now, in January 2021, we have 22 Premium Classes Available.

Video Lessons, PDF lessons and more inside.

You get access to 3 of them for free each month. And you can add more to your Free account by listening to our podcast.

Your gateway to Education Cloud.

12) The PRO Version of Starbox with Lifetime Access.

You can claim it now.

Prize Drop! Be the first to claim by following the instructions.

Okay, enjoy the gifts I’ve just sent you and get ready for an amazing year together.

Keep Ranking,
Florin Muresan
CEO, Squirrly

A Celebration of PRO – Summer Pro Mo And the First 5,000 Subscriptions Sold World-Wide

A Celebration of PRO: Opening Remarks – introducing the new event Summer Pro Mo.
For more than 6 years, our PRO squirrel has traversed the globe.

Today, no matter where you are in the world chances are you can get a PRO version of Squirrly and start reaching for the first page of search results on any search engine.

If you’re a part of the Superstars who already got their hands on the PRO, then know that right now you are one of the 5,000 business owners, marketers, SEOs, developers and affiliate marketers from more than 90 Countries who went PRO.

To celebrate our 5,000 customers achievement, we’re opening the Summer ProMo event. We’ll be introducing many new rewards for those of you who made this possible.

Chances are you’ve already received 300 extra keyword researches via SMS, if you completed the correct phone number on your order of PRO.

If you want to write history together with us, our partner programs await you with open hearts and open minds.Clarifications:

– we are celebrating 5,000 subscriptions sold for Squirrly SEO: including PRO, Business and Agency plans. Back in 2013 when we first launched, many nay-sayers told us nobody would buy subscriptions, because everyone wanted one-time deals. Written in June 2013, this blog post withstood the test of time, and proved that our model was the best model! It explains why buying a subscription for Squirrly PRO makes a lot more sense for YOU, as a user, than buying a one off.

– Summer ProMo – it’s a special summer for which our brand new partners get 70% commission to spread the word about Squirrly PRO. Pro Monthly.

– It’s also a period of many promos and gifts to you,our beloved community: SMSes probably already started buzzing on your phones giving you access to extra 300 keyword researches. But that’s just us getting started. Many more prizes could be yours during August and September 2019.Our Brand New Wbsite Is Also Part of Our Celebration of PROKeep Ranking,
Florin Muresan
CEO of Squirrly

WP Race Car

Your WordPress site is your race car.

We’ve finished building and track-testing an engine that’s capable of turning your race car into something ultra-competitive.

It’s what you need to win the SEO race.

In 4 Days, you’ll be able to download it and upgrade your WordPress with the new Squirrly SEO 2019.

It’s a new engine. Come see it Live on Youtube on 4th April 2019, during Release Day.

It will be a special event and you will need to get a ticket ($ 0.00 USD) in order to get the link to the live show (streaming via Youtube).

Make sure you register with a ticket. It’s the only way to take part in the event.

Only 50 tickets available, starting now!

Get ready for the Launch Event.
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This Autumn Bears Many Gifts – VIP drafting complete

This Autumn Bears Many Gifts – VIP drafting complete.Some people talk about this time of the year as the fourth Quarter, others admire the beautiful colors of the season, but some… Well… They have squirrly plans concocted carefully. 

Many of the wonderful creations we’ve been working on ever since our Powering Up email (sent Jan 2018) are coming to fruition. 

It’s time to show them to you during the next two months. 

Get ready for some exciting events for:Squirrly Social (October 2018)Squirrly SEO 2019  (November 2018)aaaaand…. SPY. Squirrly SPY. (Late NOV or Early DEC 2018)Very soon, you’ll be able to get your FREE Tickets to the Launch Events. You’ll need to register a ticket on Eventbrite to be able to attend each Launch Event.

The events will be held Live on Youtube, based on the ticket. I will show you everything you need to know about each new product, why we built them, how they bring value to your business. My awesome team of customer service experts will be available in the Chat section of each event to answer any questions you will have. (so get those questions ready!)

I don’t want them to go down in history as the best events for Digital Marketing ever. I want them to go down in YOUR personal history as wonderful events which helped you grow as a business owner, marketer, or developer / consultant.
SPY. Squirrly SPY.I’ve recently had to convince a really big enterprise, listed on NASDAQ to work with us on their new massive redesign of the website. Of course, we won’t make the graphics, we’ll make the architecture, and the SEO.

They were convinced by the FOCUS Pages concept which will be the Core of Squirrly SEO 2019 (you’ll get to see it soon).

However, my biggest weapon was the Squirrly SPY reports I presented to them for their competitors and for their own site.

Before I showed them the report, the discussions were vague, and they couldn’t really understand how we’d help them win the long SEO game.

Here’s one of the reports they saw during the meeting.

If you ever need to convince clients, then Squirrly SPY is the way to go.

Also: if you want to use it for your own business, you’ll be able to find a lot of reasons why your competitors rank number 1 on Google, while you don’t. It’s all in the data you see in the report.

It’s not just about playing the ‘ol BOND. James Bond. You can really get to the reasons why other sites rank better and the improvements you can make to outrank them.

Here’s a DEMO report. (someone paid $50 USD just for this one). You’re getting it for free in this email.

^^ Once downloaded, open with Excel and make sure you look at all the Sheets inside.

It would help you a lot more if you could get one for your OWN case, your own industry, own website, own competitors.

Soon, you’ll be able to do just that.
VIP Drafting is now Complete for Squirrly SEO 2019.Thanks so much for being active and for wanting to receive every single sneak peek into our brand new Squirrly SEO 2019.

We’ll send the first VIP email this week.

Until then: Keep Ranking,
Florin Muresan
CEO, Squirrly

Exclusive Access into the Squirrly Vault

Click to see full-sized imageOpening the Squirrly Vault:The Squirrly Vault is where we store our biggest milestones, where we document all the changes we’ve done to the plugin, all our trials and errors, our big wins – and all those moments in between.

It’s a place to see where we started and how far we’ve come.

Today, we’re opening the Vault for you. Why?

Well, it’s already been 6 amazing years since we first officially launched Squirrly SEO – and a lot has changed (not just our mascot). Crazy how time flies by, right?

We know some of our users today have been with us since day 1. That’s pretty incredible! I still cannot fathom it, but I am truly grateful for it. Some are renewing their subscriptions this month for their 6th consecutive year.

To celebrate this and the fact that we’re getting close to launching our biggest update yet, we thought that it would be interesting to go back in time and create a timeline for the plugin itself.

So, here they are; some of our favorite moments from these years of helping NON-SEO experts get on the first page of Google!

A lot more have happened to the company itself, many awards, testimonials, press appearances, other lines of products, but in the lines that follow we’ll only write a bit about the moments of your favorite SEO plugin:2012. Squirrly SEO received an Angel Investment from two amazing investors in Germany, started the company in London, United Kingdom and the product launched in beta just a few days before Christmas. In terms of features, the virtual live assistant, the keyword research and the Blogging Assistant (inspiration box) were at the core of the plugin. Even before the plugin was launched, users testing the assistant became so obsessed with this feature that they paid for Squirrly one year in advance. That was a huge moment for us. (yup, paying customers for the Alpha version)2013. We launched the official version on the WordPress directory in February. At the beginning of spring, we’ve added the snippet section. Also, we introduced the Performance Analytics, using a Piwik based installation. And by the time fall rolled in, the Squirrly site Audit was released and all of our users were able to see how their site performs in terms of blogging, SEO, traffic, links, authority and social.2014. We’ve re-designed the Performance Analytics system, after trying integrations with $60,000 worth of server machinery made available to us by Microsoft.2015. We integrated the JSON-LD structured data into the SEO settings section, we’ve launched the SEO Settings Assistant and the SEO star feature was born. We added more options for multisites. We included the option to restore and backup the Squirrly settings. (both snippets and Live Assistant)2016. It was snowy out when we made the plugin compatible with more themes, with WooCommerce and Instapage. Users were able to set the external canonical URL for any post. We also fixed compatibility issues with different plugins and themes. We added rich pins for WooCommerce products. As summer took over, we added Facebook Pixel integration. Added AMP Analytics from Google. Added more copyright free images from Pixabay.com, Unsplash.com, Pexels.com, which made out Blogging Assistant even more top-notch than before.First part of 2017. Squirrly SEO 2017, followed by Squirrly SEO 2018 versions. Massive releases. We released a big update which included major improvements to the keyword research feature, the live assistant, my.squirrly.co, performance analytics, site audit, plugin speed. Biggest things were improvements to the snippets and using the snippet from the Front-end. The Plugin reached well over 130 features.Second part of 2017. It’s when we released Squirrly SEO 2018: Steve. New features: no-index, edit the robots.txt file, import SEO settings, 124 countries for the keyword research, export the keywords list, fully compatible with Divi and Visual Composer, backup and restore Squirrly settings and SEO from Squirrly and also settings from any other plugin out there. Added patterns and SEO Automation for the first time. Over 200 features were now available in the software package. Over 200 features which were now easier to use than ever before and made this a complete SEO PowerHouse. SERP Checker, Keyword Research and Analysis, Blogging Assistant, Weekly Audits, Performance Analytics, Snippets, Settings, Automation and SEO Content Analysis in Real-Time.2018. Squirrly SEO 2018: Steve – Business Edition. Then, Squirrly SEO 2018: Briefcase. Then many updates outlined here in this video.2019. With Squirrly SEO 2019 coming soon, we’re super excited, because it already completely exceeds every single expectation we’ve had for it. More news about it soon. It’s becoming much better than we had anticipated. It’s a complete redesign. Ground. Breaking.Hope you enjoyed taking this short walk down on memory lane with me today.  

We’ll keep sending you highlights from the Squirrly Vault every once in a while so that you can see behind the scenes and discover surprising facts from Squirrly’s history.  

My Number One Problem with WordPress as a Platform and How I finally solved it for myself and 125,000 other people.

My Number 1 Problem With WordPress: the Lack of Control. We’re solving it for you, myself and 125,000 other people.

I will structure this email into 4 Chapters, to make it easier for you to follow:
– 1) The SEO Tactic You Should be able to Use on All Website Builders
– 2) WordPress Users Currently Miss Out On a Lot of SEO Power. See why.
– 3) My Personal Experience with the WordPress Problem
– 4) The Way to Control Your Rankings and Control Your Digital Brand.

1) Website Builders and Identifying the SEO Tactic all Website Builder Platforms Should Use

Me and Calin (my co-founder and CTO of Squirrly) have worked together for over 10 years already. It’s getting harder and harder to keep track. I can’t remember a time when we didn’t work together or collaborate on projects.

In our time working together, we’ve created and managed TWO different website creation platforms such as WordPress. Of course, what we worked on was cloud-based (just like wordpress.com, NOT wordpress.org where you download and host yourself).

I hope this email finds you well and you have some time this weekend to read the story. Maybe if you do what I’m doing right now it will get you in a reading mood. A cup of coffee near the laptop, some good music playing in the background. I’m trying to become a DJ, so currently songs from DjCity.com are playing in the background. You can try that out, along with the idea of a hot beverage, like coffee or tea.

In our time with the platforms I mentioned earlier (we call them: website builders, and I’m going to use this term moving forward) we’ve learned a lot about SEO. It was during that time that we gained most of our knowledge in the SEO field. Especially because on our website builders you could build Online Stores and Community Sites. Plus, we had a Community site ourselves for one of the website builders we created. There, we show-cased some of the best user-generated content that came up on the platform.

We had to choose from new posts created by over 16,000 people. First we did it manually, but then we automated this.

We had a great pool of sites on which we could experiment SEO techniques and get all of these sites ranking better than other websites which were not created on our platform.

We’ve tested many tactics. Some of them aren’t relevant to talk about today, because they don’t work anymore. However, there is one tactic that Always worked and will always work. It’s something that doesn’t make sense only for search engine bots. It makes tons of sense for Human readers as well.

This is the Tactic: Optimize every single URL of your site: every /tags page, every /category, every /archive, every /author, every custom post type. Don’t cut corners. Do it right. Do it manually, to ensure that each URL has META information that makes sense and is original.

In our website builders you could easily do this. We knew that the user had to do this in order to be successful with SEO. Back then, there was no Open Graph, no Twitter Cards. Sadly there was no way to optimize for Social Media. You could only optimize for SEO. But this was one of the vital elements that made all pages created on our platform rank much higher than anything published to WordPress.com, Tumblr.com, Wix.com, etc.

Now, when we switched over to WordPress (I’ll mention why in the next email), you should imagine that I was pretty pissed off that I couldn’t customize every single URL as I was able to before.

It felt like downgrading. Like moving to something that was much lower in terms of available tech. This was not progress. I was going to the stone age.

I don’t want to exaggerate. It’s just the way I felt at the time.

2) Why WordPress Users Miss Out on a Lot of Great SEO Because of WordPress

Look, WordPress does have some okay-ish things for SEO. The problem is that wordpress.org is built by volunteer developers, not by product people or people who can have a holistic vision over what needs to be in a website builder.

If the end user tries to build an e-Commerce store on WordPress, fortune isn’t really on their side.

Also, if we’re talking about blogging, I need to mention that I hate rented media (you know, when you create a blog on a platform, but you do not own that platform; it’s very risky, because they are the real owners, not you). This being said, Medium.com has 10x times more and better SEO options than a basic WordPress site. IF the WordPress site doesn’t run Squirrly SEO, of course. I’m talking about a basic WP site that has no plugin for SEO.

Even with a SEO plugin, the tactic that I’ve mentioned above can’t be currently achieved in the WordPress environment.

Every kind of website that uses /category, /tags, /authors and even custom types of URLs has an immediate SEO advantage. More inner-links, more inner-linking. Google cares a lot about websites which have many pages. Of course, they also want the pages to be high quality, not just random mumbo jumbo. Which is the reason why the SEO that you do for these special types of URLs needs to be original. Not something that you set up once with some weird automation rules. Such as: if the page is a /tags page then make sure the title is [Name of the Tag] – [Name of the Website]. This used to work 6 years ago. It doesn’t work anymore and it’s stupid. As I said: we can’t cut corners here.

Remember that Google only ever cares about the person using the search engine to find content. If that person gets the best possible experience and results, it will keep coming back for more, which then turns into money making opportunities for Google, due to their Advertising platforms.

So the only thing you need to do is help Google help that person find awesome results on search engines. Now imagine that Jim (an imaginary character) searches for: VR gear on google and google returns website.com/vr-gear. Let’s say that VR-Gear is a category in the website.com website.

Do you think Google would want Jim to see: “VR-Gear Website.com” or would Google want Jim to see: “Modern 2017 VR Gear That Professional Gamers Use” ?

Google needs Jim to see the second option. If your website.com helps google make Jim see something awesome, like in the second option, Google will make sure that your site gets ranked higher.

And remember: we’re talking about a /category page here. The content itself will get generated automatically by the posts, pages and products that you include in this category. Yet, Google can rank it or at least consider it relevant content for Jim. You create 20 categories and BOOM! You have 20 more pages that get constantly updated (if you update your store, of course). 20 more pages that are valuable for users. Google will like this and your score will increase.

This is what all WordPress users miss out on. It pisses me off. This is what I’ve never liked about WordPress.

3) My Up-Close Experience with this WordPress Problem.

In 2014 I had an online store where me and my brother sold computer games from the Steam Marketplace. It was a WooCommerce-powered WordPress site and it was powered by Squirrly SEO as well.

Let’s see what I did and what happened.

So, what I did:

– made my SEO settings ONLY with the Squirrly SEO Plugin
– found the best keywords for which I could rank my site, using the Keyword Research tool from Squirrly
– kept checking my SEO Audit from Squirrly to improve my score
– used the See Google Rank option from Squirrly’s performance analytics.
– Optimized ALL the possible pages and URLs using the SEO Live Assistant.

What Happened:

– i out-ranked the Steam Marketplace itself and everybody else for a lot of game titles, including: “Counter Strike”, “Need for Speed”, “Need for Speed cheap”, “Need for Speed PC”, etc.

I need to mention: we were also building links to this store. Just ON-PAGE SEO alone will not get the job done. Valuable links are also very important.

The problem still remained though: for some keywords I could not out-rank the others. I became obsessed with this. I studied the problem. The only thing they did better was: They were not on WordPress, so they could customize the special URLs from their site, which gave them the boost in SEO that my site did not have.

The Squirrly Snippet can not load on pages which WordPress does not allow you to edit. So I couldn’t edit my special URLs. Duplicates appeared and I had no control over my SEO.

It felt horrible. I was stuck. All because of WordPress and the fact they didn’t allow us users to customize things as we needed to.

I felt lost. With Squirrly SEO 2018, however, I’ll never feel lost this way again.

4) Squirrly SEO 2018. Control Your Rankings. Control Your Brand.

You most probably can tell my level of frustration regarding the inability to optimize every single possible URL in WordPress.

All this frustration will soon be a thing of the past. One of those things when you’re all like: “Man, that sure was the stone age of the Internet”. Haha.

Yes, it’s true. In the future, you’ll be able to gain 100% control over each URL: each page, each article, each product, each author page, each tag page, each inventory page, each category page, each [anything you can think of] page.

That’s the beauty of Squirrly SEO 2018. You’ll never have to be worried again that someone will see your listing in the Google search engine and ignore it because it looks ugly or doesn’t make sense. You’ll get to know exactly how they see it and optimize it until you’re sure they’ll love it.

This stands for people finding your site in search engines but also in social media feeds. Most category pages look amazingly ugly and low-quality when shared on Facebook. With Squirrly SEO 2018 you’ll be able to control Exactly what it will look like when shared to someone’s feed.

I am so happy that we’re finally doing this. There will be a couple more features that help you control your rankings and your brand. More about them soon.

Thanks for reading this and spending your time learning about my story. I appreciate it. I appreciate you being here.