Luke Glassford

Luke Glassford is an SEO expert with over 15 years’ experience. During his time working in SEO, Luke has set-up an SEO agency, worked as an in-house SEO for a major national company and managed his own successful SEO consultancy - using a lot of different SEO tools along the way!

The 18 Best Alternatives To Google Analytics (GA4)

The 18 Best Alternatives To Google Analytics (GA4) Google Analytics GA4 alternatives

As of 1 July 2023, the old version of Google Analytics (Universal Analytics – UA) ceased to collect new website data. For Google Analytics users, this has meant migrating to the less user-friendly Google Analytics 4 (GA4). For a lot of webmasters and online marketers, this shift has led them to look for alternatives to […]

The 11 Best AI Content Detection Tools To Use In 2023

The 11 Best AI Content Detection Tools To Use In 2023 The best AI content detection tools to use in 2023

In the ever-evolving world of online marketing, Artificial Intelligence has become a game changer that has allowed bloggers and webmasters to produce high-quality content within minutes. But as AI-generated content becomes increasingly indistinguishable from human writing, the need for reliable AI Content Detection Tools has never been more critical. With the constant demand for fresh […]

Keywords Everywhere browser add-on to become a paid tool in October

Keywords Everywhere browser add-on to become a paid tool in October keywords everywhere tool screenshot

The popular keyword research browser extension has announced it will become a paid tool from 1 October 2019, after being free to use for the past four years. Keywords Everywhere – the Chrome and Firefox extension that automatically surfaces keyword data on browsers – has announced that they will move from a free to a […]

Organic search drives 53% of all site traffic, according to new study

Organic search drives 53% of all site traffic, according to new study website traffic pie chart

A new study by BrightEdge has found that organic search delivers an average of 53.3% of all traffic to websites, far more than any other channel. Despite the recent changes to Google’s search results page that seemed to give more prominence to paid ads, and the rise of “zero-click results”, a new study from SEO […]

Mailchimp announces expansion into “all-in-one marketing platform”

Mailchimp announces expansion into “all-in-one marketing platform” New Mailchimp marketing platform

After making its name as one of the most popular email marketing platforms, Mailchimp has announced it is expanding its service into an all-in-one marketing platform. The new Mailchimp CRM platform offers a suite of integrated marketing tools to better organise, segment and understand your audience, along with new powerful analytics and insights to better […]

The best structured data WordPress plugins – 2019

The best structured data WordPress plugins – 2019 schema

We all know that adding structured data to our websites using Schema mark-up is a good idea. It helps search engines better understand our content and can result in prominent ‘rich snippets’ appearing in search engine results pages. However, the process of implementing structured data across a website can be a confusing and complicated business. […]

The best sources of free data for content marketing and link building campaigns

The best sources of free data for content marketing and link building campaigns free data sets

Producing content that presents data in unique and clever ways is almost guaranteed to earn you links. To get started though, you need to know where to find that data. If you’re unable to generate interesting and significant data in-house, then your other option is to go hunting for relevant data that is already in […]

Best URL shortener tools (2019 update)

Best URL shortener tools (2019 update) URL search bar

You don’t want to share long, ugly links across social media – especially URLs that contain a lot of tracking code – so you need a good link shortening tool to help your shared URLs look clean and professional. The best URL shorteners also come with a lot of useful added features – particularly extra […]

Majestic launch an increased Fresh Index with more data

Majestic launch an increased Fresh Index with more data

One of the most popular link analysis tools around has upped their game even more with a larger Fresh Index. After announcing their largest ever Historic Index of links last month, Majestic have now released their new, improved and larger Fresh Index dataset. They have increased the Fresh Index to include the last 120 days […]