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The Seoluma SEO blog

Practical, no-fluff guides — organised by niche and by discipline. Written from real campaigns and backed by our index of 118 million domains, not recycled advice.

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Link BuildingHow to Analyze a Competitor's SEO Strategy (Free)

Reverse-engineer any competitor's SEO: authority, backlinks, keywords and content gaps. A free, repeatable framework to see what's working for them.

11 min read
Technical SEOInternal Linking: The Free Ranking Lever

Internal links are the one ranking factor you fully control — no outreach, no budget. How to spread authority and lift pages close to ranking.

10 min read
Keyword ResearchHow to Do Keyword Research for Free

You don't need a paid subscription to find the terms people search. A complete free workflow: from seed ideas to real volume to a rankable list.

12 min read
Keyword ResearchLong-Tail Keywords: The Fastest Way to Rank

Long-tail keywords have less volume but far less competition and sharper intent — which is why they're the smartest first target. How to find them.

10 min read
Link BuildingDo Backlinks Still Matter in 2026?

With AI answers and new signals, are links still worth building? What the evidence says about backlinks as a ranking factor, and how the role changed.

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Link BuildingDoes Domain Authority Affect Google Rankings?

Google says it doesn't use 'domain authority' — so why does it predict rankings so well? Untangling third-party scores and what Google measures.

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Keyword ResearchHow to Find Low-Competition Keywords

The fastest traffic wins come from keywords with real demand and weak competition. How to find them systematically: volume, intent and rival authority.

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Social & Video SEOYouTube Keyword Research for Small Channels

Small channels don't beat big ones on broad topics — they win on specific searches. How to find low-competition video keywords real viewers type.

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Link BuildingHow to Disavow Toxic Backlinks, Step by Step

Most sites never need to disavow — but if you've inherited spammy links, doing it wrong can hurt. How to identify them and submit a file safely.

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Link BuildingWhat Is a Good Domain Authority Score?

Is DA 30 good? 50? It depends on your competition, not a universal number. Real benchmarks from 118M domains, and how to use the score sensibly.

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Keyword ResearchKeyword Research for Shopify Stores

Shopify gives you the store; keywords decide whether Google sends traffic. How to research buyer-intent keywords for product and collection pages.

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Link BuildingHow to Find Your Competitors' Backlinks (Free)

Your competitors already did your link research. How to see who links to them, find the gaps you can close, and build your own prospect list — free.

11 min read
Link BuildingHow to Check Backlinks for Free (Without Ahrefs)

You don't need a $99/month subscription to see who links to a site. How to check backlinks free, read a referring-domains report, and spot real links.

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Link BuildingHow Many Backlinks Do You Need to Rank?

The honest answer isn't a number. We measured 118 million domains: the link counts that correlate with authority are not what most guides claim.

11 min read
Keyword ResearchKeyword Research for Etsy Sellers

Etsy SEO lives and dies on the words in your titles and tags. How to find real buyer-intent keywords for your listings, with volume and a free workflow.

11 min read
Medical Tourism SEOMedical Tourism SEO: How Clinics Win Patients

A practical playbook for ranking a medical-travel site across languages and countries — trust signals, hreflang, and the link reality of a YMYL niche.

14 min read
Healthcare & Doctor SEOSEO for Doctors and Clinics: A Practical Playbook

How healthcare sites earn trust with Google in a Your-Money-Your-Life niche — E-E-A-T, structured data, and the pages that convert patients.

8 min read
E-commerce SEOE-commerce SEO: Ranking Product and Category Pages

Category pages are your biggest SEO asset and most stores waste them. Architecture, thin-content fixes, and internal linking that compounds.

8 min read
Local SEOLocal SEO: How to Actually Rank in Your City

The three things local ranking really depends on — proximity, prominence and relevance — and how to move each one without wasting budget.

7 min read
Technical SEOThe Technical SEO Checklist That Moves Rankings

Not a 200-item audit — the handful of crawl, index and speed issues that actually change positions, in priority order.

8 min read
Link BuildingLink Building That Works: Quality Over Count

We measured 118M domains: more referring domains does not mean more authority. Here is what the data says to do instead.

7 min read
Medical Tourism SEOHair Transplant Clinic SEO: A Case-Study Playbook

The most competitive medical-tourism niche there is. How a clinic ranks 'Turkey' queries — treatment hubs, cost content and trust signals.

10 min read
Healthcare & Doctor SEOGoogle Business Profile for Clinics: Full Guide

For most clinics the map pack matters more than classic results. Categories, services, reviews and the profile signals that decide local ranking.

9 min read
E-commerce SEOFaceted Navigation SEO: Filters vs Crawl Budget

Colour × size × price can spawn thousands of near-duplicate URLs and drain your crawl budget. How to keep the useful filter pages and control the rest.

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Local SEOCitation Building: Directories That Actually Work

Not all citations are equal. Using real authority data from our index, here are the directories worth your time — and how to keep NAP consistent across them.

9 min read
Technical SEOhreflang Done Right: Multilingual SEO Checklist

hreflang is the most commonly broken tag in international SEO. The rules that matter, and the mistakes that send the wrong language to the wrong market.

9 min read
Link BuildingLink Intersect: The Fastest Way to Find Prospects

The warmest link prospects are the sites already linking to several competitors. How to find them, qualify them, and turn the list into links.

8 min read
Social & Video SEOYouTube SEO: How to Rank Videos and Get Found

YouTube is a search engine, and its videos rank in Google too. How to research video keywords, optimise titles and descriptions, and earn rankings.

10 min read
Social & Video SEOTikTok SEO: Getting Found in Search and Google

TikTok is now a search engine, and its clips surface in Google. How captions, on-screen text, keywords and audio drive discovery.

8 min read
Social & Video SEOSocial Search Optimization: SEO Beyond Google

Search is no longer just Google. People search on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram too — and Google now indexes social. How to cover the whole surface.

9 min read