The SEO Case Study

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Crit Pick, three weeks of social: 453,000 views, 71 visits

Three weeks of daily social posting: 453,000 views, 71 website visits. Then Google moved in week three. Crit Pick data through 30 September.

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I published 263 articles in ten days. Here's what Search Console showed afterwards.

263 pages in ten days, then average position 18.6 to 32.3. The numbers, the two readings I got wrong, and what Google's docs actually say.

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What eight weeks of Crit Pick data actually show

Eight weeks of real Search Console data from the Crit Pick experiment. What internal linking did, why a tool page flopped while a guide compounded, and an honest verdict so far.

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Crit Pick, month two: one page per Pal, and the web that ties them together

Month two of the Crit Pick experiment, minus the numbers: how the site is split into small pages, why the links matter more than the pages, and the bet I'm making that the next post grades.

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The Crit Pick SEO case study: the first month of real data

Two weeks to get crawled, then 18 clicks and ~1,650 impressions. The first real Search Console data from Crit Pick, plus the dos and don'ts behind the build.

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The Guild Wars 3 page, by the numbers

Why the GW3 tracker is shaped the way it is, read as search strategy, not code: what term it chases, how the keyword set was cleaned, and why "no leaks" is the part that actually wins.

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How I built the Guild Wars 2 event timer

A live clock for every fixed-schedule event in Tyria, and the calls I made building it, including which SEO advice I took and which I left on the floor.

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Building a Guild Wars 3 page before the game exists

Working notes on the Guild Wars 3 tracker: why it's shaped the way it is, the SEO/UX tensions I had to settle, and what I still need to fix.

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How I filtered a 300k keyword sweep into one GW2 list

A plain account of turning a giant Semrush export into one master GW2 list: what I kept, what I threw out, where I filed it, and why.

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Setting up a gaming blog for SEO: structure, tags and tracking before content

The unglamorous part nobody shows off: structure, tags, branding, tracking and schema, all set up before the first post went live, and the reasoning behind each call.