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Search: One practical SEO tip you can implement today.
Stardust: What’s happening in the cosmos.
What I’m Obsessed With Right Now: A helpful resource, tool, or piece of media worth sharing.
Upcoming events, subscriber exclusives and offers.
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Featured:
Search & Stardust
Read the latest blog posts…
A few of my (mostly free) favorite things…
Free SEO Tools:
SEMRush - free and paid versions - run website audits, do keyword and competitive research & more (full disclosure, this is my affiliate link)
Google Search Console - completely free, manage your sitemap, page indexing reports, view performance metrics
Screaming Frog - free and paid SEO spider tool
Marketing Resources:
Google Analytics - completely free, view deep website/app analytics
Hubspot - excellent blog, free resources, and free certifications in everything from SEO to sales
Business owner must-haves:
Squarespace - website CMS that is easy to build and maintain
Honeybook - proposal, contract, invoicing & payment CRM (use my link for 30% off)
Visual/Design:
Canva - free and paid tiers, create decks, social graphics, and more
Dupe photos - stock photos and videos that don’t suck
Image compressor - compress your high-quality images to make them load fast on your website
Local Twin Cities resources:
WeMN (Women Entrepreneurs of Minnesota) - community for connecting with like-minded women
The Coven - coworking and event spaces with multiple locations across the Twin Cities (plus WI and NC)
Heyven - local business directory and events dedicated to connecting creators, businesses, and nonprofit
Technical SEO & task-specific tools:
Technical SEO - schema generator plus tools for mobile, international, local SEO and more
Theozard image alt checker - paste in any URL to see the alt text on each image, or if it’s missing
Siteliner - check for duplicate content, broken links, and more on your own website
Google PageSpeed Insights - check your site’s performance, accessibility, SEO, etc. on mobile and desktop
PDF Escape - add forms, clickable checkboxes, and more to customize your PDFs
W3.org - The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) has a ton of resources for evaluating website accessibility
Podcasts:
The Perfectionism Project - must-listen for perfectionists and recovering people pleasers!
Unwind with Jessica Porter - listen to soothing stories, naturescapes, and everything chill to fall asleep
Astrolotea with Aliza Kelly - learn all about your sun, moon and rising, the planets, and other aspects you never knew existed
Books:
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers
(so many more to be added later!)
SEO Glossary
Confused about the differences between SEO, CRO, and UX, or don’t know what bounce rate means? Check out the glossary of common search-related terms.
FAQs
Need to understand SEO basics, how it all works together, and how Stargazer SEO can help? Explore FAQs to learn more.