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SEO Glossary for Beginners

By curtism January 27, 2026Basic SEO

I’m building a simple SEO glossary for beginners—10 terms I keep seeing while fixing my WordPress sites (title tags, slugs, indexing, noindex, schema, redirects). Quick definitions, real examples, and a page I’ll keep updating as I learn.

Google Search Console comparison showing last 28 days vs previous 28 days clicks, impressions, CTR, and average position

SEO Changes Not Showing Yet? Here’s How Long It Usually Takes

By curtism December 15, 2025Basic SEO

I’m learning SEO the hard way (trial and error), and one question keeps coming up: How long do SEO changes take? My real before/after in Google Search Console (Web) Clicks…

Quick Update: Rebuilding CurtisMatthews.com (2025)

By curtism November 3, 2025Basic SEO

Quick update: I’m rebuilding CurtisMatthews.com so everything I publish has a clear home and a next step. I’m tightening categories and tags, creating simple “topic hubs,” and adding a small…

My WordPress Cleanup: Categories, Tags & 301 Redirects — Beginner Update

By curtism October 30, 2025Basic SEO

I spent the last few weeks cleaning up my WordPress categories and tags, writing real descriptions, and adding 301 redirects for anything I deleted or renamed. Here’s what I did, what I learned as a novice, and two short videos of me doing it.

How long do SEO changes take

By curtism October 17, 2025Basic SEO, Case Studies

A plain-English timeline for when SEO changes start showing—what can move in days, what takes weeks, and the checks I run in Search Console.

Cross-linking SEO strategy diagram showing WirelessConsultant.net as the authority hub supported by MobileWiseGuy.com and GangsterMobile.com

SEO Case Study: Using Multi-Site Cross Posting to Dominate a Topic

By curtism September 30, 2025Basic SEO, Case Studies, SEO Strategies

For this experiment, I took one hot topic — the truth about “free phone” promotions from wireless carriers — and published it across three of my websites with different tones,…

Infographic showing Yoast SEO crawl optimization, internal search cleanup, breadcrumbs, and RSS feed credit improvements

How We Optimized Three Sites with Yoast for Faster Crawling, Cleaner Indexing, and Better SEO

By curtism August 12, 2025Basic SEO, SEO Strategies

Over the past week I set up the same, simple Yoast SEO configuration on SEOlutions.com, MobileWiseGuy.com, and WirelessConsultant.net. The goal was to make the sites faster, cleaner, and easier for…