New from me:

I’m launching my Forecasting For SEO course next month.

It’s everything I’ve learned, tried and tested about SEO forecasting.

The course: https://t.co/bovuIns9OZ

Following along 👇

Why forecasting?

Last year I launched https://t.co/I6osuvrGAK to provide reliable forecasts to SEO teams.

It went crazy.

I also noticed an appetite for learning more about forecasting and reached out on Twitter to gauge interest: https://t.co/SrPFtXnRI3
The interest encouraged me to make a start...

I’ve also been inspired by what others are doing: @tom_hirst, @dvassallo and @azarchick 👏👏

And their guts to be build so openly in public.
So here goes it...

In the last 2 years I’ve only written 3 blog posts on my site.

- Probabilistic thinking in SEO
- Rethinking technical SEO audits
- How to deliver better SEO strategies.

I only write when I feel like I’ve got something to say.

https://t.co/WyVLANB7b5
With forecasting, I’ve got something to say. 💭

There are mixed feelings about forecasting in the SEO industry.

Uncertainty is everywhere. Algorithm updates impacting rankings, economic challenges impacting demand.

It’s difficult. 😩
It’s easier to say forecasting is impossible.

But forecasts are an expectation. You often need them to win pitches, or to get budget.

My aim with the course isn’t to shy away from the challenges. But to show you how you can embrace uncertainty & communicate it.
COURSE OUTLINE:

I got some excellent feedback on topics to include from a few experienced SEOs. 🙌

I added all of the feedback to @NotionHQ and consolidated the most common feedback into a broad outline - including some topics I was keen on including.
COURSE FORMAT:

I’ve opted for video vs an e-book. There’ll be some templates included, so it’s just easier to do video demos.

I’ve already started creating slides in @BeautifulAI_ and they’ll be exported to Keynote on final edit for transitions and subtle animation. 😎
COURSE PRICING:

I like the idea of reach > revenue shared by @tom_hirst

Pre-launch pricing will be $29 and will increase to $59 for launch. 🚀 https://t.co/4Ljq5jYsyA
RELEASE DATE:

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15 February 2021 🔥

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Website: https://t.co/bovuIns9OZ

Gumroad: https://t.co/rNDABYN6oT

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An appallingly tardy response to such an important element of reading - apologies. The growing recognition of fluency as the crucial developmental area for primary education is certainly encouraging helping us move away from the obsession with reading comprehension tests.


It is, as you suggest, a nuanced pedagogy with the tripartite algorithm of rate, accuracy and prosody at times conflating the landscape and often leading to an educational shrug of the shoulders, a convenient abdication of responsibility and a return to comprehension 'skills'.

Taking each element separately (but not hierarchically) may be helpful but always remembering that for fluency they occur simultaneously (not dissimilar to sentence structure, text structure and rhetoric in fluent writing).

Rate, or words-read-per-minute, is the easiest. Faster reading speeds are EVIDENCE of fluency development but attempting to 'teach' children(or anyone) to read faster is fallacious (Carver, 1985) and will result in processing deficit which in young readers will be catastrophic.

Reading rate is dependent upon eye-movements and cognitive processing development along with orthographic development (more on this later).

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