SEO
Articles on SEO from the CodingPhase blog.
Technical SEO Specialist: The Best Paid Corner of SEO and the Least Crowded
Most SEO people avoid the technical half because it looks like engineering. That avoidance is exactly why this specialty pays the...
SEO Manager: What It Pays, Why the Range Is So Wide, and How to Get There
Two SEO managers with the same title and the same experience can be $70k apart. That gap is not random, and once you see what driv...
SEO Coordinator: The Cheapest Way Into a Well Paid Career
$45k to $60k to start, no degree required, and it sits at the bottom of a ladder that runs past $130k. Here's the job, and how to...
SEO Content Manager: The Hybrid Role That Pays More Than Either Half
Companies stopped wanting writers who ignore search and SEOs who can't judge writing. The role that merged the two pays better tha...
SEO Analyst: The Data Side of Search and What It Pays
If you like SEO but not the arguing, the analyst seat is the one to want. You answer the questions instead of debating them, and t...
SEO Specialist: The Job, The Pay, and What AI Search Actually Changed
Every guide to this job was written before ChatGPT started answering the questions people used to Google. Here's the job as it exi...
Google's June SEO Update Is Tanking Sites. Here's the 3-Part Fix.
Pages aren't being demoted anymore. They're being deleted from the index. Here's why Google is purging AI content, the three thing...
Answer Engine Optimization: How to Get Found When AI Answers the Question
Search is shifting from ten blue links to AI answering the question for you. Here's how answer engines decide which brands to name...
How to Automate Your SEO Workflow (Without Killing Your Rankings)
Most SEO automation advice is just tool listicles. This is the opinionated version — which SEO tasks to safely automate, which to...