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"Managing Expectations by finding Good Comparisons" is still the best SEO MBA newsletter (for me). Still use this framework to blow attitudes to SEO out the water and show a vision of what could be.

Good luck with everything Tom. And can't wait to read your book.

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Thanks Adam!

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I liked a lot of them and reference learnings from you all the time. Before your article on input metrics I didn't know the concept so I grabbed Working Backwards and really enjoyed that a lot.

Other than that, it's not the articles I valued the most but rather the ideas. Because an article is just a vehicle for an idea, not the idea itself (from my view point). To list a few examples:

- Selling SEO as growth, which is infinite, rather than optimization, which sounds marginal

- Input Metrics to create a clear connection from "what you do" to "what you get from it"

- SEO strategies and what they MUST contain

- Why SEO audits are often a waste of time (which I don't agree with entirely, but I absolutely get what you want to say)

- Telling a story driven by data, leveraging comparisons with competitors

I could list many more. When someone asks for a resource to read something smart about SEO, the SEOMBA immediately comes to mind.

To end this: For your future I wish you luck and success. Selfishly I hope the SEOMBA will be back sooner rather than later, rising like a phoenix from the ashes and even better than it was before.

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