Writing

Start With Customers, Not Channels

Recently, one of my colleagues asked me an interesting question. “Do you think people are now going to focus more on social media channels instead of their own websites?” The question came after Google introduced a new feature in Search…

Sell Your Skills Where They’re Worth More

Recently, one of my juniors called me. I’ve known him for many years, and I was involved in training him early in his SEO career. He’s good at what most people would call execution-level SEO. He can handle day-to-day tasks…

Ranking a SaaS Homepage With Contextual Brand Links: An SEO Observation

While working on a competitive SaaS SEO campaign, I discovered something that changed how I think about homepage SEO. We were targeting a commercial keyword (let’s say: “workflow automation platform”). A competitor — let’s call them “FlowPro” — was ranking in the top…

Why Reading Books Still Feels Special to Me

When I was in school, I loved reading books — whether they were in English or Hindi, it didn’t matter. Even before the school session started, I would finish reading all the stories in my course books. A few poems…