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Research routinely indicates that science and engineering degrees provide much higher salaries and better employment prospects than other degree programs. Here’s the point: Related “harder” degrees very often provide enough educational background to get your foot in the door for higher paying and more dependable positions that will set you up for higher salaries and job stability throughout your career. A degree in IT provides exposure to a wide array of computer-based topics but flies above the nitty gritty of any specific technical area like computer code and complicated algorithm work. Not a lot of math, but enough background to get my foot in the door and start a career doing something in a high paying position, something that a degree in photography never would have provided for me.

Kinda like what I did above within the “Revise and Republish” section, you’re stealing content from your older posts in support of a brand new post. I’ve done this several times in the past to help lengthen my posts and to save time writing something that I’ve already spent the time to write. Write “best of” posts about a specific topic, and think of that new post as the authoritative source of the very best that you’ve written on that topic. Don’t write “best of” posts that more or less links to everything you’ve written.

As a personal finance blogger who blogs about early retirement, you’ll eventually find yourself in a situation like this: Your story gets picked up by national media (hooray! ). The problem is simple: people reading the national media story aren’t intimate followers of the personal finance community – even if they want to retire early. It reveals that we’re actually making money in retirement, and people’s traditional definition of retirement flies in the face of actively making money. This is the thing that surprised me the most about early retirement CNBC: 17 stupid simple ways to make early retirement easier CNBC features tend to get syndicated to partner outlets, like Don’t Waste Your Money, Yahoo Finance, and MSN.

After the Ahrefs team took 2 million random keywords and pulled data on the top 10 ranking pages for each word, they determined that the average top 10 ranking page is 2+ years old, while those that rank at #1 are almost 3 years old on average. The study then looked at what percentage of pages at each ranking position were less than 1 year old, and it turned out that the SERP is clearly dominated by “old” pages. In the end, the study found that: I have a bit of a man-crush on the little guy over at Neil Patel, and he performed a similar study and discovered some remarkable conclusions, like: Larger and more established websites tend to rank faster than newer sites. In general, Google would rather link to a newer and fresher piece of content rather than one that’s year old – though, if the older version is “better”, freshness tends NOT to trump higher quality content in my experience.