Measuring the quality of popular keyword research tools
Contributor JR Oakes measures the quality of popular keyword research tools against data found in Google search results and performing page data from...
JR Oakes
R Oakes is the Director, Technical SEO at Adapt Partners, a agency specializing in technical SEO, ORM, and CRO for clients large and small. He works with clients on a wide range of fronts including technical issues, performance, CTR, crawl-ability, content, and data analysis. JR loves testing, coding, and prototyping solutions to difficult search marketing problems. When he isn’t working, he enjoys reading about emerging technologies, playing bass guitar, watching college basketball, cooking and spending time with his friends and family. He is also one of the co-organizers of the Raleigh SEO Meetup, Raleigh SEO Conference, and RTP SEO Meetup.
Common Search: The open source project bringing back PageRank
Columnist JR Oakes explains Common Search, a great open source tool for understanding how search engines work, which has a hidden gem for those of us...
Using word vectors and applying them in SEO
Contributor JR Oakes takes look at technology from the natural language processing and machine-learning community to see if it's useful for...
Data exploration from: An experiment in trying to predict Google rankings
Contributor JR Oakes shares a deep dive into 500,000 search results for transactional service industry queries from 200 of the largest cities in...
An experiment in trying to predict Google rankings
In late 2015, JR Oakes and his colleagues undertook an experiment to attempt to predict Google ranking for a given webpage using machine learning....
