SEO Write for Us
SEO write for us — submit guest posts on search, content strategy, analytics and digital marketing to Digital Tech Updates.
Our SEO and digital marketing section has a higher rejection rate than any other, for a reason worth stating plainly: it attracts more submissions written to place a link than any other category, and readers in this field can spot a thin article faster than readers anywhere else.
What gets published here is writing from people who have run campaigns and watched them work or fail, with data attached.
Topics we want right now
Search and technical SEO
- Recovery write-ups after a core update — what changed, what you did, what the data showed over the following months
- Technical audits on real sites: what you found, what you fixed, what moved
- Crawl budget and indexation problems on large sites
- Structured data implementations and the rich results that actually appeared
- Core Web Vitals work with before-and-after field data, not lab scores
Content strategy
- Content pruning: what you removed and what happened to the rest
- Topic cluster builds with the traffic curve over six months
- Refresh strategies for declining articles
- Editorial workflows that scaled without the quality falling apart
AI and search
- How AI Overviews and AI-driven answers changed click-through on your pages, with Search Console data
- Optimising for citation in generative answers — what has actually been observed to work
- Using AI in a content workflow without producing content Google discounts
Analytics and measurement
- GA4 setups that answer a real business question
- Attribution modelling for long sales cycles
- Reporting that a non-marketing executive will actually read
Paid, social and email
- Campaign post-mortems with spend and return
- Landing page tests: hypothesis, result, sample size
- Email sequences with open, click and conversion data
What we do not need more of
- “What is SEO” and other beginner definitions
- Ranking factor lists with no evidence behind them
- Anything recommending link schemes, PBNs or expired-domain tactics
- Tool roundups that are affiliate pages with a headline
- Predictions about “SEO in 2027” with nothing testable in them
- Case studies where the traffic graph has no axis labels
The evidence bar in this section
Higher than elsewhere on the site, deliberately.
- Traffic claims need a labelled screenshot from Search Console or Analytics, with dates visible
- Ranking claims need the keyword, the market and the date
- “We increased traffic by 300%” needs a starting number. Tripling forty visits is not a case study
- Correlation stated as causation gets sent back — if a core update landed in your test window, say so
None of this is meant to be discouraging. It is that this field is full of confidently stated claims with nothing behind them, and the fastest way to be worth reading is to show your working.
Submission requirements
| Length | 1,200–2,000 words |
| Originality | Unpublished, and not republished afterwards. Every draft is checked. |
| Authorship | Human-written. AI-assisted is fine; AI-generated is declined. |
| Sources | Primary sources only for factual claims — documentation, filings, research, official announcements. |
| Images | Screenshots encouraged, 1200px minimum, yours or licensed. |
| Links | Up to two to your own domain, natural anchor text, placed where they help the reader. |
| Bio | 40–60 words, headshot, one profile link. |
How to submit
- Message us on WhatsApp or email admin@digitaltechupdates.com with the subject line SEO PITCH.
- Send your headline, three to five bullets on the substance, and one link to previous work.
- Wait for approval, then send the draft as a Google Doc with comment access.
Response to pitches: 2–3 business days. Editorial review: 3–5 business days. Publication within a week of approval.
Questions we get asked
Can I link to my agency site?
Yes, up to two contextual links with natural anchor text. Exact-match commercial anchors get changed during editing.
Will you publish something that contradicts common SEO advice?
Gladly, if you can evidence it. Well-argued dissent is more interesting than another summary of the consensus.
Can I anonymise the client?
Yes. Say “a B2B SaaS company with roughly 400 indexed pages” rather than naming them. The data still has to be real.
Do you accept AI-written SEO content?
No, and there is some irony in how often we are offered it for this section specifically.
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Full general guidelines are on the Write for Us page, and the submission process is set out in detail under Contribute.