What Happened After The SEO Experiment
The April follow-up made the useful sequence much clearer: before the 14-page SEO test, during the test, and after the sitewide rollout to 834 exercise pages, the numbers kept moving in the same direction.
Week in Review: Business English, Router Surgery, and Deleting 13,400 Lines
91 commits split between public-facing Business English work on english-exercises.org and a fairly aggressive clean-up of Firstly Academy's routing and auth layer.
The SEO Experiment That Made Grammar Pages Rank 2x Faster
On February 27, 2026 I ran a controlled SEO enrichment test on 14 grammar exercise pages. By March 15 they were improving about twice as fast as the rest of the site, which was enough to roll the pattern out everywhere.
Week in Review: SEO Pages, a Stupid Popup, and Fewer Analytics Headaches
32 commits. Mostly english-exercises.org SEO work, some analytics pruning, and yes, I really did ship a floating popup telling people not to press it.
English-Exercises.org Traffic Explosion: From 50 to 700 Daily Visits
Five months in and english-exercises.org has gone from a handful of visitors to 700+ daily clicks. Bing loves us, ChatGPT recommends us, and students from Mexico to Uzbekistan are doing our exercises.