How to perfect the search function of your knowledge base


Your company’s knowledge base is the informational lifeblood of customer self-service and internal efficiency. You could have hundreds of top-quality articles in your knowledge base, but if your knowledge base isn’t searchable? They might as well be invisible. I’ve seen how knowledge base search functionality is the difference between a static, underutilized pile of help […]

How to create a survey in Excel, Word, Google, Facebook, & SurveyMonkey


If you want to learn how to build a survey, the most important thing to know is that an excellent survey respects your time. It should be succinct, ask the right questions, and provide valuable insights. As a respondent, I’m quick to bail if a survey is too long, confusing, and repetitive. If you want […]

The SEO-friendly knowledge base — Why making your help pages searchable matters


An SEO knowledge base does everything a typical knowledge base does and more. It supports customers, ranks in Google, brings new traffic to your site, and builds your E-E-A-T. It’s tempting to de-index knowledge bases because they interfere with SEO, complicating keyword maps, impacting rankings, and causing cannibalization. But, done right, they’re a powerful SEO […]

The SEO-friendly knowledge base — Why making your help pages searchable matters


An SEO knowledge base does everything a typical knowledge base does and more. It supports customers, ranks in Google, brings new traffic to your site, and builds your E-E-A-T. It’s tempting to de-index knowledge bases because they interfere with SEO, complicating keyword maps, impacting rankings, and causing cannibalization. But, done right, they’re a powerful SEO […]

The 7 best programming languages for AI and what you need to know


When I started programming in 2005, the term artificial intelligence (AI) had a very different meaning. Picture simple, rule-based systems rather than the complex generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT that we know today. Also, there weren’t that many languages to choose from. C was my foundational language, and I picked up Basic, C++, C#, Java, […]