Smart SEO Tools for Smart Publishers
We help publishers generate more traffic from Google Search, Google News, and Google Discover.
We do this by building AI-powered tools that transform complex SEO tasks into guided processes that fit seamlessly into your editorial workflow.
Our flagship product, TopicalBoost, detects topics across your entire library of content and implements the technical changes needed to demonstrate topical authority to search engines.
Our suite of SEO tools combine AI, search volume data, and your own analytics to make enterprise-grade SEO accessible to smaller publishers.
If you want to grow your organic traffic, rank for keywords that reinforce your brand, and leverage your reputation as a publisher to its fullest effect, check out our bespoke consulting and software offerings below.
Featured Services
1-Hour SEO Review
Free
Not sure where to get started with SEO? Is SEO a marketing channel that makes sense for your organization?
Schedule a free 1-hour SEO review and we’ll help you take the first steps toward organic search glory.
We’ll examine your Google Search Console data, Google Analytics history, and run automated technical audits on your site before our call so we can identify quick fixes that might be preventing you from gaining traction in search results.
TTd SEO Suite
starting at $129/month
Based on a decade of experience as an SEO agency, we’ve developed a suite of tools to automate time-consuming and expensive SEO activities like organizing content, keyword optimization, fixing broken links, and even adding citations to your pages.
Here’s what we offer:
TopicalBoost
Search engines reward websites that demonstrate deep expertise in particular topics, but categorizing and tagging webpages is time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone.
Our AI-powered platform automatically analyzes your content, identifies topics, and implements the technical changes needed to signal your expertise to search engines.
DemandAlign
Titles and descriptions shouldn’t be a guessing game. We use AI to extract keywords, retrieve keyword demand and competition data from popular SEO tools, and generate titles and meta descriptions using the keywords you choose.
It’s a quick, simple process for optimizing titles and descriptions using real search demand data.
CitationDetector
We use web crawlers to find new links pointing to your website and allow you to approve them for display to visitors in a “cited by” section.
The next time The New York Times, The Washington Post, Axios, or Le Monde links to you, those links will appear on your pages, bolstering credibility with both Google and your readers.
LinkMender
Your website’s topical authority relies heavily on links. We can recover lost links without hours of manual work.
Using The Internet Archive and fuzzy matching, we restore inbound link authority to hundreds or thousands of pages throughout your website.
SEO Audit & Content Strategy
starting at $5,000
Is your search traffic slipping away? Has a recent Google update caused your traffic to suddenly diminish? Has search never been a big portion of your organization’s traffic?
Our 99-point SEO audit and content strategy goes beyond standard, robotic SEO audits. We provide a complete SEO roadmap informed by over 20 years of working in the world of politics and public policy.
Your high-level, prioritized plan will guide you in directing your editorial and technical resources to make changes that will generate the greatest return in search traffic.
Advisory Engagements
starting at $10,000/quarter
Rather than stopping our work with you at the audit stage, we can work with you to implement our recommendations through a quarterly advisory engagement.
We work with clients who employ in-house development teams, agencies, or freelancers. Whatever your team looks like, we’ll serve as your dedicated advocates for SEO and shepherd fixes through the development process.
Advisory engagements include an initial audit and access to our TTd SEO Suite. If you’ve already paid for a standalone audit, that charge will be credited toward your first quarterly engagement.
Talks & Workshops
contact us for pricing
Tallest Tree offers SEO education ranging from 1-hour talks to multi-day workshops. We can provide an executive-level overview of how SEO fits into your broader marketing strategy, in-depth technical and strategic guidance to your broader team, or anything in between—we tailor each presentation to fit the unique needs of our clients.
Workshops can be combined with our Audit & Content Strategy offering, so along with teaching general principles, we can break down the fixes and strategies we recommend specifically for your site.
Whether we meet with you in-person or online, you’ll learn about our proven framework for addressing SEO from technical, tactical, and strategic perspectives.
Our Clients
We’re achieving a level of visibility on our Supreme Court content that has been a dream goal of Federalist Society supporters. We want to be a source of outstanding Supreme Court commentary, so seeing court cases at the top of Google results is remarkable.
We now appear in the top-10 search results for over 120 Supreme Court cases. For some cases, we outperform supremecourt.gov, harvardlawreview.org, americanbar.org, and yalelawjournal.org.
When it comes to traffic, the numbers speak for themselves. If we compare the year since we launched the Case Index to the previous year, organic sessions increased by 300,000 users, a gain of over 44%. Views from search increased by 32.6%, bringing the total to 1.9 million.
This whole process began with Tallest Tree’s audit. It was supremely impressive from an analysis standpoint—the technical teardown and strategy immediately established credibility. And unlike reports some consultants produce, Tallest Tree’s recommendations were bespoke to us.
There were other benefits of engaging with Tallest Tree as well:
- Finding ways to achieve measurable results. Nonprofits struggle with quantifying results, so being able to track things like ranking and traffic is a huge departure for us.
- Having SEO expertise in the mix when we’re talking about marketing and content has been a huge help and value for the Federalist Society. We’d otherwise be leaving a lot of value on the table. At its best, SEO is technical knowledge combined with understanding of how people actually use content.
- Trusting someone to focus on growing traffic so developers are focusing on development and marketing is focusing on messaging.
I have on many occasions recommended Tallest Tree to others and told them that SEO extends beyond things like h1 tags. Tallest Tree understands that SEO has an end goal in mind and is about serving users.
We feel like there’s much more direction to our website work—we’re no longer just fixing broken things. We now have the goal of lifting up all of our content, rather than simply maintenance.
On top of the expertise, Cord is a personable guy. We appreciate his use of humor and listening to diffuse tensions between developers and their recommendations. Consultants can be condescending or prone to drowning you in jargon, but Tallest Tree never did that.
Daniel T. Richards
Vice President & Director of Digital
We wouldn’t have started an SEO project unless we were confident that we’d see results. After working with Cord and Tallest Tree Digital on our Google Ad Grant campaigns, we felt confident moving forward with a project to improve our SEO. The results have been quick, significant, and noticeable—KPIs are up and our staff have noticed that we’re surfacing in search more often.
Tallest Tree’s approach is methodical, they’ve made good use of our time, moving the project along while recognizing that our own team has competing priorities. The examples and guidance they’ve provided have been extremely helpful, turning several of our staff members into mini SEO experts.
Cord’s background in limited government, free-market institutions was also a key consideration. We were on the same page on day one.
Mike Alissi
Publisher
Working with Cord and the Tallest Tree team has been fantastic.
They immediately understood the SEO needs of our organization and set forward and implemented a plan to help us grow our web traffic and reach.
Thanks to Tallest Tree, our web traffic has soared from 1 million to 2 million, and now to over 4 million views a year!
And it’s not just about the numbers—our brand value has grown significantly too. Our articles and analyses are now featured alongside like The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, AP, and Reuters in Google’s Top Stories.
We couldn’t be happier with the results, both in terms of the measurable growth and the incredible boost to our brand!
Erin Blumenthal
Vice President of Marketing and Events
As of 75 days post-launch, we’ve witnessed a 195% increase in organic search traffic—a staggering increase that exceeded my wildest hopes.
This surge propelled us to the single best month of organic search traffic ever recorded, eclipsing even the surge in traffic we saw in the lead up to the 2024 election.
The greatest part about this is that unlike advertising or marketing campaigns that give your organization a temporary boost, these changes mean more eyes on every work we release from now on, without any additional expense. It means more engagement with the ideas that matter and a clear demonstration that effective, targeted digital initiatives aren’t just an expense, but a powerful engine for expanding influence. You can have the most important information around, but if people are not exposed to it, its potential for impact is muted.
Put smart policy analysis online and make it discoverable and people will actually want to find it. It’s great to see our research team getting the traffic and attention their insights deserve.
I’m even more excited for our phase two SEO plans with Tallest Tree Digital. It’s great to work with a company I can have total confidence in. We’ve already seen astonishing results building from phase one, but I’m really confident phase two will boost WPC to an even higher level.
David Boze
Communications & Strategy Director
The Team
Cord Blomquist
Founder & Lead SEO
Tallest Tree founder Cord Blomquist has been in the think tank world since 2005, when he was an intern at the Cato Institute. After a brief stint as a Hill staffer, Cord went on to lead the communications team at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and build the digital team at the Mercatus Center.
Einar Jóhannsson
Lead Developer
Einar Jóhannsson serves as Tallest Tree’s lead developer and CTO. Einar has worked in web development for over a decade and has created websites for dozens of think tanks.
Michael Chapman
Senior Developer
Michael Chapman is an experienced platform developer who enjoys sharing his knowledge of programming with others. Since 2019 Michael has served as a lead instructor for Girls Who Code, a non-profit aimed at providing women an avenue into the technology world.