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SEO Tool That Tells You What to Fix First
Audit tools hand you 200 issues and a health score. Prioritization needs your own GSC and GA4 data. What to fix first, and how to build the list.
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SEO Tools That Actually Use Your GSC Data
Most SEO tools estimate. A smaller group connects to your Search Console and analyzes what Google recorded. Which tools do which, and how deep it goes.
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What 99 Languages Means for Your Content Reach
Most small businesses never check whether they have organic search demand in a language they don't serve. Here's how to find that signal and act on it.
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AI for the Marketer Who Didn't Come From Writing
You know your customers better than any writer would. Here is the actual fix for AI-generated content that sounds generic, and it has nothing to do with talent.
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AI Hallucination Is a Structural Problem, Not a Bug
Why AI tools confidently state wrong facts, what the research says causes it, and how to verify AI-generated content before you publish it.
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AI Marketing Governance: Rules Before You Scale
A solo operator needs no AI governance rules. Hire one person and that changes. A lightweight framework for teams of 2-5, adapted from Copper Sun's guide for larger teams.
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Testing Email Subject Lines and Preview Text With AI
Subject line testing usually assumes a big list and a real A/B testing tool. Here is a framework that works with a small list and a chat window.
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AI Transcription Accuracy: What the Research Shows
BrassTranscripts built a public research index and a data-backed stats roundup instead of another vendor accuracy claim. Here's what the sources actually say.
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Your Content Backlog Is Probably Audio: A Triage Guide
A folder of old podcast episodes, customer calls, and webinars is not a content pipeline problem. It's a triage problem. Here's how to sort it.
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What a Brand Memory Layer Is and Why It Matters
Brand memory is a persistent store of a business's voice, facts, and positioning that AI tools draw from instead of starting cold. Here's the concept, plainly explained.
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The BrassTranscripts Guide Library, Organized
BrassTranscripts runs a 150-plus-post blog. Here's a Brass-SEO reader's map to the parts on marketing, compliance, technical SEO, and content.
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How to Build Your Own Brand Memory Layer
A free, low-tech version of the brand memory layer concept: one maintained document that keeps any AI tool writing in your voice, updated quarterly.
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Consistent Publishing With a Small Marketing Team
Coppersun.io traced sporadic publishing to per-piece overhead, not fading ambition. Here's the framework applied to a solo content calendar.
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Content Audit and Refresh: Using AI on Existing Work
Once you know a page needs a refresh, here is the mechanical part: pairing the old page with current search results and using AI to find what actually changed.
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A Small Business Owner's Reading List From Copper Sun AI
Brass-SEO's curated index of coppersun.io's blog: 21 posts on solo marketing, AI citation, brand memory, craft, and responsible AI use.
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Editing AI Drafts: Closing the Quality Gap
AI drafts are a starting point, not a finished piece. A curated editing checklist for closing the gap between what the model wrote and what's worth publishing.
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Free AI Prompts for Working With Transcripts
BrassTranscripts, Brass-SEO's sister product, maintains a free MIT-licensed library of 122 AI prompts for turning transcripts into articles, summaries, and more.
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Turning Customer Interviews Into Ad Copy That Converts
A customer interview, transcribed, is raw material for Google Ads copy that sounds like an actual buyer. Here's the extraction framework and how to run it yourself.
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Get Better SEO Answers: How to Brief an AI
Copper Sun's guide to briefing AI like a senior planner applies directly to Brass-SEO's chat. A sharper brief turns a vague question into a usable answer.
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Human-in-the-Loop AI Marketing: What It Means
Human-in-the-loop gets used as vague reassurance in AI marketing. Here's the actual governance model, its checkpoints, and how it applies to Brass-SEO's chat.
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Inside a Real AI Campaign Workflow (and Its Limits)
A walkthrough of Copper Sun AI's three-phase campaign workflow, from kickoff to FAQ content, and a candid look at what a workflow like this can't do.
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How to Interview Customers for Content That Works
The interview is the skill behind every good sales-call teardown or ad-copy swipe file. Here's how BrassTranscripts' guide says to actually run one.
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Measuring AI Marketing ROI Without Vanity Metrics
Words generated and cost-per-word measure activity, not value. A framework for tracking whether your AI marketing tools are actually paying off.
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Microsoft Ads Testimonials: What Actually Changes
BrassTranscripts published a guide on turning customer interviews into Microsoft Ads copy. Here's what's genuinely platform-specific, and what carries over from Google Ads.
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Recording Sales Calls? Consent Laws Vary by State
Recording calls for later transcription? Consent laws vary by state. A plain-English look at one-party vs. two-party consent, and why this isn't legal advice.
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Reddit Ads and Authentic Customer Language
BrassTranscripts published research on why Reddit ads written in real customer language beat polished copy, and where that language has to come from.
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What Marketing Teams Get Wrong About Repurposing Audio
Repurposing audio usually means running a transcript through AI once and pasting the output as-is. Here's why that fails, and where the real fixes live.
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Running a One-Person Marketing Team With AI
Coppersun.io, Brass-SEO's sister platform for full marketing teams, published a guide for solo marketers. Here's what's genuinely useful if you run SEO alone.
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What Sales Call Transcripts Reveal That CRM Notes Miss
CRM notes are a summary, filtered through what a rep remembered. A full call transcript keeps the objections, questions, and exact language a summary loses.
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The 6 U's Framework for Email Copywriting
A six-criterion checklist for judging whether AI-drafted email copy is actually good, with a worked before/after example you can apply today.
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The Structured Brand Brief: A Free Template
A one-time document — your voice, audience, and positioning — that keeps every AI tool you use writing like your business instead of a generic one.
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What 580 Transcription Jobs Reveal About Audio Use
BrassTranscripts analyzed 580 real transcription jobs: durations, speakers, file formats, and pricing. First-party production data, not a survey.
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A Vendor-Evaluation Checklist for Transcription Tools
A synthesized checklist covering security, consent law, accuracy research, and pricing for evaluating any transcription vendor before you upload a file.
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Security Questions to Ask Any Transcription Vendor
A vendor-neutral checklist for evaluating any transcription tool's security and privacy practices, built from a published enterprise security guide.
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What a Real AI Marketing Platform Does Differently
A framework for telling AI platforms with real memory apart from prompt wrappers, sourced from a competitor's own comparison post and read with that in mind.
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Why This Transcription Tool Doesn't Require an Account
BrassTranscripts, a sister product to Brass-SEO, skips signup entirely. Here's the reasoning behind that choice, and why Brass-SEO made the opposite call.
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Brass-SEO Is Now $25 a Month. Here's the Math.
Brass-SEO dropped to $25 a month. The price works because it reads your own Google data instead of running a web-scale crawler. Here's the math.
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The Other AI Tools Copper Sun Builds
Brass-SEO is one of five AI tools from Copper Sun Content and Creative. Here's what the other four do, and why a business owner might care.
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10 Guerilla SEO Moves You Can Run This Week
Ten concrete guerilla SEO tactics: title sprints, capsule heists, internal link audits, PAA capture. Each runs in under 90 minutes with AI tooling.
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Brass-SEO vs Search Console's Native AI
Google Search Console added a built-in AI in December 2025. Here is what it does, where it stops, and when Brass-SEO is the better fit.
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Claude Code as Your SEO Engineer
Claude Code automates the technical SEO work that used to need a developer. Five concrete workflows: bulk title rewrites, schema audits, link graphs, and more.
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The Guerilla Content Pipeline: GSC to Publish
A five-step content pipeline that cuts a 2,500-word blog post from 8 hours to 90 minutes. Uses Brass-SEO + ChatGPT/Claude + IndexNow. No quality loss.
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Brass-SEO vs Clearscope: When Each Wins
Clearscope is built for enterprise content teams at $170+/month. Brass-SEO is built for solo operators at $25/month. Here's when each one is the right pick.
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Brass-SEO vs SurferSEO: When Each Wins
SurferSEO scores your content against top-ranking competitors. Brass-SEO interprets your own search data. They solve different problems. Here's when to pick each.
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The Real Cost of SEO Tools in 2026
Public pricing for the major SEO tools in 2026: Semrush, Ahrefs, Moz, SurferSEO, Clearscope, and more. Real total cost and where each tool fits.
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What Brass-SEO Is (and What It Is Not)
Brass-SEO interprets your Google data with AI. It is not a backlink tracker or enterprise platform. An honest look at what we do, skip, and why.
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Free SEO Tools vs Paid: Where the Line Is
Google gives you powerful SEO tools for free. When is it worth paying for more? An honest breakdown of where free tools end and paid tools begin.
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Do You Actually Need an SEO Tool? (An Honest Answer)
Maybe not. Here is an honest breakdown of when free tools are enough, when paid tools earn their cost, and how to decide what your business actually needs.
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The $25/Month SEO Stack for Small Business
You don't need expensive tools for SEO. Here's the complete stack a small business needs: one $25/month paid tool plus free tools from Google.
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Brass-SEO vs Ahrefs: Different Tools for Different Problems
Ahrefs is a backlink powerhouse for SEO professionals. Brass-SEO interprets your Google data in plain English. An honest look at when each makes sense.
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Brass-SEO vs Semrush: What a Small Business Actually Needs
Semrush is a powerful SEO platform for professionals. Brass-SEO is for business owners who want answers, not dashboards. An honest comparison.
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I Spent $200/Month on SEO Tools. Here's Why I Stopped.
What happened when I canceled Semrush and Ahrefs and switched to a simpler approach. Not every business needs enterprise SEO tools.
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AI SEO Analysis vs Doing It Yourself
Manual SEO analysis vs. AI-powered tools side by side. What each approach handles well, where they fall short, and the practical answer for SMBs.
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Ask Your SEO Data Anything
Brass-SEO's AI chat isn't just a report generator. It understands your GSC and GA4 data and answers specific questions in plain English.
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How Brass-SEO Works
The complete guide to Brass-SEO: how it connects to your Google data, what reports and AI chat can do, and how to get started in about two minutes.
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How to Read Your GA4 Traffic Report
Learn what GA4 metrics actually mean and how to use your traffic data to improve SEO. Covers sessions, engagement rate, traffic sources, and landing pages.
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8 One-Click SEO Reports Explained
What each of Brass-SEO's one-click reports does, what data it pulls, and when to use each one. Plus an AI prompt to turn any report into an action plan.
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5 SEO Problems Brass-SEO Solves
Most small businesses know SEO matters but get stuck on the how. Here are five common problems and how AI-powered analysis addresses each one.
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What Keywords Should I Target?
How to find the right keywords for your business using data you already have. Covers keyword types, Google Search Console data, and a practical strategy.
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AI SEO Tools: Small Business Guide 2026
What AI SEO tools actually do, how they differ from traditional platforms, and how to choose the right one for your small business. A complete guide.
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Semrush vs Ahrefs: Do Small Businesses Need Them?
Semrush and Ahrefs are powerful SEO platforms, but do small businesses need them? An honest look at features, pricing, and when a simpler tool works.
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What a Good SEO Audit Actually Tells You
Most SEO audits give you hundreds of issues and no priorities. What a useful audit actually checks, what to fix first, and what you can safely ignore.
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Getting Started with AI-Powered SEO Analysis
Learn how to leverage AI tools and Google Search Console data to identify SEO opportunities and improve your website's search performance.
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