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13 Tips to Make Your PDFs SEO Friendly
Optimizing your PDFs for search requires special tactics. Here are 13 ways to help your PDFs gain more traffic.
Seasonal Shopping: How to Use Market Insights & Intent Modeling
Retail marketers should leverage historical trends and real-time insights to create intent-based content. Follow this approach for successful seasonal campaigns.
Google Experiencing Indexing Issue With New Articles
Google is currently fixing an indexing issue affecting new articles appearing in the ‘Top Stories’ section of search results.
Google My Business Gains More New Attributes for Listings
Google My Business listings can now highlight the health and safety measures they’re taking to protect customers during the pandemic.
How to Generate Quality FAQs & FAQPage Schemas Automatically with Python
Generating high-quality question/answer pairs (and their corresponding schema) automatically is now possible through Python. Learn the process here.
New Bing URL Inspection Tool
Bing announced a new URL inspection tool that diagnoses issues and provides suggestions for how to make a page rank better.
Google’s New Measures to Protect Search Results From Vandalism
Google is investing in new efforts to ward off vandalism in search results and ensure information remains relevant and reliable.
Google SEO Mythbusting: Is More Content Better?
Google’s Martin Splitt, and Lily Ray of Path Interactive, discuss the most common concerns SEOs have when it comes to creating website content.
Crawl Budget: Everything You Need to Know for SEO
Learn how search engines crawl the web, how to identify whether crawl budget is relevant to your website, and how to optimize it.
Shorter Content Earns the Most Backlinks, Study Says
Shorter content earns the most backlinks, on average, according to an analysis of thousands of articles.
What Are Local Service Ads?
Learn the differences between Local Service Ads, Google Guaranteed, and Google Screened, and why local businesses should care about these programs.
Emergence: The Scientific Concept All SEO Pros Should Understand
Learn how the concept of “emergence” relates to the correlations in SEO studies and why every SEO professional should know about it.
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Anatomy of a Powerful Content Marketing Funnel [SEMrush Survey Stats]
This study reveals the top characteristics, most efficient channels, and metrics of content marketing funnels that convert.
8 Silly But Harmful SEO Mistakes Even Professionals Make
There’s plenty of room for things to go wrong in SEO. Here are eight seemingly small yet damaging mistakes professionals should watch out for.
Bing Announces Enhanced Robots.txt Testing Tool
Bing announced an enhanced Robots.txt tester. New features improve testing and diagnosing of the robots.txt file.
How to Find Every Orphan Page on Your Website
Learn what orphan pages are, why fixing them is important for SEO, and how to find every orphan page on your site.
Google Offers Details on Core Update Recovery Times
Google’s John Mueller offers insights into recovery times from Core Algorithm Update and what publishers should do.
How to Build 600+ Links in One Month
Earning over 600 links in a month is an anomaly in SEO. Here’s the link building process that made it happen.
How to Plan Your 2021 Enterprise SEO Strategy
Use this comprehensive guide to plan your enterprise SEO strategy – from foundational aspects to cross-team communication as well as teams and tools.
How & Why Accessibility Matters for SEO
SEO professionals play a crucial role in the overlap between SEO and accessibility. Here’s how we can make a positive impact through our work.
Breaking Silos: How to Enable SEO Across Your Organization
Gain SEO stakeholder support and project prioritization by enabling SEO and developing an SEO mindset in your organization. Here’s how.
Breaking Down the Google My Business Profile Program Upgrades
Google may open the Google Guarantee to some local organic search opportunities. Here’s how it can impact small businesses and consumers alike.
Do Links in Citation Structured Data Have More Power?
An explanation of the Citation Structured Data Property and how search engines use them.
A Complete Guide to the Google RankBrain Algorithm
What is Google RankBrain? How does it impact search? Can you optimize for it? Here’s everything you need to know about Google’s RankBrain algorithm.
Google’s Mueller Tweets About Content and Ranking
Google’s John Mueller engages in a Twitter discussion on the best way to write content.
Google Lightning Talks: HTTPS Explained
In the latest Google Lightning Talks video, John Mueller provides an introduction to HTTPS and goes over the basics of site migrations.
How Content Syndication Affects the Performance of Your Original Content
Is content syndication worth a shot? How will it affect the performance of your content? Here are some of the SEO ramifications of syndicated content.
Why Do SEO Forecasting Models Keep Failing Us?
Here’s how agencies can take a thorough look at SEO forecasting and better communicate to clients how an SEO goal can impact their business.
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2020 Local Voice Search Ranking Factors [STUDY]
As 58% of voice search users employ it to run local business queries, a new study looks at factors that go into ranking the results.
Google Shows “Licensable” Badges in Image Search Results
Google is now displaying a “Licensable” badge in image search results on photos that can be purchased for legal use on other websites.