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9 Essential Ecommerce Site Optimizations to Boost Holiday Sales
Check out these proven tips for driving higher average order value and conversions to sale on your ecommerce site this holiday season.
How To Build Rapport With Editors And Get Guest Content Published
Getting your articles and other content accepted by industry publications is challenging. Learn how to build rapport with editors here.
Google: Bolded Text Can Help Your SEO
Google’s John Mueller confirms bolding important text in a paragraph can help your site’s SEO as it allows Google to understand the content better.
Domain Age: Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
When Google is ranking search results, does the algorithm take your domain age into consideration? See what the experts say.
WordPress Template Plugin Vulnerability Hits +1 Million Sites
WordPress plugin by the makers of Astra Theme patched an XSS vulnerability that can lead to total site takeover and attacks on site visitors
Why Google Discover Traffic Goes Away
John Mueller answers question about Google Discover traffic that collapsed, explains what to be aware of to avoid being dropped from Discover
Can Site Quality Be Quantified In Search Console?
Google’s John Mueller answers question about quantifying site quality and mentions having inquired about a Search Console Quality Metric
Google Spam Update Done Rolling Out
Google’s spam update has finished rolling out in search results worldwide, the company confirms.
Do You Have An SEO Triage Plan? 11 Things To Check
You have a short period of time for checks and action to bring immediate value. What should you have in your SEO triage plan?
Google: Voice Search Is Not The Future
Google’s Martin Splitt shared his opinion that voice search is not the future and that there will be no need to SEO for it
Google: “Hard To Call A Site Authoritative After 30 Articles”
Building authority with Google is going to take more than publishing a site with just 30 pages, advises Search Advocate John Mueller.
What’s Next For SEO: 7 Predictions From Google
Google’s Search Relations team gets together for a discussion on the future of SEO in the latest episode of the Search Off the Record podcast.
Massive CTR Study Reveals Actionable Insights
Largest ever research study of billions of searches uncovers surprising insights into CTR behavior that provides actionable marketing data
Google Drops Sites Hosted On SiteGround
SiteGround hosted sites dropping out of Google since Monday. Possibly an issue with DNS
Dwell Time: Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
Dwell time is one of many user interaction signals that finds its way into experts’ lists of top Google search ranking factors.
How To Analyze The Performance Of Your Multi-Domain SEO Program
Does having multiple domains help or hurt your SEO? Learn how to set your multiple domain program up for success.
25 Facts You Didn’t Know About Baidu
Baidu controls most of China’s search engine market, amounting to billions of searches per month. Here are 25 things you may not know about Baidu.
How To Enable Key Moments Snippets In Google Search
Learn how to enable key moments snippets in Google Search, which allows searchers to jump to the specific part of a video they’re interested in.
Google Will Be Testing IndexNow
A Google spokesperson confirmed to SearchEngineJournal that they will be testing the IndexNow protocol for crawling and indexing
How Do I Rank Better Internationally In One Or Many Countries?
An SEO expert answers two reader questions about ranking a website internationally – one in several countries, the other in one location.
Google: Sites Need To Be Worthwhile To Be Indexed
Google’s John Mueller shares insights on the “Discovered – but currently not indexed” response in search console
3 Ways Agencies Should Measure Marketing ROI
Demonstrating how your agency provides value to clients is key to retaining them. Here are three ways to measure the ROI of marketing.
Google Update Slapped Your Rankings: What’s Next
An overview of Google’s history of dialing back and fine tuning their updates and how this should inform a response to ranking changes
Enterprise SEO Site Structure: 14 Essential Optimizations
Learn 14 essential considerations for mapping out an SEO-friendly enterprise-level site structure and implementing an SEO governance plan.
Why Some Sites Lose Rankings in Core Update
Google’s John Mueller says fixing technical issues and disavowing random spam links won’t fix core update related ranking problems
The Disavow Tool: Is It a Google Ranking Factor?
Can you influence Google’s search algorithms and rank higher by using the disavow tool on bad or spammy links?
Want to Learn About Bing and Search Ranking? Here You Go!
Fabrice Canel, Principal Program Manager at Bing discusses search crawling, machine learning and ranking web pages with Jason Barnard of Kalicube
Google: How Long it Takes for Disavow File to Affect Rankings
Google’s John Mueller explains how long it takes for a disavow file to eventually affect the search results rankings
Impactful SEO Reporting: My Most Difficult Lessons Learned
SEO reporting can make or break the success of your strategy. Check out these five secrets to impactful reporting (learned the hard way).
Google Page Experience Algorithm Update Coming to Desktop
Google confirms the Page Experience Algorithm update, which rolled out to mobile search earlier this year, will be applied to desktop search results.