35 Ways To Burn Your Private Network
Private networks (or private blog networks – but they don’t necessarily have to be all blogs) are a great (albeit a bit expensive when done properly) way to take a shortcut on link building efforts if you’re fine with a …
What is SEO and what it is not. A rant
It’s time for a rant in defense of SEO. Too many people talk about what SEO is, without really knowing it. It is time to dot the I’s and cross the T’s. Gianluca Fiorelli shares his view.
Post from Gianluca Fiorelli
Mobile-friendly sites and SEO
Last month, Google actually announced a change in their algorithm before it had already happened. In this post they mention that starting April 21st mobile-friendliness will become a ranking factor more and more. In the past few weeks we’ve been getting quite a few reports from Google Webmaster Tools. Not only did they add a Mobile Usability item under the…
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The Impact of IP Host Location on Your Site SEO
Back in February I contacted WPengine to ask if we could upgrade to PHP 5.5. With WPengine (and the way we’ve set up our DNS) this upgrade involved an IP address change in Builtvisible.com’s a-records. Following this change, I saw a drop in SEO visibility in our UK rankings so, I investigated. Sure enough, Searchmetrics […]
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My Favorite SEO Tool
My favorite SEO tool isn’t an SEO tool at all. Don’t get me wrong, I use and like plenty of great SEO tools. But I realized that I was using this one tool all the time. Chrome Developer Tools how I love thee, let me count the ways. Chrome Developer Tools The one tool I […]
My Favorite SEO Tool is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
The Second Pillar of SEO: Relevance
Making your webpages relevant for specific search terms is about more than just optimising title tags and body content. Barry Adams looks at some advanced aspects of on-page SEO.
Post from Barry Adams
Non-Linking URLs Seen As Links
Are non-linking URLs (pasted URLs) seen as links by Google? There’s long been chatter and rumor that they do among various members of the SEO community. I found something the other day that seems to confirm this. Google Webmaster Tools Crawl Errors I keep a close eye on the Crawl Errors report in Google Webmaster […]
Non-Linking URLs Seen As Links is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
The CMS SEO Requirements Checklist – 2015 Edition
If your business migrating to a new CMS? It’s key to assess and take into consideration the different elements that will need to be optimized during an SEO process when choosing a CMS -beyond those related to the required web publishing functionality.
Post from Aleyda Solis
Answers and Apps: Trends at SMX West
SMX West 2015 was held in San Jose at the beginning of March. Kate Morris attended and shares the key lessons and trends she picked up from the event.
Post from Kate Morris
SEO-friendly exit intent pop-up plugin for WordPress
If you are a WordPress site owner, designer, or developer looking to maximize the number of leads from your website using pop-ups, this plugin is for you.
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Google Panda – Notes On Making High Quality Websites in 2015
I write about my understanding about research I do. I cross reference that with observations I see (mostly looking at google.co.uk). I write it on my blog. People feed back. I learn and I keep notes… and the cycle continues. These notes are largely about dealing with Google Panda and Improving User Experience and what you […]
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Duplicate Content SEO Advice From Google
Pages fare a better chance of getting top rankings in Google when they are original content, but you can use near duplicate content as a ranking strategy.
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Aggregating Intent
Successful search engine optimization strategies must aggregate intent. This is something I touched on in my What Is SEO post and also demonstrated in my Rich Snippets Algorithm piece. But I want to talk about it in depth because it’s that important. Aggregating Intent Many of Google’s Knowledge Cards aggregate intent. Here’s the Knowledge Card […]
Aggregating Intent is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
SEO Forecasting: How the SEO Professionals Feel
SEO Professionals talk about their thoughts around SEO Forecasting: is it worth it? Is it important enough?
Post from Kirsty Hulse
How 3rd Party CDNs Can Block GoogleBot
You shouldn’t block Googlebots’s access to your CSS or JS files. We’ve known that for a long time, but more recently we’ve had reminders from around the community and Google themselves because of algorithm updates and proposed changes to the way mobile sites might be ranked in mobile search. Some of us might be assuming […]
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Bing Webmaster Tools: Security, Widgets and Messages
Compared to the first three sections, the last three are relatively small. In this final post in our series on Bing Webmaster Tools we will go over Security, Malware and Messages and share our findings. Security Making sure your website is secure is of course really important. We have already emphasized this on our page on WordPress security,…
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Forecasting for SEO: Often Inaccurate but Crucial for Investments
It turns out Forecasting for SEO is time consuming and often inaccurate. However, SEO’s do spend a lot of time on it, because Forecasting appears to be crucial to increase investment.
Post from Kirsty Hulse
Bing Webmaster Tools: Diagnostics & Tools
Bing Webmaster Tools provides a number of tools to analyze your website. Somehow, they managed to squeeze these into one page in Bing Webmaster Tools as the dashboard page for the section Diagnostics & Tools. Fortunately, all tools also have a separate page… In this post, we will go over all tools and tell you how…
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Data driven SEO: getting detailed insights by using Free Tools
Small or big SEO projects, all will benefit from a structured approach. Build a data dashboard and get insights by using a few free tools, Jan-Willem shows us how.
Post from Jan-Willem Bobbink
Is Google’s Panda Algorithm Creating An Endangered Species?
Occasionally, I find myself connecting with random memories from my childhood that have no reason standing out in my brain. Coincidentally, I remember a movie I saw at age 9 titled The Amazing Panda Adventure. It was a terribly acted family movie where a young American boy visits China and winds up helping his father (who is a zoologist) rescue a panda cub from (and I’m quoting IMDB here) “unscrupulous poachers and saves a panda reserve from officious bureaucrats.” It seems almost fitting that Google would choose “Panda” as a naming convention for an algorithm through which I’ve found some well-intentioned websites get caught in the bear trap of Google’s algorithmic penalty box.…
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