How to safely change themes on your WordPress site
Changing a WordPress theme can be a trivial task, but it requires careful steps if you have a big website and don’t want to take risks. Lucy Barret explains.
Ways to improve your link building
With the right strategy in place, link building can be the perfect way of building strong authority to increase longer term, sustainable organic visibility. With so many different approaches, we take a look at the best ones to improve your site.
Using behavioral design to reduce bounce rate
A good bounce rate is important for online success. By using insights from online user behavior to improve your website design, you can increase engagement, reduce bounce rates and ultimately improve conversion.
How Alexa and Siri are changing SEO: AI and voice search
Alexa, how is AI-assisted voice search changing the SEO landscape? It’s putting more emphasis than ever on conversational content, integration with Google Maps, and dominating the SERPs
Something to hide? The rise of privacy-focused search engines
In this editorial from Marc Smith, founder of Mojeek, argues that alternative, privacy-focused search engines have an opportunity in this post-truth era
Checklist for performing a basic SEO audit
A site’s security is a compulsive factor that determines the ranking of your website. We look at the basic SEO audit checklist and more.
Why AI and international paid media is a match made in hell
AI and machine learning might be slightly overhyped when it comes to digital marketing and paid media.
Laying the foundations of good SEO: the most important tasks (part 2)
It is imperative to lay the foundations of good SEO by accomplishing time-tested tasks that both beginner and advanced SEOs usually follow in their daily routines. Sergey Grybniak shares his SEO priorities.
How to minimize CPU usage in WordPress
We discuss seven tips do minimize CPU usage in Wordpress
Google’s speed update now applies for all users – how does it affect you?
We look at how Google’s speed update affects all users.
Factors that influence your website’s credibility
Your online website is the digital portrayal of your business so it’s important to investigate the factors that give it credibility.
The Transformation of Search Summit: Strategies and tactics to harness the next generation of search marketing
Combining the expertise of Search Engine Watch, ClickZ and Catalyst (part of GroupM), this exclusive one-day event provides a unique view of the transformation of search marketing and the changing role it plays within a customer’s path to purchase.
Emerging technologies present huge opportunity for content marketing
Are marketers stuck in their ways? Why a lack of uptake in emerging trends is good news for the brave.
The SEO challenges of an ecommerce website
For an ecommerce website, it is easy to get things wrong when it comes to SEO.
Audience expansion and discovery: how to get ahead
Sana Ansari discusses some of the ways you can find additional, relevant audiences to push paid social performance and scale.
Artificial intelligence for marketers
In this editorial from Amanda DiSilvestro, she puts the case forward for AI as an essential tool for search marketers.
Keyword stuffing is terrible for your SEO. Here’s what to do instead
Once-upon-a-time, keyword stuffing was a relatively successful SEO strategy. However, today stuffing a keyword into your content too many times can actually knock the stuffing out of your search rankings, or even cause your content to be removed from search listings entirely. Kim Kosaka explains.
How to organize your keyword lists
Keyword research is a fundamental tactic that can completely transform the overall marketing strategies of those who take it seriously. Ann Smarty explains
What to consider when selecting marketing channels
Selecting the marketing channels to use is a complex decision – there’s no one-size-fits-all formula for distributing your product. Whether you’re just getting started or you’ve been in business for a while, it can be difficult to find effective ways to reach your target market.
Gamification: here comes a new challenger
We look at what gamification means for a business and check some of the best examples around.