Keeping up with Google’s ever-changing algorithm updates on WordPress blogs requires constant monitoring and adjustments, which many webmasters fail to keep up with. Following the Penguin algorithm update, millions of bloggers experienced a halt or decrease in traffic. Although keeping up with industry trends does require frequent updates to continue performing well in search, most …
Whether you let your domain expire, server crashed or got penalized for breaking Google’s webmaster quality guidelines, having your website de-indexed is a serious issue. Once the damage has been done and the site has been completely de-indexed, webmasters are left wondering how to recover from such a catastrophe. Getting de-indexed is not a death …
With SES Chicago just around the corner, many of you, out-of-towners, may be wondering where the best food in Chicago can be found. Aside from being a fellow Internet marketer, I am also a food blogger from the rough and tough South side of Chicago, so I thought I would point out some great restaurants …
One question on the mind of many SEO professionals and bloggers is whether or not to NoIndex archive taxonomies in content management systems. Many content management systems have taxonomies for author archives, date archives, categories, and tags. WordPress is the most popular CMS and blogging platform in the world. While it is great out-of-the-box, it …
WordPress Single Post Microdata Markup from Straight North’s Blog SEJ recently published a best practices article authored by me about e-commerce microdata, but what about non-ecommerce sites? Unless your agency specializes in e-commerce, most of your clients most likely will be B2B companies. Numerous elements can be marked up on B2B corporate sites to improve …
SEO for e-commerce sites is like playing on a teeter-totter with all the kids at the playground, and search engines are the fulcrum. Whether the site is geared toward lead generation or B2C sales, the goal of most e-commerce SEO campaigns is to stomp the competition in organic search rankings. Emerging technologies have brought forth …
Does your client speak a very specialized technical language? Don’t despair. Here are step you can take to find even very esoteric keywords that work.
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Why Optimize Videos on YouTube? With the explosion of computer technology, the Internet has become the primary source from which the average Joe receives news. Good, old-fashioned newspapers and television as information sources are nearly extinct. Reading articles online wasn’t enough for Joe, so he moved on to a more entertaining, mobile method. Now he …
