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Direct Traffic: Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
Whether Google factors direct traffic into your search rankings has been a hotly debated topic over the years. Where do we land on it?
Shopify & Fast Simon: An Ecommerce SEO Case Study
See a Fast Simon for Shopify integration in action and the SEO team’s tips for handling challenges in rendering, crawling, and pagination.
Google Best Practices Page For Embedded Videos Updated
Google updated their Best Practices Page for Videos with new suggestion that helps get “maximum exposure” from hosted or embedded videos
How To Maximize Your Reach Using Google’s Knowledge Graph
Google’s Knowledge Graph is an important element of Search. Here’s what it is and how to use it to drive more visitors to your website.
How Can We Outrank Negative Content About Our Company On Google?
When negative content ranks in the SERPs, the first reaction is to try to remove it. How can you outrank the offending webpages?
Does Comprehensive Content Build Trust?
Google’s John Mueller talks about the best way to write content and advises what to avoid
WordPress Plugin OptinMonster Vulnerability Affects +1 Million Sites
WordPress Plugin OptinMonster Vulnerability exposes publishers to full site takeover and threat of malicious downloads
Google Shares Tips For Optimizing Job Postings
Google says businesses are missing opportunities when it comes to optimizing job postings, and offers tips for how to improve them.
Google Enhances Search Results For “Deals” Queries
Google is now showing a new set of search results when people look for deals. All products with a “deals” badge are eligible to appear.
Can Pro-Privacy Search Engines Replace Google?
Digital privacy is increasingly important, making non-Google, privacy-focused search engines more viable. Here’s why it matters to marketers.
Why (& How) Topic Clusters Are Your Most Powerful SEO Weapon
Topic clusters show Google that a website has lots of useful content and is relevant to a specific subject. Here’s how they work.
Content As A Google Ranking Factor: What You Need To Know
Sure, content is King – but is it actually a ranking factor in Google’s search algorithms? See how content impacts your SEO.
Title Tags are a Tiny Ranking Factor
Google’s John Mueller explains the status of title tags as a ranking factor and whether company name in titles has an impact
How to Fix Google Title Tag Rewrites
Google’s John Mueller suggested steps to take to fix title tags so that Google stops rewriting them
Contact Information: Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
Does contact information – or a lack thereof – affect your Google search rankings? See what the experts have to say about it.
WordPress Facebook Feed Plugin Vulnerability Exposes 200,000+ Websites
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed WordPress plugin vulnerability exposes over 200,000 websites to Stored XSS vulnerability
Do Google Lighthouse Scores Affect SEO?
Google Lighthouse is the top recommended tool for measuring Core Web Vitals and other performance metrics. So it must affect SEO, right? Wrong.
SEO Horror Stories That Will Scare The Hell Out Of You
Ghostly appearances in the SERPs, website necromancy, mysterious strategies no one can quite figure out…This year’s Halloween SEJ Special has it all.
Vulnerabilities Are Not an SEO Issue… Until You Get Hacked
Vulnerabilities are technically not SEO problems until the site is hacked and then it’s an SEO problem
Google Changes More Structured Data Requirements
Google updated the requirements for the HowTo, QAPage and SpecialAnnouncement structured data. The changes make the structured data simpler
SEO and Temporarily Out-of-Stock Product Pages
Google’s John Mueller shared four tips for dealing with pages for products that are temporarily out of stock
Does URL Length Affect SEO?
Does Google prefer shorter URLs over longer URLs? That’s an SEO myth that won’t go away. Here’s when URL length matters and when it doesn’t.
BigCommerce SEO Features & Tips for Ecommerce Success
The BigCommerce ecommerce platform comes with decent out-of-the-box SEO features. Here’s how to use them and what else you can do.
Google: Site Quality Can Cause Loss of Rich Results
Google’s John Mueller explains that site quality can affect whether or not Google shows rich results from a site
7 Best Alternatives To Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin
Need a better alternative to the Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress? We analyzed similar SEO plugins and found 7 great options.
Website Health Check: Top Technical SEO Tips & Tools
Get expert tips on how you can place your website at the top of the search engine rankings beyond the standard SEO tactics.
Core Web Vitals Winner: WordPress, Drupal, Duda or Wix?
The Core Web Vitals Technology Report shows which web publishing platform offers the best Core Web Vitals performance
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Google Ranking Factors: Fact vs. Fiction [Podcast]
Google ranking factors are a hot topic in the SEO industry. We’re talking about a few key ranking factors and what it means for you.
5 Holiday Internet Marketing Tactics to Start Right Now
Are you ready for the holidays? Get some final, last-minute SEO and SEM strategies in place to make the most of the 2021 holiday season.
10 News SEO Tips from The New York Times’ Christine Liang
Christine Liang from The New York Times shares the latest tips and strategies for optimizing news for search – from NESS 2021.