What makes up authoritative content?

If you purport to be an expert site, then you’d better make sure you have experts writing for you. Even if you’re site is an entertainment site or fashion blog. Many SEO experts agree that a website's inbound links will be crucial this year, with many contending that …

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Track Desktop and Mobile Analytics and Metrics Separately

There are hundreds of different ranking factors that search engines, like Google, consider as part of their algorithm when deciding what results to return for a given search query. It is better to create a content that is user-friendly than exhaustive. Content should be easy and simple to read. The …

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Refocus your marketing message on problems, not solutions

Search traffic is among the best quality available on the Web, primarily because a search user has expressed a specific goal through her query, and when this matches a product or brand the web store carries, conversion rates are often extremely high Stick to these good practices and you’ll …

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The myth of free and fast traffic

For some businesses a point in the right direction is all that is needed, for others that have had an audit carried out they may just need keeping on-track. Dependant on your requirements this can range from analysis of your site and advice given over the telephone to a visit …

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Leverage the work your competitors have already done in link building

Search engine guidelines help us distinguish truly useful content from content that was created for the sake of earning traffic from search engines. When a Website is downgraded by search algorithms, penalized by spam teams, or deindexed completely, a good question to ask is which pages on the site are …

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Focus on conversions, not rankings

Are you worried that your aesthetically appealing website is not getting you the right amount of traffic? Does it bother you that all the money you spent on developing a very creative website is going waste. Is your online business so vast that you are having trouble maintaining your site …

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Claim and finetune your Google My Business listing

Search engines typically assume that the more popular a site, page, or document, the more valuable the information it contains must be. t’s not necessarily bad to optimize for traffic, it depends on your goals; if you’re in e-commerce or a service based business it is more valuable …

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Social shares play a huge role in content trustfulness

Being aware of how SERPs work, having an understanding of user intent, utilizing Google’s AMP, designing a responsive site as well as tracking the analytics of your desktop and mobile sites separately are great ways to begin or better your mobile strategy. If a site, or specific page, has …

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Arm yourselves with an SEO strategy

Take a look at which sites are currently winning the front page for the phrase you are hoping to win. Then, go ahead and link to a few of them within your own content. It can be within the body of the text, or you can include a few links …

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More Targeted And Relevant Traffic

Many people fixate on "on-page SEO" in their marketing efforts. They make sure their keywords are jammed in the copy and the internal links and silos are set up correctly. For a typical WordPress site this might take an hour or two to knock out the easy stuff. Google cares …

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Moms use search engines twice as much as non-moms

To prevent users from linking to one version of a URL and others linking to a different version (this could split the reputation of that content between the URLs), focus on using and referring to one URL in the structure and internal linking of your pages. If you do find …

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Google recommends quality content

Each year more than 2.8 trillion search queries are made on Google alone. This means that Google answers more than 88,700 searches worldwide per second.i In other words: Every second that your website is not indexed on Google, you miss out on hundreds, if not thousands, of …

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Page load time

SEO ranking improves when visitors stay on your site longer, view more pages, and repeat their visits. The more user-friendly your site is, the more likely this is going to happen. If the content isn’t right, it’ll be hard to promote it effectively. It’s like creating a …

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Rate of new link growth may signal freshness

Make sure that your website’s main menu only features the most important categories. If you want people to link to you, make it easy for them. Create HTML ready snippets that people can plug right into their content to link to you, because some linkers in your community might …

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Add valuable insight

External optimization involves optimizing your content not only for search engines, but for tons of other referral sources, too. Republishing, repurposing, and distributing your content all fall within external optimization. SEO doesn’t have to be especially difficult, but it does need to be well-planned and given plenty of attention …

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The most important part of SEO is link building

Google reported an incredible hike of the key search term ‘near me’ in recent years, showing that customers are specifically looking for local sellers. When it comes to commercial search terms, winning the ‘near me’ battle could bring you a ton of relevant traffic. With the vastly reduced price of …

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Keyword driven anchor text reigns supreme

Structured data, sometimes referred to as schema markup, are codes which are added to websites to provide search engines with in-depth information about your products, your business offering, prices of your products, location-based offerings and much more. Enter one of your keywords into the search box of the search engine …

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SEO is Seriously Effortful Optimization

Many beginner bloggers and webmasters think that they need to churn out lots of content on a regular basis. But the truth is that quality will always trump quantity. With so many people using smartphones and tablet for their Internet search, it is imperative that you have a plan ready …

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The most time consuming aspect is checking statistics

Getting backlinks are important but if you get a ton of useless backlinks from irrelevant spammy sites or use “link software” then you’re doomed. In short, success in SEO marketing lies in adhering to good practice and avoiding silly mistakes. How do your competitors rank? Pick out a keyword …

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Carve out time for updating and improving older SEO content

Think of yourself as an asset portfolio manager, because that’s what you are. In the same way fund managers need to analyze company financial data and operational performance before making investment decisions, you need to analyze your SEO competitors to inform your investment decisions. Increasing your search visibility is …

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What online marketing tools do you use?

What SEO practitioners are missing is the fact that a highly-ranking search result that does not engage offers no value. Your users need the structure to navigate through your site, to click from one page to the other. And Google uses the structure of your site in order to determine …

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We're searching in different ways already

Keyword research should be the starting point for any SEO campaign. Why? Because if you don’t know what people are actually searching for in your niche, you’ll be relying on luck—rather than data—to guide your decisions. The search engines continuously invest in improving their ability to …

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Monitor the evolution of your rankings

Yes, "content is king" – but that's only half the story. Imagine if Wikipedia, one of the world's most popular sites, offered no more than huge blocks of text, or if Google cluttered its search interface with distracting graphics. It's unlikely that either site would have become as successful as they …

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