Can you imagine the hassle of finding an electrician if every Google search returned global SEO results? How many pages of search results would you have to comb through to find a beautician in your neighborhood? On the other hand, think of how inefficient your digital marketing strategy would be […]

Today’s Ask An SEO question comes from Peter, who asks: “What’s the risk of focusing on what competitors are doing, as opposed to charting your own path? If all competitors are looking at each other, there’s no differentiators.” Great question, Peter! And one that comes up a lot. If a […]

So, you want to implement JavaScript redirects, but you’re unsure how they work? Yes, they are more challenging to implement than standard redirects. Ideally, you should use 301s, 302s, or 307-based redirects for implementation. This is the usual best practice. But…what if you don’t have that level of access? What […]

Demonstrating first-hand experience is more important than ever for Google Search rankings. Updates to the search quality rater guidelines list the criteria Google looks for. Google is upgrading the concept of E-A-T with an additional ‘E’ for experience. The new E-E-A-T acronym stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness. Google’s […]

You might have detected a great opportunity based on a fair amount of traffic to your site from a specific country. Perhaps a PR campaign went viral, and now users worldwide look for your product, creating a constant demand for it.  Whatever the reason, an expansion, a new product launch […]

Google not only changes how it presents information to users and updates algorithms, but the way users search is also changing. SEO best practices are changing every year, so it’s best to keep up with what it means to properly optimize a website today. Signals Of Authenticity And Usefulness Google […]

Earlier this year at SMX Advanced, I presented results from our Peak Ace test lab. These tests shed some light on several technical implementation points and how Googlebot would deal with them.  One of my favorite tests examined Google’s indexing of iFramed URLs and their content. In my SMX Advanced […]

A lot of SEOs focus on the pages Google has indexed versus the pages Google has not indexed on your website. So if there is a larger percentage of not indexed pages, they get concerned. Should they be concerned? Well, like anything in SEO, it depends. John Mueller of Google […]