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 […]

In response to a thread on Reddit, Google Search Advocate John Mueller says there’s no inherent SEO advantage to using WordPress compared to coding a website yourself. A thread in the r/SEO forum asks a familiar question many practitioners run into in their careers. Is WordPress better for SEO than […]

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that can take directions and accomplish tasks like writing essays. There are numerous issues to understand before making a decision on how to use it for content and SEO. The quality of ChatGPT content is astounding, so the idea of using it for SEO […]

Google officially launched 24 years ago in 1998. A lot has changed since then, but one thing remains the same. If you simply focus on the basics, you can still be highly successful online. Of course, the basics in 2022 are much different from the basics in 1998. It’s easy […]

The future looks bright for in-house SEO professionals, despite coming out of a long period of uncertainty with frequent algorithm changes and layoffs. Recent trends show that businesses are increasingly looking to integrate SEO into their broader marketing efforts, and in-house SEO pros are commanding competitive salaries. But that doesn’t […]

Wix is announcing new SEO settings that provide 100% control of critical technical SEO data at the page level in one place. This update gives SEOs and businesses the option to custom craft technical SEO related factors like structured data on a page by page level from one single settings […]

A title is a reader’s first point of contact on a search engine result page (SERP) to a brand or site. But how important is it for SEO? I’ve always known that optimizing your titles is essential, but there’s more to it. For example, an SEO title can be the […]

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 […]