So what comes first, the chicken or the egg? Links continue to be an important organic search ranking factor. However, Google frowns on “link building” and states that the best way to build links is to create great content. If you build it, they will come. But how will they find you if you don’t ..
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Google has a compare feature in the Search Console performance report. This compare feature seems to allow you to compare by query or pages across clicks, impressions and other metrics. It turns out this is not new, it has been around for a while and I had some brain fog. I have updated the story ..
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, is now trending at below 100 million searches per day according to its public traffic statistics page. Back in January 2021, DuckDuckGo hit the 100 million searches per day milestone and then a year after that, the search engine broke 1 billion searches. Declining daily searches. But since April 2022, ..
Google changed how it is displaying errors within some of the Search Console reports to show only valid or invalid classifications, the company announced today. Instead of the coverage report showing errors, valid with warnings and valid; now the report just shows invalid or valid information. What changed. Google said the URLs or items in ..
Day 1 of SMX Advanced 2022 opened today with a keynote by Jaimie Clark, VP of SEO at Centerfield. It was packed full of insights around creating authoritative content that Google ranks and searchers need. The Wirecutter migration: SEO + content + rebrand Before Clark joined Centerfield, she worked at the New York Times. In ..
For so many reasons it can be tempting to stop doing SEO for a period of time – maybe it’s budget, maybe you’ve had a bad experience with your SEO vendor or maybe you’re not seeing the results you thought you’d see. When that happens, should you take a break from SEO? And if you ..
When it comes to topics like crawl budget, the historic rhetoric has always been that it’s a problem reserved for large websites (classified by Google as 1-million-plus webpages) and medium-sized websites with high content change frequency. In recent months, however, crawling and indexing have become more common topics on the SEO forums and in questions ..
Google Search Console will sunset the old legacy version of messaging starting on August 1, 2022. If you try to access the legacy version of the Search Console message panel, you will be presented with a notice that reads “Important: This report won’t be available after Aug 1, 2022. Please use the new Message panel ..
If your WordPress site rank is not performing as expected, all hope is not lost. There are a couple of things you can do to improve your SEO ranking. The seven methods outlined below are quick, simple, and proven to show results. 1. Make sure HTTPS is enabled Using an SSL certificate to secure your ..
Twitter has removed the nofollow link attribute from Twitter posts, tweets, in its source code. It is unclear if Twitter removed this attribute on purpose or not and if even search engines, like Google, would value links from Twitter or not. Timing. According to Chris Silver Smith, Twitter removed the nofollow link attribute sometime in ..
