A fast website is a crucial part of improving your SEO rank ; however, guides will oftentimes give generalized statements of optimization and what it can do for your website, or go in-depth into more technical aspects that might overwhelm some users. In this article, you will be prov…
Enterprise SEO platform vendors offer numerous capabilities. These range from keyword research and rank-tracking to backlink analysis and acquisition, as well as competitive intelligence and content optimization. Most of the vendors profiled in Enterprise SEO Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide o…
Think about this for a moment: almost 40% of the world’s population, over 2.96 billion people, consider themselves gamers. Since the dawn of Atari in the 1970s, the industry has boomed—it’s now larger than the movie and music industries combined—and is expected to be worth $321 billion …
When many of us think of algorithms and machine learning models , we think of Google. And really, who can blame us? We’re marketers, and many of us SEOs. We can’t help ourselves. But there is a lot going on in and out of the Googleplex right now, and it’s becoming increasingly important…
Imagine you’re on vacation, it’s approaching noon and you’re starting to feel hungry. You’re eager to enjoy the best local cuisine your destination has to offer. So you go to Google Maps and search for “best lunch restaurant near me”, a topic that’s more than doubled in search volume on Google in t…
Google’s helpful content update has finished rolling out, and while it didn’t create the impact many anticipated , it’s certainly turned our attention to reviewing and improving content. What we have determined is that Google is making more steps toward serving content written for people, by …
Google’s focus on optimizing for the user never goes away, which is why its continual updates are always targeted at both SEO and content best practices. These can range from core algorithmic changes and new features and products. For example, this can include SERP format changes and new rank…
Google is testing a new feature that places a large and smaller star next to the search result snippet. When you click on the star icons, you are presented with a box beneath that search result snippet that shows a “more like this” section. This was spotted by Daniela Cano from Amsive Digital …
It’s the biggest mystery and controversy of Google’s search ranking algorithm. For a long time, the SEO community has debated: is the click-through rate (“CTR”) of search results listings a ranking factor? Or the closely related “bounce rate” and “dwell time”? I present to you everything Goog…
Google said when it comes to your cookie consent banners, make sure not to make those banners annoying. John Mueller of Google was asked, “does cookie consent banner disturb user experience?” John implied it only does when the banner is annoying. So as long as you implement a cookie consent ba…
