Last-minute SEO for the holidays
Put off your 2016 holiday SEO strategy until now? While it may be too late to capture those big-budget keywords, columnist Dave Davies shows that there are still some tactics you can use to gain some SEO traction this holiday season.
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Ready for Black Friday 2016? 3 critical e-commerce SEO configurations that help you avoid common issues
Columnist Aleyda Solis lays out critical tips for configuring your e-commerce website for SEO success this holiday season.
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5 steps to optimizing your site for Google’s mobile-first index
Now that Google is officially testing a mobile-first index, columnist Ryan Shelley believes it’s well past time to get aboard the mobile-friendly train. Here, he provides some tips to get you started.
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Common Search: The open source project bringing back PageRank
Columnist JR Oakes explains Common Search, a great open source tool for understanding how search engines work, which has a hidden gem for those of us who miss checking our PageRank score.
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For e-commerce success: SEO > aesthetics
For those in the online retail space, columnist Julian Connors shares his advice for making your e-commerce website SEO-friendly.
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Successful SEO programs require content that supports the entire buy cycle
Columnist Joe Goers argues that many websites are focusing too much on the bottom of the funnel — to the detriment of their SEO success.
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Opinion: Google is biased toward reputation-damaging content
Why does reputation-damaging content seem to appear so quickly in Google’s search results? Columnist Chris Silver Smith outlines his theory on why Google’s algorithm can give negative content greater ranking ability than it deserves.
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8 ways SEO has changed in the past 10 years
How has the search landscape changed over the last decade? Columnist Jayson DeMers explores the biggest shake-ups over the last 10 years and their impact on search engine optimization (SEO).
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SMX East 2016: Satisfying The Need For Speed
Columnist Eric Enge recaps a session at SMX East on the impact of page speed on SEO, presented by former Google Search Quality team member Fili Wiese.
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Micro-moments and beyond: Understanding and optimizing for consumer intent
Want to reach search engine users in their moments of need? Columnist Thomas Stern explains his process for mapping keywords and content to the customer’s path to purchase.
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It’s scary how many ways SEO can go wrong
In search engine optimization, sometimes even small errors can have a large and costly impact. Columnist Patrick Stox shares his SEO horror stories so that you can be spared this fate.
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A Penguin’s Tale: Responding to the latest update
What should SEOs do to make the best of the new Penguin update? Perhaps not much. Columnist Dave Davies notes that while Penguin 4.0 was indeed significant, things ultimately haven’t changed that much.
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Google’s virtual game changer: Leveraging 360 VR video & image optimization for SEO
Contributor Brian Ussery notes that as global search interest in VR skyrockets, Google has quietly made 360-degree VR videos and images accessible across devices and optimizable for organic search.
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Long-term SEO: Proving the value now
How can you help clients understand the value of SEO initiatives when the results may take weeks or even months to pan out? Columnist Casie Gillette shares her advice.
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Penguin 4.0: Necessary and positive improvement
Are you excited about the recent Penguin update? You should be! Columnist Andrew Dennis explains why this algorithm adjustment is a boon to webmasters and SEOs.
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SEO on a budget: How a small manufacturer started a program from scratch
Think you don’t have the resources for an effective SEO program? Thank again! Columnist Dianna Huff shares a case study detailing how a small business was able to make big gains with a limited budget.
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13 uses for keyword research to help you win in the search engines
Google may have shifted its focus from keywords to “entities” in recent years, but columnist Stoney deGeyter reminds us that keyword research is still an important and useful part of the SEO process.
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10 reasons why SEO is just like fitness
Like getting in shape, ranking well in search engines takes time. Columnist Kaspar Szymanski explains the similarities to help educate clients and neophytes.
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Connect audience insight to your SEO strategy
Columnist Chris Liversidge believes that audience enrichment data is key to making better optimization decisions and that search marketers should be ready to engage with an audience-led strategy.
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Why crawl budget and URL scheduling might impact rankings in website migrations
You’ve down everything right from an SEO standpoint, but your website has still dropped in rankings following a site migration. What gives? Contributor Dawn Anderson breaks down how Google determines page importance and allots crawl budget.
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