Five ways to improve your website’s bounce rate (and why you should)

According to Google, 53 percent of mobile site visitors leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load. Five ways to make them stay and convert.

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What will the SERP of tomorrow look like? Four changes to prepare for today

Four predictions on the SERP of tomorrow from the VP of Industry Insights at Yext. What we can expect, and what to do today to prepare.

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How did the 2018 SERP changes impact organic search?

How did the 2018 SERP changes impact organic listings? More importantly, how should you react? The year of updates in review, and tips to respond to each.

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Things that hurt your SEO rankings and how to fix them, part 2

Accessibility and indexation, broken links and bad redirects, not maximizing Google Search Console, and missing / poor meta tags can hurt SEO rankings.

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An updated look at Alpha-Beta in a world of close variants

Google updated their exact match close variants to include implied words, paraphrase words and same-intent keywords. How does this affect Alpha-Beta?

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Why Wikipedia is still visible across Google’s SERPs in 2018

From queries about products and brands to celebrities and topical events, Wikipedia still features heavily across Google searches – even while our habits as search engine users change (with voice and mobile increasingly having an impact), and while Google itself works to make its results more intuitive and full of rich features. How does Wikipedia manage to maintain this visibility in 2018?

Why Wikipedia is still visible across Google’s SERPs in 2018

From queries about products and brands to celebrities and topical events, Wikipedia still features heavily across Google searches – even while our habits as search engine users change (with voice and mobile increasingly having an impact), and while Google itself works to make its results more intuitive and full of rich features. How does Wikipedia manage to maintain this visibility in 2018?

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Four ways to boost SEO in just 5 hours

Good SEO practice is the difference between getting your site ranked as high up the search results and possible, and reducing the chance of a click through to your site. It can be frustrating to spend a great deal of time and effort on SEO and not see the results. Pius Boachie shares some tips you can quickly implement to make a difference.