Bing Webmaster Tools: Configure My Site
We recently did a series about Google Webmaster Tools. So we thought it was time to do a series about Bing Webmaster Tools as well. Bing isn’t that big in The Netherlands, or Europe, for that matter, but it still holds some ground in the US. The most important reason, however, is we think Bing Webmaster…
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How To Use Social Link Intersect for Quick Linkbuilding Wins
Earlier this month I gave a presentation on Quick Wins for SEO at Friends of Search in Amsterdam. One of the tips that seemed to go down the best was based on my comments about the Moz “Link Intersect” tool. I’ve been a fan of that idea for a long time. Link intersect analysis is […]
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SEO Security, Threat Intelligence, and Competition
I was reading about a security course over at Black Hat when it dawned on me… this is just like SEO. The US Special Operations Forces pioneered a methodology called F3EAD, which enabled amongst other things the ability to take out insurgent and terrorist networks. Acronyms aside… F3EAD sure sounds cool. And “taking out” insurgents […]
Google to Acknowledge Mobile Friendly Factors in New Algorithm Update
A new post from www.davidnaylor.co.uk. BAZINGA!
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Use hreflang for multilingual websites
The hreflang tag is used to tell Google and other search engines the language used on a specific page on your website. Search engines use the hreflang tag to ‘redirect’ the visitor to the page in the right language. Hreflang is also referred to as rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x”. When I was discussing post subjects with our site…
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Introducing crawlbin – A Service for Testing SEO Directives and HTTP Responses
Towards the end of last year, I joined Tom Anthony in the R&D division at Distilled (you can read more about that here).
Photography SEO
Have you read my post on image SEO? On that post, I got this comment from Jerry, a professional photographer: In galleries, do you have any suggestions about what the ALT text should look like? The main concern is that we don’t want to be perceived as keyword spamming; using the same keyword in all the…
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7 Lessons Learned From 7 Years in SEO
The search industry moves very quickly – many things change but much stays the same too. Jo Turnbull tells about her 7 years in SEO and what she’s learned.
Post from Jo Turnbull
The First Pillar of SEO: Technology
The technical foundation of SEO starts with ensuring your site can be fully crawled by search engines. Barry Adams explains how he approaches this aspect.
Post from Barry Adams
Friday Commentary: Why jumping on „SEO trends“ is a bad idea!
There is so much advice and trends in SEO. Should you jump on it? Or maybe not? Bastian Grimm argues the latter in the latest Friday Commentary.
Post from Bastian Grimm
rel=canonical • What it is and how (not) to use it
In February 2009, six years to the day from when this is published, Google, Bing and Yahoo! introduced the rel=canonical link element (Matt’s post is probably the easiest reading). While the idea is simple, the specifics of how to use it turn out to be complex. The basic premise is: if you have several similar…
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Quick Tips to Format Data to Make your Data Sets Flexible
If you want to analyze or manipulate data, you have to save it in a format that you can easily retrieve. So I want to go over a few best practices for saving data so that it can effectively be used in the future.
Google Webmaster Tools: Crawl
The section in Google Webmaster Tools that works most closely with our WordPress SEO Premium plugin, is the Crawl section. In our premium plugin, you’ll find a Webmaster Tools section, that lists all pages Google somehow did not find on your website. You can easily import these into the plugin and redirect the ones that…
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Replacing Links as a SEO Reporting Metric
Many SEO agencies and freelancers are measured by the number of links they build for clients. Kate Morris thinks this is wrong and gives alternative metrics.
Post from Kate Morris
Link Removals – Gathering & Cleaning The Data
A new post from www.davidnaylor.co.uk. BAZINGA!
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WordPress robots.txt Example
The robots.txt file is a very powerful file if you’re working on a site’s SEO, but one that also has to be used with care. It allows you to deny search engines access to certain files and folders, but that’s very often not what you want to do. Over the years, especially Google changed a lot in how…
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Low Effort, Big Return Marketing: Quick Wins for SEO
They say the smallest things can make a difference, and I don’t doubt that for a second. A passion for search engine optimisation is borne from a love of teasing out each and every possible performance gain on a site. That simple truth has kept me addicted to SEO for over a decade. Marginal Gains: […]
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Brand Social Media Profiles In Google’s Knowledge Graph
Brand Social Media Profiles In Google’s Knowledge Graph: How To Get There & What It Means for Marketers
If you’ve Googled some of your favorite brands lately, you may have noticed something new showing up in the results pages. As of early this year, Google has included brands’ social profiles outside of Google+ within the knowledge graph.…
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Google Webmaster Tools: Google Index
This is already the third post in our Google Webmaster Tools series. Last week we’ve written about the Search Appearance section and the Search Traffic section of Google Webmaster Tools. So if you jumped in here, and want to start at the beginning, please read those posts first. Today we’ll be going into the Google…
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Our second eBook: Content SEO
After we released our first eBook, we felt we were missing one piece of the SEO puzzle too much. While a lot of the blog posts we write about SEO here at Yoast are technical, content SEO has always been at the core of what we do. We just never told that story very well. This time, Marieke…
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