Vetting Link Prospects: What Matters, and What Doesn’t?
So, you’ve created some great content and you want to promote it…
You’ve read (and bookmarked) our Giant List of Free Influencer Marketing & PR Tools, you’ve spent hours researching as many link opportunities as you can, and now you’ve got a large list of prospects.…
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The Snack Pack: More Than Just a Delicious Lunch Time Treat
It has been a while since Google have turned the dial and shaken things up so drastically in the Local SEO game. The most notable change to local search results since the 2014 Pigeon algorithm update, which aimed to improve local SERPs for users, occurred on the 6th August when Google changed the look of the local pack.
The Snack Pack: More Than Just a Delicious Lunch Time Treat
It has been a while since Google have turned the dial and shaken things up so drastically in the Local SEO game. The most notable change to local search results since the 2014 Pigeon algorithm update, which aimed to improve local SERPs for users, occurred on the 6th August when Google changed the look of the local pack.
4 Things You can do with Screaming Frog that You Couldn’t do a Year Ago
In case you haven’t used it before, Screaming Frog is a web crawler which you can use to crawl a website the way a search engine does.
4 Things You can do with Screaming Frog that You Couldn’t do a Year Ago
In case you haven’t used it before, Screaming Frog is a web crawler which you can use to crawl a website the way a search engine does.
Prerender and You: a Case Study in AJAX Crawlability
The story
This year I had the opportunity to work on an interesting technical SEO project for a client: they had a great web-app that prioritized performance and usability, built entirely with AJAX.
Getting Started with .htaccess: a Guide for SEOs
As an SEO, you’ll almost definitely have strayed upon an Apache configuration or .htaccess file at some point.
CTR Manipulation Myths vs Reality
CTR has been turning into an increasingly more powerful ranking factor in Google over the last few years so naturally, people started trying to gamble it. Consequently, Google started trying to fight the manipulation. Hence, I will try to post …
Bullish on SEO : RankBrain vs. SEOBrain
The battle between RankBrain and SEOBrain is heating up, as Google develops Artificial Intelligence to battle human innovation.
Is Click Through Rate A Ranking Signal?
Are click through rates on search results a ranking signal? The idea is that if the third result on a page is clicked more often than the first that it will, over time, rise to the second or first result. I remember this question being asked numerous times when I was just starting out in the […]
Do You Even Algorithm, Google?
It has been 267 days since the last Panda update. That’s 8 months and 25 days. Where’s My Panda Update? Obviously I’m a bit annoyed that there hasn’t been a Panda update in so long because I have a handful of clients who might (fingers crossed) benefit from having it deployed. They were hit and […]
Search operators
Yes, you want to rank first in Google. And yes, you think you have optimized a site for that. But have you ever been playing with Google to see how your site is doing? Probably not, but let’s do that right now. Have you ever used search operators in your Google queries? Search operators are…
This post first appeared as Search operators on Yoast. Whoopity Doo!
Hobo UK SEO – A Beginner’s Guide PDF (2015)
Download the latest version of our guide to seo in the UK for beginners.
Read the full article here Hobo UK SEO – A Beginner’s Guide PDF (2015)
Smart Alternatives to Dangerous Link Building Strategies
Last December, we wrote about all the things that you should take in account when cleaning up bad backlinks. We asked Christoph at LinkResearchTools to check all of the information in there to make sure we were not missing anything. When going over that post, we felt that we should elaborate on the subject of link building on…
This post first appeared as Smart Alternatives to Dangerous Link Building Strategies on Yoast. Whoopity Doo!
35 Ways To Burn Your Private Network
Private networks (or private blog networks – but they don’t necessarily have to be all blogs) are a great (albeit a bit expensive when done properly) way to take a shortcut on link building efforts if you’re fine with a …
What is SEO and what it is not. A rant
It’s time for a rant in defense of SEO. Too many people talk about what SEO is, without really knowing it. It is time to dot the I’s and cross the T’s. Gianluca Fiorelli shares his view.
Post from Gianluca Fiorelli
Mobile-friendly sites and SEO
Last month, Google actually announced a change in their algorithm before it had already happened. In this post they mention that starting April 21st mobile-friendliness will become a ranking factor more and more. In the past few weeks we’ve been getting quite a few reports from Google Webmaster Tools. Not only did they add a Mobile Usability item under the…
This post first appeared as Mobile-friendly sites and SEO on Yoast. Whoopity Doo!
The Impact of IP Host Location on Your Site SEO
Back in February I contacted WPengine to ask if we could upgrade to PHP 5.5. With WPengine (and the way we’ve set up our DNS) this upgrade involved an IP address change in Builtvisible.com’s a-records. Following this change, I saw a drop in SEO visibility in our UK rankings so, I investigated. Sure enough, Searchmetrics […]
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My Favorite SEO Tool
My favorite SEO tool isn’t an SEO tool at all. Don’t get me wrong, I use and like plenty of great SEO tools. But I realized that I was using this one tool all the time. Chrome Developer Tools how I love thee, let me count the ways. Chrome Developer Tools The one tool I […]
My Favorite SEO Tool is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.
The Second Pillar of SEO: Relevance
Making your webpages relevant for specific search terms is about more than just optimising title tags and body content. Barry Adams looks at some advanced aspects of on-page SEO.
Post from Barry Adams