Our authors’ take on 2021 | Google Search Central Blog | Google Developers
Friday, December 31, 2021 It’s that time of year again: writing a blogpost about what happened during the year, and the aspirations for the year to come. Since writing is…
66 Content Marketing Statistics for 2022
According to a recent study, only 10% of marketers don’t use content marketing (spoiler alert). So for the remaining majority of marketers, and perhaps the unconvinced minority, we’ve curated, vetted,…
Here’s How Meta Is Changing Facebook Ads Targeting For 2022
January 19 – save the date! Meta has announced that audience targeting changes are coming to Facebook ad campaigns. In response to industry pressure, Facebook parent brand Meta is holding…
Seven Benefits of Chatbots to Your Site’s SEO and User Experience
Chatbots are for websites what marketing is for brands – absolutely essential. Research shows that chatbot adoption as a brand communication channel has risen by a whopping 92 percent since…
Google Algorithm Update Recalibrates Local Search
At the beginning of December, Google rolled out an algorithm update that is proving to be the most significant update to local search in several years. The search giant confirmed…
How to Achieve Product-Market Fit (5 Steps)
Startups experience a never-ending stream of problems and challenges. Survival in such a scenario is an art of choosing between what to focus on, put on hold, or simply ignore.…
Google On How To Improve SEO Audits
Google’s Martin Splitt offers advice on how to improve SEO audits in a way that makes them more useful to web developers. A number of tips are shared in the…
Hit Me With Your Best Blogs: The Top 25 Moz Blogs of 2021
2021 was a big year for Moz: we joined the Ziff Davis family, held our second all-virtual MozCon, added a technical SEO certification to Moz Academy, released new and improved…
How To Identify & Eliminate Keyword Cannibalization To Boost Your SEO
Do you have multiple pages on your website ranking for the same keyword? That may sound like a good thing. After all, the more pages you have in search results,…
How Good Web Design Can Improve SEO Performance
There are over 1.5 billion websites across the internet, and even the most active web user has hardly heard of any of them. Most of them are simply too difficult…
17 Actionable Content Marketing Tips for 2022
Just can’t get your content marketing program to work? Fret not. Here’s a list of 17 tips that’ll improve your content marketing and help you get more visitors, leads, and…
Top 42 Tips To Master A Combined Art
True digital success – for search engine rankings, user experience, and the brand overall, whether personal or business – occurs when the art of SEO and the art of writing…
How Page Load Speed Affects Site Visibility and Tips To Increase It
Are you just focusing on the “tangible” aspects of your search engine optimization (SEO) strategy, such as your keywords and page design? What about your page loading time? Did you…
Google December Product Reviews Update Affects More Than English Language Sites?
Google’s Product Reviews update was announced to be rolling out to the English language. No mention was made as to if or when it would roll out to other languages.…
Local SEO Statistics that Tell Our Industry’s Story
The author’s views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. What a gift it is that…
How To Use Header Tags: SEO Best Practices
Header tags are still a strong signal for SEO. Google’s John Mueller said it himself: “hen it comes to text on a page, a heading is a really strong signal…
12 Headline Writing Tips To Drive Traffic & Clicks
Picture this: You’ve spent hours researching and writing a phenomenal article. Obviously, you want people to read the article since you worked so hard to create it. But here’s the…
Track Santa With Google & NORAD Santa Tracker Apps
Track Santa’s location this Christmas Eve with the Google & NORAD Santa tracker apps, which are now live worldwide. Simply type “Where’s Santa?” into the address bar and you can…
How To Create Awesome Meta Descriptions
Meta descriptions have always been an essential optimization. Even though they do not help rankings, they do help with other goals such as improving click-through rates by tempting people to…
How To Optimize For Google Featured Snippets: A 12-step Guide
Editor’s note: As 2021 winds down, we’re celebrating with a 12 Days of Christmas Countdown of the most popular, helpful expert articles on Search Engine Journal this year. This collection…
Google Page Speed Insights Overhaul SEO Overview
Google‘s Recent Page Speed Insights Interface Overhaul Users of Google’s PageSpeed Insights didn’t always understand the context of the data they were presented with. If you’re new to search engine…
Google Loses Top Domain Spot To TikTok
Google is no longer the world’s most popular domain after being dethroned by TikTok, according to rankings from web security company Cloudflare. The list of most popular domains is part…
8 Useful Python Libraries for SEO & How To Use Them
Editor’s note: As 2021 winds down, we’re celebrating with a 12 Days of Christmas Countdown of the most popular, helpful expert articles on Search Engine Journal this year. This collection…
DuckDuckGo To Release Desktop Version Of Mobile App
DuckDuckGo is working on a desktop version of its mobile app, which offers a private browsing experience that’s said to be faster than Google Chrome. It’s not a “privacy browser,”…
Title Tag Optimization: A Complete How-to Guide
High level SEO strategy is important. So are the details. The title tag is just one of many on-page elements we focus on when optimizing pages and content. Optimizing it…
4 SEO Strategies To Implement for Your Business Website
One of the most efficient ways to gain online traction for your website is search engine optimization (SEO). But here’s the tricky bit: You have to utilize it correctly to…
Updated WordPress Plugin Offers 100+ Free Templates
The makers of the popular Astra WordPress theme announced an update to their Starter Templates plugin. Starter Templates 3.0 features a redesigned interface that makes it easier to create a…
Give Your Business the Edge It Needs With Expert SEO
It’s nearly 2022 – and if you’re still wondering about whether search engine optimization (SEO) is for you or not, you may well have missed the boat. SEO has never…
How To Boost Your On-Page SEO
Never in the history of the internet have users so strongly craved reliability in the information they consume – whether that information comes from journalists, authors, politicians, or businesses. In…
3 Effective Ways to Quickly Identify Your SaaS Brand’s Top SEO Competitors
The author’s views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. There are over 22,600 software-as-a-service (SaaS)…