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Wish your product listings could rank better on search engines? Feel like your success is as limited as your crawl budget? Effectively ranking thousands of products, hundreds of categories, and…
Google addresses the subject of robots.txt files and whether it’s a good SEO practice to keep them within a reasonable size. This topic is discussed by Google’s Search Advocate John…
Judging by efforts both official and experimental, Google seems to be placing increased emphasis on local search. We have seen indications of this emphasis in different ways in our own…
HTTP status codes are server responses to client (typically browser) requests. The status codes are found in the server response. They include a three-digit number and usually have a description…
Google published a new video about site migrations. John Mueller offered insights into how Google handles website migrations and how long they can take. The major takeaways are that site…
Google provides detailed advice for websites that need to target multiple locations, such as a business with offices in different states. This topic is discussed during the Google Search Central…
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. Way back in April 2021, I…
Today’s Ask an SEO question comes from David in Craughwell, Ireland, who asks: “When checking my and my competitor backlink profiles, I come across many links from firebaseapp.com and web.app…
As the ball dropped in Times Square at midnight on January 1, 2022, many search engine marketers were tempted to check their analytics and rankings. It appears that Google has…
“To get a higher ranking, you need to build links.” We’re sure you’ve heard experts making this recommendation. And it’s 100 percent effective if you do it right, but not…
Opt-in or opt-out? Do sales increase if you present customers with a list of upsells to choose from? If you make customers opt-out or deselect items, will you decrease buyer…
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller explains how the search engine uses synonyms and whether there’s a human component to it. Mueller discusses this topic when addressing a question submitted to…
Branded content is a term that is thrown around quite a lot in marketing circles, but many people struggle to understand what it actually means. It’s likely that you’ve come…
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Amazon Attribution and Amazon Brand Referral Bonus programs and are wondering how they can help build your business. As the cost per click (CPC) on…
Google Search Console has a new report dedicated to evaluating Page Experience criteria on the desktop versions of webpages. This report can help you prepare for the launch of the…
Third-party cookies are on their way out, but the deep-data connection to your future audience isn’t gone for good. A blessing in disguise, the shift to first-party data allows you…
When Google announces a broad core algorithm update, many SEO professionals find themselves asking what exactly changed (besides their rankings). Google’s acknowledgment of core updates is always vague and doesn’t…
Instagram Reels allows you to create and share TikTok-like videos of up to 60-seconds in length. Unlike Instagram Stories, Reels are featured permanently on your Instagram profile and don’t disappear…
Not finding much value in KPIs and metrics? Skipping measurements because they take too much time? What if you could make smarter decisions and identify issues before they harm your…
DuckDuckGo celebrates a milestone of 100 billion total searches, but the search engine’s year-over-year growth is slowing down. In an announcement on Twitter, DuckDuckGo highlights the fact it hit 100…
In local SEO, a citation is a mention of key business information – your name, address, and phone number (NAP) – anywhere else on the web. Local citations might appear…
Quickly gaining a lot of links from other sites sounds like it should be a positive thing for any website. But could it actually hurt, rather than help, your rankings?…
Google admits its help documents aren’t always up to date and says it’s worthwhile doing your own research on recommended best practices. This topic is discussed during the latest episode…
Sometime in December, SEO experts started noticing that Google was low-key testing out a new feature inside its search box. It’s an expanded version of the box that we’re calling…
Internal and external links have a significant role to play in guiding website visitors to the answers they seek about your products and services. Each link should lead your audience…
One component of a successful digital marketing strategy is your social media presence. If you need numbers to prove the value of social media marketing, you’ve come to the right…
Considering a career in SEO? The sheer volume of information out there can be intimidating when you’re just getting started in SEO. We asked industry experts to share their advice…
Microsoft is making the IndexNow protocol easier to implement by ensuring submitted URLs are simultaneously shared between search engines. IndexNow launched in October 2021 as solution to help websites get…
IndexNow is a protocol developed by Microsoft Bing and adopted by Yandex that enables webmasters and SEO pros to easily notify search engines when a webpage has been updated via…
It probably feels as if you need tens of marketing tools to get a complete picture of the competitor landscape. I’ve certainly tried too many of them throughout my career.…