Franchises, like all local businesses, require local SEO to rank in the search engines and reach new potential customers. That includes SEO best practices such as optimizing the websites of…

Want to increase your business’s content production? If you’ve struggled with finding and retaining reliable writers, the idea of scaling up content production may seem impossible. Good news: scaling content…

The Facebook Ad Library is still stirring up the digital marketing ecosystem. This tool gives marketers free access to “spy” on the ad imagery, headlines, copy, formatting, how long it…

YouTube is working on ways to give creators more data about video performance, including detailed reports aboutthe sources of views and revenue. In addition, YouTube plans to actively assist creators…

Properly diagnosing high bounce rates to identify areas of improvement is a useful way to increase user engagement, improve site rankings, and put more money in your pocket. There are…

Google addresses whether the changing your website hosting provider to one in a new location can impact SEO and search rankings. This topic is addressed in the latest installment of…

Bing announces the All In One SEO Plugin for WordPress supports the IndexNow protocol, which instantly informs search engines of content changes. One of the biggest problems with SEO is…

How did you find your favorite coffee shop, restaurant, or antique shop? Maybe your friends showed it to you. Maybe you just saw a nice sign and came in one…

WordPress security company Wordfence issued an advisory that recommended being vigilant for an increase in hacking activity after Russian attack on Ukraine and offered tips to help prevent becoming a…

Constantly looking for ways to optimize your ad spend? Dreaming of a high-ROI paid advertising future? We’ve got great news — the future is now. Big changes are on the…

Advertisers are now able to optimize their product titles even further in Google Merchant Center. Google recently added a new optional attribute to Merchant Center called “short title”. This update…

Facebook is starting to monetize its reels platform with overlay ads, which gives users another way to monetize their content. Reels monetization will roll out gradually. By mid-March, overlay ads…

BrightEdge, a leader in enterprise organic search and content performance, has acquired Oncrawl “to make data science solutions more accessible to SEO professionals,” according to the company. Oncrawl is a…

For simple user queries, a search engine can reliably find the correct content using keyword matching alone. A “red toaster” query pulls up all of the products with “toaster” in…

Security headers are easily overlooked in website audits. While some may say that website security is not an SEO-related concern, it does become SEO-related when a site becomes hacked and…

Images of flying shrapnel and bursting flames occupy the minds of those familiar with Ford’s Pinto. This tragic public hazard of the ’70s sparked one of the most iconic examples…

The United States Government Vulnerability Database and WordPress security researchers published alerts of WordPress plugin vulnerabilities. Among those plugins, nine of the most popular plugins affect over 1.3 million websites.…

Digital marketers can be our own worst enemies. After years of touting that we can track everything and derive a precise ROAS from digital marketing, the expectation is that we…

Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller explains how websites can optimize content for search results in specific countries by using subdirectories in a strategic way. This topic was discussed during a…

Topic clusters and recommender systems can help SEO experts to build a scalable internal linking architecture. And as we know, internal linking can impact both user experience and search rankings.…

We’ve been talking with search industry pros and innovators about persistent challenges, trending opportunities, and the technologies people and companies are using to stay relevant in competitive search results. One…

Google’s Page Experience algorithm update for desktop search results is now rolling out “slowly,” the company confirms. The update is scheduled to finish rolling out by the end of March.…

While Google and Microsoft Ads have many similarities, Microsoft Ads launched a unique feature to their platform. This feature is not available in Google Ads, giving Microsoft a leg up…

An informal and non-scientific poll on Twitter indicates that most SEOs, by a significantly large margin, ignore spammy links rather than spend time disavowing them. The subsequent comments aligned with…

It’s easy to publish content. It’s a lot harder to publish content that drives ROI and provides value to your target audience. On February 16, I moderated a sponsored webinar…

Security researcher at Automattic discovered a vulnerability affecting popular WordPress backup plugin, UpdraftPlus. The vulnerability allowed hackers to download user names and hashed passwords. Automattic calls it a “severe vulnerability.”…

Google advises the ‘Discovered – Currently not indexed’ status in Search Console’s Index Coverage report can last forever as there’s no guarantee every page on the web gets indexed. This…

Google is capable of crawling webpages that utilize infinite scrolling to a certain extent. Here’s how it works and the impact it has on SEO. This topic was discussed during…

Technical SEO requires technical and analytical skills together with a good understanding of how Google and other search engines work. A technical SEO must be familiar with the most popular…