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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…

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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…

Writing is already hard enough, but writing with the goal of ranking in Google requires even more strategic planning. Successful SEO copywriters consider what users want, and how search engines…

Maybe you’ve heard of Cloudflare in your SEO wanderings. But even among those familiar with the name, many don’t know know how it really works. Some think that the platform…

As marketers, we sometimes get so caught up in attracting new customers that we lose sight of what’s right in front of us – an existing customer base that’s already…

LinkedIn reports attendance for its virtual live events are up 231% year-over-year. Building on this success, LinkedIn is launching audio-only live events. The increase in attendance correlates with an increase…

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Google Autocomplete is a controversial but powerful search feature. When you type a word, or even a letter, into Google, it populates a list of search suggestions. That’s what autocomplete…

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According to the Content Marketing Institute’s Video & Visual Storytelling Survey, 83% of marketers say video has become more important in the last two years. Videos were always a powerful…

A publisher whose content was copied by thousands of sites had them removed from Google through the DMCA process. The person asked Google’s John Mueller if the uniqueness of the…

SEO and UX practices have helped to build a solid website foundation for search engine marketing. By adding web accessibility criteria to your requirements, a new layer of human experience…

Yoast SEO is partnering with Wincher to offer users the ability to track keyword ranking positions for their WordPress pages. Keyword position tracking will be available to both free and…

Announcements about core algorithm updates are unlikely to get more detailed in the future, as Google says it can’t provide specific information. Google has the details internally, but it can’t…

With so many SEO needs demanding your attention, what should you focus on? Find out which strategies will help you dominate the SERPs and earn more revenue in 2022. Miranda…

Today’s Ask an SEO question comes from Sophia in Australia, who asks: “Is it better to run a blog that links back to your company website for SEO, or have…

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is not for the faint of heart. It’s tough to produce website experiences that deliver results consistently. It’s essential, though. You’ve invested a lot of resources,…

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Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller advises that the nofollow link attribute isn’t a substitute for the noindex directive. Googlebot is capable of can finding and indexing nofollowed links. So it…

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