Every website on the Internet, no matter how small or large, is under some form of attack by a user-generated content spammer or a spambot. Increasingly, many of the attacks…

This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from Mike in Columbus, who writes: “Let’s say I do some keyword research and find a really strong search volume around some keywords…

Local SEO can be a winner for so many types of businesses. Whether you have a brick-and-mortar or a service-based business, you know that many of your potential customers will…

Meta is doubling down on Facebook Reels as a competitor for the hugely popular TikTok by expanding the program to more than 150 countries and adding editing and monetization properties.…

Google Ads is updating its Destination requirements policy in March 2022 to improve clarity for advertisers. The changes being made will not impact the current policies. Changes to the Destination…

Weebly is a website builder you can use to create your site, blog, or even an online store. Founded in 2007, it was acquired by Square in 2018 and is…

The secrets behind the Google algorithm and its ranking factors have been the subject of heated debate for almost a quarter of a century. For most of that time, the…

As the most visible component of Google’s search results pages (SERPs), page titles are thought to carry significant weight as a ranking factor. Is it possible to overvalue the impact…

With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability to order online has become an essential feature for every webpage and business listing. Pre-pandemic, the primary goal of local search…

“Is this a good click-through rate?” “Why is our cost per conversion high? Is this in line with our competitors?” “What’s a good conversion rate?” How many times do you…

Are you finding it more challenging to attract new customers lately? There are so many opportunities in ecommerce, but so much new competition. Large ecommerce sites, however, continue to thrive…

Google’s John Mueller was asked if “unlinked brand mentions” were important in Google’s algorithm. It was apparent from John’s response that “brand mentions” is probably not a real thing in…

Microsoft Bing announced that the popular WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math is integrating the IndexNow instant indexing protocol. A publisher doesn’t even need to have an API key or a…

Video spam hasn’t been a big problem since the early days of YouTube, but the advent of live shopping on what has now become the number one streaming platform for…

Popular WordPress plugin Rank Math now supports IndexNow for faster website indexing and ranking. Website owners and SEO experts spend time and money in creating content, product descriptions, and other…

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…