Gather ‘Round the Campfire for the MozCon 2022 Day Three Recap!
If Camp MozCon has to come to an end, we wanted to send it off with a bang. After all, we have to get through the next 364 days before…
Why Having A User-First Approach to SEO Is Important
In the search engine optimization business, we spend so much time thinking about Google algorithms, sitemaps, and backlinks that we sometimes lose sight of the primary goal: providing useful information…
Top 5 Chinese Search Engines & How They Work
In 2021, China surpassed one billion internet users, making it the biggest online market in the world. But as global businesses seek to gain a foothold in this rapidly growing…
Tips For Writing Social Media Interaction Posts That Get Noticed
Hate it or love it, social media is an unavoidable part of online marketing. With an effective social media strategy, brands can bring in new customers, nurture trust with their…
How To Use Instagram for SEO Competitor Analysis
Your business competitors aren’t the only ones providing the same products or services that you do. For example, you have search engine optimization (SEO) competitors, who may not necessarily be…
How to Value Your Website’s Worth (Better Than a Calculator)
If you’re considering selling your website, you need to know how much your website’s worth. While there are many website value calculators out there, most of them are inaccurate at…
A 6-Step Guide on How to Get SEO Clients
Whether you’re an established SEO agency or a freelancer just starting out, leads are the lifeblood of your business. To generate new, relevant leads and clients, you need a system…
What Is Puffery & How It Affects Your Brand Reputation
As marketers, we’re tasked to create awareness, demand, and authority for the brands we represent. We want users to think we’re the best in the business. Some common ways we…
Google Brings Optimization Score To Performance Max Campaigns
Google is rolling out six new features for Performance Max campaigns, including the long-awaited optimization score. Advertisers now have a quick and easy way to identify areas for improvement before…
5 Ways To Check If Google Analytics Is Working
Google Analytics is a marketer’s lifeline in understanding performance and making decisions based on website or app usage data. In my decade-plus of working with clients, around half of the…
Ready for S’more? The MozCon 2022 Day Two Recap
Day two of Camp MozCon was everything we expected it to be: more networking, more marshmallows, and more brilliant presentations from the top minds in the industry. Speakers covered the…
Must Have Plugins for a WordPress Website
WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS) used by millions of website owners. The plugins available for WordPress make it a compelling platform, and many website owners find that…
Does The CMS Matter For Search Rankings?
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller answers whether there’s an SEO advantage to choosing one type of content management system (CMS) over another. This question is addressed in the latest installment…
A Comprehensive Checklist for Conducting a Content Audit
Conducting a content audit can be a challenging and arduous process. However, identifying the problems with your website’s existing content can help you improve future content creation and help you…
YouTube Answers Questions About Community Guidelines Appeals
YouTube demystifies the community guidelines appeal process in a new video answering commonly asked questions from creators. A product manager at YouTube clears up misunderstandings about who reviews an appeal,…
The Top 8 Heatmap Software Options Compared
Knowing how visitors are engaging with your website can provide your brand with invaluable insights. Are users finding what they’re looking for right away? Where and what are they clicking?…
WordPress 6.0.1 Maintenance Update Released With Multiple Bug Fixes
WordPress 6.0.1 maintenance release is now available, which comes with dozens of bug fixes and is recommended for keeping your site running optimally. WordPress 6.0.1 Maintenance Release WordPress periodically releases…
Welcome, Happy Campers! The MozCon 2022 Day One Recap
Today, after three years, we gathered some of our best friends in the industry to kick off the biggest SEO party of the year in Seattle. That’s right, Camp MozCon…
Free Google AI Image Analysis Tool
Google offers an AI image classification tool that analyzes images to classify the content and assign labels to them. The tool is intended as a demonstration of Google Vision, which…
Will Linking To HTTP Pages Impact SEO?
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller provided an interesting answer as to whether there was an SEO downside from linking to insecure HTTP web pages. One would think that linking to…
Mobile Speed: Why It Matters in SEO and Customer Retention
The purpose of a search engine is to help you find what you are looking for and serve the best content that applies to your needs. Google has been catching…
10 Best Sitemap Generators For Faster, More Productive Crawls
Sitemaps are a powerful tool for SEO pros and webmasters. They help Google and other search engines navigate through a website and find new pages and content. It’s not guaranteed…
What’s the Impact So Far?
Google releases one or two changes to its algorithms daily; most of them are not noticeable. And a few times a year, Google will officially announce a “core update.” A…
5 Simple E-commerce Link Building Tactics
Link building for e-commerce sites is hard. There just aren’t that many obvious opportunities to get links to product and category pages. But luckily, there are some. And there are…
Increase Your Visibility With Real Estate Content Marketing [Ebook]
Almost every real estate purchase begins online. But the journey from browsing to buying is long, difficult, and emotional. Content is your key to staying at the top of potential…
Google Search Console Video Indexing Report Now Available
Google is adding a new report to Search Console that will help you understand how your videos perform in search results. Previewed in May at Google I/O, the Video Indexing…
Twitter Now Lets You Remove Unwanted Mentions
Twitter allows people to untag themselves from tweets with a new feature called unmentioning. Unmentioning allows people to remove themselves from a conversation they don’t want to be associated with.…
Google Proposes Splitting Ad-Tech Business To Prevent Antitrust Suit
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google has proposed separating parts of its ad-tech business to prevent an antitrust lawsuit by the U.S. Justice Department. Google proposes restructuring the company’s…
Any Risk In Deleting A Disavow File?
Google’s John Mueller answered whether it’s okay to delete a disavow file since Google is so good at not counting the average junk links that sites acquire typically, through no…
Announcing the new Search Console Video index report | Google Search Central Blog | Google Developers
Monday, July 11, 2022 Video creation and consumption on the web continues to grow, and Google Search indexes videos from millions of different sites, so people can easily discover and…