SEO for eCommerce: How To Choose Keywords for Your Online Store
Searching keywords for eCommerce is a task that goes far beyond using the most popular keyword research tools. In addition to the volume of searches or the competition, you should…
How to Spy on Competitors with Python & Data Studio
Investigating random drops in keyword rankings is just part of the SEO trade. There are so many methods to investigating which targeted keywords may have dropped, but using Python and…
3 Proven Tips For Creating Paid Social Campaigns That Convert
Do you know what makes paid social campaigns effective? Do you know how to identify opportunities for improvement? Whether you’re launching your first campaign or you’re a seasoned PPC professional,…
What You Need to Know
Core Web Vitals measure page experience signals to ensure an engaging user experience for search users. But can Core Web Vitals affect your organic search rankings? Read on to learn…
News Publishers, This Is The Event You’ve Been Waiting For!
This post was sponsored by News & Editorial SEO Summit. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Do you work with publishers, news, and media sites? Are…
How to Make Pinterest Profitable for You [Podcast]
Looking to open or grow new marketing channels for your business? Pinterest is now considered a top search engine as posts can be optimized to drive organic traffic. Lindsay Shearer,…
Automatic Clarity Integration Coming to Microsoft Advertising Accounts
Microsoft Clarity integration with Microsoft Advertising is now available to users as part of a pilot program, and most existing Universal Event Tracking (UET) tags will be updated to the…
It’s Still Essential to Have Friends in IT
To succeed in Enterprise SEO, you need a team. You’ll deal with multiple stakeholders and groups – and even though you may be technically proficient yourself, it’s still important to…
IndexNow is Key to Instant Search Engine Indexing
Microsoft announced IndexNow, a major evolution in how all search engines can discover and index content. IndexNow is open source and open to all participating search engines. When content is…
A Technical Guide to Google’s PageSpeed Insights Reports
Nobody likes a slow website. When a webpage takes too long to load, not only does Google take notice but users tend to move on and find another page that…
Google Changes Review Structured Data Requirements
Google updated the requirements for review structured data. Failure to follow Google’s structured data requirements can make a web page ineligible to be shown for a rich result in the…
10-Minute Sales Research with True Competitor
Your sales team has just asked you to hop on a call in 30 minutes with a new prospect, ClowdFyre. Not wanting to sound like an idiot, you pull up…
Competitor Paid Search Analysis: Why Is It So Important? via @sejournal, @SimilarWeb
Need to gain insight into the budgets, keywords, and product ads driving your competitors’ paid search campaigns? Learn a tactical approach here. The post Competitor Paid Search Analysis: Why Is…
Is It a Google Ranking Factor?
One of the longest-running debates in SEO happens to involve the length of content and whether it has an impact on rankings. Word count is said to be a factor…
Is It a Google Ranking Factor?
Is click-through rate a Google ranking factor? Let’s ask Google. Screenshot from Seach for , October 2021 According to this featured snippet, “Google does indeed use organic click-through rate as…
Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2 | Google Search Central Blog
Thursday, September 17, 2020 Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2. Ever since mainstream browsers started supporting the next major revision of HTTP, HTTP/2…
New open source robots.txt projects | Google Search Central Blog
Monday, September 21, 2020 Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems to the open source world. Since then, we’ve seen people…
New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data
Tuesday, September 22, 2020 Quick summary: Starting today, we support shippingDetails schema.org markup as an alternative way for retailers to be eligible for shipping details in Google Search results. Since…
700+ Brands Put On Notice About Misleading Endorsements and Reviews
The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent notices to over 700 companies about fake reviews and misleading endorsements. The notice states that receiving the letter does not suggest that…
The Search Console Training lives on | Google Search Central Blog
Friday, October 02, 2020 In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly. The goal of the series was to create updated video…
How to Create & Optimize Content for Higher Google Rankings
Are you consistently creating content that performs well on Google? Do you want to know if you stand a chance to rank? On September 29, I moderated a sponsored Search…
Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages
Tuesday, October 26, 2020 The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special sales events such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. As…
Should the Product Name be in the Heading?
In a Google’s Office Hours hangout, John Mueller answered a question about how to use heading tags for pages about products. It’s a good question because Google’s own SEO Starter…
Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts
Thursday, November 05, 2020 More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids, and stay in touch with loved ones. Our Google Product…
The ROI of SEO
Search marketers can’t get our important work implemented if we can’t prove that it’s worth the investment to our higher-ups. With that in mind, Moz’s own SEO Manager, Kavi Kardos,…
Big Sites and Website Authority
Google’s John Mueller in an Office-hours hangout answered a question about whether a big a site with thousands of indexed pages influences Google’s perception of site quality. John Mueller answered…
Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Update on August 4, 2021: Clarified that Safe Browsing isn’t used as a ranking signal. Safe Browsing systems continue to play an important role to keep…
The Paid Social Approach That Works for You
Are your paid social campaigns generating the results you want? B2B (and specifically SaaS) brands may not be able to depend on demand alone. So, you have to help generate…
Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 The history behind Google Webmasters Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word “webmaster” was in 1993, years before Google even existed. However, the term…
How Google Responds to a Site Move
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about how Google processes a site move, in particular if the site move might trigger a so-called “sandbox effect.” Mueller responded by providing a…