OptinMonster Vulnerability Affects +1 Million Sites
WordPress security researchers reported that a flaw in the OptinMonster WordPress plugin was found to allow hackers to upload malicious scripts to attack site visitors and lead to full site…
Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
Giving customers and prospects a way to reach you by phone or email is just good business. It enables people to get in touch and ask questions, raise any concerns…
Title Tags are a Tiny Ranking Factor
Google’s John Mueller, in a YouTube Office-hours hangout, answered a question regarding title tags and search rankings. He addressed whether title tag rewriting impacts rankings and also what effect adding…
How to Fix Google Title Tag Rewrites
In an Office-hours hangout Google’s John Mueller answered the question of what algorithm factors are used to decide title tag rewrites. Mueller offered suggestions for a proactive approach for dealing…
Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
Unless you’re lucky enough to register a domain name no one has thought of before, chances are a domain registered today will have a history attached to it. Is there…
PPC And Digital Marketing Nightmares You Won’t Soon Forget
Happy Halloween mad PPC scientists and marketing mavens! From campaigns that hit you like sharks in a tornado to ads that rise from the dead, this year, digital marketing can…
LinkedIn Adds New Features To Help Companies Attract Talent
LinkedIn is adding new features to company pages to improve internal communication, attract new talent, and gain insight on competitors. We’re in the most competitive hiring market on record. What…
WordPress Facebook Feed Plugin Vulnerability Exposes 200,000+ Websites
Smash Balloon Social Post Feed, a WordPress plugin, was discovered to have a vulnerability that exposed the websites to allowing an attacker to upload malicious scripts. Security researchers at Jetpack…
Does URL Length Affect SEO?
Does Google prefer shorter URLs over longer URLs? That’s an SEO myth that won’t go away. Here’s when URL length matters and when it doesn’t. URL length is the topic…
Do Google Lighthouse Scores Affect SEO?
Google Lighthouse is the top recommended tool for measuring Core Web Vitals and other performance metrics. So it must affect SEO, right? Wrong. If the questions asked by SEOs are…
Google Changes More Structured Data Requirements
Google announced a change to several structured data types. This change affects the requirements for the HowTo, QAPage and the SpecialAnnouncement structured data. The guidance didn’t come with examples, which…
26 Common SEO Myths, Debunked
SEO is renowned for misinformation, misunderstandings, and misconceptions. This is in no small part due to Google being somewhat of a black box in order to try and limit the…
Vulnerabilities Are Not an SEO Issue… Until You Get Hacked
Google’s John Mueller answered a question in the SEO Office-hours hangout about whether a security vulnerability had any effect on SEO. He said technically it’s not an SEO issue. But…
Google Priority Hints – More Firepower to Support Core Web Vitals
In Mid-June, Google began rolling out Core Web Vitals as part of its Page Experience update. Page Experience is aimed at improving the user experience according to three metrics –…
19 SEO Horror Stories That Will Scare the Hell Out of You
Hello SERP sorcerers, tech SEO specialists, and link building extraordinaires! It’s almost Halloween, and we didn’t want it to pass by without sharing some spooky stories. But not just any…
The Ultimate Google Ads Pacing Dashboard (Free Data Studio Template)
As paid search managers, sometimes we don’t have all the tools we need to do our job. Even simple tasks like Google Ads pacing can be much harder than they…
SEO and Temporarily Out-of-Stock Product Pages
Google’s John Mueller answered an Office-hours hangout question about what to do about web pages for products that are temporarily out of stock. The person asking the question wanted to…
Must-Have Anti-Fraud Features To Protect Your Ad Campaigns [Checklist]
This post was sponsored by Adex. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Did you know that bots can gulp a significant part of your advertising budget?…
YouTube SEO Guide To Rank Your Video Higher on SERPs
Are you struggling to get more views and subscribers on your YouTube channel? If so, here is the complete, step-by-step tutorial on how to do YouTube SEO the right way.…
How 3 Different Enterprise SaaS Content Strategies Work (With Examples)
SaaS is a fantastic niche that allows for a lot of creativity and testing when it comes to content creation in SEO. This is because of how different user journeys…
Did Facebook Change Its Name? Yes, It’s Now “Meta”
What started in a college dorm is set to transcend the physical world, as a new direction for Facebook begins today with an unexpected name change. The company formerly known…
7 Best Alternatives To Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin
The Yoast SEO WordPress plugin is certainly a popular and good option for numerous reasons. Even so, it has plenty of viable alternatives you might not know as much about.…
Site Quality Can Cause Loss of Rich Results
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about a site that lost it’s rich results display and wanted to know why Google took them away and if the rich results would…
180+ Terms and Definitions You Should Know
You’ve probably noticed that there’s a lot of jargon and abbreviations in SEO. So we curated and categorized all the important SEO terms and their definitions below. Click to find…
BigCommerce SEO Features & Tips for Ecommerce Success
Online shopping and ecommerce adoption picked up major speed throughout the pandemic. Both online selling opportunities and competition are greater than ever before. And making sure you’re using the best…
Top Technical SEO Tips & Tools
Have you checked your website’s health lately? Your website might look great on the outside, but have you checked deeper? A healthy website is more than just a good-looking site.…
WordPress, Drupal, Duda or Wix?
HTTPArchive published real-world statistics of Core Web Vitals performance of major CMS platforms that showed many open source and commercial platforms making gains in Core Web Vitals performance. The most…
How To Optimize Your PPC Workflow
This post was sponsored by Adzooma. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Managing paid campaigns is a lot like driving a car: starts off overwhelming, but…
The Ultimate Guide to Digital Marketing
Do you want to reach your customers online? Digital marketing enables you to deliver marketing messaging to your ideal customers on a variety of platforms online. In this guide, we’re…
Instagram Lets Everyone Share Links In Stories
All Instagram accounts can now share links in stories, a feature that was previously reserved for verified and high-follower accounts. This marks the first time that link sharing on Instagram…