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Local businesses that want more traffic from search must improve their local rankings. But can prominence, distance, and relevance affect your organic search rankings? Read on to learn whether there…

John Mueller answered a question about why a site that ranked for one keyword phrase didn’t rank for what they said was a synonym for the same phrase. John answered…

Reconsideration requests are indirectly related to search rankings, as they’re an essential step in the process of recovering from a Google manual penalty. They make the difference between a site…

There are multiple ways to redirect a webpage or an entire website, the two main ways being either a 301 or 302 HTTP response code. Choosing the right one for…

Over the last few years, Google has made several changes to the way their crawlers understand how content answers queries. Most recently, those changes have included more algorithm updates that…

Google’s John Mueller received feedback about a bug in how Search Console validates rich results. Google will drop images from rich results because of an error in how a CDN…

One of the first questions a lot of businesses have about local SEO is: Do I really need it? And I get it. You’re busy – your time, budget, and…

This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from Renee in Iowa, who writes: “I read somewhere that you should submit your sitemap every month. When you provide an XML URL,…

Does Twitter have an engagement problem? A new study from Pew Research Center finds 49% of US adults on Twitter qualify as “lurkers.” Pew Research Center defines lurkers as infrequent…

A new tool from LinkedIn allows you to find the top skills employers want candidates to have for almost any job position. In addition, if there’s a skill you need…

Content marketing is tough to get right, but once you do, the results can be incredible – especially for ecommerce brands. More traffic from Google? Check. More leads? Check. More…

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…

In-page tabs and accordions are a type of user interface (UI) control that can improve the user’s experience by splitting content into logical sections. Page visitors are then able to…

Subdomains and subdirectories allow you to organize specific types of content on your website. But can the use of subdomains or subdirectories affect your organic search rankings? Read on to…

As the web grows, more and more enterprises are now looking to SEO to help provide insights into how users interact with search engines and how they (and other sites)…

Can’t seem to find the PPC answer you’re looking for? Let Search Engine Journal help you! Getting to know PPC takes time and effort. Our industry is constantly evolving, and…

Google is getting ready to sunset Universal Analytics, which was the standard version of Google Analytics before GA4, in mid-2023. To be exact – July 1, 2023 is the date…

Every business out there wants to attract more online visibility – especially on Google. How can you get in front of just the right people in local search listings and…

Google’s John Mueller recently answered the question of whether internal links in the footer or header are used differently by Google. Google’s John Mueller gave an explanation of the slight…

Google search ranking factors can gain and lose prominence over time. A factor that carried a lot of weight with Google years ago may not carry much at all in…

Cloudflare announced that they are offering a Web Application Firewall (WAF) free of charge to subscribers on the free plan. The WAF will provide access to the WAF user interface…

Does syndicated content affect organic search rankings? In some cases, syndicated content is viewed as spam. In others, it can outrank the original content. And yet syndication is a widely…