Google Says Fixing Headings Won’t Change Rankings
Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about heading elements, confirming a slight impact but downplaying its significance, saying a lot about how Google uses headings. Hierarchical Heading Structure…
SEO In The Age Of AI: Build AI Best Practices
For better or worse, AI has become a dominant force in SEO. SEO professionals have been grappling with AI for years in Google’s algorithms, but the technology has moved to…
9 Tips To Optimize Crawl Budget for SEO
Crawl budget is a vital SEO concept for large websites with millions of pages or medium-sized websites with a few thousand pages that change daily. An example of a website…
7 Strategies to Lower Cost-Per-Lead
SEO for personal injury law firms is notorious for how expensive and competitive it can be. Even with paid ads, it’s common for every click from the ad to your…
Meta Announces Updates To Business Tools Affecting Advertisers
Meta is restricting data access in its Business Tools. Custom audiences and ad sets may be affected or paused. Advertisers need to adapt their tracking and reporting strategies. Meta has…
Reddit’s Strategy To Attract Advertisers: Interest-Based Targeting
As Reddit continues investing in its advertising platform, marketers and business owners can expect new ways to reach engaged audiences across various topics and communities. In a recent episode of…
The 25 Biggest Traffic Losers in SaaS
We analyzed the organic traffic growth of 1,600 SaaS companies to discover the SEO strategies that work best in 2024… …and those that work the worst. In this article, we’re…
Google Ads To Phase Out Enhanced CPC Bidding Strategy
Google has announced plans to discontinue its Enhanced Cost-Per-Click (eCPC) bidding strategy for search and display ad campaigns. This change, set to roll out in stages over the coming months,…
8 Out Of 10 TikTok Videos By Brands Fail To Capture Attention
Despite TikTok’s increasing importance to marketers, the majority of brands are not getting it right, and their videos on the social media platform are under-performing. According to new research, 84%…
7 Common Mistakes New Independent SEO Consultants Make (And How To Avoid Them)
Many SEO pros dream of going solo, especially early in their careers. It’s tempting, right? More money, freedom, flexibility, and growth opportunities. But here’s the deal: Just deciding to go…
Google’s Guidance About The Recent Ranking Update
Google’s Danny Sullivan explained the recent update, addressing site recoveries and cautioning against making radical changes to improve rankings. He also offered advice for publishes whose rankings didn’t improve after…
Plot Up To Five Metrics At Once
Google has rolled out changes to Analytics, adding features to help you make more sense of your data. The update brings several key improvements: You can now compare up to…
Mediavine Bans Publisher For Overuse Of AI-Generated Content
According to details surfacing online, ad management firm Mediavine is terminating publishers’ accounts for overusing AI. Mediavine is a leading ad management company providing products and services to help website…
Shopify SEO – How to Optimize Your Shopify Site for Google
Shopify has become a leading platform in the ecommerce world, with over a million businesses using it to reach their customers. Notable brands like Netflix Merch Shop, Gymshark, and Kylie…
Google Users Warned Of Surging Malvertising Campaigns
Cybersecurity researchers are warning people over a troubling rise in “malvertising”—the use of online ads to deploy malware, phishing scams, and other attacks. A report from Malwarebytes found that malvertising…
Top 10 Affiliate Marketing Platforms To Maximize Sales In 2024
Affiliate marketing has been experiencing explosive growth in recent years, so it’s essential now more than ever for brands to run affiliate programs of their own. It involves brands hiring…
Why Google Indexes Blocked Web Pages
Google’s John Mueller answered a question about why Google indexes pages that are disallowed from crawling by robots.txt and why the it’s safe to ignore the related Search Console reports…
Turn Marketing Into Meaningful Relationships — Whiteboard Friday
Now, in terms of the channels that you can go through, and I will acknowledge I’m paid. So a lot of this is paid-specific, but there is some organic pieces…
11 HTML Attributes You Need To Know For SEO
HTML is a markup language that forms the basis of most webpages. It is arguably one of the most fundamental parts of technical SEO. Using HTML elements, SEO professionals are…
It’s Time To Spring Forward In The Media And Marketing Industries
This morning, The Outlook Study: August Update has been released by the IAB as an update to their initial November 2023 study and provides a snapshot of projected ad spend,…
Google May Unify Schema Markup & Merchant Center Feed Data
Google revealed it’s working to bridge the gap between two key product data sources that power its shopping results – website markup using schema.org structured data and product feeds submitted…
New LiteSpeed Cache Vulnerability Puts 6 Million Sites at Risk
Another vulnerability was discovered in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin—an Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation that could lead to a total site takeover. Unfortunately, updating to the latest version of the plugin…
Early Analysis & User Feedback
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has introduced a prototype of SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine. The launch has sparked considerable interest, leading to discussions about its potential to compete with…
How to Adapt to the New Era of Search
Last month, I bought a laser cutter. If you’ve been in my shoes, you know that one does not simply Google “best laser cutters” and then buy the one most…
How To Create High-Quality Content
SEO success depends on providing high-quality content to your audiences. The big question is: What exactly does “high quality” mean? Content has many meanings. In digital marketing, it simply means…
Google Confirms It’s Okay To Ignore Spam Scores
Google’s John Mueller answered a Reddit question about how to lower a website’s spam score. His answer reflected an important insight about third-party spam scores and their relation to how…
The Helpful Content Update Was Not What You Think
Google has long been a little bit cryptic about major algorithm updates. Way back in 2011, with the launch of the first Panda update, Google said: “This update is designed…
Survey Shows Ecommerce Strategies For 2024 Holiday Season
WooCommerce survey offers insights into the strategies that online retailers are using to prepare for Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BFCM) and why it’s important to be proactive. Online Sales…
WordPress Just Locked Down Security For All Plugins & Themes
WordPress announced a major clampdown to protect its theme and plugin ecosystem from password insecurity. These improvements follow a flurry of attacks in June that compromised multiple plugins at the…
How New Chrome AI Feature Challenges SEO To Evolve
A Google Chrome Engineer published a LinkedIn post outlining the new Chrome AI History feature and the signals it uses to surface previously visited sites. The post illustrates that natural…