How to Use Google Search Console for SEO Like a Pro
Why is Google Search Console important?
“The best place to hide a dead body is on the second page of Google Search.”
We’re not entirely sure who said this famous quote first. Not even Google could tell us. What we are sure of is:
(a)…
Google Data Changes Clarified in Recent Statement
Recent Google data changes in the query reports obtained through the Google Search Console (GSC) has caused a lot of headaches for website owners. Google has taken note of the confusion and recently issued a statement in an effort to clarify…
How Long Does It Take to Rank in Google Infographic
How Soon Will Google Rank My Website
The usual answer to this burning question is ‘it depends’. Luckily, thanks to a study from marketing data company Ahrefs, we finally have a more concrete answer.
In order to determine the average…
Can Grammar Issues Eliminate Featured Snippets in Google Search?
Recently Britney Muller of Moz Blog indicated in a brief article titled Does Google Drop Featured Snippets Over Typos? on the Search Engine RoundTable site that a simple typographical error was the probable cause behind Moz losing a featured…
Understanding Crawl Budgets and How to Increase Your Website Crawl Budget with Google
Google admitted in their Webmaster Central Blog on January 16, 2017, that they don’t have an official “crawl budget definition”, indicating that a single term would not suffice. They went on to indicate that they would clarify what they…
SEO Voice Search
There has been a lot of discussion in the past few years about SEO voice search and how it has been changing SEO in many ways. I tend to agree. I also suggest that the acoustic nature of voice search will hasten the development of new ways…
Your Guide to the Google Interstitial Ads Penalty Update
We’ve all seen them. The annoying popup ad layered over the page of a website which prevents us from reading the content after we’ve followed a link on our mobile device.
Google has decided that these interstitial mobile ads are intruding…
Voice Activated SEO Strategy for Google Home Device
Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by Google Assistant. You can ask it questions or tell it to do things, much like the Google Search function on your computer or phone, but in a hands free speaker version.
As Google’s entry…
3 Ways Featured Snippets in Search Can Boost Your Website Traffic
Those rectangular boxes are at the top of a search engine results (SERP) page are called Featured Snippets. How can you get your website's information to appear in them. To get your website to appear there you need to have the most relevant…
Google Mobile Search Algorithm to Update May 2016
https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly?utm_source=mft&utm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=mft-redirectOver the years we have talked quite about Mobile Search here on our blog including this post about the Google Mobile Update on…
What is the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project and Why Is It All the Rage in the SEO Community?
Clunky. Slow. Frustrating.
These are the exact mobile web browsing issues that the Google-led Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project has worked rapidly in the last three and a half months to solve once and for all.
Rising to the challenge…
SEO News and Google Updates – September 2015
Here’s what’s making news in the SEO community in the last several weeks.
Google Says HTTPS Sites May Get Ranking Boost
In a hangout this month between Bruce Clay and Gary Illyes of Google, Illyes reconfirmed that Google’s HTTPS ranking…