The Best Tools To Get Page Speed Insights
You don’t need to be a technical whizz-kid to use available page speed tools to find out how fast your website pages load is. You only have to have tried to load a slow website once on your Internet travels to know that you have no patience…
How to Build a Website From Scratch: A Step-by-step Guide For Beginners
Are you wondering about how to create a website from the ground up? Creating your own website isn't as difficult as it might seem but where do you start? 1st on the List offers this beginner’s guide on how to build a website from scratch.…
Top 5 SEO Hacks For Beginners
Full disclosure: SEO is not just for experts. Presenting our top 5 SEO hacks for beginners, to get you seen by Google, other search engines, and your customers. Yes, SEO can be big and overwhelming. Yes, there are some very technical elements…
What are the SEO Impacts of Switching to HTTPS
You already know the importance of converting your website from HTTP to HTTPS, and why it matters. We’ve told you. Google has told you. Your tech guys have told you. Your content marketing/social media/SEO team has told you. Probably even…
How to Choose the Right Keywords for Your Blog Posts
So, you’ve taken our advice and have decided to start blogging but are you targeting the right blog keywords? Blogging is good for SEO, and good SEO is good for business. Yay you. That was the easy part. Now you have to actually write said…
Converting HTTP to HTTPS
We cannot overstate it enough: converting HTTP to HTTPS is absolutely necessary...if you haven’t converted your website as yet, now’s the time. Do you leave your home unlocked all day, every day? Do you leave the keys to your car in the…
Top Tools for SEO Competitor Analysis in 2019 to Strengthen Your SEO Performance
When last did you conduct an SEO competitor analysis? Just as we thought... When it comes to competition in business, there are two ways of thinking. Rationale 1: “A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just…
How 301 Redirects Affect SEO Performance (Plus Best Practices for 301 Redirects)
404: bad. 301: good. Bigger isn’t always better, and definitely not when it comes to SEO and these two numbers. In case you’re wondering, we’re talking about 404 errors and 301 redirects. While that first sentence (the one about…
What is HTTPS Everywhere and Why It Matters to Your Website's Security
Encrypt your online communications with HTTPS Everywhere. HTTPS and SSL – two sets of letters that you’ve probably heard a lot about, even if you don’t know what they mean. Essentially, they boil down to a technical signal that your…
Purpose & Importance of an SEO Website Technical Audit
Why is an SEO Website Technical Audit Important? An SEO website technical audit is akin to doing a regular check-up on your website. It helps you determine what’s working, what needs improvement, and where any critical fixes might be necessary.…
New Study Finds Average Load Time for a Mobile Page is 22 Seconds
What We Can Learn from New Mobile Page Speed Insights Mobile benchmarks are changing rapidly. According to an article on Think With Google titled Find Out How You Stack Up To New Industry Benchmarks for Mobile Page Speed, the average loading…
7 Reasons Internal Link Structure of Your Website Matters for SEO
What kind of tools do you give your website visitors to find more relevant information on your website other than the first page they land on? Are the Search Engines finding every page on your website and understanding how your pages are related? Internal…
