Traffic generation for a website is easier when you’re targeting the right keywords. Finding the right keywords is always a balancing act of cost versus effectiveness. Clients always want to know how to select the right keywords to maximize traffic while limiting their cost. Optimizing for click-through rate (CTR) varies depending on whether you’re focusing […]
I used to be someone who dutifully entered everything into Google’s search box when I needed information. However, I’m using my smartphone more and more to execute voice searches. It turns out I’m not alone. According to Comsource, 50% of all searches will be by voice by the year 2020. More voice searches means that more […]
There are always going to be those who try to look for the easy way out. The ones who try to find every shortcut and get it to work in their favor. We’ve seen this a lot in the business world when it comes to SEO: People want to find that magic element that will […]
What makes a site technically perfect? Well, there are plenty of things that factor into this. Some people say that technical SEO is dead or that it’s cosmetic at best. Ultimately, though, it’s been brought back to life with great examples of SEO techniques that earned major boosts in traffic. The problem, however, might lie in […]
People live in an era where it is possible to use several options to access information and make critical buying decisions online. Most of these options are constantly changing day in day out. Therefore, it is important for businesses to keep up with these changes. In 2016, we saw a lot of changes in SEO […]
With digital personal assistants, including offerings such as Google Home and the Amazon Echo, becoming more common, a new challenge is beginning to emerge for people in the SEO industry. These assistants conduct web searches like any other device, but unlike computers or mobile systems, there isn’t a brutal competition to make it to the […]
If you noticed that your page rankings suddenly changed in late September or October 2016, then Penguin 4.0 may be to blame. This update to Penguin will likely be the last because Google is now looking at sites in real-time. Penguin is constantly evaluating pages containing bad links and apparently even penalizing sites for their […]
Search engine optimization (SEO) is practically a foreign language. If you do not know the first thing about SEO, we compiled a list of a few basic SEO hacks to get you started. Even if you know a few things, you may need some inexpensive tips to help you jumpstart your SEO campaign. How do […]
Teaching Old Content New Tricks What do you do with all that old content on your site? What about your evergreen assets? Do you leave your evergreen assets alone or do you try to revamp the content? After publishing, old content becomes forgotten over time. Even the most popular content will eventually fade. The content […]
Why Use Moz Metrics? PageRank has gone the way of the Dodo. In its heyday, it was a crutch for SEOs. It became an easy way of determining success and importance of a page. In the world without PageRank, what is the world to do? Luckily, Moz Metrics exists. Moz’s scoring system is, in many […]
Setting a Budget How do you construct a SEO budget without knowing projected costs? Is it even possible to calculate a return on investment with accuracy? People shop online. They watch TV shows. They even order takeout online. Consumers are spending millions of dollars online. Customers find businesses through search engine queries, yet budgeting for […]
The Benefits of “Jailed” Hosting SEOs never want to admit that their client sites could be in danger. In reality, hackers invent new ways to breakthrough safety precautions and firewalls every day. Even with the best safety precautions and technologies, hackers can still find a way through. Identifying security flaws and potential data breaches are the […]
There are numerous ways to measure SEO content performance. Google itself uses dozens of ranking signals to determine the importance and popularity of a site. In your quest to determine just how to best optimize a site for your users, you might be making a few key errors in your analysis. Looking over common data, […]
RankBrain’s AI and How it Effects SEO Artificial intelligence has come a long way from the old Sci-Fi movies. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is a complicated idea taken in by a complicated company, Google, in an attempt to make human interactions less complicated for search engines to understand. RankBrain, as far as we know, is […]
If there is a system, there will always be someone looking for a shortcut. It’s second nature to many people, and the Internet is their playground. Since Google first announced the now defunct PageRank years ago, people have sought ways to make their success online in any way they can. Generally, there are two ways […]
Links, links, and more links. They are so important to SEO success and the bread and butter of the SEO business. The more pages linking to your site, the more important you seem to Google. The biggest question that SEO specialists get is when. When will it happen? When will I see results? When can […]
More updates and more changes. It begs the question of what came first – the Google update or the change in human online behavior? Many SEO researchers and experts have found that people are beginning to interact differently online. So which one came first? Most likely, it was behavioral changes. Voice Search Patterns Google’s standard […]
Ding. Dong. PageRank is dead! On April 15th, Google finally pulled the plug on PageRank. PageRank was the grandfather of all SEO metrics. Now, it is gone, leaving domain managers and SEOs questioning how that will affect them. In the beginning, PageRank was often seen as the end all, be all of SEO effectiveness and […]
There is a lot of talk going around about whether search engine optimization (SEO) is something that anyone can do. While it is true that anyone can learn it, not everyone can understand it well enough to be effective. That may sound like a sell, but trust us – it is not. We want to […]
New changes to mobile friendly SEO may finally bring a much needed upgrade to Google’s mobile algorithm. In May 2015, Google announced plans to integrate mobile friendliness as one of their many ranking signals. In response, websites leapt into action to adapt their sites to be more mobile friendly in order to meet the April […]
RankBrain. Like everything else in the ‘Googleverse’, the name of the project is about the only thing that Google is willing to be explicit about. What we do know is that on October 26, 2015, Google announced their plan for the future. I like to think that Google essentially sat down and posited the question, […]
The easiest way to get a jumpstart on your SEO is to plan ahead. Many website creators launch the website first and implement SEO practices later. Will that theory work? Sure, but it will take longer than necessary. If you could achieve SEO success without waiting nearly as long, wouldn’t you go for it? There […]
Internet Marketing Team predicted the downfall of Google’s PageRank years ago, and now it is finally happening. Google has recently announced that PageRank, the grandfather of all SEO metrics, will no longer be visible to the public. This change comes at the heels of a stagnated PageRank system. Google slowed down the amount of updates […]
It’s Been Years – Have We Figured Out the Internet Yet? We already know that Google is more judgmental than the Great Aunt at a family gathering – and it is not just Google. Search engines and web browsers process information to understand how users behave. The process of identifying user behaviors is multifaceted and developing […]
Google has unveiled their newest change to their interface after testing out the changes for weeks. The billion dollar company announced on February 20 that they will no longer feature paid-for advertisements on the right side of the page. The search engine results page or SERPs will still appear the same except that the advertisements […]
