by Tripp Hamilton | Dec 12, 2019 | Google
Dissemination of information, whether it be text, images, videos or something else entirely, is seamless in the ever-connected world in which we live. Everyone has a smartphone, tablet, computer or some other device that can access the Internet. An unfortunate side...
by Tripp Hamilton | Dec 11, 2019 | Wordpress
Our step-by-step guide for adding new users to WordPress, and check out more of our helpful guides in our WordPress basics series. Before we do anything, you will need to log into your WordPress account through the admin page, which is typically found at /wp-admin/....
by Tripp Hamilton | Dec 9, 2019 | SEO
A quick guide on what to do about unsolicited guest posts… Analyze the value the guest post emails are offering, such as referral traffic. If there is no value, move them to spam. If the guest post spammer is wanting to post on your website, get them to send an...
by Jacob Bohall | Sep 24, 2019 | SEO
We are commonly asked for best practice recommendations regarding canonical tags and hreflang tags. Here is a quick summary of how these tags should be implemented. General rules for canonical tags: The canonical can be defined with a tag on the page, or passed as a...
by John Gibbings | Jul 22, 2019 | Content Marketing, SEO
Blog articles are often a place where relevant content goes to die. Meaning, that a good idea, which expands a site’s relevance for topic groupings or a subject matter is curated and forgotten after being pushed live to the site. Most often, blog content skirts the...
by John Gibbings | Apr 18, 2019 | Paid Search
Dear Average Position (or AP, as I liked to call you), For so long, I overlooked you. I thought you were merely average, nothing more than an average of placements on SERPs. Yeah, I saw you down at the end of the platform, tucked away with your new friend Search...
by John Gibbings | Apr 15, 2019 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, SEO
With the recent 03/12 Google Algorithm Update, I have seen a shift in how Google isolates queries via user-intent to better serve users with a type of landing page and content type. To deliver more qualified information to their users based on their search intent....
by Jacob Bohall | Dec 18, 2018 | SEO
We are often asked to help prioritize redirects when a client runs into redirect count limits in Cloudflare. One solution is to put all of your redirects into a $5 service worker. I do have to give Patrick Stox credit, as he initially put me onto this idea sometime...
by Jacob Bohall | Jul 30, 2018 | Hive Digital
The recent tragedies involving SEOs has sparked some much needed discussion on the importance of honest communication, community, and ways we can be more healthy both physically and mentally. I’m especially grateful to Jenny Halasz for her openness in...
by John Gibbings | Jun 12, 2018 | Content Marketing, Google, SEO
Over time it is natural for websites to naturally grow in content breadth and the distinction between content and landing page intent can easily begin to overlap and creep across the site. The effectiveness of a single page talking to a target subject can be called...
by John Gibbings | May 7, 2018 | Analytics, Hive Digital, SEO
Google Search Console is an extremely versatile tool that provides some detailed information on the types of organic traffic that draws visitors to your site and can even help you to improve upon existing content visibility in the build a competitive edge within the...
by Jacob Bohall | Apr 30, 2018 | Analytics, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing
TLDR; GDPR should not have an impact on your SEO efforts for so long as you don’t do anything crazy (see bottom of post) Since we provide services for a number of businesses that provide their products internationally, we’ve been receiving quite a large...
by Jacob Bohall | Apr 27, 2018 | Hive Digital
We’ve been doing some basic research for a financial institution as to how NerdWallet.com is seeing such rapid growth in the organic search space over the past year. In doing a passive review of their strategies, I was wholly impressed, and wanted to share some...
by Jacob Bohall | Mar 28, 2018 | Link Removal, SEO
Like many of you, we woke up today with the release of Moz’s Links Beta and we immediately sat down to play. I was tipped off surreptitiously by Russ Jones at Moz when he asked the tech slack channel if they could take screenshots of link data in Moz because...
