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 search results. Since the inclusion of Google’s Not Provided attribute in [Continue reading]
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 of my findings as a means of highlighting concepts/strategies that should be embraced:
For months, I have been wracking my brain trying to find a workaround for a bug that I’ve found in Screaming Frog’s Memory Allocation settings. I have plenty of physical RAM (8GBs in one, and 12+ in my home machine). Regardless of having the physical memory, I have been unable to allocate more than 1 [Continue reading]
Google is notorious for segmenting the Search Console data down into 90 day segments, and regardless of requests from Webmasters, they continue to restrict data accessibility down to individual accounts. Meaning that if you want to share Google Search Console (GSC) access with another email account, you can for the site, but the receiving party [Continue reading]
While working on a client project, I realized they had a significant number of PDF files that they had uploaded into wordpress, and this was creating some issues in organic search results. Most notably, many PDFs were outranking or replacing their post/page counterparts, and more importantly, the PDFs did not have CTA’s or analytics tracking. [Continue reading]
Page load speeds are encountered with each new page that is accessed, regardless of the focal point of a particular search. There are individual elements to each web page that will be individually called, and loaded each time the next page is visited. The speed of a website depends on more than local internet speeds, [Continue reading]
It is inevitable that with the release of any major update from Google we will see the quintessential “winner vs loser” list and some speculation as to why certain sites topped the list and others faltered. While the approach is itself not flawed, the methodology employed by nearly every winner-loser list out there is. Let [Continue reading]
There are so many metrics from so many different vendors in SEO these days. As much as we hate Google pulling referral keyword data from our analytics tools, we are in a golden era of SEO data. We have a half dozen or so link data sources, a trove of rankings data providers, keyword data, [Continue reading]
Frequently Asked Questions What does the % mean? We aggregate the search results across 30,000 keywords searched on mobile and determine what percentage are labeled as “mobile friendly” by Google. We then subtract the percentage that was mobile friendly on April 18th, before the update. The percentage you see is the difference between those two [Continue reading]
“6 seconds? What can you market in 6 seconds?” Those are usually the first two questions I receive after telling a client to use Vine for promotional purposes. Just to clarify, there a ton of tasks you can accomplish in 6 seconds. However, this article is not about learning how to tie a Double-Windsor knot [Continue reading]
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