by John Gibbings | Apr 1, 2020 | Google, SEO
User search patterns are changing daily, and organizations are scrambling to understand the changing search environment as their consumer base rapidly responds to the external forces at play. Businesses have been forced to learn how to operate remotely through...
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 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 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 | 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...
by Jacob Bohall | Mar 28, 2018 | SEO
NI’m selfishly writing this blog post to have consolidated list of notes from things I found important in the AMA from John Mueller.. so formatting may not be beautiful, but there should be some diamonds! I’m going to post periodically with the updated...
by John Gibbings | Nov 8, 2017 | Content Marketing, Hive Digital, Link Removal, News, Online marketing, SEO
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...
by Tripp Hamilton | Aug 2, 2017 | Hive Digital, Link Removal, SEO
In the post-Penguin era of search engine optimization, backlinks are still the backbone of a well-ranked website. Many webmasters have had their encounters with bad SEO agencies, freelancers, and subsequent penalizations from Google. Some webmasters have dealt with...
