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...
by John Gibbings | Jul 27, 2017 | Analytics, Google, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, SEO
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)...
by Tripp Hamilton | Jul 19, 2017 | SEO
A spammy structured markup penalty will be levied against a website that violates Google’s structured data guidelines. We have created a helpful guide that will instruct most webmasters how to remove a spammy structured markup penalty. First… What is...
by Jacob Bohall | Jul 17, 2017 | SEO, YouTube & Video
Last week I had the privilege of being invited by SEMRush to perform a live site audit using the SEMRush platform. In case you missed it, check out the recorded video below. In this video, I use site audit tool in the SEMRush platform to identify SEO issues and...
by Tripp Hamilton | May 2, 2017 | Content Marketing, SEO
The root system of a website would be the service pages & unique selling points (USP), which breathe life into all parts of the website through driving organic traffic and conversions. Keeping evergreen content within your website is an oftentimes overlooked...
by Jacob Bohall | Apr 26, 2017 | Hive Digital, SEO
After careful consideration, we’ve decided to decommission PandaRisk.com as a self-serve tool. The Google Panda update targets low-quality websites identified using a machine learned algorithm. At the time of launch, PandaRisk.com utilized the seed questions...
by Jacob Bohall | Mar 14, 2017 | SEO
I’m often asked to provide some quick advice for clients that are changing site structure, and there are a few things (other than the normal redirect every old url to the new one instructions) that I always mention: 1 – Update historic redirects to point...
by Jacob Bohall | Jan 19, 2017 | Analytics, SEO
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...
by Jacob Bohall | Dec 21, 2016 | SEO
Credit: The Hangover[/caption] This Week I Learned about Expires Headers This week I learned (TWIL) is a weekly installment containing tidbits our team has learned about search engine optimization, PPC / AdWords, social media marketing, and other aspects of Internet...
by Tripp Hamilton | Nov 29, 2016 | Google, Link Removal, SEO
The Penguin algorithm has been part of the lives of online marketers since early 2012 when the first iteration was unleashed and decimated an industry rife with easily repeatable spam. When Google updated Penguin for the first time, it hit many webmasters who utilized...
