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...
by Jacob Bohall | Oct 25, 2016 | SEO
Do you want to know how to export redirects from the WordPress Redirection plugin? Login to your “old” wordpress install and select redirection from the Tools menu. Select “modules” from the top navigation bar Select CSV or .htaccess from the...
by Tripp Hamilton | Jan 27, 2016 | Online marketing, SEO
Link development can be a risky endeavor for many websites, as there have been a slew of updates from Google and other search engines to prevent “gaming of the system” through Search Engine Optimization (SEO). In years past, webmasters would get links...
by John Gibbings | Dec 29, 2015 | Analytics, Online marketing, SEO
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...
by Tripp Hamilton | Dec 2, 2015 | Online marketing, SEO
Does your business rely heavily on local customers? If so, search traffic may have changed for your website on July 24th, 2014, the day that Google released their Pigeon algorithm and in turn, changed how your website shows up in local search results. Local SEO may...
