Proton AG, the company behind the world’s largest encrypted email service, Proton, has partnered with SALT.agency, to provide migration support and technical SEO guidance while it lays the groundworks for future products. Proton is a Swiss-based, end-to-end encrypted email service that boasts more than 20 million users across the globe. Andy Yen, CEO of Proton […]
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If you receive a Pure Spam message in Google Search Console, it means Google has detected evidence of ‘black-hat’ SEO techniques on your website.This can include a variety of old SEO techniques that are no longer considered ethical or acceptable, for example: Publishing auto-generated content that reads like gibberish. Publishing large numbers of small, low-quality […]
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Schema markup provides website publishers with ways to influence the way your content appears in search results, by passing more information to the search engines than appears to human visitors. One relatively recent capability is the ability to use Schema to create Google Actions – we’ll come on to how you do that in a […]
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When people talk about website SEO, they often refer to on-page and off-page optimisation to distinguish between on-page factors like keywords, headings and meta tags, and off-page factors like inbound links and domain authority. But one factor you might have overlooked is your overall site structure, which is generally regarded as an extension of on-page […]
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One aspect of running a successful eCommerce site is how you handle your changing inventory, especially if you sell unique, one-off products that cannot be restocked. When an item sells out, its page on your website becomes obsolete. There are other reasons why you might have expired content on an eCommerce site, from seasonal changes […]
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Minor Google algorithm updates are a daily occurrence, but in 2019 we have seen growing awareness of Google core algorithm updates, which are broader changes to the search engine’s ranking criteria and are usually announced officially via Google’s webmaster blogs. They have the potential to knock top-ranked websites further down in the search results, especially […]
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It doesn’t take an SEO expert to understand that a slow loading site isn’t good for your business. Your website is, in essence, delivering a service to the reader. If a competitor does a faster job of providing that service, then you are likely to lose customers. While most people understand this at a core […]
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There can be many reasons why a website might suddenly lose traffic. From changes in search engine algorithms, through to simple tracking errors, the reasons for a traffic drop can be either simple or agonisingly complex. At SALT.agency, we provide comprehensive traffic drop audits for companies that are experiencing depreciated levels of traffic. Before you […]
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Otherwise known as guided navigation, faceted navigation uses product metadata that users can then utilise to refine search queries and category listings. Most enterprise sites use types of faceted navigation so that users can quickly navigate the site for the products that they desire. Although this is indeed very wholesome for users, faceted navigation can […]
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For many businesses, technical SEO is still quite a new concept, and one that might not be properly understood. No matter what kind of business you run, however, the likelihood is that you want new customers to be able to find you on the internet; which is what technical SEO can give you. In this […]
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Across the internet you are likely to find a smattering of articles and discussions about why Cloudflare and other such Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) aren’t beneficial for SEO. The likelihood however, is that those articles are written by people whose services aren’t set up properly, as mentioned by John Mueller — Google’s Webmaster Trends Analyst. […]
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There are 130 trillion pages held within Google’s index, which means that when someone performs a search, an enormous bank of information must be analysed in order to deliver the most relevant results to the user. When new content is created however, it won’t appear in the search results straight away, as Google needs to […]
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