Google Maps marketing – and the way your business appears on Google Maps in general – is increasingly important as mobile and location-based searches continue to grow in number. If you have a bricks-and-mortar business, an optimised Google Maps listing is essential to provide accurate information to nearby customers, who might prefer to shop locally […]
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The Robots Exclusion Protocol, or REP, is a way to tell search engine robots – including Google’s web crawler, known as Googlebot – that you don’t want them to crawl or index certain parts of your website. It’s a useful way to protect sensitive data from showing up in the search results, and it’s commonly […]
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If your Google Search Console and Analytics data show a large number of hits from one or more countries that you do not already target with your search engine optimisation campaigns, it might be time to consider investing in some international SEO.That doesn’t have to mean global SEO – even the biggest multinational brands don’t […]
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Back in the early days of search engines, Google wasn’t yet the dominant force it is today. Instead, there were several contenders for that throne, all vying for market share. Some of those first true search engines, which used a crawler to index pages that could then be searched for keywords, included: Infoseek WebCrawler Lycos […]
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If you’re a regular user of Google Analytics, you may have come across bot traffic at some point. You can usually spot a bot as a spike in traffic with no immediate explanation, unusual characteristics and often with very similar attributes. For example, a surge in bot traffic might appear as a large number of […]
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Getting more pages into the Google Search results might seem like one of the main priorities for any website, but there are times when this can result in ‘index bloat’ with negative consequences for your SEO campaigns. Index bloat is when a very large number of pages from your website flood the search results with […]
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For websites to be indexed within the results pages of search engines, search engine web crawlers (often called a “spider” or “spiderbot”), must first explore their pages. These crawlers provide essential information to search engines so that the engines can supply users with the most useful and accurate results. In order for crawlers to efficiently […]
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In the majority of cases, post comments are a good indication that a site is generating quality content to a healthy and attentive audience. Often referred to as user-generated content (UGC), comments are great for SEO as they provide sites with free qualitative content, longtail keywords, and can help boost signals across social platforms. There […]
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Competition across ecommerce can be incredibly fierce, which means that businesses need to be backed only by the best and most dynamic platforms. Many stores, however, are operating on outdated and less competitive platforms, which can seriously inhibit a site’s organic search performance. How to know when to change platforms It’s great when a business […]
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In the second week of November, Google significantly updated its search results containing accommodation results in Google Maps. Although Google Maps had started to show places you could book by showing prices above the business listings previously, it has now gone one step further by adding new considerations and information into this section.
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On June 25, writing in the Google Webmaster Central Blog, Search Console Engineers announced a brand-new URL inspection tool that has been added to the new Search Console.
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Google confirmed suspicions last Friday that a broad core algorithm update took place on 16 April, much like the one experienced in March. Speaking on Twitter, the Google SearchLiasion, said: “On Monday, we released a broad core algorithm update, as we routinely do throughout the year.” As a result, some sites will have seen fluctuations […]
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