Together with HTML and CSS, JavaScript is one of the core building blocks of modern websites. While you can build a static page of text and images with pure HTML and CSS, if you want to create dynamic, engaging and responsive experiences, you need to add a scripting language, and JavaScript is the front-runner. However, […]
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The web development community is rapidly adopting Single Page Applications (SPAs) for various web projects. React, for example, has seen a 1633% increase in projects using SPAs from 2018 to 2021 (according to Builtwith). Because SPAs are fundamentally built in JavaScript, they often create problems for search engines trying to crawl the website. In addition, […]
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As SEOs, we’ve become acquainted with the countless Google updates for content, with E-A-T, Penguin, and RankBrain among others making a huge impact on SERPs. Baidu, on the other hand, can be daunting for SEOs optimizing for China due to having a completely different ecosystem to Google. Ziyuan (meaning ‘resource’) is Baidu’s official content hub […]
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JavaScript has become an important way to make web pages more interactive, by adding more dynamic elements, animations and special visual effects that would be difficult or impossible to achieve using HTML and CSS. It has been around for decades – it was reportedly created in just ten days in September 1995 by Netscape programmer […]
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Website migrations can be extremely varied activities; they can be completely different each time and are often paramount to an SEO campaign. There are a few things that do not ever change with migrations, and one of the most important factors with any migration is the redirects. Redirects can make or break a migration. By […]
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Online fashion always has, and always will be, a rapidly changing industry. With new trends consistently emerging and having a broad and substantial audience to target, it can be challenging to keep on top of the game. Although it can be challenging to meet the needs of fashion customers, there are many opportunities available due […]
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Schema has long since been crawled by search engines and is now commonly viewed as a necessity for technical eCommerce SEO. Schema markup is pieces of code that assist search engines in understanding your website and can be big helpers in gaining featured snippets on Google SERPs. It is important to remember that schema will […]
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Page speed is now a (small) factor in the mobile-first index, and therefore impacts SEO. It affects organic performance, and more importantly, user experience. Many people don’t consider speed since many websites are already in-line with modern standards. That said, it is regarded as one of the top ten SEO ranking factors. Speed is essential, […]
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Algorithm recovery has become a hot topic in recent years, ever since the search engine started to be more transparent about publicising major changes to its search ranking algorithms. Google algorithms change on a daily basis, new websites are crawled and indexed, and old pages are deleted, so some jostling of SERP rankings is inevitable. […]
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Now here’s where it gets important – what do search engines think of your content, and how will it rank? “The web is like an ever-growing library with billions of books and no central filing system”, according to Google. Search engines have many ranking factors for each query Historically, a website is judged on how […]
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Search engines use automated crawlers — also known as robots or spiders — to travel from page to page and from link to link, to collect pages that they deem high quality. Search engines frequently crawl websites, typically daily, to determine which pages should be indexed in their massive databases. Over time, search engines continue […]
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Local SEO is the process of improving technical, content, and offsite factors with a focus on locality to improve rankings in specific areas. One thing that can be used to significantly help this is creating (or optimising) local landing pages. Local landing pages are simply (commercial) webpages with local intent. This means that the page […]
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