If you’re running Apache, you have a .htaccess file. The .htaccess file, if maintained correctly, can be a considerable asset for any technical SEO, given that it can do many things ranging from improving TTFB, handling redirects, and setting page canonicals for non-HTML documents. When handling redirects, a lot of enterprise and older businesses that […]
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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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Page load speed is an important metric for a whole range of different reasons. It affects how useful your website is for visitors, how long they stay on your site, and more recently Google have started to use it as a direct ranking factor in their search results. But there are different definitions of page […]
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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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Yandex Zen is a personalised recommendations service created by Yandex. It can serve as a great marketing tool for lead generation, brand awareness, and new demand creation for many businesses. The platform enables individual and corporate users to publish content (articles, videos, photos), and an algorithm recommends content to users based on their interests. If […]
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This market analysis piece has been co-authored by Callum Corrigan, a self-confessed petrol head and Strategy Account Director at SALT, and Dan Taylor, Head of Research and Development. How people buy cars in the UK has changed a lot over the years, with customers taking parts of their journey online. Like any considered purchase, a […]
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Every now and then, consultancy firms face challenges that are abnormal and create new solutions. We faced that last year, to classify over a quarter of a million articles with a very limited budget. Our target was that if we can classify over 80% of them automatically with a 90% accuracy, then we can do […]
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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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TL;DR (Too long; didn’t read) Netlify is not WordPress or a CMS; it is a static hosting platform behind a powerful ADN If you are looking for Netlify CMS, that’s a totally different thing! It runs fast because everything is cached. It works with Headless CMSs and its own CMS. Edge SEO works like a […]
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SALT.agency has unveiled its new international headquarters, located in Horsforth, West Yorkshire. Positioned outside Leeds city centre, the new premises boast a calm, semi-rural environment with an abundance of natural woodland surroundings. Designed to facilitate an expanding team and a growing number of clients, the new headquarters allows for greater collaboration and innovation under one […]
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When it comes to search engine rankings, page speed is one of the most important and also most neglected factors. This is simply because even with the best content, if the user cannot load a page fast enough, they will simply leave. This will, in return, increase the percentage of short clicks based on the […]
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Falls in ranking can put you on panic stations, but don’t worry – here we look at how to diagnose your ranking drops. Once you know what’s gone wrong, you’re better placed to take the action you need to recover your rankings.It is important to understand that rankings can fluctuate for a lot of legitimate […]
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