When you post on your company’s Instagram account, I guarantee that the most important thing to you is how many ‘likes’ your post is getting. Do you judge that post on how many ‘likes’ it receives? Probably so. Do you feel that a post with fewer ‘likes’ is a failure? Possibly. Some Instagrammers — businesses […]
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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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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 Many stores, however, are operating on outdated and less competitive platforms, which can seriously inhibit a site’s organic search performance.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 this post I will explain why it is important that both site owners and SEOs have an understanding of a website’s local search performance. I shall also offer an insight into why you should be tracking both Google My Business and Bing Places for Business. Understanding Google My Business and Bing Places for Business […]
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Two years ago I wrote an article called ‘How to deal with huge amounts of redirects in an SEO migration’, and with this we created a bulk redirect generator tool. The original article was mainly based around the logic of a migration and it was more of manual ‘hands on’ approach, discussing things such as […]
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It stands to reason that page speed is an important element in good website design. Pages that load faster become interactive faster, and that means your visitors face less of a delay in becoming paying customers.Slower loading pages suffer higher abandonment and bounce rates, as some visitors will simply give up if the page doesn’t […]
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Before we tackle the relationship between PPC and SEO, let’s introduce both concepts. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) encompasses the technologies, techniques, processes and tactics used to achieve the highest organic rankings in search engine results pages (SERPs) — leading to increased chances of higher website traffic and business success. PPC stands for Pay Per Click, […]
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The concept of entities has gained recent prominence within SEO, as Google’s algorithms and information retrieval systems have indicated a greater significance and weighting to them.
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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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Great content is what draws visitors in to your website and hopefully keeps them there. However, it can be all too easy to get carried away with trying to please search engines when writing this content. So, should your copy be written for the reader or should it be primarily drafted with search engines in […]
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Around the time of the deindexing bug earlier this month, a large number of websites saw their homepages (among other prominent traffic driving pages) seemingly disappear from Google’s index without warning or explanation. Before long of course, webmasters started to notice another trend, that the cache dates of websites within Google’s public cache had seemingly […]
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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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