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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Site speed is important for all site owners and SEOs to monitor. As you may already know, if a page takes longer than three seconds to load, half of visitors will choose to leave — and that is where your chance of conversion ends. It doesn’t matter how good your site looks or how great […]
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At the end of August 2019, patent 10,394,684, submitted by Google, was granted. The patent explains the ways Google determines user habits based on learnings about their past activity and the frequency of these activities. This method and its findings could be used and incorporated in search, for example, to suggest queries. What user data […]
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SAP’s increased marketing and product innovations are leading to more enterprise-level organizations opting to migrate to their ERP and CRM solutions. As part of this movement, moving the front-end website over to the SAP Hybris platform is often sold in as part of the deal to ease integration with the new backend systems. Large eCommerce […]
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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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If you represent a multinational organisation, you might want to offer your website in some or all of the different languages your customers use, and it’s important to have an international SEO strategy to support this. There are several different reasons why you might have a multilingual website, including: Multinational brands with a presence in […]
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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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When people refer to website content, they often mean written copy; however, content can be anything on the page — copy, images, video, and more. A page without content is a blank page. In the same vein, it’s not just the copy that needs to be optimised for search engine scrutiny — everything needs to […]
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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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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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