If you’re looking for a way to optimize your site for technical SEO and rank better, consider deleting your pages. I know, crazy, right? But hear me out. We all know Google can be slow to index content, especially on new websites. But occasionally, it can aggressively index anything and everything it can get its […]
Google Sandbox is a commonly believed filter that’s used by Google to prevent new websites from ranking high in Google’s Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). It’s believed that Google uses this filter to put some restrictions on rankings for new websites. The main idea behind it is that new websites may not be as relevant
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Technical optimization is the core element of SEO. Technically optimized sites appeal both to search engines for being much easier to crawl and index, and to users for providing a great user experience. It’s quite challenging to cover all the technical aspects of your site because hundreds of issues may need fixing. However, there are
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Google is always looking for the best ways to provide the most useful results to users. It’s what has allowed Google to dominate the search engine market for so long and, it has kept the SEO industry evolving. In the beginning, there were quick answer boxes (remember those?) and, most recently, the introduction of “How-to”
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By Allison Bowlus Whether you are a freelance photographer, own a hardware store, or have another type of small business, a great website is essential for your company’s success. As a webmaster who has worked on building or marketing over 100 small business websites, I know what it takes to create great and engaging business
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Annelieke van den Berg Annelieke van den Berg leads the Research Department at Yoast. She has her Master’s degree in Sociology and focuses on all things related to data. I often get a request from our Blog team about one of their pages. Sometimes they want to know if the page has gotten more pageviews
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Whether you are a business owner, marketing manager or simply just interested in the world of ecommerce, you may be familiar with how a business can approach SEO. To every person involved, the perception of SEO and its success can vary from a sophisticated technical grasp to a knowledge of the essentials. At all levels,
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Jono Alderson Jono is a digital strategist, marketing technologist, and full stack developer. He’s into technical SEO, emerging technologies, and brand strategy. If you’ve noticed that your Yoast SEO Search Console report looks surprisingly empty, it’s because Google have shut down the system which provides data about their crawl errors. There’s no need to worry,
Are you using Google Search Console for your business? If not, now is the time to verify your domain so that you can dive into the mountains of useful data available to you through Console’s reports. Because there is a lot of valuable data to sort through, it can be difficult to know where to
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After testing the Search Console for more than a year, Google announced its release from beta last year. In the previous year, maybe more, Google slowly rolled out the beta eventually doing a full open beta invite to all Search Console users and migrating their features from the old to the new version. From the
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