An in-depth step-by-step strategy for optimizing your site for mobile-first index with expert tips for 2018 It’s that time of year again. A time when we can look back over the past year and reflect on the huge amount of change in the digital marketing sphere and look ahead to what’s coming. Sometimes our predictions […]
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Small businesses in the South led the nation in job growth last month. But that may be one of the only pieces of good news from a recent employment index. Job growth overall among America’s small businesses is continuing a downward trend. According to the November Paychex | IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch survey this
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One of the most common technical SEO issues I come across is the inadvertent indexing of development servers, staging sites, production servers, or whatever other name you use. There are a number of reasons this happens, ranging from people thinking no one would ever link to these areas to technical misunderstandings. These parts of the
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The mobile-first index has started to slowly roll out, at least for a “few sites,” Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Illyes told an audience last night at the SMX East conference in New York City. It is unclear how many sites have already switched over to the mobile-first indexing process, but, when I asked Illyes
When it comes to the brand names that small businesses trust most, Amazon, Stripe and Google top the list. Alignable Q3 2017 Trust Index That’s the finding of the third quarter SMB Trust Index (PDF) report by Alignable. The company surveyed 42,000 small businesses to gauge their level of trust in other brands that aid
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Google’s new Index Coverage report lets you “Fix problems that prevent your URLs from being optimally indexed by Google Search.” As it stands the report delivers a huge increase in visibility, creates a host of new metrics to track and requires new sitemap configurations. But the real treasures are what you learn when you dig into the
Google is switching to a mobile-first index in 2018, wherein rankings for desktop and mobile devices will be based on a site’s mobile experience. Google’s “Mobile-Friendly Test” will identify if a site is mobile optimized and can, also, suggest performance improvements. Most searches on Google are from mobile devices. In 2018, Google will judge your
This is a very popular question and people are always trying to find out how long it takes for Google to index links after you build a link. With each new link built within an authority site, you have the potential to boost your rankings within the SERP’s so it’s no wonder people are always
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