Stop messing up your SEO and do these things instead
Via Matt Clough | @MattJClough The days of using underhand tactics like hidden text and keyword stuffed title tags to influence search rankings may be rapidly retreating into the mists of time, but as much as search engine optimisation (SEO) is coming to reflect time-honoured good marketing practices, there is still a considerable amount to be aware of...
Google Warns Site Owners Their Site is Not Mobile-Friendly in Mobile Search Results
Via Barry Schwartz | @rustybrick Google is now issuing a new type of warning to site owners if their site is not mobile-friendly. The new warnings show directly in the mobile search results, but only to the site owner, when Google knows that the searcher is the owner of the site. John Mueller of Google confirmed this is an experiment...
Keyword Research: A Key Element of SEO & Content Marketing
Via Trond Lyngbø | @TrondLyngbo Imagine you're in an auditorium, facing a large audience of your best customers. You're getting ready to speak to them. You can say whatever you want, but there's just one condition: As soon as you complete your first sentence, people can decide whether to stay inside and listen to the rest of your speech — or get up...
The 2016 State of Link Building Survey - Results & Analysis
Via Nicholas Chimonas | @NChimonas SEO futurists have predicted the death of links as a ranking signal for years on end. That hasn't happened yet, and I'm happy to say that link building as a practice has greatly evolved. But rapid change often creates confusion, and there doesn't yet seem to be a strong consensus on how link building teams...
6 strategies to build links for your small business website in 2016
Via Pratik Dholakiya | @DholakiyaPratik Link building remains the cornerstone of most search engine optimization efforts. According to Moz's "2015 Search Engine Ranking Factors Study," links have the strongest association with higher search rankings of all the (known) attributes used by Google in its core ranking algorithm. But one of the most...
Do New Top-Level Domains Affect SEO?
Via Michael Keshen | @michaelkeshen With hundreds of top-level domains to end a domain name with — ranging anywhere from .xyz to .pizza — there has never been a better time to find a domain that perfectly matches your name or brand. Since these options are still new to many people, it's understandable why concerns can arise when opting for, say, .bike...
Google to boost mobile-friendly algorithm this coming May
Via Barry Schwartz | @rustybrick Google announced on the Webmaster blog that they are going to be boosting the effects of themobile-friendly algorithm they launched back on April 21, 2015. The mobile-friendly algorithm is a page-by-page signal, so it can take time for Google to assess each page, and that may be why it will be a gradual rollout....
How to Identify Long-Tail Keywords for Your SEO Campaign
Via Jayson DeMers | @jaysondemers People's keyword searches are increasingly moving toward long-tail because natural language search is becoming more popular and pervasive, especially with the momentum of mobile technology and search. But unlike the fiercely competitive field of core keywords, it's hard to precisely identify the right long-tail keywords...