General SEO6 min read
How Search Engines Work [Explained]
Search engines crawl the web, store the discovered content, and then serve the most useful results.
General SEO
Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, general SEO can help you improve your website’s ranking and reach. Discover the best practices, tools, and strategies from the leading SEO experts.
General SEO9 min read
Keyword Rankings: What They Are & How to Check Yours
A keyword ranking is a webpage‘s position in organic search results for a query. Learn to track rankings.
General SEO10 min read
How to Do SEO for a New Website: 7 Essential Steps
Implement these seven SEO steps to improve your site’s search engine rankings and drive more traffic.
General SEO9 min read
How to Create an SEO Strategy: Beginner’s Guide
Learn why and how to create an effective SEO strategy covering on-page, off-page, and technical SEO.
General SEO6 min read
Hot or Not? Check Your Images with Heat Maps
Do you suspect that your sales page leaves people cold? Do you think nobody’s reading your content — or, at the very least, they’re ignoring your Call to Action (CTA) buttons? Are the images on your website turning visitors off — or confusing them?
General SEO4 min read
6 WordPress Plugins To Personalize Your Website's User Experience
User experience is a big deal, but the problem is that most sites provide a related posts widget that shows mostly irrelevant content. And that’s about as far as they go — everything is top-level and aimed at the average user. Wouldn’t it be great if we could shift to personalizing the user experience on our own website’s to ensure that our visitors find exactly what they need, when they need it?
General SEO6 min read
Baidu 101: An Overview of Baidu Webmaster Tools
Companies with global aspirations need to address China and her biggest search engine. Baidu‘s increasingly varied and sophisticated offerings allow us to gain a glimpse into the priorities and thought processes around search in China. Through an in-depth look at Baidu‘s Webmaster Tools, we‘ll learn what we can about SEO for Baidu at a strategic level, whether it is an emphasis on user trust, content freshness or any other myriad factors.
General SEO4 min read
Did You Configure Your Site for the International Googlebot?
Once every so often, the SEO world is subject to a major shift that shakes its virtual tectonic plates to the core. In January this year, the tremor of this impending quake went unnoticed. This was characterized by a change in the foundational basis of SEO best practices internationally. In January, Google enhanced its Googlebot’s ability to evaluate the way content changes according to a user’s location — denoted by IP address — and the preferred language settings, — through the Accept-LanguageHTTP header. Today, more and more businesses have restructured their websites to be able to serve up content dynamically according to a user’s language or country.
General SEO2 min read
5 Common Myths About Choosing Domain Names for International SEO
Is a .COM domain really the best choice for international targeting? Can a local TLD rank as well abroad as at home? Can a domain rank well internationally even when we don’t use ccTLDs? Read on to find out about the most frequent misconceptions concerning domain names and international SEO.
General SEO3 min read
Dips and Spikes in Traffic: Using the Position Changes Report in Semrush
As a former customer support specialist, I understand the most commonly asked questions by customers. One of these repeated questions was about the traffic graph. “Where did this huge dip/spike come from?” You would constantly monitor the traffic for a particular domain and out of nowhere this huge dip occurs in the graph. You prepare for the worst. You expect your boss or client going to freak out when they see this data and have your head — but before going this route, you will first want to make sure you are properly reading this information.