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
Parallax Web Design vs. SEO: What You Need To Know
As search engine marketers, we know that the best time for us to be involved with a web design or redesign project is right at the beginning, so that SEO can be ‘baked in‘ to the process right from the start. However, sometimes a website will be built and SEO will be a later consideration (usually if it‘s because it doesn‘t rank)! A few times recently, people have come to me with a website designed in the parallax format and asked me if I can do anything to help with its SEO — which is a heck of a problem, because while parallax websites often look pretty darn slick, they come with some major technical SEO issues. In this post I‘ll talk about the perils of parallax web design: its effect on SEO, why it‘s SEO-unfriendly, and if there are any workarounds to see if you can have your parallax cake and eat it too.
General SEO5 min read
Your Guide to Understanding Google's Sitelinks Search Box
Have you ever Googled a website only to find a second Google search box embedded underneath the first? That’s a recently updated Google feature, the Sitelinks search box. It has the capability to streamline your own website’s search function, but opinions are mixed regarding the benefit it provides. Here’s the rundown on how Google’s Sitelinks search box works, both sides of the controversy about its usefulness, and how to maximize your own benefit.
General SEO5 min read
Google’s Fetch and Render: Why It’s Important
Lots of folks think that SEO is about “gaming the system.” Well… that’s true of “black hat” SEO, but those of us who are trying to make pages easy for Google to crawl and evaluate are working towards what I like to think of as “natural” SEO. We put in all the right meta tags, make sure that your page is about what you tell search engines it’s about in your description and generally try to streamline things so that spiders won’t be caught in traps or leave pages entirely. So, let’s say that you have recently built a new website. Is it search friendly? Or more importantly, is it Google friendly? No, Google certainly doesn’t pay me and I don’t worship at the Google altar, either, but let‘s face it. Google brings the most traffic and for some reason, that traffic seems to convert. That’s why we want to please the gods of Google as much as we possibly can.
General SEO8 min read
How To Identify and Fix a Google Penalty
Experiencing a large drop in rankings can be confusing and frustrating. It could also mean a significant loss in leads or profits for your website. If you don’t have the know-how or the means to fix the issue quickly, the future of your company’s income could be in danger. The first step in recovering from a large drop in rankings is identifying what type of penalty you have. Depending on the type of penalty there will be a very different set of steps you need to take towards regaining your traffic and rankings.
General SEO4 min read
How To Use the Semrush API in Google Sheets
Semrush is my favorite competitive research tool that I use for everything from organic and paid keyword research to understanding market share in a specific region. A few months ago, I was working on a large project where it made sense to look beyond the Semrush interface and pull data directly from their servers via the Semrush API. The problem was that I’d never used an API before and wasn’t able to locate any resources for a noob like myself to get started. As luck would have it, I work with some pretty smart people who were able to point me in the right direction. Now that I understand the basics, I want to pay it forward and create a resource for others who use Semrush, but not familiar with using the API.
General SEO4 min read
5 Advantages to Yandex over Google in Russia
Before Larry Page and Sergey Brin ever founded Google, Ilya Segalovich and Arkady Volozh had already created Yandex, currently Russia’s largest search engine. Learn about Yandex‘s reach, and its advantages over Google.