We hope you’ve all had a great 2019 and we’re grateful for your interest in our blog and newsletters. We’ll wrap up this year with a quick look at our five most popular posts, plus a few notable posts from the world of digital marketing. 2019 SEO Predictions to Help You Spend Your Marketing Money […]

Search-engine optimization (SEO) isn’t always as well understood as some other forms of marketing. That’s not a problem for businesses that hire reputable SEO consultants who’ve put in the hard work to become experts, however—those companies don’t have to be skilled at SEO to realize seriously impressive gains. That lack of understanding is a big […]

Google announced a change to its search algorithm earlier this week that shows how much better the search engine is getting at understanding searchers’ queries. The good news is that it’s not associated with any type of penalty—instead, Google BERT improves the ways in which Google processes natural language, including the context associated with keywords. […]

Looking for advice on where to spend your 2019 online marketing budget and be prepared for what’s coming next? I’ve got you covered with my best SEO predictions for 2019. Here’s what’s coming into focus: Content, especially long content, will be even more importantGoogle’s Quality Ratings Guidelines should be part of your SEO toolkitContent marketing […]

When creating this list, we knew that some of the blogs would be obvious to include, while others would be less intuitive of a choice. And, that’s okay. Every list to some degree is subjective and perhaps nowhere is that more obvious in our post than when deciding the order in which to list the […]

First, the who: here’s who announced it and whom it will affect. On January 17, 2018, on Google’s Webmaster Central Blog, the internet giant announced that page speed will soon be an official ranking factor in mobile searches. What does this mean for your site? Well, page speed has been a ranking factor for desktop […]

“The AMP Project is an open-source initiative aiming to make the web better for all. The project enables the creation of websites and ads that are consistently fast, beautiful and high-performing across devices and distribution platforms.” (AMPProject.org) To simplify that statement, the AMP Project is Google’s way of facilitating the creation of really fast-loading mobile […]

If you woke up last Friday to a message in your inbox from Google Search Console warning that “Chrome will show security warnings on” your website, the first thing you need to know is don’t panic, but be ready to do some work. We’ve received emails from our clients asking what this email is about […]

Even those who’ve been in the SEO business for a while can get confused about whether to use noindex meta tags or robots.txt files to control how web pages are “seen” (and whether they should appear in search results) by search engines. We wrote in this post about some of the reasons to use robots.txt […]

Take control of how the pages on your site are (or aren’t) accessed by search engines by creating a robots.txt file. The goal is to block certain pages or parts of your site from search engine crawlers, which may seem counterintuitive — you want search engines to find your web pages, right? — but it’s […]

If you’re trying to determine a fair cost for SEO services or compare SEO providers, be prepared to do some research. Although SEO has become an integral part of most comprehensive marketing programs — and there is a well-established set of best-practice fundamentals — there are still a lot of variables influencing how much SEO […]

After years of speculation, and a two-year wait for an update of any kind, Google announced that Penguin, a penalty that Google assesses for spammy links and that causes sites to drop in rankings, is now a permanent part of its core algorithm. It also now operates in real time, refreshing data much faster than […]