By Ann Smarty April 4th, 2017 Google has been talking about site speed for ages. They have been working hard to encourage webmasters to make their sites faster. To better understand where we started and what is going on today, I have created a helpful timeline summarizing what Googlers have been saying about site speed: Official: … Continue reading Site Speed: Ranking Factor or Not? Everything Googlers Ever Said about Site Speed
Cathy Habas — April 4, 2017 — April 4, 2017 How do people fund their blogs? The answer you’re likely to hear over and over again is affiliate marketing. Ready to get a piece of the action? The following overview and key tips should set you in the right direction. What Is Affiliate Marketing? Affiliate … Continue reading Monetizing a Site: Affiliate Marketing Basics
Chris R. Campbell — April 3, 2017 Follow @chrisrcampbell— April 3, 2017 A few years ago, social networking giant Facebook began to allow users to post online reviews and ratings of local businesses. Since then, the volume of reviews on the site has rapidly increased, with more and more people using Facebook in the same … Continue reading This Online Review Site Has Captured the Attention of Consumers and Businesses (and It’s Not TripAdvisor)
By Jordan Kasteler March 30th, 2017 Whether to monitor for hacking activity, keep an eye on price changes, or get a warning when someone changes something on your site they shouldn’t have, there’s a place for site change monitoring in your tool box. Here are 3 ways to do so: offsite, using Firefox, and using … Continue reading 3 Tools To Monitor Site Changes
Consumers and search engines alike have high expectations for websites, so unchecked problems and errors can have a big impact on SEO and content performance. Columnist Jim Yu discusses how to find and address these issues. Jim Yu on March 23, 2017 Over the past two decades, as the online world has experienced exponential … Continue reading 3 steps to overcoming site issues that impact performance
Dan Shewan — March 19, 2017 — March 19, 2017 “The destiny of Google’s search engine is to become that Star Trek computer, and that’s what we are building.” This was what Amit Singhal, the head of Google’s search rankings team, famously said about the future of Google’s search technology during a conversation with Guy … Continue reading OK, Google: How Do I Optimize My Site for Voice Search?
Brandon Leibowitz — March 15, 2017 Follow @seooptimizers— March 15, 2017 Search engines like Google use many thousands of different signals to determine which websites rank highest for each keyword. There are many ways to get your website to rank higher. For example, it’s common for search engine optimization specialists to focus on optimization tactics … Continue reading How To Speed Up Your Site For SEO
Dale Keipert — March 9, 2017 Follow @360Interactive— March 9, 2017 Every week Google blacklists over 70,000 websites because they’ve been hacked and the hackers are using the website to send out malware, or they’re using the site to send out phishing attacks! Yup, over 70,000 every week! Is your site one of the hundreds … Continue reading Your Site Could Have Been Blacklisted and You Don’t Even Know It
Columnist Eric Enge discusses the implications of Google’s impending “mobile-first” index, using a case study to illustrate some of the challenges that webmasters and Google alike will face in implementing this change. Eric Enge on March 2, 2017 If you follow the world of Google and search at all, you’ve heard about Google’s … Continue reading Do you know what a mobile crawl of your site looks like?
Jini Maxin — March 1, 2017 — March 1, 2017 Let’s face it… With over 200+ Google ranking factors making sure the law of the land prevails, and over 1 billion websites fighting for spots in search engines – if you ignore SEO, your online sales are likely to go south, especially if you are … Continue reading 5 Tips to Crack Google’s Algorithm and Drive Quality Traffic To Your Site
