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Beyond Keywords: Drive Better Quality Traffic to Your Site
Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird—if it’s your job to care about SEO, these critters have complicated your life in recent years. The new Google search algorithms they represent, along with other ongoing updates—as many as 500 or more per year—have changed the rules for driving quality traffic to your web site. These days, it's about looking beyond keywords. Gone are the days of “keyword stuffing,” when bad writing and obvious gimmicks got you into the top page rankings. The new ecosystem calls
Learn to Write Clickable Headlines that Drive Your Competition Crazy
Writing great headlines comes naturally to some people, but most of us need a little help crafting those irresistible lines that make readers want to know more. Sure, a lot is riding on the headline, but it all comes down to one overriding concern: does it generate an amazing click-through rate, the kind that your competition would kill for? That measure of success can also reflect on your company’s image as a forward-leaning, innovative brand, not to mention your standing
6 Indispensable Tips for Writing Content that Drives Traffic
You could spend years digging through reams of advice on how to write content that generates outstanding traffic results. We want you to have a life, so instead, we’ve condensed it down to 6 indispensable writing tips that have proven successful at driving traffic for high achievers at every level of business. One way or another, you depend on digital content to drive traffic to your web site. Whether through trending social media posts across multiple platforms, funny videos
Alphabet – The A-Z of Google’s new holding company
Yesterday, Google announced that they would be restructuring the upper-crust of their brand into a holding company that will simply be known as Alphabet. At the surprise of many (including owners of pre-existing companies already called "Alphabet"), Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, announced that the decision was made so that Google could continue its legacy as the most-used search engine in the world while its now-sister companies continue to evolve the world outside of the web. For instance,
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Blocking JavaScript and CSS Warnings – Should you care?
For those of you that checked your Google Search Console (formerly known as Webmaster Tools) on Tuesday July 28, you might have been surprised to see a new warning, "Google Warning: ‘Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files on {your domain}.'" For sites that employ Javascript and CSS coding, this may have been alarming. In this post I will try answer some of the most common questions asked by our clients regarding this warning and what you should do when
Google’s Panda 4.2 update: 10 Things You Need to Know
Google announced today that their latest update, Panda 4.2., began a surprise rollout over the weekend. For the uninitiated, Panda is a Quality Algorithm that has been completely integrated into Google’s main ranking algorithm. This means that when a Panda update is made, sites with poor-quality content are often the first sites to be hit. Google says that this update will rollout throughout the next month and that only 2 to 3% of English language queries have been affected so