Four tips that make sure that SEO works for your website
All website owners need more traffic and more sales. Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the best ways to reach these goals. Many people lose a lot of money because they don’t use...
All website owners need more traffic and more sales. Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the best ways to reach these goals. Many people lose a lot of money because they don’t use...
In a webmaster hangout, a webmaster asked if it was a positive ranking factor if a visitor filled out a form or spent time on a website. Google’s John Mueller said that this is...
On Twitter, Google’s Gary Illyes said that links that point to non-existent (404) pages on your website do not count. This even applies to “soft” 404 pages, i.e. pages that show an error message...
Now that Google penalizes websites with bad backlinks, getting high quality backlinks has become even more important than it was before. Many people say that content matters most, which is true to some degree....
It seems that some webmasters add a noindex command to the robots.txt file of their website when they go on vacation. Google’s John Mueller has said on Google+ that you should not do that:...
Search engine optimization is so important that even Google is looking for SEO managers who help it to improve the organic rankings of their web pages. If you think that your website does not...
In a Google Hangout, Google’s John Mueller explained why the latest Panda 4.2 rollout update is taking months instead of weeks: “[The Panda rollout] is actually pretty much a similar update to before. For...
In a post on Google’s Webmaster Central blog, Google’s John Mueller explained how Google handles new top level domains (TLDs) such as .guru or .how. Here are the details: 1. Google does not favor...
In an online discussion, Google’s Gary Illyes said that rich snippets markup should not be used on the home page of a website: “Review rich snippets should only be used in cases where ‘the...
The HTTPS ranking signal that was announced by Google some weeks ago has not been very significant to many webmasters. Google’s Gary Illyes commented on that on Twitter: @MattSouthern more like a dealbreaker. All...
There are a lot of legitimate reasons to use ‘display:none’ in the CSS of a web page. However, you should be aware that Google gives hidden content less weight. Google’s Gary Illyes has explained...
Have your rankings dropped recently? Don’t panic. Before you do anything, you should find the cause of the problem. The better you understand the reason why your rankings dropped, the better you can prevent...
Rich snippets help you to improve the look of your website on Google’s search results pages. Google uses Schema.org markup to create the rich snippets on the result pages. The rich snippet creator in...