SEO

Bing’s Fabrice Canal said on Twitter “Sitemaps are a daily, and ideally real time, snapshots of all relevant pages of your sites.” “Sitemaps must include these main ranking pages,” he added. This was in response to Dawn Anderson posting…
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Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit that links from Wikipedia not only have no SEO value but also those links “will do nothing for your site” from a Google search perspective. In fact, John said all you are doing is “creating extra work…
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Retailers have new ways to control how their products appear in Google search results through the use of robots meta tags and an HTML attribute. These new methods of marking up product pages allow retailers to customize search snippets…
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In this post we will explain conducting keyword research is now more important than ever to understand the latest shifts in consumer intent. Although 100% of SEO professionals worth their salt understand how to dig insights out of Google…
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Over the weekend there has been a lot of chatter about headers and their importance for ranking in Google search. It may have been that what John Mueller said in a recent video hangout was taken a bit out of context (trust me, I know, I…
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An update to Google Chrome will highlight certain pages with a “fast page” label. That’s determined based on whether they provide a good user experience. Google’s definition of providing a good user experience means meeting or exceeding…
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Google has another SEO mythbusting video, this one is on canonicalization and it is with Rachel Costello and Martin Splitt. Martin Splitt explained first you need to understand that canonicalization is about duplication management –…
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You know that Google Search on some browsers can now highlight text and even scroll down to the portion of the page with the text from the search results page to your web page. Well, now it seems to also work not just in web searches…
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Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter “links are definitely not the most important SEO factor.” This comes shortly after he said to forget everything you have read in the past about link juice. Here are the tweets: Links are definitely not…
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Google’s John Mueller said that “best way to improve indexing is to create great – Tech& compelling – Techout, and which users recommend to others.” Google has said that many indexing issues are related to quality issues. John…
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