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E-commerce sites face a unique situation in the current crisis: items that are going in and out of stock rapidly. How do you deal with temporarily out-of-stock items and still maintain search rankings?
Modern SERPs require modern understanding, and that means paying close attention to location and how it affects rankings. Learn about getting data that represents true traffic in this edition of Whiteboard Friday.
If you’ve been an SEO for even a short time, you’re likely familiar with Google Search Console (GSC). It’s a valuable tool for getting information about your website and its performance in organic search. That said, it does have its limitations. In this post, you’ll learn how to get better-connected data out of Google Search Console and increase the size of your exports by 400%.
The majority of your potential customers still use Google to find local businesses near them. In fact, 80% of searches with “local intent” result in a conversion. This begs the question: “What’s the best way to catch the attention of local searchers on Google?” The answer: through Google Maps marketing.
Expert content isn't out of reach. In this Whiteboard Friday, Russ Jones arms you with the tools and processes to expand your content all the way from prompt to paragraph to published piece
The team at iProspect started noticing that YMYL queries that should return local (UK) content in Google's "People Also Ask" results actually have a heavy influence from the US. They decided to analyze over 1,000 of the most-searched-for keywords in the finance industry to see how much of an issue this actually is.
Within Google's Index Coverage report, there are many different statuses that provide webmasters with information about how Google is handling their site content. While many of the statuses provide some context around Google’s crawling and indexation decisions, one remains unclear: “Crawled — currently not indexed”. This post will help you identify some of the most common reasons this mysterious status might be affecting your website, and how to address them.
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Negative SEO can hurt your website and your work in search, even when your rankings are unaffected by it. Russ Jones dives into what negative SEO is, what it can affect beyond rankings, and tips on how to fight it.
Domenica D'Ottavio of Fractl shows how businesses across seven niches can set realistic expectations for their link-building content, based on insights from over 600 projects Fractl has produced and promoted in the last five years.
Instead of signaling via SEO, CTR, USPs, and GMB, let’s relax with clients by relating successful local search marketing practices to experiences people at any level of technical proficiency already understand.
As a result of Google’s dedication to combating misinformation and fake news, we could reasonably expect searchers to agree that Google has improved in its ability to surface credible and trusted content. But does the average searcher actually feel that way? Path Interactive conducted a survey to find out how users feel about the information they encounter in Google’s organic results.
Are you building links the right way? Or are you still subscribing to outdated practices? Britney Muller clarifies which link building tactics still matter and which are a waste of time (or downright harmful) in one of our favorite classic Whiteboard Fridays.
If it seems like the #1 organic result keeps getting pushed down farther and farther, that's because it is. We explore the Y-position of 10,000 SERPs to see how things have changed since our 2013 study.