If you have a blog, or any site for that matter, and want to have high SERPs, then you must have a high domain authority (DA). While SEO is great and keywords are a part of your DA, if your overall score for the domain authority is low, you will not be seen by the search engines. So, how do you go about increasing your presence? Here are 5 ways to increase domain authority of your website effectively in order … Continue Reading…
When most people think of search engine optimization (SEO), they tend to associate it with optimizing text-based content using keywords. However, websites nowadays no longer rely solely on text, and odds are yours uses its fair share of images too. As such, it is important that you optimize your image SEO as well if you want to rank well on search engines. Although you may be used to dealing with SEO in general, image SEO is a slightly different beast. … Continue Reading…
Ever visit a website that was painfully slow? It’s safe to say that the majority of us have. Interestingly, most of us didn’t really start to care about site speed up until a couple of years ago. So what changed? That’s simple: Our attention span. With practically every person and their dog owning a smartphone and/or tablet. The world of “instant” everything has rapidly expanded, causing most users to have high expectations, especially as more advancements are constantly being introduced … Continue Reading…
When you search Google with a question, it tries to answer it immediately. Try this: write the keywords how to breathe for Pilates in the search engine. What you see at the top of the result is a snippet. It gives you a definition of the term, practically answering your question straight away, so you don’t even have to visit the page. The point is: if you want to take your search further, that’s the page you’ll probably visit. That’s … Continue Reading…
Most novice web designers approach SEO awkwardly, like an alien from Area 51. Many of them also believe that web design and SEO are completely independent of each other. It is absolutely possible to find an SEO expert who solely focuses on onsite SEO like creating keywords, header tags, Meta tags and Meta descriptions, completely ignorant of the parameters of website designing. On the other hand, web designers are hardly even known to bother with SEO as their buck stops … Continue Reading…
The next Google Penguin update may be named as penguin 4.0, will step into the market as soon as possible and we all should aware of its consequences. Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter that the coming Google Penguin update will be the last Penguin update. He further added, “It’s likely there won’t be next one,” Latest Updates in Penguin Penguin 3.0 — October 17, 2014 Before one and a half year, the Google had launched a Penguin refresh … Continue Reading…
Companies of all sizes can be fooled by SEO companies offering cheap services with a guarantee of being on the first page within weeks on an ultracompetitive search term. These services are too good to be true in nearly all cases as even the ones that might work can lead you to a Google penalty or de-indexing within a few months. Having a good SEO company is going to cost you quite a bit of money. This money is worth … Continue Reading…
Not many online marketers and SEO experts know exactly how Google’s indexing algorithm. To make it short and crisp, here in this article, I will not elaborate any technical aspects of Google indexing methods, but rather focus on the techniques and best practices around the subject. I will only list out all points that we need to follow in time of releasing a new website. The following points will definitely help your new website to get indexed quickly by Google … Continue Reading…
The digital world is changing and evolving at a very rapid pace, and the norms that have worked and is applicable before no longer have the same impact today than it does a while back. This applies to all aspects, including the behavior of search users and all other attributes that affect Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Some might be saying and spreading the wrong notions that SEO doesn’t have the same powers and impact it had on the search just … Continue Reading…
SEO has emerged out to be one of the most important aspects of building and running a website. Thanks to Google’s preference for search engine optimized websites, it has become imperative for website owners to optimize their sites in order to ensure the continued success of their online business. However, due to the complexity of SEO and the number of steps involved in its implementation, only a handful of websites make it to the top of the search engine rankings, … Continue Reading…