UPDATED as of March 2020. As an SEO, you know that Google constantly changes. The list of “best practices” that worked in 2012 are dead and gone, and there are bucketloads of changes with each year that goes by. The only tricky part? Google doesn’t reveal its algorithms. And though they update the algorithms often, […]
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Reporting has always been an integral part of search engine optimization. A quality SEO report is necessary to ensure that you or your clients can easily measure and compare (with previous reports) the ROI from their online marketing. That’s how you know whether your business is growing or not. Generally, pulling a monthly report is
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If you’ve been publishing articles or blog posts for several years, there’s a good chance that you have a ton of content that isn’t ranking and doesn’t get any traffic. It may be dated, it may be irrelevant to your business or it may just not be very good. So what do you do with
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