It’s an awful feeling, isn’t it? One day you close your laptop safe in the knowledge that your site is getting healthy amounts of search traffic. Then, the next morning, you find out your site has been hit with a Google Penalty. What was once a solid stream of targeted traffic is now nothing more […]
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When one adventure ends a new one begins… 120 days ago I quit my job in Beijing20 days ago I left China7 days ago I moved to a hideout in FranceToday I begin a 90 day adventure to build a 9K+ per month authority site Build a $9K+ Per Month Authority Site in 90 Days
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We’ve said it in 2009, and we’ll say it again: it keeps amazing us that there are still people using just a robots.txt files to prevent indexing of their site in Google or Bing. As a result their site shows up in the search engines anyway. You know why it keeps amazing us? Because robots.txt
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We’ve just launched a new version of the Site Status Tool that provides simpler, clearer results and is better designed for the primary users of the page: people who are visiting the tool from a Safe Browsing warning they’ve received, or doing casual research on Google’s malware and phishing detection. The tool now features a
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If you take your SEO – and users – seriously, you’ll be working on a kick-ass site structure. Setting up a decent site structure is rather hard. Maintaining a solid site structure if your site is growing is even harder. Mistakes are easily made. In this post, I will share 5 common site structure mistakes
The concept of an insanely fast site is something Google has been talking about for a long time. Are you convinced that site speed is your top priority for optimizing user experience in 2017? In this post, I’ll cover: Why site speed matters. How your mobile visitors fit into the equation. The need for speed
In terms of getting the best search rankings, you can broadly break your SEO efforts into two areas: site-wide optimisation and optimising individual pages. Today we’re going to focus on the second of these two subjects, looking at how to maximise the search ranking of every page you publish. By following the steps in this
Photography and SEO In this case study, we dive into the site of a photographer: geoffwilkings.com. Geoff is curious what he could do to improve his website’s SEO. He’s told us he’s 100% about photography and photos but knows he needs textual content to rank. He does have a blog and he wonders if he is
By Mark Zeni Promotion of a site can be a time-consuming and expensive task. This is especially tough if you have reached the initial stage of users and are looking for organic growth. We have compiled a list of 4 creative ways to promote your site that will engage
Update on April 21, 2017: Fake news is in the spotlight again. Google is getting more aggressive about calling out fake news in Google search results. Last October, Google announced that publishers could use schema markup to “show a ‘Fact Check’ tag in Google News for news stories. This label identifies articles that include information
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