Your holiday marketing efforts need a strong SEO strategy for reaching more people online. And for better SEO performance you need an ability to perform effective keyword research. Searchmetrics contributor Jordan Koene has published a new podcast episode ‘Building and Assessing a SEO Holiday Keyword List’ featuring Tyson Stockton. Koene says, “Santa is always making his list and checking it twice, and Searchmetrics is following suit with our holiday triage mode checklist to help keep SEOs on track during a hectic holiday season. Join Ben and Searchmetrics’ Director of Services... [...]

You need a well-planned SEO strategy to get more web traffic from search engines. To achieve your search engine marketing goals, you should avoid any kind of mistakes. Authority Labs contributor Ashley Segura has shared eight things that might be hurting your SEO strategy. Segura says, “Decoding the mysteries of search engine optimization can be incredibly frustrating. Before you throw in the towel, let’s take a look at some of the most common mistakes webmasters make that can leave gaping holes in even the best SEO plan. Here are 8 reasons your SEO game might be weak. 1. Mediocre Content Poor... [...]

A title tag is an HTML element that specifies the title of your web page. Title tags appear on search engine result pages in response to search queries. Tags also appear in social media posts and browser tabs. According to Moz “title tags are the second most important on-page factor for SEO, after content”. Title tags help your visitors to know what information will be present when they visit your web page. Seer Interactive’s Zaine Clark has shared four tips to write title tags to get better SEO performance. Clark says, “Title tags are important for various reasons. Title tags... [...]

The robots meta tags and the x‑robots-tag intimate the search engines to crawl and index your website. You need comprehensive knowledge of both these SEO elements to use them in best possible manner. Ahrefs contributor Michal Pecánek has published a short guide on Robots Meta Tag & X‑Robots-Tag to help you understand and use these tags for better SEO. Pecánek says, “In this guide, you’ll learn: What a robots meta tag is Why the robots meta tag is important for SEO The values and attributes of a robots meta tag How to set up the robots meta tag What an X‑Robots-Tag is How... [...]

A strong SEO strategy helps you to improve your website’s overall searchability and visibility which results into better business performance. You have to be very careful in crafting your search engine marketing strategy that can help you to influence the search engines and achieve better results. Craig Campbell has published a new podcast ‘Common Mistakes with Technical SEO’ featuring Arnout Hellemans. Campbell says, “Today we’re going to talk about what you do and some of the most common things that you see when you are hired as a consultant. Some of the common mistakes... [...]

Quality content, targeted keywords, meta title, meta description, backlinks and social media are the ingredients of a strong SEO strategy. To make sure that your site makes it to the Google search result pages, you need to keep your strategies in congruence with the algorithms. Exposure Ninja’s Tim Cameron has published a YouTube video showing how to write page titles and meta descriptions for search engine optimization. Cameron says, “People often ask me what the first thing I optimise on a website is, and 99% of the time it’s the page titles and meta descriptions. These... [...]

It may be hard to believe, but search engine have been around for 25 years, helping internet users find what they are looking for. In the early days, an army of humans collected data and made it available. Yahoo was the best-known search engine taking that approach. They have tried various user interfaces, including an early attempt by Ask Jeeves (renamed now to Ask.Com) at a conversational interface. Long-time internet users may remember the day when Alta Vista was the king of the search engine hill. Since then, there have been many changes to the search engine road map. As search engines have... [...]

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Even if you don’t know what SEO is, Phillip Snipes has training to show you how you can become your own SEO master. With a little guidance, he says you can do it and do it well. Snipes has just released Silent Sniper SEO to show you how it’s done. With help from Snipes, you will find out: • How to Set up your own Domain and Hosting for SEO • How to create your own URL redirection service • How to create your own website instantly • The fastest way to install WordPress • How to create a blog post for SEO • How to Increase search engine ranking with Press... [...]

In this SEO training course, Andy Bolton takes a case study approach. His site rose quickly to the top of Google in a niche with 12 million search results. He was competing in a sub-niche of SEO. It’s very competitive, and many highly paid SEO professionals are competing for the top spot. Even against all these experts, he reached the number 1 spot in less than 6 months.The chances are that your niche isn’t as competitive, so you should do pretty well with this approach. In How I got to number 1 in Google he walks you through his process for reaching the top spot. With his step-by-step... [...]