Category: SEO

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the art of helping a document rank higher in search engines like Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo.

In this category you’ll find tips, insights, and unique research to help power your own SEO efforts.

This Line in Robots.txt Will Make WordPress Websites Appear as Not Mobile-Friendly to Google

Ever since Google began to focus on the loading speed and experience of a website they have requested access for their crawler (known as Googlebot) to CSS and JS files on a website. This dates back to 2012 when then Google community liasion Matt Cutts requested this access...

Everything We Know About Google’s Desktop Page Experience Update February 2022

Google just announced a new algorithm update is rolling out, one we have been waiting on since last year, a Page Experience Update for desktop searches. The page experience update is now slowly rolling out for desktop. It will be complete by the end of March 2022. Learn...

How to Check Your Keyword Rankings for Free

Search engine rankings for purchase intent keywords can drive large amounts of business growth, but they are always changing and shifting around. If you’re working with an SEO agency they should provide a rank tracking solution of some kind to see your keyword rankings daily or at least...

How to Automatically Add Internal Links to Your WordPress Site

One of the most annoying parts of running a WordPress website is manually editing documents to add links to other important pages. Depending on the size of your website adding a new page that needs links from older articles or blog posts could mean editing hundreds or thousands...

The Best SEO Research Studies of 2021

Every year SEO consultants, agencies, and software providers perform hundreds of research studies in an attempt to uncover parts of a search engine’s algorithms, to discover what is driving observable changes in search results, and to better understand the behavior of consumers interacting with search results. Part of...

Everything We Know About Google’s December 2021 Product Reviews Algorithm Update

Today the “Google Search Central” Twitter account announced a new algorithm update designed to improve the quality of product reviews ranking in Google’s search results. Called the “December 2021 product reviews update” by the announcement this update is hyper-specific in the type of content it is meant to...

Everything We Know About Google’s November 2021 Core Update

Today the “Google Search Central” Twitter handle announced the release of a new Core Update also known as a “Broad Core Update”. These are updates to Google’s search ranking algorithms and might include refreshing of data about pages and web documents. There is also a chance that websites...

How to Track Google’s Title Tag Changes

Google has been changing title tags in the search results for quite a long time (since at least 2011 or 2012 [citation needed]), but something changed recently and was picked up by SEOs on Twitter. Eventually Google replied that they had indeed made changes to how and when...

Product Ranking Factors Study 2021

Navigate This Research Article Introduction Top Product Ranking Factors for Google Organic Search by Category Top 5 Specific Product Ranking Factors for Google Organic Search Top 20 Specific Product Ranking Factors for Google Organic Search Top Product Ranking Factors for Google Shopping Search by Category Top 5 Specific...

Everything We Know About Google’s Page Experience Update

Update: The Page Experience Update has finally finished rolling out, it took longer than Google had originally estimated. The page experience rollout is complete now, including updates to Top Stories mobile carousel. Changes to Google News app have started to rollout as well and will be complete in...