
What 3,000 voice search queries tell us about the ‘Voice Search Revolution’
You may have heard a voice search revolution is upon us. It seems a new article pops up every day saying marketers need to drop...

Case study: On-page + off-page SEO working together = success
I encounter many people who believe the basic blocking and tackling of search engine optimization (SEO) execution is losing its value,...

How to create content to support local SEO and rock the rankings
The rise of mobile search has led to many changes in SEO, but none more dramatic than the area of local search. By now, most of us are...

The need for speed: Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate development of WordPress ecosyst
Google has invested heavily in shaping the architecture of the web, working with developers, the open-source community and the SEO...

Four new search trends in mobile app discovery
Recently, Google reported 80 percent of users churn within three months of downloading an app. Meanwhile, over on TechCrunch, a study...

What to get right before launching a global business
Taking your brand to an international stage is exciting. You reach untapped audiences and expose your brand, product and services to a...

Channel your inner explorer to find link-building prospects
Every time I conduct an in-house survey and ask my linking team, “What do you think is the hardest part of your job,” they answer, “The...

How to use brand mentions for SEO, or the linkless future of link building
Google has used links to determine the authority of websites since its early days: the idea of webpages casting “votes” for other pages...

Google Questions and Answers: Everything you need to know
Google launched the Questions and Answers feature in August of 2017, but it has been surprisingly underutilized by both marketers and...

Will AMP improve your rankings? How to set up an AMP test
page speed will become a mobile ranking factor later this year, right around the same time the full rollout of the mobile-first index is...

How AI can uncover new insights and drive SEO performance
In 2015, Google announced that it had added RankBrain to its algorithm, cementing the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in...

3 SEO tasks to start 2018 off with a bang
I’d like to help you start 2018 off with a bang by earning three simple wins that will set the stage for further success and growth, not...

The unique selling proposition: A key element for SEO success
Google processes trillions of searches per year, which equates to billions of searches each day. How do they decide what is the most...

Website redesigns: How to retain and improve your SEO
A new website should be an opportunity to improve SEO, conversion rates and digital marketing as a whole. Unfortunately, it can also be...

What’s next for technical SEO?
It seems as though technical SEO is experiencing a resurgence in popularity. In 2016, Mike King believed that we were on the cusp of...

Bizarre review schema implementation spotlights gaps between Google’s guidelines & how rich res
Review snippets, in which review stars appear next to your SERP listing, have long been among the most coveted rich results sought out by...

4 reports you can pull from Ahrefs that you didn’t know existed
Author’s note: Besides being a customer of Ahrefs, I have no affiliation with the tool, and this is not a paid article. Ahrefs is a...

SEO trends and Google changes to expect in 2018
We’re already over a week into 2018, and the start of a new year is a great time to check in and see where we stand as an industry — and...

Best practices for qualifying your link opportunities
Links are an essential part of the internet. In the early days of the web, links were not seen as “ranking signals” but as relevant...
























