It's becoming simple for even a novice webmaster to add semantic markup to their pages. You can attribute some of this success to the authorship associated with my Google+ and our website being connected correctly.
Overall site traffic dropped 31 percent, and the major revenue producing pages on the site dropped nearly 50 percent. While the organic search traffic to this particular set of pages was lost forever, the organic search traffic to the rest of the...
While Google's Keyword Tool is a place to look for traffic estimates, keyword traffic reports based on conversion or other site performance metrics (like bounce rate, time on site, pages/visit, etc) are important for determining relevance to...
Even when compared to the 15 percent who use the Internet on a weekly basis to find local business and the 7 percent who use it on a daily basis, it is still pretty surprising about the lack of Internet adoption by those trying to find local...
No one wants to link to an ecommerce domain that only has product pages, bare minimum content, and sells discount yoga music. Build links like Google doesn't exist – links that are creative, helpful, and useful not just to the linkee but to the...
That, in and of itself would be bad enough, but I was faced with taking the data that was available (about eight months worth) and figuring out what the top pages were and what keywords brought those visitors in through Google's organic listings.
Web research suggests that web pages are normally viewed from left-center to right, with substantially less focus paid to the right-hand side. The most common example of this are the Google AdWords listings in the Google search results.
Search engine service providers are not responsible, on the basis of the Data Protection Directive, for personal data appearing on web pages they process," the court said in communicating Jääskinen's opinion.
Align your goals with your ad copy, landing pages, and website – and don't reward visitors for something other than what you're hoping for. Many advertisers also unwittingly "reward for A while hoping for B", often with distractions and pop-overs...
And just to be clear, I draw a distinction between linkable assets and content with commercial content, like sales-driven copy or SEO landing pages. By getting those links, you help float the trust, authority, and relevancy of your domain, which...
Good reviews, content, and engagement on search engine local pages (Google+) With basic SEO out of the way, you now need to think about straightening out your business listings and optimizing your off-site local pages like Google+, Yahoo, Bing...
Learning Curve: Understanding how to use the framework to construct pages can range from easy to difficult. Google has raised its demand for a quality user experience, so it's no wonder responsive design is back on everyone's mind.
Some pages on this site may have been hacked by a third party to display spammy content or links. Some of the pages may contain hidden text and/or keyword stuffing. While you can have some pages that are less, make sure it isn't a large percentage...
He went on to say that a startling 50 percent of his new clients don't have their analytics tracking properly, which might include double-counting sales, have pages that are missing the script, etc. So one of the first things you want to do...
In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by increasing the number of high-quality sites that link to their pages. For years webmasters have been following one of SEO’s golden rules: get lots of quality backlinks in order to help...
On Pages 2, 3 and 4, traffic dropped by 27 percent, 11.3 percent and 5.4 percent respectively from the first position to second position. According to the study, the top listing in Google's organic search results receives 33 percent of the traffic...
You may find a few places on your site where you went a little crazy stuffing a meta tag or creating pages for each keyword you want to rank for when the only conceptual difference is the presence of the word “cheap” vs the word “discount”.
Having rich data included in snippets when their web pages rank helps both the SEO and the Content Marketer. The presence of rich snippets makes listing standout and drive higher CTRs and traffic/revenue to web pages.
Good news for webmasters who have been struggling to identify links and pages that have been trigger warnings in Google Webmaster Tools. Don't think Google will hold your hand and include every single thing that is wrong with your website, but...
An analysis uncovered issues of duplicate content (same page on two different URLs) for many (thousands of) pages. Numerous "search results" pages were indexed and driving loads of traffic but no sales.
