Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 18, 2023

SEO can be complicated – in many cases, overcomplicated. It’s easy to get lost in the SEO rabbit hole, spending significant time with minimal results. This article will help you cut through the noise and focus on the four key pillars of SEO that will help you improve visibility in 2024 and beyond.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 19, 2024

Page load speed, among other Core Web Vitals , is a known Google organic ranking factor. While we have the PageSpeed Insights tool, it unfortunately only works on one page at a time. The tool was particularly helpful if you have a large site with thousands of pages to analyze. Cons : Paid tool, desktop-based.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 23, 2024

As SEO professionals, figuring out how to help brands stand out in this new landscape is key to effectively targeting the younger generation. Why meeting searchers’ needs matters more than semantics The anatomy of the TikTok ‘For You’ page Almost all video views come from the “For You” page (FYP) on TikTok.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 26, 2024

App store optimization (ASO) is a bit of a mystery for many SEOs. While SEO is geared toward improving website rankings on search engines like Google, ASO focuses on optimizing mobile apps for stronger visibility and performance within the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. So, let’s start with the basics.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Brands and businesses must balance optimizing their online presence through SEO with providing an excellent customer experience. This raises the question – can SEO redefine client experience, or does it risk overshadowing other important elements of the customer journey? Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on. See terms.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 26, 2024

Stay informed Follow reputable SEO blogs, forums and industry news sources to stay updated on Google algorithm update findings and best practices. With so many moving parts, pinpointing results and actions for your website can seem like an impossible task after a Google algorithm update finishes rolling out.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Despite new trends and innovative tools like AI stealing the limelight occasionally, many competitive industries continue to focus their SEO efforts primarily on building PageRank-passing link building. There are other problems with an SEO strategy based on PageRank-passing link building, too. Unique selling proposition. Performance.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 30, 2024

This article explores nine proven methods to help you turn SEO traffic into sales and leads. Improve your site’s user experience (UX) UX and SEO have been talked about for years and are intrinsically linked, but many sites still haven’t spent time improving UX. Focus on your page speed – slow sites lose 90% of leads.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In case you missed the latest podcast episode of Search Off the Record, Google’s Gary Ilyes stirred up some controversy when he made a comment about HTML structure not mattering much for SEO. Still, that didn’t stop any of the SEO controversy. So, does HTML structure matter for SEO? The answer is: It depends.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 1, 2024

This article explores how these factors collide by examining Google’s use of search engine results page (SERP) list-based features to further their monetary gains while going against their own content guidelines and advice. SEO software, analytics software, ERP software) Date ideas in {location} (e.g.,

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you rely solely on ChatGPT , albeit a powerful tool, you are missing a largely impactful opportunity in SEO – getting recommendations directly from the source. Bard is experimental – so don’t ever rely on Bard blindly for SEO advice. Bard is experimental – so don’t ever rely on Bard blindly for SEO advice.

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Martech

APRIL 18, 2024

The recent shift from “conversions” to “key events” in (GA4) represents a significant change that digital marketers, especially SEO professionals, need to understand and act on. What this change means Let’s start with the impact that measuring key events can have on the career path of SEOs. And who can blame them?

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Hubspot

JULY 8, 2015

The tricky part, of course, is figuring out how to actually optimize your website's pages. After all, reading about SEO best practices in blog posts and ebooks will only help you up to a certain point. And that's exactly where our On-Page SEO Template comes into play. How long should my page titles and descriptions be?

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Optimizing product detail pages (PDPs) is crucial for ecommerce websites. Well-optimized product pages can increase organic traffic, boost conversions, and grow revenue. This comprehensive guide covers key elements of effective product page optimization, including: Structuring clear, descriptive product page URLs.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 11, 2024

By understanding Google’s Knowledge Graph and entity relationships, you can strategically optimize content for increased topical authority and relevance beyond keyword-centric pages. This article will: Explain why entities are key to a strong SEO strategy. Entity analysis offers several key advantages for your SEO strategy.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Google today released the third iteration of its SEO starter guide. This version is about half the size of the second version and is primarily written for people who are SEO newbies. Google’s SEO Starter Guide was originally released in 2008 as a PDF version. SEO theories and ideas. It was last updated in 2017.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 4, 2024

Internal linking has often been a powerful tool for SEO, helping serve as a bridge to connect various webpages. However, the importance of internal linking extends beyond SEO; it’s pivotal in creating a navigable, user-friendly website, especially for people with disabilities. That being said, SEO support alone is not enough.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ever reminisce about the days when sprinkling a few keywords on a page was like hitting the SEO jackpot in the search results? In 2024, the world of SEO is the exact opposite of easy. However, for those of us who love to solve SEO puzzles, it’s an exciting time when we’re faced with new challenges and massive opportunities.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Websites using first-person pronouns, first-hand experience and a cookie consent banner were more likely to see positive visibility gains during Google updates, according to a new correlation study from Zyppy SEO. Credibility and experience are becoming increasingly important elements of SEO, in my opinion. Why we care. About the data.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Here’s how embracing topic clusters can elevate your SEO efforts and meet your audience’s needs more effectively. When websites establish smart connections between their content pages, especially those with similar subject matter, they can gain recognition as authoritative sources. Establish authority. Cluster content.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 6, 2024

One partnership that commonly gets overlooked is between SEO and social media teams – both organic and paid – and how they can collaborate to maximize output, performance, ROI and, most importantly, customer connections. Here are 13 ways SEO and social media teams can work together to produce enhanced results: 1.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 8, 2024

But what exactly defines a “quality” SEO service? This checklist outlines key elements to assess and improve the quality of your SEO services. How to deliver quality services to your SEO clients from day one There’s no one way to define quality. Learn to explain complex SEO concepts in simple words.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 12, 2024

While many factors contribute to experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness ( E-E-A-T ), SEOs focus more on content-based cues. A powerful yet significantly underutilized strategy, internal linking, is crucial in showcasing your website’s E-E-A-T and boosting your SEO performance.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, website migrations come with considerable SEO risks. Without proper SEO planning and execution, a platform migration can lead to a significant loss of organic traffic, revenue and market share. Here are 12 common SEO pitfalls to avoid during a website platform migration. Map out technical and content requirements.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

At a time when brand reputation and visibility are critical, blending SEO with digital PR is a must. This article gives an overview of integrating SEO into digital PR to achieve business goals, plus best practices for effective collaboration and communication. Why support digital PR efforts with tested SEO strategies?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Prompt: Tell me all the points I need to follow to make an EEAT SEO-optimized contact us page Answer: To create an EEAT (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness 1 ) SEO-optimized Contact Us page, consider the following points: 1. Make sure the page loads quickly and is easy to navigate on all devices.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Those tasks can include comparing sets of search results and seeing which is better or comparing pages to see which is more relevant to a query. Thanks to some wording changes in the SEO starter guide and tweets by Google Search Liaison Danny Sullivan, questions are popping up around the topic. How many SEOs abused that?

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 13, 2023

SEOs know that the most valuable career skill is the ability to adapt to change, and there has been an incredible amount of it in the last 12 months. Across the industry, the rate and complexity of adopting AI tools will drive SEO growth and push advantage for audiences that have grown to expect innovation every day.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The real purpose and benefit of SEO isn’t just increasing pageviews or optimizing keywords – it’s about aligning with the true north of business goals and helping to achieve them through search. A myopic focus on inputs, outputs, and details that may or may not move the needle often leads SEOs to miss the forest for the trees.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 11, 2024

Despite the availability of marketing APIs from long-established providers like Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS for over a decade, many search marketers prefer generative AI models for their SEO -related tasks. So, what type of projects can these two approaches be used in SEO for?

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 22, 2024

It allows the search engine to temporarily empower SEOs and brands as a means to an end – extracting data to improve its algorithms and continually improve its understanding of the web. Deploying meta keywords was a way for a webpage to tell a search engine the terms for which the page should be findable. See terms.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With the rise of AI content to help make programmatically generated content more SEO-friendly, many publishers and businesses are considering investing in programmatic SEO. In this article, I’ll explore specific programmatic SEO examples and how they rank in search. that can also trigger these types of pages.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Attracting good traffic to your website and related properties is a great achievement in SEO. SEOs don’t have the luxury of focusing only on transactional keywords and/or relying on direct response-focused landing pages. especially those related to the content on the page. to get those traffic numbers up!

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 26, 2024

Today’s SEO landscape is fraught with uncertainty, marked by: Frequent Google updates. One possible escape route is product-led SEO , which focuses your strategy on your customers’ needs, pains and desires. 5 steps to kickstart your product-led SEO strategy 1. The transformative rise of AI.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 23, 2024

Identify the specific keywords and pages that have been affected. Analyze the data to identify patterns and make data-driven optimizations to your SEO strategy. Continue to create valuable content, build high-quality backlinks, and adhere to best SEO practices. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison told us that Google has “decided to retire it” and removed it from the Google Search result pages and will soon remove the cache completely. Sullivan added that he would like to see Google add links to the Wayback Machine so users can get access to the archived versions of those pages.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

While SEO can be highly effective, it’s not a one-size-fits-all solution for all businesses. SEO might not be the immediate answer to your digital marketing needs. Here’s why SEO may not be the best fit for a business, with alternatives and insights into when it may be a more valuable investment. So what do you do?

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