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How Google indexes passages of a page and what it means for SEO

Google will begin passage based indexing later this year for English languages. It is a ranking change, not an indexing change. Among the slew of changes to search Google announced Thursday, we wanted to delve deeper into the passage-based indexing announcement. Passage-based...
Posted On 21 Jan 2021
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Video: Anthony Church on conversion tracking & SEO

We are not only in the SEO industry, we both went to the same university — go figure! In this vlog series, I met with Anthony Church, VP of client services at Interact Marketing; he works for Joe Beccalori, who I interviewed before. Anthony and I went to the same university,...
Posted On 08 Jan 2021
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Google Home Hub: An SEO perspective

It might be time to start focusing more on creating YouTube videos for your content with the release of the Google Home Hub. Google began shipping the Google Home Hub, the Google Assistant with a display, to consumers last week. After having a few days to play with the Google...
Posted On 22 Dec 2020
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With so many choices, which SEO tool is right for you?

Compiled from the latest research, this 55-page report is your source for the latest trends, opportunities and challenges facing the market for SEO software tools as seen by industry leaders, vendors and their customers. In this report you will learn: Who the leading players are...
Posted On 14 Dec 2020
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Compare 17 top SEO tools and platforms

Organic search remains the most important step in the purchase funnel. But with hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and even millions of pages, sites, social conversations, images and keywords to manage and optimize, SEO has become increasingly complicated and time-consuming....
Posted On 03 Dec 2020
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How reputation became a major ranking factor in SEO

To stay on top today, you need to be diligent in assessing your site’s usability and the quality of its content. Over 10 years ago, I predicted that Google could use quality scoring for organic rankings, and I also proposed a number of ways they could quantify the quality...
Posted On 20 Nov 2020
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How to keep your SEO team (and yourself) relevant

Ongoing education, conferences and case study discussions not only help clients but also your own career growth. Weekly rank tracking. Optimization meetings with the media, copy, UX and dev teams. Monthly analytics reporting with the client. And decks. So many decks. With so much...
Posted On 05 Nov 2020
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What passage indexing and natural language processing mean for the future of SEO

Google’s recent updates provide SEOs with more freedom to focus on users instead of bots. Taken in totality, Google’s recent announcements on its expanding use of natural language understanding algorithms represent a major evolution in how it determines what content gets surfaced...
Posted On 27 Oct 2020
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Report: 51% of web site hacks related to SEO spam

One of the biggest reasons a site gets hacked is for SEO purposes. A report released by Sucuri states that over half of sites hacked in 2018 were done so for SEO reasons. These hacks target web sites in order to try to manipulate the success of a site’s SEO campaign and boost its...
Posted On 14 Oct 2020
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SEOs frustrated by Google’s belated pagination announcement

Apparently, people don’t like being kept in the dark. This week, SEOs learned that Google stopped supporting the rel=prev/next markup (that indicates a web page is part of a larger set of pages) within its indexing process years ago. Having factored rel=prev/next into their site...
Posted On 03 Oct 2020
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