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Dejan posted a Twitter poll the other day and it received almost 600 responses from within the SEO community. The question was “Good UX impacts rankings.” The responses available were “directly,” “indirectly,” or “neither.” Only 6%...

HTTP is the standard protocol defining how information passes between your visitor’s browser and the server hosting your site and HTTP status codes are your handy way of knowing exactly what is happening within that process. For web marketers, it’s well worth the effort to get...

In your current search marketing efforts, how do your results compare to the industry benchmarks? The marketing and analytics teams at Directive constructed this comprehensive benchmark report including statistics from our 40+ SaaS clients in the year 2018. This report is...

June 13 saw the release of a new tool by London-based company Trint which can assist the crawlability and visibility of video content in search engines. The Trint Player has been unveiled at the Global Editors Network Summit in Athens where it will be used to publish video and...

Let MarTech Today’s ‘Enterprise SEO Platforms: A Marketer’s Guide’ help you make the informed choice. Over the years, Google’s search engine results page (SERP) has evolved from 10 simple blue links to a more dynamic view with Sponsored Ads at the top of the...

Fifteen years ago, if a customer needed a hammer, they’d probably get out a phone book, look up “Hardware Store,” choose the hardware store closest to their house, drive there, go inside, and ask the clerk “Do you sell hammers?” If they happened to be out of hammers, the clerk...

In the practice of SEO, as in life, the only constant is “change.” Even the pace of change in SEO is changing. It’s accelerating as results grow ever richer and more personalized, search engines more numerous and specialized, and searchers increasingly expect to be able to summon...

SEOs need to consider ways to put automation to work while also keeping up with Google’s visual and voice search landscape. Evolving consumer expectations driven by the breakneck speed of technological advancements are pushing marketing teams to the brink. Companies of all sizes...

Publishing original content to your website is, of course, critical for building your audience and boosting your SEO. The benefits of unique and original content are twofold: Original content delivers a superior user experience. Original content helps ensure that search engines...

One of the biggest problems digital marketers face is nuances to crafting high-quality SEO rich content. A great area of opportunity for marketers is their SEO alt text for images. We’ve all been to websites and the image is replaced by a red “X”, or it’s just a blank bo...