The beginning of a new year is an ideal time to build a new content strategy for your business. One of the easiest tactics to generate new traffic is also one of the most overlooked: Updating and expanding your old content. The benefits of content upgrades Unlike fine wine, the content on your site doesn’t…
The success of any given campaign can depend on your team’s ability to get buy-in from the right individuals. Sometimes, it’s upper management and other times it’s your web developer counterparts who are likely juggling their own set of priorities. “The ultimate goal is the same,” said Jenny Jiang, SEO developer for design and engineering…
Consulting is not easy work – no matter the industry or skill level. There’s no sugar-coating it. While challenging, it’s also extremely rewarding. Unfortunately, I don’t have a cheat code that I can give you to become (and remain) a great consultant. It takes hard work, dedication, and constant learning and improvement. The good news…
It’s been 15 years since their first interview, but Search Engine Land’s contributing editor Barry Schwartz recently had the honor to talk with search industry pioneer Mike Grehan once again. As Barry puts it, “Mike has been in the industry before there was an industry.” The two discussed the early days of search, how far…
Google updated its best practices documentation on mobile-first indexing with a significant amount of additional information. The document is designed to help site owners ensure they’re providing the best possible experience to users whether they’re accessing the site on a mobile or desktop device. Using the Wayback Machine, I compared an archived version of Google’s…
In Barry Schwartz’s latest video interview, we talk to Josef Sperzel about how he got into technical SEO, site architecture and spider crawling issues, and why he’s most excited about utilizing Python to create data visualizations to streamline the day-in and day-out processes of technical SEO. “It’s the core of what I’m really into now,”…
ADVERTISEMENT In a world overrun with thousands of entrepreneurs and wannapreneurs, achieving success is tougher than ever. This goes for any type of business or personal venture. Regardless if you run a digital marketing agency, sell toiletries, diagnose medical problems, or author books, you must stick out among the noise. And it all begins with…
Now that the Google January 2020 core update is mostly rolled out, we have asked several data providers to send us what they found with this Google search update. All of the data providers agree that this core update was a big one and impacted a large number of web sites. The facts. What we…
Not all website elements are created equal. Some matter – and some matter a ton. So what are your site’s standout elements? Here are five: Customer reviews. Ratings. Product pricing. Recipe ingredients (if your website is about cooking). Your company’s operating hours. It’s pretty obvious to you how important these elements are to your site.…
ADVERTISEMENT Tune in to this week’s episode of Marketing O’Clock to hear Jess Budde, Greg Finn, and Christine “Shep” Zirnheld deliver the latest digital marketing news. Google shakes things up on desktop SERPs Jess tells you about Google’s desktop facelift, featuring more favicons and less-prominent ad labeling. Changes coming to Chrome Greg talks about the…