Like many of my search colleagues, I genuinely enjoy seeing my search engine optimization (SEO) projects succeed. I like seeing client sites in Position Zero. I like seeing client listings in the People Also Ask section of a search engine results page (SERP). I especially like seeing top search listings with rich snippets − such…
Keyword research is an integral part of any SEO marketer’s job. But according to a study compiled a few years back, few people actually love keyword research. Keyword research was ranked as one of the top three most difficult tasks by SEO professionals (behind link building and content creation). That might be because 66% of…
European antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said yesterday at a conference that Google’s efforts to drive more traffic to European comparison shopping rivals have essentially failed. This is a reversal of her previous, qualified support for the changes Google made in response to a European Commission finding in 2017 that the company had “abused its market…
Yes, the editing pane is still awkwardly placed to take up a giant chunk of the right side of the screen, but Google Ads Editor’s latest version does offer some handy updates. Edit pane. Speaking of that edit pane, now you can at least condense some fields to hide them so there’s a bit less…
E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) is a concept Google first published in its 2014 edition of the Search Quality Guidelines. These guidelines are used during Google’s search quality evaluations, in which it hires thousands of quality reviewers who are tasked with manually reviewing a set of webpages and submitting feedback about the quality of those…
One of the hottest topics and hotly debated threads on r/ppc is about rates and what you should charge. What does an agency charge? What should I charge as a freelancer? How do you charge if you do work on Amazon versus Google or Facebook? Different ways to charge clients There are a lot of…
It’s typically a good thing when you find out your website is ranking for a keyword you’ve been targeting, right? But what happens when, upon further investigation, you learn that the page you wanted to rank for a particular keyword isn’t the page that Google wanted to rank? (And that it’s another page on your…
Aja Frost, senior SEO strategist at Hubspot, explains how she helped restructure the SEO strategy at the company. Specifically how Hubspot uses a topic cluster approach to building out “content universes” that have “pillar pages” for the higher level content. Our interview goes into how the company structures its content around these topic clusters and…
Google is good at its job. Sometimes, a little too good – indexing pages it was never meant to find. Undesirable URLs that are not contained in your sitemap. Orphaned URLs not linked on your website. Bizarre URLs you may not even know exist. Most SEO professionals worry about getting pages into the Google index.…
Google held its Google Webmaster Conference event for the first time at its Mountain View, California headquarters on Monday. Here are five tips and trends we took away from the event. Structured data. Over the years, Google has continued to roll out new support for additional structured data markups and continues to expand support for…