Editor’s note: “Ask an SEO” is a weekly column by technical SEO experts Jenny Halasz and Kristine Schachinger. Come up with your hardest SEO question and fill out our form. You might see your answer in the next #AskanSEO post! This week for “Ask An SEO”, we have a question from Amir in California: “Can…
On your solid foundation of a technically sound site with a logical architecture designed for the best user experience possible, you can now begin to craft a content strategy that will attract – then convert – your ideal audience. Hopefully, you’ve worked your way through keyword and competitive research and have those insights at hand…
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ADVERTISEMENT Instagram has been found testing several upgrades to stories that include a layout mode, new boomerangs, and redesigned icons. This test was discovered by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, whose track record for finding unreleased features is second-to-none. In the screenshot Wong shared on Twitter you can see the new icons and several…
Google’s John Mueller recently advised the company’s mobile-friendly test doesn’t follow the rules written in robots.txt files. This topic came up in a Google Webmaster Central hangout where a question was asked about the mobile-friendly test and its relation to crawling and indexing. Here is the question that was submitted: “If I can see my…
Editor’s note: “Ask an SEO” is a weekly column by technical SEO experts Jenny Halasz and Kristine Schachinger. Come up with your hardest SEO question and fill out our form. You might see your answer in the next #AskanSEO post! Welcome to another edition of Ask an SEO! Here’s today’s question from Benu at Santa Clara: Does the content…
Google revealed new details about its indexing issues in April, saying part of the search index was temporarily lost. On April 5th, Google accidentally dropped pages from its search index while it was pushing out an update to its data centers. Apparently, this only affected a small number of documents, but it was not small…
Around three-quarters of U.S. internet users regularly or always search for visual content prior to making a purchase, according to eMarketer; only 3% never do. When it comes to shopping online, product images create a positive experience for potential customers. Many experts share that featuring multiple professional images for a product helps reduce customer uncertainty,…
A new report on retail digital ad spending in 2019 reveals that paid search is the fastest growing ad format. In total, retail advertisers in the US will spend $13.12 billion on search in 2019, which is up 22.5% from last year. In 2020, spending is projected to grow to $15.65 billion. It’s stated in…