Since this is a beginner’s guide, it is only fair to start from the very basics. Link building is the process of getting other websites to link to pages on your website to help them rank higher in Google search results. In general, you can boil most “white hat” link building strategies down to two
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Posted By Bill Hartzer on February 18, 2021at 3:21 pm RightOfTheDot.com is holding a live, online domain name auction on February 25, 2021. They’re broadcasting this live domain name auction starting at Noon on February 25, 2021 from College Station, Texas. Pre-Bidding on these domain names is now open, and will continue up until the
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Danny Sullivan shared a photo on Twitter from his photo archives of one of his visits at the Google NYC office. You can see they painted on the wall a message about COVID. To “keep on going, you are almost there.” Danny wrote “About a year ago, I shot this in one of the many
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Google Image Search seems to be testing a compass icon in the image search results that trigger a search refinement feature. When you click on it, it takes you to a section to “explore more” images by showing you related searches. Saad AK spotted this and posted some screenshots on Twitter, but to be honest,
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Google’s John Mueller said on Reddit “no” WhoisGuard, the NameCheap domain privacy setting, does not impact your SEO or rankings on Google. Google does not care if you use domain privacy settings or not when you register your domain name. The question was: Does Whois Guard affect SEO? I have been reading about spammers usually
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Google made a small change to how it plots the core web vitals data in Google Search Console. The change goes into effect on February 17, 2021 and using less than as a boundary, Google is using less than or equal to. Google said this may result in you seeing a change in your red
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GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he kicks off Core Web Vitals week with Searchmetrics’ Senior SEO Strategist Kathy Brown and Senior SEO Strategist Karl Kleinschmidt to talk about everything you need to know about Core Web Vitals. They discuss why you should make the case for Core Web Vitals. One of
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Google’s Gary Illyes said that Google Search can process JavaScript redirects but Google still does not recommend using JavaScript redirects because other search engines might not pick up on it.
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GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues Core Web Vitals week with Searchmetrics’ Senior SEO Strategist Kathy Brown and Senior SEO Strategist Karl Kleinschmidt to discuss one of the metrics of Core Web Vitals LCP (Largest Contentful Paint). Together they chat about addressing and making changes to this metric. When it
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I see a ton, absolutely a ton, of confusion in the SEO industry around the Google launch of passage based ranking. A reminder, according to Google, passage based ranking launched in the US English results in the afternoon of February 10th PST time. But honestly, I do not see any signs of any update rolling
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