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How and Why To Set Up Google Search Console for Your WordPress Site
Google Search Console, formerly known as Webmaster Tools, is a must-have for your WordPress site. It is a free account which will give you a lot of useful information about the search health of your …
How to Add Schema Markup to Your WordPress Site
A website owner’s top priority should be ensuring that search engines are able to properly index their site’s content. In order to make that happen, the site must be set up to follow Search Engine …
WordPress Sitemap Guide: What It Is and How to Use It
If you’ve ever sat down and read an article on SEO, you’ve probably come across the terms sitemap and/or XML sitemap. But while sitemaps are a fairly common SEO recommendation, there aren’t a ton of …
WordPress Robots.txt Guide – What It Is and How to Use It
Ever heard the term robots.txt and wondered how it applies to your website? Most websites have a robots.txt file, but that doesn’t mean most webmasters understand it. In this post, we hope to change that …
Negative SEO (Case Study) – Cleaning up an Attack With Ahrefs
Negative SEO is something no business wants to have to deal with. It’s not fun, it damages your site in search engines, and can be time-consuming to clean up. However, as the web continues to …
The Complete Guide to Using The Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin
This guide is current as of March 2017. Get The PDF: Download the PDF version of this guide for easy reading! While some general aspects of SEO will be touched on in this guide in …
WordPress SEO Checklist – 45 Tips to Increase Traffic by 571% in 13 Months
Some might lead you to believe “SEO is dead.” Google that search term and what comes back in return is over 800,000 search results. However, just because SEO has changed drastically over the past decade …
A Practical, Quantifiable Take On SEO Marketing
Whatever You Do, Create Useful Content There is a balance to SEO optimization. SEO shouldn’t be the main focus of your undertaking. The main focus is to sell your product, not stuff so many keywords …
A responsive website is now more important than ever
In a few days Google will change the way it decides what will be shown in the results when people search for something using a smartphone. That simple sentence doesn’t sound earth-shattering but it will …
Be careful what you comment on
Over the last few months I have been receiving increasing numbers of emails which go along the lines of: Two years ago I made a comment on your article (TITLE HERE), which linked to my …
Quick Tip: Google Keyword Tool Shutting Down
The Google Keyword tool which is an essential tool for researching keywords – finding search volume and related phrases etc is shutting down and is going to be replaced with their new tool called Keyword …
Don’t be fooled by Pass4Sure
Today I received an enquiry sent via my contact page, offering me US$175 if I place some advertising on my site in a certain way. Here’s the full text of the enquiry: Name: Fred Jackson …
WordPress Webinars & Classes Announced!
It’s been a little while since I’ve done any WordPress webinars or in-person classes. But I finally got around to setting up a few. Just to clarify, webinars take place online only whereas classes are …
XML and HTML Sitemaps For Your WordPress Site – The Basics
Most people have heard they need a sitemap so Google will like their site but what are they and how do you go about creating one? Sitemaps are recommended for search engine optimization to help …
XML and HTML Sitemaps For Your WordPress Site – The Basics
Most people have heard they need a sitemap so Google will like their site but what are they and how do you go about creating one? Sitemaps are recommended for search engine optimization to help …
Have Your Face Show Up In Google Results
Have you noticed how some Google listings show a wee photo of the author along with a link to their Google Plus profile? This nifty feature is part of Google Authorship which is a way …
A Little Taste of The Beginner’s Guide To SEO Ebook
My ebook “Beginner’s Guide to SEO for Business” is launching very soon and I wanted to give you a little sneak preview of what’s coming. Check out some pages from the book below. (Tip – …
Beginner’s Guide To SEO Ebook Coming Soon
Search engine optimization can seem eternally confusing. It’s one of the things that clients want to know about the most, but are also a little intimidated by. There’s tons of SEO advice out there, and …
Beginner’s Guide To SEO Ebook Coming Soon
Search engine optimization can seem eternally confusing. It’s one of the things that clients want to know about the most, but are also a little intimidated by. There’s tons of SEO advice out there, and …
My Three Favorite Backlink Research Tools for SEO
One of the most important factors in off-site Search Engine Optimization (SEO), is backlinks. A backlink is simply a link from another website, to your website. Search engines see links as “votes”, so the more …