Microsoft Bing has announced the re-launch of Bing Site Explorer. Don’t be fooled, Bing Site Explorer is a complete revamp from the old version. Bing did not simply migrate the feature from the old version of Bing Webmaster Tools to the new version of Bing Webmaster Tools. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft told us, “This is […]
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How to Identify Site Quality for Link Building
How to evaluate a site for “quality” is the most misunderstood concept in SEO. As a result, you may be leaving sites out of your outreach that can drive ranking, or you may be including sites that will provide no value or potentially get you penalized. This presentation is for digital marketers who want to […]
4 ways to speed up your Shopify site
Page speed is a Google ranking factor, but its influence isn’t limited to your organic visibility. For e-commerce sites, speed is always a concern because low page load times improve the user experience and, in turn, conversion rates. The fastest Shopify sites share some common characteristics. “They generally use a very, very lightweight theme, very […]
Google site command bug being fixed
Google is working on a fix with the site command, a command used to restrict the search results to a specific domain name. Google said “we are aware of an issue with the site: command that may fail to show some or any indexed pages from a website. We are investigating this and any potentially […]
Web Vitals come to Google’s Test My Site tool
Google is continuing its emphasis on speed to get site owners to improve their mobile web experiences for users. After rebuilding its Test My Site tool last year, Google has now added speed recommendations aimed at improving user experiences. This includes showing speed metrics that are aligned with the Web Vitals reporting that rolled in […]
Bing Webmaster Tools new Site Scan feature finds SEO issues
There is a new feature that was just released in the new version of Bing Webmaster Tools, it is called Site Scan. Site Scan is a site audit tool which crawls your site and checks for common technical SEO issues. You can access this in the new Bing Webmaster Tools over here. What is Site […]
Did you know that over 60% of organic site visits come from mobile?
Mobile. Is. Everything. Including tablet traffic, mobile devices generated more than 60% of organic site visits, according to Merkle’s 2019 report. What does this mean to you, the SEO?This should cement the idea that websites should be mobile-first and not just responsive. Page load times on mobile also play an important role, with Google penalizing […]
To push or fetch site content: How Google and Bing diverge [Video]
[embedded content] “Eventually search engines can reduce crawling frequency of sites to detect changes and refresh the indexed content,” Bing wrote when it increased the number of URLs webmasters could submit for indexing and crawling from 10 to 10,000 per day. Enabling site owners to submit URLs directly to its search engine decreases Bing’s costs […]
Recruitment SEO: How to create a well-optimized career section on your site
When you are advertising and ready to hire top talent, it’s important to have a strong, consistent and well-optimized presence on job posting sites, high-traffic job boards and LinkedIn. If a job candidate is interested in your company, he or she will immediately go into research mode and scour the Internet for more information. You […]