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SEO is a broad field and applies to three distinct areas of optimization for your site to do well in search engines. You can and should do two of those phases yourself. Discover what they are, what you must know about them, plus the difference in white and black hat SEO.
The Yoast SEO plugin has a new setup wizard. Here’s what will happen if you use it in this BlogAid Today Tip
Bots crawl your site all the time. Some are good bots from search engines like Google. Some are bad bots, like link spammers and hackers. The robots.txt file allows you to give bots the direction those bots need to crawl your site in the most expedient way, and keep them out of areas where they have no business being.
Discover best SEO practices for updating and deleting posts, 404 errors, redirects, and how to avoid Google penalties.
Google Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) will re-release near the end of February, 2016. So far, two plugins have been created for WordPress that support the special tags needed to serve a stripped down, super-fast version of your blog posts on mobile.
See how each of them fared in extensive tests, and what tricks and tips you need to know to add more components like video, embedded Tweets, and others.
Join us to discuss whether SEO plugins work well, if taking the time to create the custom meta description and social elements are worth it, and the top ways these plugins can actually do more harm than good.
Nothing about site ownership is set it and forget it. My recommendations have changed considerably throughout 2015. With site audits, I’ve helped a lot of clients recover from following bad tech advice from gurus with groupies too. Here’s a quick checklist of what’s changed and my top recommendations to ensure your site is secure and performing at peak for the new year.
Dates on posts affect SEO more than you might imagine. They can also affect CTR, or Click Through Rate. In this Blab my special guest +Mark Traphagen cleared up misinformation, and misunderstandings of good information concerning tips for taking advantage of the Google Freshness Alogrithm, along with tips on how to keep your posts relevant.
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