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SERP Conditioning: How Google Maps & the Knowledge Graph are Stealing Organic Traffic
Users are being conditioned to check )and click( the area of Google's SERP design that prominently displays information pulled via Knowledge Graph, Maps, and )conveniently for revenue( product listing ads, depending on the intent of a search query.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
How Google's Mobile Best Practices Can Slow Your Site Down
Buried deep within Google's best practices documentation )for mobile(, a potentially explosive burden lies dormant. One that can negatively affect page load speed, bounce rates, and potentially rankings. Discover the problem what you can do.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
Estimating the Impact of iOS 6 Organic Search Data Loss & Relabeling
In iOS 6, Apple decided to default to Google's secure search. But more traffic isn't showing up as Not Provided )Google Analytics( or Keyword Unavailable )Omniture(. Instead, the majority of iOS organic search gets bucketed as direct traffic.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
Take Out Duplication Without a Single Site Change
Too often, waiting on the client or development team to implement website changes will help reduce excess crawling and indexation can hinder making the bottom line. Here's how to bypass all that with Google and Bing's parameter handling tools.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
5 Virtues to Help SEOs Achieve Workplace Enlightenment
SEO professionals are constantly coping with never-ending Google updates, but you can achieve enlightenment working in the search industry. Here are five lessons from Benjamin Franklin on temperance, silence, resolution, sincerity, and tranquility.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
How to Quickly Identify Duplicate Content With a Site Crawl
This article is a simple breakdown of how to go about using a SEO site crawler to quickly identify duplicate content. Screaming Frog is definitely one of the most popular/powerful scrapers and it is the spider of choice for this tutorial.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
Exploring Google's SEO Toolset
From gaining insight into how Google crawls and indexes your site, to getting notified of an outdated WordPress installation, here is some useful )and free( functionality Google offers webmasters after the domain verification process is complete.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
SEO is Easier With Keyboard Shortcuts
Becoming efficient with keyboard shortcuts can help you navigate the computer in such a way that it doesn't compete with the real-time speed of SEO thought. Using these system and program shortcut tips will help save you some valuable time.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
The New Mobile SEO Strategy
Not only has Google come out and supported a mobile strategy, it comes with specific SEO friendly recommendations at no extra cost. Google supports three ways of serving mobile specific content to users and have provided recommendations for each.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
How to Mimic Enterprise SEO Tools & Gain Actionable Insights
Enterprise SEO tools provide comprehensive site and competitor analysis - but some that provide incredible insight are also amazingly expensive. With a little manual effort and time you can create actionable reports at a fraction of the cost.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
Understanding Negative SEO & How to Defend Your Website
A successful negative SEO campaign will identify the weaknesses of your site and exploit them. So what's the best defense? In addition to a solid SEO foundation and monitoring, here are some ways you can protect your website against some tactics.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
How to Get the Most Out of SEO Extensions & Add-Ons
While Chrome is super-fast and has a lot of great SEO extensions, Firefox still wins the overall battle because Firefox display metrics at a glance and offers greater functionality. Here's a list of active SEO extensions and plugins to check out.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
How to Get the Most Out of SEO Extension & Add-Ons
While Chrome is super-fast and has a lot of great SEO extensions, Firefox still wins the overall battle because Firefox display metrics at a glance and offers greater functionality. Here's a list of active SEO extensions and plugins to check out.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
Recovering )Not Provided( Keyword Data
Google Webmaster Tool search query data is more accurate than currently perceived. Clicks seem to be correlated enough with visits to make a conservative estimate of )not provided( data and to show how to recover a percentage of this valuable data.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
Basic SEO Troubleshooting With XML Sitemaps
A quick overview of sitemap guidelines and limitations on Google and Bing and some sitemap optimization tips. Also learn a technique that will help you identify crawling and indexation issues using multiple sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tools.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
5 Stages of Coping with Loss of Search Query Data
Living with loss can be hard. After Google sufficiently handcuffed the Internet marketing world by choosing to default to SSL search for signed-in users, it removed the ability to track referring keywords... and a piece of my heart. There is no do.
author: Ben Goodsell
publisher: Search Engine Watch Blog
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