They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. Well for SEOs, it’s slightly different this year. March came in like lion and went out like a bigger lion. There were three distinct dates where I saw significant movement from an algorithm update standpoint (starting on 3/3, then more on … Read more
I help a lot of companies with website redesigns or CMS migrations (from an SEO standpoint). As part of that process, it’s extremely important to download all of a website’s top landing pages so you can check them in staging and when the redesign or migration goes live. By doing so, you can test the pages … Read more
For news publishers, being included in Google News is a big deal. You can drive a lot of traffic by being listed in Google News, which means you can drive a lot of incremental ad revenue. So, it’s tough when certain urls are not accepted in Google News and publishers lose out on traffic, revenue, … Read more
The mad dash is on to clean up link profiles. Penguin 4.0 is quickly approaching and many companies are heavily analyzing their link profiles in order to flag and handle unnatural links. Penguin 4.0 is supposed to be the real-time Penguin, which is great news for SEOs and webmasters that have dealt with Penguin issues … Read more
Featured Snippets are fascinating to me. The reason is simple. Any time Google surfaces a specific url, treats it differently in the SERPs, and provides a significant amount real estate for that url, I tend to pay attention. And based on the SERP treatment I just explained, I’ve found that featured snippets can drive massive … Read more
It can be extremely frustrating when experiencing a slow decline in rankings and organic search traffic. Could it be an algorithm update, technical SEO problems, or something else? The fact of the matter is that it could be a number of serious problems causing the drop. And unless you can isolate the problem, it’s hard … Read more
A funny thing happened as I was finishing my last blog post about Google’s unconfirmed algorithm updates in 2015. I was getting ready to publish the post and the algo Richter scale in my office started to move – and move quickly. So I held off on publishing the post and waited for more data … Read more
2015 has been an incredibly interesting year from a Google algorithm update standpoint. Although there weren’t many confirmed updates like previous years, it was still a relatively volatile year algo-wise. We had the mobile-friendly algorithm released in April of 2015, Phantom 2 confirmed in early May, and then Panda 4.2 in July. Although those are … Read more
Updated: April 2022 The post now contains the most current tools I use for checking the x-robots tag for noindex directives. The list includes tools directly from Google, Chrome extensions, and third-party crawling tools. —— I have previously written about the power (and danger) of the meta robots tag. It’s one line of code that … Read more
As Halloween approaches this year, I’m gaining a better understanding of the phrase “Trick or Treat”. Over the past month, I’ve watched Google display a featured snippet for one of my blog posts (the “treat”), only to change that back to a standard snippet (“the trick”). And then back to a featured snippet (“treat”). And … Read more
In my last post, I explained what I have seen during the extended rollout of Panda 4.2. I ended up analyzing over seven weeks of Panda data, since P4.2 is going through an extended rollout. And yes, it’s still rolling out now. More about that soon. Overall, it had been very quiet leading up to … Read more
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