JavaScript Sites Lose Out on 35% of Traffic and Revenue Woah Nelly! I am shocked by this… You mean JavaScript is not the best thing for SEO since sliced bread? I can’t believe I’m writing this: JavaScript is sometimes readable by Google, but the other search engines? It’s like they haven’t even heard of JavaScript. Read the full story from TWIS SEO News & Updates 01 Sept 2017. #SEO #JavaScript #Googlebot #WebCrawling #Indexation … Read More
Web Rendering Service: Google Reveals How It Works Read this guide on how Googlebot’s Web Rendering Service works, and tips on how to set up your website to be easily crawled and indexed by it. Contact me to discuss how best to get your content into a state where it can be Found, Crawled and Indexed – that is critical for surfacing in SERPs. #SEO #Googlebot #WebCrawling #GoogleIndex … Read More
Google Likes Breadcrumb Navigation Find out why Google Likes Breadcrumbs so much in this post, and read 6 tips on how to implement them for a bit of crawling and ranking love from Google. Doing this could impact your web business. #SEO #Breadcrumbs #InternalLinking #Googlebot… Read More
Website Migrations: Google Takes 3 Months To Pick Up Large Site Changes Find out why Google Takes 3 Months to Pick Up Large Site Changes in this post. If you are planning a large site move you need to know this in advance as it could impact your web business. #SEO #SiteMigrations #Googlebot… Read More
XML Sitemaps Produced by Most CMSs according to Google Click to the link to read the free thought-piece, with actionable insights into the thoughts of Google and how they think Most CMSs Produce XML Sitemaps. Having great XML Sitemaps can influence your crawling and indexation and, ultimately, impact your web business… #SEO #XMLSitemaps #TechnicalSEO #Googlebot… Read More
SEO News: TWIS Update w/e 2nd June 2017 Read the TWIS SEO Update 2nd June 2017. We have Chrome blocking ads in 2018; JavaScript causing crawling and indexing issues; PageSpeed being difficult to determine; a view that Social Media helps SEO; NOODP going for good; as well as some exceptionally interesting Bits & Pieces. We’ve also released the super-exciting The State of SEO in mid-2017. Read it now. #SEO #SocialMedia #JavaScript #AdBlocking #PageSpeed #MetaTags… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 28 Apr 2017 Read the 5 most important search updates w/e 28-Apr-2017: the Project Owl Fake News Offensive; Quality Filtering in the Local Pack; Google Assistant winning the battle of the PVAs; AMP disappearing from SERPs; Googlebot not listening to podcast audio; and a few further bits and pieces… #GoogleSearch #GoogleLocal #StarRatings #MobileSearch #AMP #GoogleBot… Read More
Basic SEO Meta Tags Basic SEO Meta Tags – An Introduction Basic SEO meta tags are sometimes thought of as all that is needed for good SEO rankings. Although, they have become less important over the years, they still set a strong foundation for a page’s SEO and can even control whether or not a page is indexed. This page… Read More
Basic XML Sitemaps for SEO Basic XML Sitemaps – An Introduction Having at least one XML Sitemap is extremely important these days in alerting Google and other engines to the availability of quality content from them to find, crawl and index. They are not hugely complex, should be automated, and are an easy win. #SEOGuides #SEOStrategy #XMLSitemaps #Googlebot… Read More
Basic Robots.txt for SEO Basic Robots.txt – An Introduction: This page gives an basic introduction to basic robots.txt, its usefulness for SEO, Google rankings and how to construct one. #SEOGuides #SEOStrategy #Robotstxt #Googlebot… Read More
Basic Google Search Console Setup Basic Google Search Console – An Introduction Google Search Console is a fundamental element of any SEO project or task. It provides basic or detailed information regarding how your site is indexed by Google and if Google finds any issues with your site. #SEOGuides #SEOStrategy #GoogleSearchConsole… Read More
SEO Ranking Factors: Find Crawl Index Find Crawl Index focuses on the key SEO ranking factors which Google uses to rank websites, but can generally be applied to most search engines. If you understand what search engines want to do with their resources and what they want to surface to their users, then you can start to get a handle on delivering it… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 17 Mar 2017 Google is having a stab at identifying upsetting or offensive content via its Quality Raters, Google Search Console had a day of missing Google Analytics data, before squeezing organic SERPs further with 6 Google Ads at the bottom . There has also been a study that shows Chrome does not pass URLs for googlebot discovery as well as another reiteration that 404s are… Read More