If you’re like most writers, your love affair with words started long ago, maybe way back in grade school. From those early days of brainstorming ideas for stories and essays, you’ve honed your craft and learned to play with language in creative ways. Remember looking with wonder at your first reading book? Those pure white […]
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As 2024 starts, marketing teams shift their focus to year-end analysis, audience research, and planning what’s coming for this new year. It’s a well-known fact that success is the result of 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Having worked with small businesses for over a decade, I’ve encountered visionary entrepreneurs who lack the time and resources […]
Gary Illyes from Google explained how Google Search may or may not handle special characters within Google Search. He explained this in the latest Google SEO office hours at the 16:10 mark. Gary was asked, “How does Google handle special characters like the superscript e in search results.” For example, a Latin letter E with […]
Monk mode—inspired by the disciplined lifestyle of monks—refers to intense periods of uninterrupted … [+]Focus to maximize productivity. Hyperfocus involves concentrating on one task while ignoring all other distractions. (Photo by English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images). Getty Images In what can only be described as somewhat ironic, discussions of “monk mode” have been gaining popularity on […]
I spotted Google’s John Mueller laughing at a LinkedIn post that is telling SEOs to slow down webpage load time so that people spend more time on your page. The advice says that Google uses time on website as a ranking factor, which Google had denied countless times, and says to improve time on website, […]
Google’s John Mueller said there is no rule that a page has to rank in the top ten search result positions for it to be considered eligible for a featured snippet position. The question was asked by Shubham Davey who wrote “if a page isn’t ranking in the top 10 on SERPs, are those pages […]
Google’s John Mueller was asked if internal links that point to its own page, does Google give those links more weight. In short, John Mueller of Google said no. The question from Sina Afkham was, “How much weight does Google give to internal links pointing to a page itself? Does Google consider the anchor text […]
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, posted a PSA on Twitter that you should not delete old content from your site because you think Google Search doesn’t like old content. He said it is not true, Google Search can find older content to be helpful. So don’t delete helpful old content. Danny Sullivan wrote, “Are you […]
Google’s John Mueller responded to a question on Reddit about how to “undo” a 301 permanent redirect. In short, John said you can change the redirect but he does not recommend you set up redirects just to redirect them somewhere else in the short term. John said, “I’d figure out what you want for the […]
John Mueller, a Search Advocate at Google, was asked when you should use the link disavow too. He said on Twitter“Essentially — if you weren’t buying links, don’t disavow.” So don’t disavow unless you were buying links in the history of your website. Here are those tweets: Essentially — if you weren’t buying links, don’t […]