One of the many questions about SEO practice is that, should internal linking added to website content? Some of SEO experts believe that adding internal link didn't do anything to website ranking, and only adding more tasks to do. But others seem to believe that this technique is the secret weapon than can boost rankings of internal pages. Then what's exactly can internal linking do? Is it something that should be implementing or something to ignore. Below are list of how internal linking can helps value of website ranking.
Read MoreWhen developing or revamp a website, the first priority that you have to decide is to make a search engine friendly website. There are many techniques to make a website search friendly. Among these techniques, there are simple techniques that can be done easily. The first technique is to make a responsive website. Lately, many of website's visitors are from mobile devices. About half of the search made by consumers made them to visit the store in the next few days.
Read MoreIt's quite shocking that Google released search quality elevator guidelines for the first time in history and this guideline has 160 page of SEO Gold. If you want to look how Google algorithms work, these guidelines reveal the most extensive and insightful about the information. Search quality elevator guidelines are mainly about quality assurance rules that Google employees use when performing human-based evaluations and quality control testing of the algorithm.
Read MoreIt's a normal thing to do for website owners continuously adjusting all aspect of their website to snatch the top position of search engine results page. One of the huge factors that can influence website value in search ranking is load speed of a website. With Google adding page load time as a ranking factor, there is an alternative way to help optimizing page speed called CDN or Content Delivery Networks.
Read MoreWith Google Panda algorithm thoroughly searches the internet to find pages that don't match to its quality standards and penalizes websites with substandard content. Because of this, many websites become the victim with their old contents that back then weren't optimized with SEO. Panda algorithm is one of the main Google algorithms, and its updating quite regularly. There's an opinion that said content that have been around quite long time doesn't matter, with assumption that Google with its Panda algorithm knows that older content is usually ignored by readers and is may not still relevant.
Read MorePage URL is one of the important parts for SEO on-page optimization. There are many things to consider when creating page URL, like is it necessary to include category? Is URL needs to be as short as possible or is it okay to have few words on it? And how many keywords that need to included on URL? In reality, URL that SEO friendly is differs depend the type of website. Below you can find explanation on how to create SEO friendly URL.
Read MoreIt's no surprise that YouTube is the second largest website in the world. If you already knew that, but have not started using YouTube as a part of SEO strategy, you're missing out a huge opportunity to get more visitors. With over 30 million visitors every day, it's a very promising strategy to be included in your SEO practice. If you don't have a slightest idea where to start, read the guide below.
Read MoreSearch engine optimization is needed to website getting more traffic in the right way. Good SEO strategy becomes, not only one of the most efficient ways but also one of the most effective ways for businesses and brands to drive visitors to their websites. Meaning that getting more visitors brings more revenue. The most basic knowledge that companies know about SEO strategy are great contents, quality backlinks, and optimized on-page SEO. These are important factors to improve organic traffic that a website gets, but only few companies that realize site speed is also a huge factor for website's ranking. Fixing site speed is an important task to increase visitors.
Read MoreLocal search become one of the Google's main focuses on search algorithms, with the search engine launched Pigeon algorithm. This is because there were increasing demands for local information, so Google decide to improve their search system by adding local search algorithm for consumers and businesses. Users can easily notice this change when they searching for local information with the results are different.
Read MoreWebsite has and always been a constant source of revenue with form of digital for business and organizations. With the help of SEO practices, website owners can increase their incoming by being the top ranking of the industry that they are involved in search engine result pages. Standard SEO practices may not get your business going anywhere to the top, so there are few fixes that could be done to make the website effecting more greatly for the business.
Here are 5 easy fixes to increase SEO result through developer mode:
Read MoreGood news for those of you who have been the victim of website hacked. Because recently Google just started rolling out algorithms that will aggressively look for spam in websites that have been hacked. The biggest search engine announced the changes in its Webmaster Tool blog, in the topic's post; it said that because there many rightful websites were hacked by spammers and used them to engage in abusive behavior, like free promotion to low quality site, malware download, porn sites, illegal drug offers and many more.
Read MoreGetting the right negative keywords are as important as positive keywords. SiteWit did a study in early this year that showed the top 3 paid result spots get about 41% of the clicks on SERP. Nowadays, to get those top spots are expensive, with wasteful clicks can drain budget for ads so quickly. While, online marketers are still not taking advantage by not using negative keywords, this kind of keyword is very underutilized in adWords and forgotten by many website owners especially from small business.
Read MoreAs one of the fundamental element of SEO strategy, keyword research is also a task that never easy to do. Mostly for SEO webmaster beginners, but for SEO experts, this task is like walking in a straight line. Keyword research is a complicated task to master, many people that have advanced digital skills admit it that they having a hard time whenever they need to do this task. Not only have that, the fact that the risk of this task is very high making people needed to be so careful when doing it. If you get the keywords wrong, your SEO strategy will fail, but if you get the keywords right then the SEO strategy that you're running will deliver success.
Read MoreWay back before, having a website and knows a little bit about SEO are enough to guaranteed a website page to be in the first page of search engine result page, like Google and others. After that, websites become more specific on where they want to be on the first page of SERP, so they registered their website on local search engine, like Local Google and Local Yahoo. This practice is also enough to guarantee a website in medium-population city.
Read MoreWith Google updating its search algorithms almost every year, forcing many companies to learn about SEO and how to get the top spot on search engines result page. The latest updated algorithm was Panda 4.2 update, which is focusing which website has better quality in content than the others. But recently, the trend is changing and making brand as one of the ranking factor in Google's search result. This new trend combining with Panda update resulting in which brands and the branding agencies are playing the bigger role in terms of their clients SEO performance for 2 main reasons:
Read MoreNowadays keyword is not the only main factor of SEO, even though it still plays an important part. With Google getting smarter by releasing new algorithms time after time, design, UX or user experience and on-page optimization, can be the difference for website's ranking in search engine. The first thing about website design for SEO that you need to consider is title tag. To make title tag brings new advantage to your site, you need to create a unique title that describes page content, this will be the signal to search engine of what the page is about, and you need to limit the characters that you used to 55 characters.
Read MoreWith Moz doing study for search ranking factor in every 2 years, many SEO webmasters anticipate the result for creating a better strategy to get the best result as possible. The study's result also a chance for SEO webmasters to know what strategies, best practices and techniques that other webmasters used so they can apply what they think is the best for their plan in near future. With Google's algorithms are always updated in unpredictable times, the search engine itself is not interested to giving information how SEO practice could works.
Read MoreWith the latest Google's Penguin algorithm update, it's become more and more important for a site to be optimized with local SEO. This SEO technique will make a website to be listed on local search. For instance, if a vinyl shop's website in Jakarta has been optimized with local SEO and when people searched for "local vinyl Jakarta", then the website will be shown in search result page. There are many articles that explain how to optimize local SEO, but beside few things that you should do, there are also few things or mistakes that you need to avoid. Below, there is a list of 3 local SEO mistakes that you should be aware of:
Read MoreOne of the big issues on the internet last week was when a report said that organic search traffic of Wikipedia from Google dropped as much as 11% since May to July this year. This is a huge loss for the site that approximately lost for about 250 million visits each month. SimiliarWeb, a traffic measurement company, is the first source who reported the news.
Read MoreWith Google launched Search Analytics Report as an addition of its Search Console, making it easy for SEO webmasters to gain a lot more information of their practices. On this new tool, they can get a lot of information such as search queries, impressions, and click of their sites that Google used to hide from them. Below there are 5 ways that SEO webmasters need to do to segment their site data using this new addition.
Read MoreFew days ago, Google released an addition to its Search Console (previously called Webmaster Tools) named Search Analytics Report or SAR. After rolling out few major algorithm updates in 2015, the new addition is a huge helper for SEO webmasters and digital marketers. Because for the last few years, they have used to understand that Google doesn't giving more information of result of its aim on removing bad SEO strategies and spam.
Read MoreNot too long ago, Google started a #NoHacked campaign and last week the biggest search engine giving tips on how to protect sites from getting hacked. Since last year, number of sites that getting hacked increased for about 180%, and Google recommends if your site have not become the victim of the action, check out these tips:
Read MoreAt the end of July, Gary Illyes, web trend analyst of Google confirmed that the search engine has began rolling out Panda algorithm update version 4.2 and said this update will effecting up to 3% of queries. But different from previous algorithm updates, the new update will take a really long time to fully impacting websites. So, if your websites haven't seen any impact from this update, don't get too excited because in few months you will see the effect from the update.
Read MoreHow can you reach potential customers to recognize your brand? Usually, marketing teams are the ones who spreading brand awareness using many tools that they decided to use to send the message to the market. Customers will experience the affect of brand awareness in everyday life. For example, they see ads about a new phone on the internet. On social media sites, they notice that many people are talking about the same phone. Because they kept seeing and reading about the phone, made them curious and try to find detailed info and have a chance that they will buy it.
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