Tag Archives: google webmasters

28 Online SEO Tools for Links, Keywords and Rank Tracking

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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SEO Tools

We’re always on the lookout for great tools and with a $5 billion industry, SEO is one market that has a ton of tools to help you. Whether you’re researching you or your competitors’ backlinks, trying to identify keywords and cocurrence terms, or simply trying to monitor how your site is ranking, here are the most popular SEO tools and platforms on the market. Ahrefs Site Explorer – The largest and the freshest index of live links. Index is updated every 15 min. AuthorityLabs – Track website rankings in Google, … Continue reading →

Because Google Said So

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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Business

Google is the master. Period. We can’t avoid it. If you want to benefit from organic search, the SEO formula is simple – just listen to what Google wants you to do and do it! (And don’t do as they do) It happened again this week. A representative from the web department brushed off an alert in Webmasters and an increase in errors as inconsequential. As their consultant, I’m asked to defend, numerically, why they need to fix those problems. Understanding that the development involved is very intensive and there’s … Continue reading →

Beware – Google Webmasters Ignores Your Longtail

Posted on by Nikhil Raj
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Long-tail

We uncovered another peculiar issue yesterday when reviewing our clients’ organic search engine performance. I exported and reviewed impression and click data from Google Webmasters Tools and noticed that there were no low counts, only zeros and large counts. In fact, if you were to believe Google Webmasters data, the only great terms that were driving traffic were the brand name and highly competitive terms that the client ranked on. There’s a problem, though. Google Analytics keyword data proves the opposite.. that the majority of the search engine traffic is … Continue reading →

Monitor Site Speed with Torbit Insight

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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Measure Site Speed

The site is loading slow. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve received this message over the years when working with clients. Site speed is incredibly important… it can reduce bounces, keep visitors engaged, get your site ranked better in Google, and ultimately lead to more conversions. We love fast sites… it’s one of the first issues we attack with a client (and also why we host WordPress on WPEngine – that’s an affiliate link). Getting a note that the site is slow is frustrating because it could be … Continue reading →

Our Verified Author Links Result in a 484% Higher Click-Through Rate

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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authorship

If you’re a publisher, SEO professional or a CMS platform, you should already have implemented a means for verified ownership. Authorship has been around for a few months and has gone through some fine-tuning, resulting in a great feature that really enhances your search engine visibility. In fact, I’d question any SEO company that’s not pushing their clients to ensure they have accomplished this. I’ve written about verified ownership and how to implement rich snippets in WordPress. It’s not as easy as dropping in a plugin (yet), but it is … Continue reading →

How Many Words per Post is Right?

Posted on by Douglas Karr
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Kudos to Indy Confluence for putting on a great networking event here in Indianapolis yesterday. Unlike most networking events, Indy Confluence led by Brett Healey and Erik Deckers, brought in a panel of folks here in the region to provide some value-added advice to all of its members. This month’s topic was Why is Corporate Blogging Critical to a Company?s Success and I was invited to be on the panel. The panel was comprised of Chris Baggott, Rhoda Israelov, Rodger Johnson, Kyle Lacy and me. It was a great discussion … Continue reading →