SEO is extremely important for growing your brand in 2020. This is especially after social media’s importance in driving traffic reduced and Google became the major source of referral traffic in 2017 by driving 35% of site visits. By using SEO, you can improve your website’s ranking in Google’s Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) and reach […]
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How to create an SEO strategy for website redesign and migration Search Engine Watch
A new guide, Best Practices for Website Redesign & Migration, outlines detailed best practices for implementing search engine optimization (SEO) for a website redesign. It includes a list of comprehensive tips aimed at educating website owners about common redesign obstacles, website structure as it relates to SEO, preserving domain and URL equity, keyword research, and more. […]
5 levels of automated digital progression & elevation Search Engine Watch
Today, SEOs have a massive opportunity to expand their role in digital workflows, as far as both the volume and importance of tasks available. As companies increasingly look for equal parts creativity and analytical skills in digital leadership, experienced SEOs are uniquely positioned to fill the gap—that is, if they are able to capitalize on […]
Five factors that determine the overall page quality
Google always ranks a web page after determining its overall quality. Page quality is a measure of the importance of a web page in the eyes of Google. In order to determine the overall quality of a web page, Google hires real humans who are known as “Search Quality Raters“. Page Quality rating or PQ […]
Q&A with Mastercard’s Guillaume Conteville Search Engine Watch
One in five searches are now made via voice with digital assistants, which are becoming an increasingly prominent feature in our homes and on mobile devices. How are brands optimizing for voice search? In fact, there are now more than one billion voice searches per month, and this number will only rise over the coming years. […]
Interview with Marie Haynes: What you need to know about E-A-T
I had the great pleasure of being able to ask Dr. Marie Haynes a few questions about E-A-T. What it is and how you can improve it. Dr. Marie Haynes is a well-known SEO expert from Ottawa, Canada. She speaks a lot about Google penalties, algorithm changes such as Panda, Penguin, and also Google’s Quality Raters’ […]
From SEO to CMO: Self driving technology and the path to C-Suite
There is an incredibly exciting trend happening in the SEO community where more and more marketers are taking on more responsibility across multiple facets of digital marketing. As digital marketing develops more nuanced and targeted execution, marketers see ways to diversify their skillsets and impacts on their organizations. For search marketers, there has never been […]
Data, discovery, consumer-first Search Engine Watch
Noël Reilly, Strategic Account Director at Microsoft, discusses her upcoming session at The Transformation of Search Summit, which will take place on October 25 here in New York. As a prelude to the event, we’re doing a series of Q&As with speakers and panelists. First up, we have Noël, who will be on the panel, “Embarking on […]
Experts’ tips Search Engine Watch
Leading an SEO team is not an easy task, whether it’s an in-house or an agency one. Moreover, tracking and measuring results is a critical part of any SEO campaign. You need to make sure that your work provides the results. In this article, you’ll learn how to effectively guide your SEO team and assess […]
How brands and agencies organize work Search Engine Watch
The importance of teamwork and workflow is often missing from discussions of SEO success. So I interviewed 31 people, with titles ranging from Content Specialist to SEO Director, to CEO, and asked them about how teamwork and workflow affect their SEO operations and success. Why did I do this? Because we can all learn from the […]
