Tag Archives: SEO
The Importance of Measuring User Engagement for SEO
Website usability and user experience (UX) considerations are becoming vital factors for search marketers. Not only are usability/UX factors important for the more obvious reasons in relation to driving conversion, they’re also important factors in relation to SEO and organic search … Continue reading
Rule One: SEO is not a Dark Art Many designers think that SEO is a magic black box of Darkness - or at least those who do it are wizards or something equally enigmatic. How many new Designers/Front-end Developers have … Continue reading
How to Extract a List of Image URLs Indexed by Google
Back in 2014 I coded a nifty little JavaScript tool (adapting previous work by Liam Delahunty) to help with site auditing by extracting a list of URLs indexed by Google for a domain of your choice. The tool was initial … Continue reading
How to Add Your Social Profiles to Google’s Knowledge Graph
Yesterday Google announced the launch of a new feature for webmasters - the ability to specify social profile information for inclusion within the Google Knowledge panel. The new features provide marketeers with an additional area of search real estate to … Continue reading
Manual Penalty Removal & Recovery - Part 4 - When to Disavow Links
If you’ve been following this series you’ll now have a strong understanding of the varying types of manual action, and have gained insights into the factors that form a link penalty - and hopefully you’ll now have enough knowledge to be … Continue reading
Panda 4.1 Slow Rollout Commences
Google have announced the slow rollout of Panda 4.1, Google’s 27th Panda update originally released back in February 2011. To recap, Panda is a filter which is designed to identify low-quality content and penalise accordingly through lesser organic search ranking. … Continue reading
How to Structure Title Tags for SEO
In my 9 years experience in digital marketing I’ve been asked just about every question about Title tags and Meta Data you can imagine. From broad “how do you write the best page title for SEO” down to “How many … Continue reading
Manual Penalty Removal & Recovery - Part 1 - Understanding Manual Action
Welcome to the first in a five part series in which I’ll cover the whys and hows of Google manual penalties. Manual webspam penalties can significantly limit organic search visibility therefore substantially limiting organic reach. In certain instances the severity … Continue reading
How to Extract a List of All URLs Indexed by Google for Your Website
Sometimes you just want to know which pages of your website Google have within their huge index of URLs. Perhaps you need this information for a site migration to ensure all those important redirects are handled correctly. Perhaps you need … Continue reading
The Website Re-Launch/Migration SEO Checklist
Picture this - you’ve spent what seems like forever planning the design and build of an all singing all dancing website. You’ve built your shiny new website covering all possible on-page SEO factors to ensure your website is uber search … Continue reading