As of yesterday, Google is not showing the featured page in organic results. That is, if previously you were ranking in Google’s top 10 and were featured, now you are just featured. The official claim is that this has been done for “decluttering” search results. What does this move mean for web publishers? Let’s try…
If you are serious about your new website, you understand that your domain name is going to be your brand name, so think twice before you register one. A while ago I wrote a post on this topic giving some practical tips how to create or brand your domain name. And now a follow up…
A lot of time passed since my post on calls-to-action but I am still getting comments and requests from people who are willing to get their site visitors to act. One of the recent comments was about optimizing your site for phone calls: how to place your company number to start getting calls. I don’t…
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I’ve been reviewing SEO tools for at least a decade now (stopped counting about 5 years ago) and it’s not easy to impress me these days (that’s why you don’t see tool reviews that often from me these days). But a few weeks ago this tweet drew my attention: While it did look too good…
I love our industry for the variety of tools we create for ourselves. I think we are one of the most self-innovating industries out there, and I am always happy to come across new tools to play with. This time I am reviewing a cool new SEO crawler: JetOctopus Disclaimer: I was given free credits…
We love quoting: Some phrases are so cool that you just can’t help sharing… Or sometime you just need to confirm what you are saying (referring to a source). In any way, if you are creating content, you are probably quoting a lot. And here’s a fresh idea for you: Use images to quote! There…
I am sure you’ve searched Google recently. Probably even today. And if you have, you may have seen a helpful box featuring a quick answer to the query, with a link to the source. That’s Google’s featured snippet (previously known as an answer box). There’s no way you may have missed those because they are…
