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How can you best evaluate a site to determine whether it’s a good linking partner? Contributor Julie Joyce outlines 15 things you need to check including site hacks, poor quality content, traffic and more. When inbound links occur naturally, you don’t look to see if the site...

Want your sales team to love you? Contributor Janet Miller recommends adding gate pages to indexed PDFs as a way to generate more leads and avoid lost lead and SEO opportunities. Are you leaking your gated content in organic search? Personally, I’m not a fan of finding portable...

Google explains how crawl rate can be used as confirmation that a page is OK to remove from your website, and thus their index. Have you ever been in a position where you have removed pages from your website and it has taken Google a really long time to remove that content from...

Where can you put 20% effort for 80% SEO return? Contributor Marcus Miller outlines SEO tactics SMB owners can use for easy but effective wins. Whether you are just starting on your search engine optimization (SEO) journey or have been at it for years, there’s a good chance some...

This year’s Search Engine Land Award winners for Best SEO Initiative sat down with Search Engine Land’s own George Nguyen to talk SEO tactics and strategies. In an interview with the Best SEO Initiative Award winners, Search Engine Land Editor George Nguyen deep-dives into the...

There will always be new mistakes and new challenges. The key is to learn and evolve and make yourself a better marketer. One of the best things about the search space is that it’s hard. We are constantly working to keep our finger on the pulse, experiment with new ideas, and...

To get the most out of your content writers, you need to set them on the right track from the start. How to develop guidelines and reduce the required editing time. “How do I find good writers?” “My writers are inconsistent.” “How do I know if a writer ‘gets’ SEO?” As someo...

Although a relatively undocumented spam method, you should report it to Google and then disavow the links through webmaster support tools. You know what Google Alerts are, right? Well, there are some spammy results showing up in Google Alerts and people are starting to think it...

Combat spammy inbound links, affiliate hijacking and scraping content to avoid negative impacts on your rankings. Soccer great Mia Hamm said, “It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.” True in sports, that sentiment also can be true in SEO. Any website in the...

Sometimes it is a good idea to keep it simple with your web pages. Though web browsers are becoming more and more advanced, that doesn’t mean you should build websites that you know only the latest web browsers support, nor should you build websites that GoogleBot, Google’s web...