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Respondents said SEO was their top performing channel last year and is more likely to be maintained going forward. Conductor released a new survey (registration required) that argues in favor of the value of SEO during an economic downturn. The survey had 317 respondents drawn...

Evaluate what important URLs are missing, what needs to be removed and asses how Google indexes your XML sitemap URLs. An XML sitemap is like a roadmap for search engines of the URLs within your website. Regularly checking them is vital to prevent incorrect URLs from being...

The global pandemic is also a lesson in good keyword research for publishers. Who cares about SEO during a global pandemic? People are dying and all people want to read about is COVID-19 and what’s going on with the economy. Right? Yes, in a sense. But it’s a shame because SEO...

Experienced SEOs share what to expect from an initial audit and why Google’s hiring video misses the mark. What should businesses looking to hire an SEO expect to see during the proposal process? How much work should SEOs be expected to produce upfront to win the contrac...

Search engine optimization is a powerful tool for increasing your website traffic. But your Instagram account is also crying out for attention and wants to appear at the top of search results. Obviously, you work hard to make your website climb to the top of the search engine...

Get prepared for SameSite cookie handling behavior coming to Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers. As part of ongoing efforts to improve browser safety, the Chrome development team announced a new implementation of SameSite attributes and requirements regarding cookies. The new code...

What’s past is prologue. Here’s our recap of the stories that will shape search for years to come Search was a roller coaster of ups and downs in 2019: Structured data-powered rich results helped to push zero-click searches to an all-time high. Regulatory scrutiny heated up as...

An ideal agency has expertise up and down the chain that can help demonstrate the skillset of the agency as a whole. As of this article’s publishing date, 17,353 agencies offer SEO services across the globe according to Clutch. In one of the most saturated service markets, how...

If you Google for a list of SEO tools, you’ll see there are almost 200 options on the market now. All of them differ in features, amounts and sources of data, and, definitely, prices. But which of them do you really need? And, most importantly, do you have to fork out hundreds of...

Since it first debuted in 2011, Search Engine Land’s Periodic Table of SEO has become a globally recognized tool that search professionals have relied on to help them understand the elements essential to a winning SEO strategy. And while much of the foundation of search engine...