Looking to learn what canonical tags are, and how to use them to avoid dreaded duplicate content issues? Understanding canonical URLs is essential in SEO and properly setting up your canonical tags is a SEO best practice and an important task in website content management. Below we will explain exactly what canonical tags are, why… Continue reading Canonical Tags: A Simple Guide for Beginners
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Sitemaps: What They Are, How to Create One & Submit it to Google
When it comes to getting your website ranked, you need to take advantage of as many SEO hacks as possible. Creating a sitemap is one technique that will definitely help improve your SEO strategy. So in this article we will show you what sitemaps are, how to create one, how to submit them to Google,… Continue reading Sitemaps: What They Are, How to Create One & Submit it to Google
Robots.txt and SEO: Everything You Need to Know
Robots.txt is a simple yet significant file that can determine the fate of your website in search engine result pages (SERPs). Which is why it’s important to get a deeper understanding of how robots.txt works. By understanding the basics, you will be able to create the perfect robots.txt file that makes it easier for search… Continue reading Robots.txt and SEO: Everything You Need to Know
How to use Screaming Frog to Find and Fix Broken Links (404)
If you are like us, then you hate broken links. They can be so frustrating and annoying, not to mention they can hurt your website’s SEO. Lucky for us, a great tool called Screaming Frog can help us find and fix broken links. Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler that helps improve onsite… Continue reading How to use Screaming Frog to Find and Fix Broken Links (404)
The SEO’s Guide to HTTP Status Codes
An HTTP status code is a three-digit number a server generates in response to a browser’s request. Like 404, for example, which you have likely seen before. HTTP status codes, like 404, 301, and 500, might not mean much to a regular visitor, but they are incredibly important for SEO. Not only that, search engine… Continue reading The SEO’s Guide to HTTP Status Codes
Link Google Search Console with Google Analytics 4
The Google Analytics and Search Console integration makes it easy to see your organic ranking data from Search Console merged with page-level data from Google Analytics, and only takes a few minutes to connect. This integration allows you to pull Search Console data into your Analytics reports. Behavior metrics, including goal completions, for landing pages,… Continue reading Link Google Search Console with Google Analytics 4
How to Set Up Google Search Console: A Step-by-Step Guide
Google Search Console is a free tool that lets you see more information about your website’s search traffic performance. In particular, you can see which search queries are generating traffic to your site. It also helps you identify technical issues that need to be fixed to improve your site’s ability to rank well in search… Continue reading How to Set Up Google Search Console: A Step-by-Step Guide
Using Resource Hints to Accelerate Site Performance
Resource hints are snippets of HTML code that give the browser a head start by prompting selected files to begin loading sooner than if the browser discovered those same files through the normal course of evaluating and loading the page. There are several types of resources hints, indicated with the rel attribute on the link… Continue reading Using Resource Hints to Accelerate Site Performance
Bing Webmaster Tools – A Quick tutorial for Beginners
Bing Webmaster Tools is a free Microsoft service that allows webmasters to add their sites to the Bing crawler so they show up in the search engine. It also helps to monitor and maintain a site’s presence. Bing Webmaster Tools is to the Bing search engine, what Google Search Console is to Google. Also Read:… Continue reading Bing Webmaster Tools – A Quick tutorial for Beginners
Speed Up Resource Loading with Priority Hints and fetchpriority
Loading experience is crucial to the user’s first impression and overall usability, so Google defined Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric to measure how quickly the main content loads and is displayed to the user. The main content for LCP is usually the largest element located above the fold. This element could be an image, video,… Continue reading Speed Up Resource Loading with Priority Hints and fetchpriority
How to Set Up Google Analytics 4: A Step-by-Step Guide
When you set up a business website or blog, the primary goal is to attract visitors and, hopefully, have them convert into paying customers further down the line. Google Analytics (GA) allows you to measure the metrics behind these goals, as well as provide a wealth of other valuable data. However, setting up Google Analytics… Continue reading How to Set Up Google Analytics 4: A Step-by-Step Guide
Image Optimization for Best Web Performance in 2022
Images are crucial to ensuring that your content is more accessible, attractive, and engaging to users, but they are equally important in terms of SEO. First, they give search engines important contextual information. Second, optimized images speed up page loading, which increases user engagement and search engine rankings. Hence this SEO guide will provide you… Continue reading Image Optimization for Best Web Performance in 2022