GettyGetty Most small business owners understand the importance of having a Google My Business listing in order to appear in Google Maps. Getting these listings is very straightforward: You enter your business information and verify it with a postcard. Easy enough, right? Unfortunately, this ease of verification lulls business owners into a trap of optimism:...Read More
Thousands of people in the Netherlands, including DutchNews.nl readers, are online entrepreneurs. But what do all of these people have in common? They develop and promote their business through a website. However, not everyone’s website gets visitors from search engines. We’re going to let you in on a secret, but to do that, we need...Read More
What is a crawl budget? Google’s goal is to make useful information available to people searching the web. To accomplish that, Google wants to crawl and index content from quality sources. Crawling the web is costly: Google uses as much energy per year as the entire city of San Francisco, just to crawl websites. In...Read More
StrategiQ, a digital marketing agency, launched a new tool called Spark to help SEOs test and deploy SEO-related changes on their own without developer overhead. Why you should care. One of the biggest obstacles SEOs have to deal with is getting their SEO recommendations and audit reports implemented. Ideally, marketers would be able to add...Read More
WordPress is the industry leader when it comes to content management systems. In fact, at last check, 29% of all websites are built using WordPress (the next closest competitor, Joomla, stands at just 3%). Not only is it arguably the most user-friendly platform, it’s unparalleled when it comes to SEO. Even right out of the...Read More
The future of Google and of SEO is AI says world-renowned SEO expert Stephan Spencer. “If you’re relying just on backlinks, then you aren’t recognizing that the future of Google and of SEO is AI, it’s artificial intelligence,” noted Spencer in another informative interview by James Schramko of SuperFastBusiness. Stephan Spencer, SEO expert, speaker, and...Read More
Effectively improving your on-site SEO represents one of the highest-ROI activities you can perform for your business. Driving thousands of visitors to your site each month on autopilot is a great way to build up a passive income stream. All business owners dream of this, but many of them fail to implement the correct strategies...Read More
So, 2018 was an exciting year in SEO, with a number of large Google search algorithm updates, big changes within Google’s management team, mobile first indexing and all the changes with Google Search Console. In addition, Google local, Google My Business and maps related changes were very active this year. The reliance on structured data...Read More
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