Content Marketing Often Begins with a Question

Effective content marketing, like any type of content, often begins with a question.

The question doesn’t have to appear in the actual written content. Instead, the question should appear in the thought process that eventually leads to the article. (more…)

Mobile Site Performance: Google Versus Bing

Reviewing mobile site performance is a useful exercise in understanding results from the two largest search engines.

Sometimes the results reveal that Bing and Google have different levels of reach with mobile visitors and different ways of ranking search results. (more…)

Google SEO Makes Tough Choice Between 2 Articles

Google search algorithms will choose to show in search results only one of two articles on the same site if they have some similar content. It proves that similar content is an important factor in search engine optimization.

The word “some” is in that sentence on purpose. The two articles don’t have to have all of their content similar or nearly the same. They can have even as little as a few sentences or paragraphs. (more…)

SEO Versus Advertising Gives Useful Insights

Sites that focus on both search engine optimization and advertising campaigns will find that making comparisons is a valuable exercise.

Each effort requires time, which means each effort costs money from the labor that goes into that time. So both need a return on investment. (more…)

Thin Content Hurts Websites With Search Engines

Thin content puts a website at risk for poor indexing, weak rankings and wasted effort.

What is thin content? It is content with little or no benefit to the person who reads it. Search engines detect thin content by visitor response, the length of the article and other factors. (more…)

Google Algorithm Changes Unhinge Site Audiences

The overwhelming dominance of Google in the online search environment creates both opportunities and threats to websites.

The opportunities exist because of Google algorithm changes. The threats also exist because of those changes. (more…)

Why isn’t a page in the Google search index?

Google search uses a crawling process that may find a page on a site but not put that page into its index.

Why isn’t a page in the Google search index if it is available on a site? (more…)

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