Getting more out of your blog can be a difficult ask. Often blogging regularly is enough of a strain on resources that you don’t have time to take a step back and look at how your blog is doing, and if it is really engaging your readers. Well, here are some simple tips on how to get more from your blog without discussing the content itself.
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Image Optimization – Ranking on Google Images
A Picture Says a Thousand Words Adding images to your website is important. It helps break up text, attracts a users attention, and can demonstrate something that words might not be able to do. But, when you’re putting images on your website, as with written content, you can’t just drop them in and forget about …
Remove or Improve – What to Do With Low-Quality Content?
The Unfinished Manuscript In an ideal world, all of the content on your website is going to be high quality, Pulitzer winning prose. However, in the real world, this might not be the case. You might have inherited a blog with poorly written content. Or a website with numerous pages that were written a long …
Google’s Slow Page Guide – Avoid Lazy Loading
Top of the Pops One of the few search engine ranking factors we can be sure of is page speed. The faster your page can load on desktop and mobile devices, the more likely it is that Google will rank the page well. But as websites are becoming more and more interactive, loaded with different …
How To Be A Perfect PPC Manager
Pay Per Click Looking after your own, or other peoples, PPC accounts can be a daunting prospect. You can see the money trickling out of the account every day, and if you’re not instantly seeing results it can be a scary thing. So what does it take to be a good PPC manager? Do you …
Comments on the SERP
Google’s Tweaks The search engine results page is constantly evolving and improving, with Google often AB testing new features and tools. For example, recently we’ve seen changes to meta descriptions and title tags stretch and then shrink back to normal size. The latest addition to Google’s SERP seem to be reviews for listings. The Naughty …
Educational Content – The Way Forward?
Those Who Can’t Sell, Teach Since content marketing became the norm the has been a slow switch away from more straight forward sales based content, towards educational content. The rise of the internet has created a very different consumer situation to what went before it. Now consumers have more information than ever before making a …
Bing Ads Updates – Third Headlines
Bing Ads is Microsoft’s Pay Per Click platform. While Bing may not have the market share that Google does, it’s still a big player in the search engine world, with around 20% of the market. So, when Bing Ads makes a change, it’s worth paying attention. Recently they’ve announced they’re going to be adding a third headline, and a second ad text to their ads.
Homepage Not Ranking – Could it be Over-Optimizied?
As if you needed another thing to worry about when it came to SEO… But, in a recent Google Webmaster’s Hangout, Google’s John Mueller mentioned an aspect of search engine optimization that can often be forgotten, over-optimization.
Creative AI – Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over?
Artificial intelligence is no longer just something you see in bad Sci-Fi movies. Machine learning and AI has crept into lots of things we use on a day to day basis. From smart refrigerators to your search engine, AI is helping to read a website, or order more milk. But now it’s started writing adverts too?