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Getting Smarter with SERPs
Modern SERPs require modern understanding, and that means paying close attention to location and how it affects rankings. Learn about getting data that represents true traffic in this edition of Whiteboard Friday.
How to Query the Google Search Console API
If you’ve been an SEO for even a short time, you’re likely familiar with Google Search Console (GSC). It’s a valuable tool for getting information about your website and its performance in organic search. That said, it does have its limitations. In this post, you’ll learn how to get better-connected data out of Google Search Console and increase the size of your exports by 400%.
A Beginner’s Guide to Ranking in Google Maps
The majority of your potential customers still use Google to find local businesses near them. In fact, 80% of searches with “local intent” result in a conversion. This begs the question: “What’s the best way to catch the attention of local searchers on Google?” The answer: through Google Maps marketing.
Content Expansion: From Prompt to Paragraph to Published Page
Expert content isn't out of reach. In this Whiteboard Friday, Russ Jones arms you with the tools and processes to expand your content all the way from prompt to paragraph to published piece
We Need to Talk About Google's “People Also Ask”: A Finance Case Study
The team at iProspect started noticing that YMYL queries that should return local (UK) content in Google's "People Also Ask" results actually have a heavy influence from the US. They decided to analyze over 1,000 of the most-searched-for keywords in the finance industry to see how much of an issue this actually is.
Crawled — Currently Not Indexed: A Coverage Status Guide
Within Google's Index Coverage report, there are many different statuses that provide webmasters with information about how Google is handling their site content. While many of the statuses provide some context around Google’s crawling and indexation decisions, one remains unclear: “Crawled — currently not indexed”. This post will help you identify some of the most common reasons this mysterious status might be affecting your website, and how to address them.
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Why Negative SEO Matters, Even if Rankings Are Unaffected
Negative SEO can hurt your website and your work in search, even when your rankings are unaffected by it. Russ Jones dives into what negative SEO is, what it can affect beyond rankings, and tips on how to fight it.
Benchmark for Success: What Your Vertical Can Achieve With Content Marketing
Domenica D'Ottavio of Fractl shows how businesses across seven niches can set realistic expectations for their link-building content, based on insights from over 600 projects Fractl has produced and promoted in the last five years.
Heart, Ear, Eye, Mind, Mouth: Local SEO Exercises for Your Least Technical Clients
Instead of signaling via SEO, CTR, USPs, and GMB, let’s relax with clients by relating successful local search marketing practices to experiences people at any level of technical proficiency already understand.