HTTPS is an SEO Ranking Factor

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Google hardly provides any information about the SEO ranking factors. However, last week Google officially announced that they are starting to use HTTPS as a ranking signal. As a result, using HTTPS does have an impact on the ranking positions in the search engine results pages. According to Google this …

Easily Understandable and Accessible Web Reports

Easily Understandable and Accessible Web Reports

We are happy to present our new Web Reporting Tool. It was our goal to provide our customers with an easy tool that allows you to access your weekly and monthly web reports from any place, at any time and to provide a well designed report which is easy to …

SEO Case Study: CSS Versicherung

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The results of search engine optimization (SEO) are usually visible only after several months. So it is great when we can present our clients with positive results after a few short months. Recently we were able to report such positive results to CSS Versicherung after five months of SEO work. …

SEO Ranking Factors for 2014

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The main goal of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is getting your website to rank in the top few search engine results. However, the algorithm and the ranking factors that decide the order of those results is kept secret by search engines like Google, Bing, etc. That is why Searchmetrics came …

Content SEO Check

Content SEO Check

Content marketing is one of the most important parts of the digital strategies we recommend to clients:  creating quality content that engages and informs website users.  In order to attract and hold the interest of users, content should use the keywords that users search for. So how can you tell …

SEO Tutorial: Geo Targeting with Hreflang Tag

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International websites often have similar content for different language groups and countries. The hreflang tag is an HTML tag communicating the language targeting of single pages to Google. This does not only ensure correct indexing but also avoids problems with duplicate content. Duplicate content issues are caused for example if …

SEO for Single Page Websites

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For SEO reasons it is recommended to create one landing page per topic and optimize this page using the relevant keywords. Optimizing single page websites for search engines is more difficult because one page contains several topics. For this reason special rules should be applied for single page websites in addition …

The Top 5 Results in Google Get Almost 70% of All Clicks

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The latest study about click-through-rates in the organic Google results once more underlines the importance of a top ranking position in Google search. Only if your website is among the top five results it has a good chance to get clicked. On average the first five results on the Google …