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 …
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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
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
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 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 …
Google Tag Manager Guide: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Event Tracking, Part 4
Part 4: Contact Forms UPDATE: This blog post was written for Google Tag Manager version 1, which is now obsolete. See the updated version of this Google Tag Manager Tutorial for GTM version 2. In this fourth and last part of our Google Tag Manager Guide, we demonstrate how to track one …
Google Tag Manager Guide: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Event Tracking, Part 3
Part 3: Newsletter Subscriptions UPDATE: This blog post was written for Google Tag Manager version 1, which is now obsolete. See the updated version of this Google Tag Manager Tutorial for GTM version 2. In the third part of our Google Tag Manager Guide, we introduce a new type of event: form …
Google Tag Manager Guide: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Event Tracking, Part 2
UPDATE (27.8.15): This blog post was written for Google Tag Manager version 1, which is now obsolete. See the updated version of this Google Tag Manager Tutorial for GTM version 2. Part 2: Downloads In Part 1 of our Google Tag Manager Guide we showed you how to set up tags and …
Google Tag Manager Guide: Step-by-Step Tutorial for Event Tracking, Part 1
UPDATE: This blog post was written for Google Tag Manager version 1, which is now obsolete. See the updated version of this Google Tag Manager Tutorial for GTM version 2. Part 1: Outbound Links Even though Google Tag Manager is a relatively easy way to manage snippets of tracking code for …
SEO Tutorial: Geo Targeting with Hreflang Tag
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
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
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 …