Google Webmaster Central recently announced that Google was changing its recommendations for AJAX web pages. What do you need to do to ensure that your AJAX pages are crawlable? The good news is: nothing! Google’s bots are able to render Javascript and understand web pages like modern browsers do, even …
Last week Google introduced the “Accelerated Mobile Pages” (AMP) project together with Twitter and several news websites. AMP allows you to provide reduced versions of your website in Google, which load faster on mobile devices. With this project, Google responds to the recent new programs of Facebook and Apple that …
The Russian search engine Yandex offers the tool Yandex.Webmaster, which is similar to the Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) and Bing Webmaster Tools. If Russia is an important target country for your business and you are optimizing your website for Yandex, you should use Yandex.Webmaster. It gives you control …
Since the end of 2013 Google Analytics users have not been able to see keyword data. Google labels almost all of the keywords as “not provided”. Since then the Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) is Google’s only real keyword data supplier. Since the beginning of August 2015 Google …
Backlinks and social shares are both relevant SEO ranking factors. In order to get your content linked to from other websites and shared in social networks, you need to create relevant content. This makes content marketing an important instrument for search engine optimization. But what kind of content generates links …
You can use various tools to optimize your website for search engines. Complete solutions usually charge a fee, but there are also free tools that are very helpful. Below we will show you 12 free SEO tools you can use to improve your ranking positions. 1. Google Analytics Many websites …
We recently wrote about the most important SEO ranking factors for 2015 based on the latest Searchmetrics correlation study. But how will the relevance of the different ranking factors change in the future? To answer this question, Moz carries out an experts survey every two years. For the latest study, 150 SEO …
For companies with a physical office or store it is a must to be present on Google My Business. We already explained how to create a Google My Business account. If your business has ten or more locations, you should create a business account and use the bulk location management functionality. …
Searchmetrics recently released its study of SEO ranking factors 2015 for google.de. Searchmetrics analyzed the top 30 search results for 10,000 keywords to find the correlations between ranking factors and the ranking position of the resulting pages. What distinguishes the top-ranked webpages in google.de in 2015? The study reveals some …
If Russia is your target market, you need to get found on Yandex. Yandex is the most popular Russian Internet property, covering 85.6% of Russia’s Internet audience. Google’s audience coverage in Russia is 71% (as of March 2015). In these countries Yandex is also very popular and thus an important …
The free Google Trends tool is a very useful and often underrated instrument for search engine optimization. In this article we will show how you can use Google Trends. 1. Keyword Research When starting with search engine optimization, you should first of all do a thorough keyword analysis. The Google …
A new generic top level-domain (gTLD) will be launched in the fall of 2015: .swiss. The Swiss Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) will administer this TLD that can be bought from organizations in Switzerland. Why is there a new TLD .swiss? In 2012, the ICANN created new gTLDs. The Swiss Confederation requested …
