New Google Algorithm RankBrain

Brain, symbolic for the Google Rank Brain

Recently, news emerged that Google had launched a machine-learning technology called RankBrain to rate and deliver search results. Google began working with this artificial intelligence several months ago. This new system is already being used for a large fraction of search queries. What Is RankBrain? RankBrain is one of the …

Amazon SEO in 9 Steps

Amazon homepage

With almost 25 million visitors per month, Amazon is the biggest online shop in Germany (as of October 2014). Thus Amazon is an important sales channel for many online retailers. Like in Google Search, it is crucial to appear among the first positions in Amazon to get clicks and achieve …

New Google Recommendations for AJAX Websites

AJAX

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 …

Accelerated Mobile Pages Make the Mobile Web Faster

Speedometer

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 …

SEO Tutorial: Yandex Webmaster Tools

Yandex.Webmaster

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 …

No more “Not Provided”: Google Keywords Can Be Displayed Again

No more "Not Provided": Google Keywords Can Be Displayed Again

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 …

12 Free SEO Tools to Improve Your Ranking Positions

SEO Tools

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 …

SEO Trends 2015

Heart containing the words SEO and UX on a blackboard

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 …

Google My Business Tutorial: Managing Multiple Business Locations

World map with location pins

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. …

SEO Ranking Factors 2015

Searchmetrics SEO-Ranking-Faktoren google.de 2015

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 …

Search Engine Optimization for Yandex

Suchmaschinenmarketing mit Yandex

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 …