Archives for September 2019

Growth Hacks Top 10

September 30, 2019 Leave a Comment

	Google Releases September 2019 Core Update “Google is now releasing a new core update which could result to either good or bad results for us SEOs.” seo-hacker.com

	Embedded and Hotlinked Images Do Not Count As Links According to Google “Google’s John Mueller said that if someone takes your image and embeds it on their site using your image URL as the source, also known as hotlinking images, that image would not be considered a link to your website.” seroundtable.com

	Google Lets Site Owners Customize Their Search Results Snippets “Google is giving site owners the ability to customize how their content is previewed in search results.” searchenginejournal.com

	A Quick Review on Optimizing Breadcrumbs for SEO “If you are one of the webmasters who have received a slew of emails from Google Search Console telling you to fix the breadcrumbs markup of your site, then this article is for you.” seo-hacker.com

	Link Building: How to Build Links to Your Website in 2019 “Earned natural links directly improve the reputation of a website and where it ranks in Google, and other search engines” hobo-web.co.uk

	Everything You Need to Know About Nofollow, UGC, and Sponsored Links “Last September 10, Google announced that the link attribute “nofollow” is evolving and introduced two new link attributes: the rel=”sponsored” and rel=”ugc”.” seo-hacker.com

	What 3.25 Billion Site Visits Tell Us About Google, Facebook, and Where Different Niches Get Their Traffic “Thanks to data from SimilarWeb, the following report is filled with information that should be useful to anyone who competes for traffic online.“ growthbadger.com

	Does Disavowing Links Work in 2019? “Is there any benefit to using Google’s disavow tool if you do not have a manual action?” mariehaynes.com

	Google Review Stars Drop by 14% “On Monday, September 16, Google announced that they would be restricting review stars in SERPs to specific schemas and would stop displaying reviews that they deemed to be “self-serving.” moz.com

	Search Console is Improved for Fresher Data and Better Reports “We analyzed our user feedback, and today would like to announce a new improvement to the report based on users’ #1 feature request – improved data freshness!“ webmasters.googleblog.com

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Growth Hacks Top 10

September 2, 2019 Leave a Comment

	What webmasters should know about Google’s core updates “We know those with sites that experience drops will be looking for a fix, and we want to ensure they don’t try to fix the wrong things. Moreover, there might not be anything to fix at all.” webmasters.googleblog.com

	17 Ways to Improve Your SEO in 2019 “In fact, these 17 techniques helped grow my site’s organic traffic by 21.30% in 3 months.” backlinko.com

	Pain Point SEO: Converting Traffic to Leads “SEO coupled with a thorough understanding of the buyer’s journey is what can help you climb to the top and stay there for a very long time.” seo-hacker.com

	Does Using Unicode Help Click-Through-Rate? “We wanted to see how adding Unicode would impact click-through-rate (CTR) and decided to test it on our own site.“ sterlingsky.ca

	Less than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click “In June of 2019, for the first time, a majority of all browser-based searches on Google.com resulted in zero-clicks.” sparktoro.com

	Goodbye, Generic SEO Audit – Say Hello to Customization & Prioritization “Though an SEO audit is essentially a checklist, it’s important to both customize your approach and prioritize your fixes to be efficient and effective with your time and effort.” moz.com

	How to Track Outbound Link Clicks with Google Tag Manager “Knowing what links users click brings valuable data on user behavior on your website.” seo-hacker.com

	Google testing highlighting content on-site based on the search result clicked “Google confirmed it’s testing a feature that takes the searcher from the search results page to a third-party site, then anchors them to that exact location on the site while highlighting that content.” searchengineland.com

	Myth Busted: Site Traffic a Ranking Factor? “Does site traffic not affect our site’s rankings as Google says? Or is there something deeper at play? Let’s find out.” seo-hacker.com

	The Secret To Ranking In Local Search: Ranking in Organic Search “All marketers know the importance of having a solid local SEO strategy backed up by real data in place. Unfortunately, SEO and data don’t always go hand in hand. They should, but it isn’t always the case.“ loganix.net