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Did You Configure Your Site for the International Googlebot?
Once every so often, the SEO world is subject to a major shift that shakes its virtual tectonic plates to the core. In January this year, the tremor of this impending quake went unnoticed. This was characterized by a change in the foundational basis of SEO best practices internationally. In January, Google enhanced its Googlebot’s ability to evaluate the way content changes according to a user’s location — denoted by IP address — and the preferred language settings, — through the Accept-LanguageHTTP header. Today, more and more businesses have restructured their websites to be able to serve up content dynamically according to a user’s language or country.
5 Common Myths About Choosing Domain Names for International SEO
Is a .COM domain really the best choice for international targeting? Can a local TLD rank as well abroad as at home? Can a domain rank well internationally even when we don’t use ccTLDs? Read on to find out about the most frequent misconceptions concerning domain names and international SEO.
Dips and Spikes in Traffic: Using the Position Changes Report in Semrush
As a former customer support specialist, I understand the most commonly asked questions by customers. One of these repeated questions was about the traffic graph. “Where did this huge dip/spike come from?” You would constantly monitor the traffic for a particular domain and out of nowhere this huge dip occurs in the graph. You prepare for the worst. You expect your boss or client going to freak out when they see this data and have your head — but before going this route, you will first want to make sure you are properly reading this information.
Parallax Web Design vs. SEO: What You Need To Know
As search engine marketers, we know that the best time for us to be involved with a web design or redesign project is right at the beginning, so that SEO can be ‘baked in‘ to the process right from the start. However, sometimes a website will be built and SEO will be a later consideration (usually if it‘s because it doesn‘t rank)! A few times recently, people have come to me with a website designed in the parallax format and asked me if I can do anything to help with its SEO — which is a heck of a problem, because while parallax websites often look pretty darn slick, they come with some major technical SEO issues. In this post I‘ll talk about the perils of parallax web design: its effect on SEO, why it‘s SEO-unfriendly, and if there are any workarounds to see if you can have your parallax cake and eat it too.
Your Guide to Understanding Google's Sitelinks Search Box
Have you ever Googled a website only to find a second Google search box embedded underneath the first? That’s a recently updated Google feature, the Sitelinks search box. It has the capability to streamline your own website’s search function, but opinions are mixed regarding the benefit it provides. Here’s the rundown on how Google’s Sitelinks search box works, both sides of the controversy about its usefulness, and how to maximize your own benefit.
Google’s Fetch and Render: Why It’s Important
Lots of folks think that SEO is about “gaming the system.” Well… that’s true of “black hat” SEO, but those of us who are trying to make pages easy for Google to crawl and evaluate are working towards what I like to think of as “natural” SEO. We put in all the right meta tags, make sure that your page is about what you tell search engines it’s about in your description and generally try to streamline things so that spiders won’t be caught in traps or leave pages entirely. So, let’s say that you have recently built a new website. Is it search friendly? Or more importantly, is it Google friendly? No, Google certainly doesn’t pay me and I don’t worship at the Google altar, either, but let‘s face it. Google brings the most traffic and for some reason, that traffic seems to convert. That’s why we want to please the gods of Google as much as we possibly can.