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SEO Strategy

(14 articles)

How to Use Google Trends for SEO

SEO Due Diligence – what it is and why you need it

What is Web Accessibility and Why it’s Important for Your Website

Getting started with SEO in a small business

Inhouse SEO vs Outsourced Support

Overview – SEO Results, and tracking them

Regular SEO Tasks for Small Businesses

White, grey, and black hat SEO – What does it mean?

What is a ‘good SEO’ result?

What to Expect from an SEO Audit

5 Steps to Understanding Your Audience and Identifying Your Niche

SWOT analysis – A Formal Approach to SEO Strategy

How to Find and Work with an SEO Auditor

Why long-tail keywords are important for SEO success

SEO Talks

(4 articles)

SEO for Extensive Websites

Google Ranking Factors

DIY or outsourcing – SEO agencies, freelancers or in-house experts?

OnPage-Optimisation

(34 articles)

What Is A Website Header And Why You Should Use It

Do blog comments help boost SEO? The pros and cons of comment sections.

What are Featured Snippets?

Search Intent – A Quick Guide

What is a Footer and why you should use it

What Is Structured Data?

Overview – HTML headings (H1 – H6)

HTTP Status Codes

Title Element (Title Tag)

nofollow attribute value

Top-Level-Domain (TLD)

Google PageSpeed – the loading speed of a website

Duplicate Content

What Is Schema Markup? How to Use Structured Data to Improve SEO

Meta Element (Meta Tag)

Domain move risk and Google rankings

SEO Content: A Quick Guide to Content Types (and How to Use Them)

Page Loading Performance – What Do All the Acronyms Mean?

Image titles, alt and formats – Current best practice

How Long is a Good SEO article?

How to Use Rel Attributes for Better SEO

What Is Breadcrumb Navigation?

Anchor Tags And In-Content Linking

What is the optimal pagination for sites with a lot of content?

What are doorway pages and do they boost SEO?

What is the difference between SEO, Ads and Universal Search?

How do I optimise my website for Google News?

How do I safely move my website to a new domain name?

What is the difference between a URL, Domain, Subdomain, Hostname etc.?

Should the domain’s homepage rank first for a site:-query?

SEO Basics: internal link optimisation

SEO-Basics: Never relaunch a website without redirects

How do I correctly use the new x-default hreflang link-attribute for international targets?

How should I handle my online-shop’s multilingual content?

Google updates and algorithm changes – complete list

(18 articles)

Google May Day Update

Google Page Layout Algorithm Update (Ads Above the Fold)

Google Panda Update

Google Payday Loan Update

Google Caffeine Update

Google Exact-Match Domain (EMD) Update

Google Core Algorithm Update (Phantom Update)

Google Expanded Sitelinks Update

What is the Google Everflux?

Google Venice Update

Google Freshness Update

Google Vince Update

Google Penguin Update

Google Hummingbird Update

HTTPS Ranking Factor Update

Google December 2020 Core Update

Google DMCA Penalty

Mobile-friendly ranking factor update

Google Penalties

(5 articles)

What do I have to pay attention to in a Reconsideration Request?

What is a Reconsideration Request?

What kinds of Google Penalties are there and what are the differences?

How long does a Google Penalty last?

How do I recognise an Algorithmic Penalty?

SEO KPIs – Key Performance Indicators

(4 articles)

What is a financial SEO indicator system?

What is an indicator system?

What is an operative SEO Indicator System?

How to identify and use a SEO KPI, a performance indicator

OffPage-Optimisation

(6 articles)

What is Google Search Console and How To Get Started

Using and correctly implementing Content-Syndication

What is link building?

How to Submit Your Website to Google, Bing and Yahoo

What are the general forms of link-distribution?

A Quick Guide to Backlinks

Sitemaps

(7 articles)

What do I have to keep in mind when creating a video-sitemap?

If I have an XML-sitemap, do I also have to provide an HTML-sitemap?

How do I create a sitemap for my website?

How can I submit a sitemap to Google?

How regularly do I have to update my sitemap and can I automate it?

How important is a sitemap for the indexing of my site?

Are there different kinds of sitemaps?

Google-Index, Google-Bot and Crawler

(17 articles)

These are the CTR’s For Various Types of Google Search Result

Can the Google-Bot fill out and crawl forms?

What is the Mobile First Index?

Crawling and Indexing for extensive websites

What is a User-Agent?

Google SERP Features: Result Types in the Search Results

Why does the amount of indexed pages fluctuate so much?

How can I find out how many pages of my domain are indexed by Google?

How can I keep the Google-Bot from crawling my website?

How can I remove a URL on my website from the Google Index?

Why am I getting different values for indexed pages in the Google search, the GSC and SISTRIX?

The consequences of negative user-signals on Google’s rankings

How can I quickly get a new page into Google’s index?

Shelf space optimisation on Google

My website can be reached with and without the www. Is this harmful?

Why does a URL that is blocked through robots.txt show up in the search results?

Why does a Google search with the quotation mark operator sometimes deliver more results than the same search without it?

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