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SEO Basics

(12 articles)

Google Quality Rater Guidelines: How the Algorithm Recognises Quality

What is SEO? The SEO Beginners Guide

The 8 Most Common SEO Mistakes Made By Beginners

What is a captcha?

What is the World Wide Web Consortium – W3C?

What Is A DNS Record And What Is It Used For?

What are interstitials?

What is JavaScript?

What is Pop-under advertising?

What is a metasearch engine?

What are affiliate codes?

Google-Index, Google-Bot and the Crawling Process

(27 articles)

What is the Google Everflux?

Our web site is no longer in the index – have we lost our rankings?

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

Crawl Budget: What does this mean?

Can the Google-Bot fill out and crawl forms?

Rich Snippets: What are the advantages?

What is the Mobile First Index?

Crawling and Indexing for extensive websites

What is the X-Robots-Tag?

Robots meta tag vs. robots.txt: what are the main differences?

Web Crawlers: How do They Work?

What is Google Search Console and How To Get Started

What is a User-Agent?

Changing Google Search through Entities

What is an HTTP referrer?

Google SERP Features: Result Types in the Search Results

Why does the amount of indexed pages fluctuate so much?

Find out how many pages of a domain are indexed by Google

How can I prevent 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

Is a website with and without the www harmful?

Why does a blocked, noindex URL show up in the search results?

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

OnPage-Optimisation

(34 articles)

Content marketing

Learn About Structured Data

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

Meta Element (Meta Tag)

Domain move risks, and Google rankings: 6 Examples of problems

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

Website relaunch – Always use redirects

Image titles, alt and formats – Current best practice

Internal link optimisation

Anchor Tags And In-Content Linking

How to Use Rel Attributes for Better SEO

How do I use the x-default hreflang attribute for international content?

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

What Is Breadcrumb Navigation?

How to Use Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test Tool

What is a Footer and why you should use it

What is HTML validation?

What Is A Website Header And Why You Should Use It

What does rel=”author” mean?

What are Featured Snippets?

What is a favicon?

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

CSS – What are Cascading Style Sheets?

Do blog comments boost SEO? The pros and cons

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

What is PageRank Sculpting?

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

How do I optimise my website for Google News?

Searching With Google

(9 articles)

Google Search Operators – Tricks for Better Search Results

What is Google?

Alternative Web Search Engines

Google Autocomplete

All About Google SafeSearch

What is Google My Business?

What is Organic Search?

What is Year in Search (formerly known as Google Zeitgeist)?

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