Although it is not required to set up Search Console to begin promoting your website on Google it certainly helps. Crawlers will discover new domains regardless if Analytics or Google Search Console are set up but the owner of the website will be blind to any issues that may arise with their organic search visibility....

Why name algorithms after birds? Google has an affinity for naming their algorithm updates (that often cause chaos and stress for business owners) after cute, fuzzy animals. Hummingbird is no different. Introduced in the fall of 2013, the Google Hummingbird algorithm has been used to improve search queries, specifically personal search results that are catered for...

Why do we use a site map? A site map (or sitemap) is the list of pages of a web site that are accessible to web crawlers or customers. Typically organized in hierarchical fashion, the site map defines the importance of key pages so Google knows how often to crawl them. For example, if you have...

Tips from Google Can you show me some previous work and results? This is the first question you should ask when interviewing potential SEOs. Have they had success in the past? What types of challenges have they overcome? Ask for concrete examples and you will save a lot of time later on when you find...

Social signals are contextual to the time frame when the content was shared, the medium used (i.e, Tweeted content, Google Plus shares, embedded content, social share plugins) and the share momentum (how many people tweeted the content from the time it was posted) adding up to a complicated mess of social noise. How relevant and useful...

Help! I want to switch to WordPress. It’s not a secret that building a website has become easier in the last 10 years. With the growth of responsive web pages, the overhead for design and hard coding is often overlooked. What seems like a functional website has become the subject of bootstrapping, stealing WordPress code...