It’s a brand new year. If history repeats itself, we’ll see many changes in SEO over the next 12 months. But how, specifically, will SEO change? Nobody knows for sure, except maybe a few folks at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Of course, even those folks might not know everything that’s going to…
Amazon Reviews Guidelines: The Ultimate Guide
Nothing impacts a business quite like user reviews. For nearly 9 in 10 consumers, online reviews are just as important as personal recommendations. The internet has become a forum where these consumers can evaluate products and services based on feedback from other customers. It’s unsurprising, then, that e-commerce giant Amazon lets people write reviews of…
CDN’s are Safe, Mobile Index Isn’t Live | SEO Buzz
This week: Google added a new feature to mobile search results, CDNs are safer than many SEOs think, and guess what’s missing from the mobile-first index? Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google: Mobile-First Index Isn’t Live Yet Some webmasters are under the impression that Google’s new mobile-first index is fully live. It’s not….
Google Adding Full Year of Search Data to Search Console
This week: moving around the header tags on your page won’t affect rankings, Google will change AMP results so you can share publisher URLs, and the Search Console now distinguishes between critical and non-critical errors. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google Will Change AMP Search Results so Users Can Share Publishers’ URLs Currently,…
Disabling AMP? Google Crawl Budget | SEO Buzz
This week: You can soon prevent Google from showing AMP results when you perform a mobile search, the crawl budget doesn’t work like you think it does, and there’s a new desktop search interface. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google: The Crawl Budget Doesn’t Work Like You Think It Does You might think…
The Ultimate Guide to Going International on Amazon
It’s a global economy. That’s especially true since the advent of the Information Age. Now, it’s even easier to reach people around the world than ever. If you’ve got a product or service with international appeal, you can literally market it to anyone with an Internet connection. However, you still have to invest time and…
Google Will Index Desktop Over Amp and Changes to Schema | SEO Buzz
This week: Google won’t penalize you for using multiple markup formats on the same content, the Hummingbird algorithm has nothing to do with spam, and wait until you hear how many web pages Google knows about. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google Will Index Desktop Sites, Even If They Have AMP For those…
Google is Crawling Mobile Pages First, How to Make PWA’s Indexable | SEO Buzz
This week: TLDs won’t affect your rank, Google releases a list of best-practices to make PWAs indexable, and mobile-first indexing is already under way. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google Releases List of Best-Practices to Make PWAs Indexable Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are mobile applications that implement a combination of technologies to provide…
Google Mobile Rankings Suffering? Here Are 6 Things You Can Do Right Now
Once upon a time, mobile SEO was a novelty. Now it’s a necessity. Why? Because, according to Google, there are more searches on mobile devices than desktop computers. Also, Google is going to be ranking sites based on their mobile experience, not desktop! That means if you don’t take mobile SEO seriously, you’re limiting reach…
More Google Updates are Coming, AMP is Showing In Organic Search | SEO Buzz
This week: more updates are coming, Google uses “a bunch” of algorithms to check for duplicate content, and wait until you hear how many links in the search results use HTTPS. Here’s what happened this week in SEO. Google: Links to Images Are Different Than Links to Sites Yes, Google treats links to images differently…