#Tech Can spending less time on the clock actually make your team more productive? Joe O’Connor thinks so. He’s the CEO of 4DayWeek.com, a company aiming to shift our collective mindsets around the traditional 9 to 5, Monday to Friday grind. It ...
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Friday, December 10, 2021
Are HTML Heading Tags (H2-H6) A Google Ranking Factor? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites
#Tech In a previous article, we explored the evidence around H1 tags as a Google ranking factor. Now, let’s take a look at the rest of the heading tags — H2 to H6. Will using these tags help your content rank higher in Google? And can using spec...
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Are H1 Tags A Google Ranking Factor? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites
#Tech Can you boost your search rankings in Google by using the right keywords in your H1 tags? And just how many H1 tags should you use on each webpage, anyway? There’s been much debate and misunderstanding over the years about how Google perce...
Are .gov Links a Google Ranking Factor? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites
#Tech Nearly as long as we’ve had search engines, links have been considered the currency of the web. Who links to your website can say a great deal about your associations, relevance to specific topics and regions, trustworthiness, and more. An...
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
Are Google’s Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines A Ranking Factor? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites
#Tech The Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines are a document used by third-party Quality Raters to inform what changes to Google’s algorithm may improve user experience in search. Sounds pretty important. So does a high rating by human Quality R...
Sunday, November 28, 2021
Is Your Usage Of Google Ads An Organic Search Ranking Factor? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites
#Tech Does Google favor advertisers by giving those who use paid ads a ranking advantage in organic search results? It’s a topic that’s been hotly debated over the years. Let’s take a look at why people have believed this to be true – and whethe...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
First Link Priority: Is It A Google Ranking Factor? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites
#Tech If you have two internal links on a single page both linking to another page on your website, does Google value one more than the other? And can you use the anchor text in your internal links to signal to Google which keywords you’d like t...
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Are .edu Links A Google Search Ranking Factor? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites
#Tech If ever there was one Google ranking factor that should be easy to prove or disprove, it’s .edu links. Right? Well, not so much. Misinformation and theories about what may or not be a Google search ranking factor persist far longer than pe...
Saturday, November 20, 2021
E-A-T: Is It A Ranking Factor In Google Search? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites
#Tech Expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-A-T) are important to Google. This is inarguable. In fact, E-A-T is such an essential element in how Google perceives web content that it’s mentioned 135 times in Google’s 167-page Searc...
Sunday, November 14, 2021
Domain Age: Is It A Google Ranking Factor? via @sejournal, @mirandalmwrites
#Tech Does Google favor older, established domains in its search results? Does buying a brand new domain name put you at an SEO disadvantage? These are just a couple of the questions surrounding domain age as a ranking factor – a topic that has ...