Category: SEO

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the art of helping a document rank higher in search engines like Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo.

In this category you’ll find tips, insights, and unique research to help power your own SEO efforts.

How to Avoid Making the NFL’s SEO Mistake When Launching a New Website

Update 3 (6/01/2020 at 3:03pm): It took just under 3 weeks (roughly 21 total days) and Google is now ranking the new “Player Stats” page from NFL.com as the number 1 result for the query “NFL Stats”. The NFL never built redirects from the old URL to the...

Your Blog Posts Directly Impact Google Maps Rankings

In 2018 I published a research project detailing how Google Maps / Google My Business largely leaned on the name of a business to determine rankings, which has led to the outcome of spammy business titles. That same year Moz produced, for perhaps the last time, the Moz...

Patreon Made a Big SEO Mistake, Accidentially Removing Their Entire Website from Search Engines

If you’re a Patreon user, you might be noticing a reduction in traffic to your Patreon page or perhaps even a decrease in new supporters over the next few days or weeks. That’s because someone at Patreon deindexed the entire website from online search engines like Google and...

There’s Data Missing From Your Link Analysis Tools And Here’s Why

There are several link tracking and analysis tools used by marketers and SEOs to measure the success of their campaigns. Moz, Majestic, Ahrefs, and SEMRush are some of the more popular tools used to track inbound links to a website. All of these tools have different methods for...

How Many Links a Website Needs to Rank #1 in Google

As an SEO I’ve spent years telling clients, bosses, colleagues in related fields, packed rooms at conferences, my mom, college kids, friends, significant others, random people in grocery stores, newborn babies, people stuck next to me on a plane, and pretty much anyone who will listen or is...

Examples of How Well Spammy Business Names Help Google Local Rankings

UPDATE: Google has not taken any action to stop spam in the keywords of businesses which is a violation of their guidelines or taken action against any of the spam listed here, but they did just suspend my business listing for having pointed it out (I’m guessing). I’ve...

Google is No Longer a Search Engine – The Rise of Google the Task Completion Engine [UPDATED]

Google announced a new service yesterday at Google I/O 2018 called Google Duplex and much like their announcement of Google Home / Assistant at Google I/O 2016 they reminded us that they have been planning and trying to build this service for over a decade. Google Duplex will...

YouTube Live and Google Search Results

You may have noticed YouTube Live results showing up in Google recently. In the past few weeks I’ve had a few clients ask if “going live” on YouTube was good for their SEO or guaranteed a number one position. They all say they read it somewhere that “going...

Journalists Don’t Believe Facebook is the Best Platform to Discover New Story Ideas On

Recently PR Hunters, a tool that helps PR and Marketing folks find journalists looking for sources from around the world, did a small poll on Twitter asking journalists which social media platform they use most to find new story ideas. The poll didn’t gain a lot of votes,...

What Happens in Google When You Launch A Brand New Website

I had the very rare opportunity of releasing a brand new website recently. At our brand Explore Media we’ve launched a blog covering a few topics in Fort Worth, TX. We decided that we would develop out the website on a production server but block spiders from crawling...

What is SEO?

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which refers to the process of optimizing a website or a web page so that it ranks higher in the search engine results pages (SERPs) for relevant queries. The goal of SEO is to increase organic traffic to a website by improving its visibility and relevance to users searching for information or services related to the website’s content. SEO involves a range of techniques and strategies, such as optimizing website content, improving website architecture and user experience, building high-quality backlinks, and targeting relevant keywords and phrases. The ultimate aim of SEO is to improve a website’s search engine ranking, drive more traffic to the site, and ultimately increase the site’s revenue or conversions.

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Our SEO articles, research, and blog posts are useful because they provide valuable information and insights into search engine optimization, helping businesses and marketers to stay informed and up-to-date on the latest SEO trends and best practices. By utilizing this information, individuals can optimize their websites for better search engine rankings, drive more organic traffic, and ultimately achieve their business goals.