It’s easy to be fooled into thinking SEO is just about link building or ranking first for specific keywords. While those are important factors, and staying up on best practices is essential, resolving duplicate content issues should be your top priority. Often, the hidden cause of lost rankings and decreasing traffic isn’t that someone else … Read more
As you’re probably all too aware at this point, GA4 is coming. Old versions of Google Analytics will be switched off for pretty much everyone come June 2023. While GA4 is improving all the time, there are quite a few things that people are used to seeing in old versions of Analytics which, at the … Read more
Duplicate content in posts published by Google Business Profiles is now considered spam, according to an updated document on content policies. Google added a line to its Business Profile posts content policy under the section cautioning users to avoid spam. Among the list of content users should avoid posting on their Business Profile, Google added … Read more
Duplicate content can be a barrier to SEO performance and can prevent your search strategy from reaching specific goals. It’s also not helpful to searchers, which results in search engines like Google identifying other content as the better answer. Search engines can filter out pages from top search results and include certain pages that might … Read more
One of the biggest myths in SEO is the dreaded “duplicate content penalty.” Want to know an SEO secret? There is no such thing as a duplicate content penalty. You will never see a notification from Google Search Console that you have been penalized for duplicate content. But that doesn’t mean your site isn’t being … Read more
Popular WordPress SEO plugin, Rank Math, has been found to have a bug that causes it to generate duplicate sitemap files. This strange bug in how sitemaps are generated is similar to one that affects Yoast, but the way Rank Math handles it is different. Website Sitemap A sitemap is an important part of search … Read more
A sharp-eyed search marketer noticed that Yoast was generating duplicate sitemaps. It’s not known how long this has been happening, but the head of SEO at Yoast acknowledged the bug and noted that Yoast is aware of the problem and says it is working on a fix. Once this duplicate sitemap bug was discovered however, … Read more
