Celebrate the Holidays with some of SEJ’s best articles of 2023. Our Festive Flashback series runs from December 21 – January 5, featuring daily reads on significant events, fundamentals, actionable strategies, and thought leader opinions. 2023 has been quite eventful in the SEO industry, and our contributors produced some outstanding articles to keep pace and … Read more
Celebrate the Holidays with some of SEJ’s best articles of 2023. Our Festive Flashback series runs from December 21 – January 5, featuring daily reads on significant events, fundamentals, actionable strategies, and thought leader opinions. 2023 has been quite eventful in the SEO industry and our contributors produced some outstanding articles to keep pace and … Read more
As China’s largest search engine and a global AI and Internet technology leader, Baidu is a powerhouse of innovation. The ERNIE language model, surpassing Google’s BERT in Chinese language processing, positions Baidu at the cutting edge of technological advancement. In our comprehensive Baidu SEO Ranking Factors Correlation Study*, we analyzed the SERPs for 10,000 Chinese … Read more
Systems, Signals, And Page Experience The most important thing you can do if you are worried about ranking is write content that satisfies intent and fulfills the aspirations of E-E-A-T. –Ben Steele, 09:11 Join us as we talk about the biggest updates to Google Ranking Factors this year, and what that means for you as … Read more
If only SEO was as simple as having a list of ranking factors that Google applies to its algorithm. If only SEO was as simple as Google having one algorithm. If only every niche and location were ranked in the same way. Long gone are the days when search engines operated on a basic level, … Read more
There have been significant changes in the world of search over the past year, making the concept of ranking factors increasingly difficult to categorize. Not only has Google changed how it describes several previously documented “ranking systems” – rolling a series of technical signals into one “page experience” evaluation – but it also doubled down … Read more
Today’s Ask An SEO question comes from Sommer, who asks: What might be factors contributing to high on-page SEO scores but low domain authority? Today, we will dive into a topic that many website owners find puzzling: the relationship between on-page SEO scores and domain authority. As you know, on-page SEO is about enhancing individual … Read more
We are all familiar with the term OEE. It’s a great way to measure how efficient your factory is, and it can also help you see where your manufacturing process could be improved. But there are three factors that affect OEE: availability, performance, and quality. Let’s take a look at each of these so you … Read more
Learning to be the best in town at the top seven elements experts feel impact your rankings in Google’s local packs is a smart strategic foundation. Thanks to Darren Shaw who has been running the Local Search Ranking Factors survey since 2017, we all benefit from this respected annual report in which local SEO professionals … Read more
During a recent Google SEO office-hours Q&A session, a concerned website owner inquired about the slow indexing of their 16,000-page site. Google Search Relations team member Gary Illyes provided a comprehensive response to the query, addressing the factors influencing indexing speed. Quality & Popularity Matter In Indexing Illyes explained that indexing speed depends on several … Read more
Did you ever play Tetris? If so, you probably remember how there was no real way to “beat” the game. It basically just got faster and faster with every level. In some ways, search engine optimization (SEO) is the same. Not in that it has a catchy 8-bit soundtrack or that it rewrites your dreams, … Read more
Local businesses that want more traffic from search must improve their local rankings. But can prominence, distance, and relevance affect your organic search rankings? Read on to learn whether there is any connection between prominence, distance, and relevance, and improved Google rankings. The Claim: Relevance, Distance, And Prominence Are Ranking Factors What are relevance, distance, … Read more
Google’s John Mueller discussed various scenarios of how the page experience ranking factors did and did not influence rankings. He didn’t downplay Core Web Vitals (CWV) as a ranking factor but rather he added context for the kinds of situations where the Page Experience ranking factor makes a difference and examples of why it would … Read more
