What makes working in SEO exciting? For many, it’s about weighing in on Google’s crucial ranking factors or cracking open the mysteries of search algorithms. For some, it may be about helping businesses grow and prosper in the digital age. But for Shay Harel, CEO and founder of Rank Ranger, it’s being able to work with … Read more
Content marketers are increasingly tasked with making sense of large and unwieldy data sets. However, they often lack the skills to process this data, creating a paradoxical relationship between executive decision-making and on-the-ground implementation. On the one hand, 94% of businesses feel that data is essential to their growth. Yet, at the same time, 63% … Read more
In an SEO office-hours video Google’s John Mueller answers why the PageSpeed Insights score and the Search Console Core Web Vitals scores are consistently different. He explains why two measurements of page speed never match and why it makes sense that they don’t match. PageSpeed Insights vs. Search Console CWV Report It’s reasonable to ask … Read more
If you’re managing SEO for clients, then you know how important it is to deliver accurate and insightful reports. You’ve done the work, now you have to show it. Your clients rely on you to give them the relevant information they need to make informed decisions about their marketing efforts going forward. The SEO report … Read more
Google offers PageSpeed Insights API to help SEO pros and developers by mixing real-world data with simulation data, providing load performance timing data related to web pages. The difference between the Google PageSpeed Insights (PSI) and Lighthouse is that PSI involves both real-world and lab data, while Lighthouse performs a page loading simulation by modifying … Read more
Google’s PageSpeed Insights added two new metrics to the PageSpeed Insights API and UI for Lighthouse. The two metrics are labeled experimental are now being collected for field data while the corresponding lab data can be used for diagnostic purposes. Google Lighthouse Updated Lighthouse is now updated with the two new metrics. The new Lighthouse … Read more
Too many organizations still publish content without clear objectives and KPIs. For organizations to move beyond “just publishing content,” they need to adopt a different mindset. They need to reflect on their past work, think critically, and ask for access to performance data they can use to assess content performance in terms of traffic, crawls, … Read more
Additional data from Search Console is now available through the Google Data Studio connector, allowing users to visualize traffic from more Google sources. This update is announced by Google Search Advocate Daniel Waisberg in his second post of a blog series related to Data Studio & Search Console. In case you missed it, his first … Read more
95% of agencies met or exceeded revenue goals for 2021 by focusing on profitable service offerings. Will 2022 be another great year for agency growth? We believe it will be, especially if your agency matches and exceeds what your competition may be doing. In this article, we’re going to share key findings from CallRail’s 2022 … Read more
Is there anything in this world more satisfying than a good, old-fashioned assumption? Someone asks you a question that you have no business answering, yet a response just tumbles out of your mouth. Most of us have probably made multiple assumptions today about benign things like the weather, which team will win a sporting event, … Read more
