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Pages that load under one second get more visitors. With every passing second waiting visitors lose interest and leave before ever seeing your content.

Google search engine’s not bad at delivering pretty darn relevant results. For this reason I strongly suggest you do NOT tell others what they’ll get when they carry out a Google search. Let me give a bit of context to this with a simple back story. A speaker informing the audience of their Google position …it’s position […]

Great news – blocking content will probably have a negative impact on the page’s search ranking. We all hate content blockers, like those pesky popups that require a sign up before accessing the rest of the page’s content. And it appears that Google is on the readers’ side. In an update from Google they stated: Starting today, pages where content […]

Schema markup helps search engines understand your content by describing its primary purpose, in a machine-friendly way. The most recent, and in my opinion, the easiest to maintain, is ld+json, which is contained in a script tag, proving the search engines with the key data. What does ld+json markup look like? The best way to […]

On a few occasions Yoast has inexplicably injected a noindex meta tag in the head of pages that I want search engines to index. I’ll get to the bottom of this when I have a free block of time. But, but for now, a really simple way to keep the meta tag away, is to […]

If you value your website’s search engine positioning then mobile-friendly websites are no longer a nice-to-have. On April 21st, 2015 Google’s mobile-friendly websites algorithm was updated to have a significant impact on search results! Since this algorithm was implemented it’s strongly believed that websites not ticking the right boxes for Google’s mobile support best practices […]

This site is delivered over https, using modern encryption methods. We advise you to do the same and get encrypted. It’s no secret that your bits can be seen by Peeping Toms when you surf the web. To be more precise, the bits are the streams of data between your device and the source of […]