Here are the questions and the conversations this week surrounding SEO and blogging – specifically a href tags and img tags. How many of you are asking the same question? It goes something like this, “Just so I am clear. It is OK for an image to be linked to Attachment Page, Custom URL or […]
FAQ for SEO
UPDATED: September 22, 2019 The title really says it all. Below are the SEO questions I’ve gathered and their answers. Q: That green light on SEO for WP by Yoast is driving me crazy! Does it have to be green? No! Those are suggestions for placement of keywords. The spirit of the ‘law’ applies here. […]
Google Changes NoFollow rules
“NoFollow” is the tag that we are supposed to use when a link is going to benefit us in some way. For example, an affiliate link, an ad or a sponsored post. All those links are supposed to have “nofollow” in them. Last week Google rocked the SEO world, by announcing that it was unilaterally […]
Hosting, Speed & SEO
Hosts & Speed Hosting makes a big difference to speed. However there are many many good hosts nowadays. If you stick with the ‘old popular ones’ like GoDaddy, HostGator, BlueHost, etc, they will all operate similarly – and will be slower. WPEngine, BigScoots, Flywheel and the managed WP hosts all operate similarly and you should […]
This is How Intention Impacts SEO
SEO is what most of us want to learn to do well. Entire websites have been built into full time jobs when one post ranks within spot 1-3 in search engines. But, as we’ve been saying for awhile – intent is the new SEO. (I really wanted to say Intent is the new black… but, not […]
Recent SEO Myths Swirling Around Blogging Groups
Things are so confusing online especially about SEO and blogging. The first question I want to address is how do you know who to trust and the second thing I want to address are a few misleading quotes from a very popular newsletter (that most of you read). First, I think it’s important to discover […]
Ultimate Guide to Keyword Research for Bloggers
Do you enter keywords into Yoast’s SEO plugin for WordPress and optimize your pages until you get a green light? I’ve seen bloggers get all green lights and zero traffic from their efforts. How is that possible? Unfortunately the plugin relies on your keyword research. Without keyword research, you can optimize until all the lights are green and […]
Fix Recipes Markup – email by Google Search Console
Did you get a message that looks like this? Google search console not only restyled their dashboard, but also have started preemptively sending ‘helpful’ reminders. The problem is that they can appear alarming! If you do not have a Rich Markup / Snippet Creator Type of plugin for recipes, you need one for WordPress. This email […]
Yoast’s SEO Plugin Bug
Last week the Yoast SEO Plugin for WordPress announced a bug. We learned that the update in March had changed the image attachment page redirection setting. In the following article I’ll show you how to discover if you were affected by the Yoast SEO bug, how to fix the bug, and what you can expect […]