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Google Review Stars Drop by 14%
On September 16, Google announced that they would be restricting review stars in SERPs. According to our data, page-1 SERPs with review stars dropped 14% over a two-day period, with much larger drops in Real Estate and Finance.
New Opportunities for Image SEO: How to Leverage Machine Vision for Strategic Wins
Images are driving more traffic than ever before. What are some tools you can leverage to better optimize your image SEO and capitalize on the opportunity?
How to Onboard Clients with Immersion Workshops
Spending quality time getting to know your client, their goals and capabilities, and getting them familiar with their team sets you up for a better client-agency relationship. Immersion workshops are the answer — learn more in this Whiteboard Friday.
How to Automate Pagespeed Insights For Multiple URLs using Google Sheets
Calculating individual page speed performance metrics can help you to understand how efficiently your site is running as a whole.
10 Link Building Lies You Must Ignore
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E-A-T and the Quality Raters' Guidelines
EAT — also known as Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness — is a big deal when it comes to Google's algorithms. But what exactly does this acronym entail, and why does it matter to your everyday work? In this bite-sized version of her full MozCon 2019 presentation, Marie Haynes describes exactly what E-A-T means and how it could have a make-or-break effect on your site.
An Agency Workflow for Google My Business Dead Ends
Your clients don’t just count on you to churn out rote work. In Google’s increasingly walled garden, the agency which can see over the wall tops when necessity calls is bringing extra value.
How Google's Rel = Nofollow, Sponsored, & UGC Links Impact SEO
Google shook up the SEO world by announcing big changes to how publishers should mark nofollow links. The changes — while beneficial to help Google understand the web — nonetheless caused confusion and raised a number of questions. We've got the answers to many of your questions here.
The Data You’re Using to Calculate CTR is Wrong and Here’s Why
GSC is an imperfect tool, but it gives SEOs the best information we have to understand an individual site's click performance in the SERPs.
How Does the Local Algorithm Work?
Driven by proximity, relevance, and prominence, Google's local algorithm plays by a few different rules. Get the scoop on how it all works from local SEO extraordinaire, Joy Hawkins, as she offers a taste of her full talk from MozCon 2019.