Google’s FAQ Rich Snippets: Generate More Clicks from Your Current Positions
Google search engine optimization is no longer only about ranking higher. It is also about getting the most of your current positions. As Google’s search result pages are becoming richer and more diverse, there are ways to yield more clicks from lower rankings without investing in increasing them. One of those low-hanging-fruit opportunities is Google’s […]
SEO Content Optimization in 2022 with Jim and Ann
What is considered SEO-friendly content in 2022? This concept has changed a lot since SEO started. Have you been keeping up? How much content do we need for Google to “like” our pages? Whatever you do, don’t create “fluff” content, says Google’s John Mueller on Twitter, so Jim Boykin, CEO of Internet Marketing Ninjas, and […]
Can Low-Quality Content Hurt Your High-Quality Content?
Ever since Google’s Panda, SEOs have had a continuous debate: Can low-quality pages of the site negatively impact high-quality content and drag their rankings down? Most websites have a bunch of older, thin, outdated content that may have no positive signals (in terms of backlinks and traffic). Can those pages be holding your key pages […]
Barry Schwartz Asks Jim Boykin About Link Building, Disavow, Domain Authority and More
Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Roundtable and Jim Boykin from Internet Marketing Ninjas have done a series of videos discussing important SEO topics and recent SEO trends. You can also watch all these videos on the Ninja Youtube channel! Barry and Boykin did 9 videos 1. Are Backlinks Still Important for SEO? Short Answer: Yes! […]
How To Control Your Video Search Snippet
We’ve talked about search and social snippets before. A rich snippet is what you see below your search listing enriched with rating stars, author information, a thumbnail, etc… scraped from the linked page. Google ranks videos inside so-called video carousels. Inside video carousels, Google often shows: The video thumbnail (which implies it’s a video) The […]
Social Media Content Calendar: Your Key to Successful Social Media Marketing Strategy
Social media marketing planning is key to successful content marketing. It makes your team more productive and allows you to catch all the seasonal trends and trending hashtags. Furthermore, it streamlines content planning and helps you focus more on community building aspects and other long-term goals of social media marketing. One of the best ways […]
10 Tools to Visualize Numbers and Percentages
Visualization is key to properly conveying numbers and percentages online. Human beings are visual creatures. We do better seeing representations than we do hearing or reading stats. Therefore visualization is the marketing goldmine: Graphs and charts are much more sharable than many other types of images. More importantly, graphs seem to trigger more clicks because […]
Find and Fix Mixed Content Issues with This Free Tool
Among newer SEO issues that have become a widespread problem is so-called “Mixed Content” issue. Let’s find out: What mixed content is How to spot and fix the mixed content issue What Is Mixed Content? Mixed Content issue occurs when a secure page serves non-secure content (images, videos, but also scripts, styles, etc.) Mixed content […]
Free Mobile/Desktop Code Comparison Tool: Is Your Site Mobile-First-Index Friendly?
On March 5 Google announced what we all knew had been coming: The Mobile-First index is now the default for the whole web. Previously, you had to wait for a notification in your Search Console to be sure Google is using your site’s mobile version to index your pages. Now mobile-first indexing is the default […]
The Free SEO Plugin You Have Been Waiting For
Google search results are getting richer and harder to deal with. You cannot copy URLs of search results until you click them. It is impossible to copy the list of URLs ranking on page 1. You cannot do much when trying to analyze search result pages. To make SERP analysis doable, we have come with […]