“Dwell Time”: What is It and What is a Good “Dwell Time” as per Bing and Google

[Updated January 26, 2017] “Dwell time” is one of the easier-confused terms in the SEO industry. When discussing “dwell time”, people often seem to be talking about “Time-on-page” instead. Let’s try to be as clear and comprehensive as we can: “Dwell time” Defined by Bing (Less than a Minute = Poor) Dwell time is quite […]

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Google Spell Check and How it Works: Types of “Refined” Results

Google’s spell check is a very old feature Google has been constantly improving. Understanding how it works is essential for better understanding of keyword research process as well as reputation / brand management. So what does Google consider a misspelling? Google is not using any standard Grammar rules or dictionaries. It’s misspelling identification process is […]

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Should I Use Canonical to Solve Blog Tag Duplicate Issue? (Weekly Q&A)

There’s an interesting discussion over at SEO chat forum about how to solve the inherent WordPress-run blog duplicate content issue. If you are blogging, you know that these pages are likely to cause partial duplicate content issue: blog.com/post-name blog.com//tag/tag-name blog.com/category/category-name This is because the category and tag pages usually consist of the post excerpts. In […]

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