Top 10 User Experience Ranking Factors, Part 2 of 2
This is part two of our “top 10 ranking factors” based on user experience. On the previous page, we discussed page load speeds, whether your site is mobile friendly, how ad placements can affect your rankings, how templates...
Top 10 User Experience Ranking Factors, Part 1 of 2
Top 10 User Experience Ranking Factors, Part 1 of 2 There are a number of different user experience related ranking factors that can influence your SERP positions. It makes sense that Google would want to send people to sites where...
5 Methods to Quickly Increase Rankings Without Getting Links
We all know that building links is the go-to method of improving rankings for a vast majority of the SEO community. However, as time goes by, we find that Google consistently penalizes link building methods, where someone endeavors...
What Makes a Good Article for On-Page SEO?
Write Articles that Rank Well Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) How do you write a really good article, one that will return high in the Google SERPs? Let’s talk about the buzzword “latent semantic indexing”, or LSI....
My On-Page Suggestions are Wrong?
I get some criticism from others, especially when it comes to keyword density. I hear it all the time, “This site over here has 3% keyword density, and they still rank, #1 even! They have 20% exact anchor texts! Nearly every...
How to Manage On-Page SEO
Here I will explain my routine for auditing on-page SEO. I will begin by showing what to do with a brand new website. Everything you’ve read so far can be a little overwhelming, how pages on your site must maintain a certain...
How To Improve Your Rankings with On-Page SEO
You may be surprised to hear that everything I’ve mentioned in this on-page SEO guide until now will not help improve your actual rankings much. The intent, so far, has not been to improve rankings, but to remove penalties. If...
How to Fix WordPress for SEO, Part 2 of 2
There’s little to get around the fact that WordPress is a duplicate content factory. You write an article, select 4 tags for the article, click submit and oops, you just created 8 pages of duplicate content. Your article gets...
How to Fix WordPress for SEO, Part 1 of 2
WordPress injects many, many keywords into your pages. By the time Wordperss is through, your template could have more keywords injected than are found in your articles. This can double your keyword density, or worse, and push your...
Keyword Density and Over-Optimization
Does Keyword Density Still Matter? Before discussing keyword density, I’ll respond to those who have a differing opinion. I believe keyword density matters. Others, such as Google’s Matt Cutts, or Aaron Wall, and many others...