Google Eliminates Right Side Ads
Google is no longer showing ads on the right hand side of their search results. Additionally, Google is showing four ads at the top of their results instead of just
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Updates To Google Webmaster Guidelines Summary
One of the documents that I always urge anyone interested in learning about SEO to read is the Google Webmaster Guidelines. It is essentially Google’s playbook on how to format
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Google Unveils Their Search Quality Rater Guidelines
Over the past 10 years, Google has used focus groups to help them review their search results and the quality of the pages that they rank highly. If a user in the program, called a Search Quality Rater, gives a site a low rating, that doesn’t actually (immediately) impact current Google rankings. Rather Google sets their Search Quality Raters into action for running their experiments. For example, if Google decided to run a specific mobile site experiment, the Search Quality raters are used to both help Google run that experiment and to better understand the experiments they’re running.
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Boost Your WordPress Performance With WP Rocket Hosting
One of our main goals at A2 Hosting is to make sure you get the fastest page load speeds possible. WordPress is one of the software solutions in particular we help you speed up. Free SSDs, up to 20X faster Turbo Servers and our A2 Optimized setup featuring WordPress pre-configured with the best performance settings are a few ways we help you get peak performance.
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What Is RankBrain & Why Should I Care?
Fix all thin content. Check. Use disavow tool to remove bad links. Check. What’s next on the SEO checklist? Learn about RankBrain and why it has become the third-most important Google ranking signal.
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Ghost Scaring Away The Competition With New Updates
Ghost has launched its first major interface update in two years. I personally can’t believe it’s been that long since Ghost was launched and took the blogging software audience by storm. This update is exciting news especially if you’re a current Ghost user, or you’ve tried it in the past but didn’t think it was quite ready for prime time. Some of the new features you’ll see in this version of Ghost include:
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4 Quick Ways To Get Your Small Business In The Top 10 On Google
You just launched a new site for your small business. Congrats! You may be a bakery, a dog salon or an ice cream shop. Now the trick is getting the word out. Focusing on SEO is a great way (and in most cases entirely free) to promote your website and more importantly your business. After all, over 90% of consumers use the internet to find local businesses. Here are a few relatively quick tasks you can complete in a day or two to help those consumers find you.
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Three Reasons Why Your Blog Isn’t Getting Traffic
At A2 Hosting, we’re all about making sure you get the fastest page load speeds possible. That way your audience can have an excellent user experience when they visit your site. Your audience’s experience is a big part of the puzzle for you to be successful, but you need an audience in the first place.
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