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Hey everyone, Today we have a special guest with us. All the way from St. Petersburg, Florida! Chris Romero runs a popular SEO agency down there and he’s come to shed light on a very unique statement that Google utilizes to judge “high quality pages” with. I think if we pay attention to what Chris …
How E.A.T. Content Is Key To Building Up Your “Page Quality Rating” Read More »
There are many different metrics for SEO and many other metrics for a site to be even considered decent. Perhaps the most commonly cited metric is “load speed.” Search engines and visitors alike want, and perhaps demand, a fast loading site. This is especially the case on mobile, where limited data packages demand lightness, and …
Should You Use Google’s AMP (& Will It Affect Your SEO?) Read More »
“Just write great content” is a mantra that, while true, will only get you so far in the SEO game. There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to content and one of those things is how the content is arranged inside your website. How you build your actual website is just as important …
Silos Vs. Clusters [Website Architecture] Which One is Best? Read More »
Today, I’m happy to present a guest post from Hillary St. Jonn of SEMrush. We’ve been having many back and forth conversations about the new features that SEMrush is developing, but that’s actually above and beyond the goal of today’s post. Hillary is a mastermind when it comes to creating search-engine-worthy content and given her …
Hey HPD fam!Although most of our sites are monetized with purely affiliate content, we do still mix in ads for certain sites with enough traffic. One of the companies that has helped us maximize our ad revenue is Mediavine. They also own a few web properties and the following post was originally published on their …
Improving Rankings With Google Search Console Search Analytics Read More »
The next question we’re going to tackle in our weekly series is perhaps one of the most misunderstood SEO metrics: Bounce Rate. In fact, is bounce rate even an SEO metric at all? TL:DR – It’s not, but you should pay attention to it anyway. What Exactly A Bounce Is – And Why Affiliates Probably …
The entire industry of SEO has been built upon data collection and testing. All the tools and metrics we use are largely founded upon bits and parts of other tools and metrics – this providing us a simple metric to work with. This makes sense as computing infrastructure is costly so these services have to …
How Important Is Domain Authority In Rankings? (Our Test Results!) Read More »
Hey guys, Hope you’re ready for another guest post! We’ve got a special guest, Brenda Burg, with us today and she’s helping us justify our unreasonably long SEO posts – while adding in a bit of Google history. Let’s get to it! As content marketers and affiliate site owners, it’s safe to say that we …
How Long Should a Blog Post Be? (… It’s NOT what Google says!) Read More »
There are some things you can’t avoid forever and one of biggest things that site builders fear is running an SEO audit. I wanted to put together a straight-forward & dead-simple SEO that you can do in a day. It won’t be overly technical and all you have to do is utilize the tools I …
One thing niche site builders are obsessed with is competition. We analyze domain authority, page authority, trust flow, citation flow, Moz rank, domain rating, yadda, yadda, yadda… But the thing we should remember is that these metrics are lagging indicators. They’re analyzed for a split second and then cached into the servers of Majestic or Ahrefs. …
When Competition Is Too High, Everywhere You Look. Read More »