While category pages on your website can be great for users, they can also present a challenge for promoting your website’s best content via search, as your category pages might compete directly with your more targeted pages listed on the category pages. Here's how to determine if you have a self-competition problem on your site.
While category pages on your website can be great for users, they can also present a challenge for promoting your website’s best content via search, as your category pages might compete directly with your more targeted pages listed on the category pages. Here's how to determine if you have a self-competition problem on your site.
Remember when Google was just a young fledgling startup amongst a field of giants such as Yahoo, Netscape, AskJeeves, and MSN? How like most innocent startups wanting to change the world they directed you TO the world through cutting edge search optimization that took the user to what you wanted, as fast as possible? Well now the fledging has suddenly become the bully on the block.
Frequently the SEO space fixates on algorithm changes and new technical tricks, but long term success, particularly for Enterprise SEO efforts, is most frequently due to consistent execution of SEO best practices.
Running into issues tracking what you want in Google Analytics? Take a look at the Google Measurement Protocol for the ability to track data to Google Analytics outside of the standard tracking code implementations.
Including “How to” content in your marketing strategy can help attract your potential audience and fill out content at different stages of your sales funnel.
Google recently announced the upcoming incorporation of a set of Core Web Vitals into a future ranking signal, Page Experience. The Page Experience signal is expected to be incorporated into the Google ranking algorithm next year, but forward-thinking web developers and site owners are encouraged to begin improving their Core Web Vitals now.