Introducing the Google Page Quality Rating Scorecard
Use this scorecard, based directly on Google’s own guidelines, to evaluate your site on quality. The Importance Of Page Quality Scoring…
Winning & Losing Big Google Updates: 50-Site Case Study
What on-page factors are associated with sites that see big gains or declines after Google updates? Turns out it’s not author…
Google’s Index Size Revealed: 400 Billion Docs (& Changing)
By Cyrus ShepardLast Updated: April 3rd, 2024 It’s a big index, but faces growing pains Google rarely discusses the size of its web…
I Secretly Worked As A Google Search Quality Rater (You Can Too)
Can’t believe they actually hired an SEO… To improve its search results, Google contracts 16,000 search quality raters around the world….
How Google’s Selective Link Priority Impacts SEO (2023 Study)
What is Google’s Selective Link Priority? Selective Link Priority occurs when Google encounters multiple links on a page that target the…
23 Million Internal Links – SEO Case Study
The Best Title Tag Length for SEO (Latest Data)
10 Ways To Stop Google Rewriting Your Title Tags
Google Rewrites 61% of Page Title Tags [SEO Study]
Googlespeak™ – How Google Limits Thought About Antitrust
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall…
Category Page SEO: 10 Google-Boosting Tactics
Can you actually rank category pages? There’s a crazy rumor in SEO that Google doesn’t like to rank category pages. Nothing…
15 Tips for Site Architecture SEO [Master Guide]
If you need to move the needle on website traffic and conversions, Site Architecture is often one of your toolkit’s most…
Disavow: Sad Google Search Traffic Disavowing 35,000 Links
On April 3, 2013 I disavowed every link to this website I could find through Google Webmaster Tools. 35,000 links. Gone….
#1 Rule for SEO Success: Build Spaceships
Once in a while, I’m the luckiest guy I know. In this instance, it was the dream job of a lifetime:…