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I spotted an interesting comment from John Mueller of Google about URLs and reducing duplication. He said focusing on individual URLs here and there won't help you much, it is more about looking where you can "reduce duplication by a…

Google's John Mueller told one webmaster that for his specific example, it might be a good idea for him to have a separate XML sitemap file for URLs that are "often updated." John said "putting the newer URLs into a single "often…

A Twitter poll by Brodie Clark has SEOs voting that link acquisition is the most challenging area of SEO. The poll had over 750 votes, and almost 60% of those who voted said link acquisition is the "most challenging" area of SEO.…

Google’s John Mueller answered an Office-hours hangout question about what to do about web pages for products that are temporarily out of stock. The person asking the question wanted to know how to balance concerns about SEO with the user…

Does Google prefer shorter URLs over longer URLs? That’s an SEO myth that won’t go away. Here’s when URL length matters and when it doesn’t.URL length is the topic of discussion in the latest installment of the Ask Googlebot video series on…

Google is great for finding information. It gives accurate results in a fraction of a second. But what if you want really specific information, like results from your own website or a competitor’s website? Yes, Google can do that too.This…

Search engine marketing (SEM) is a valuable method to earning the coveted top spot on SERPs. But it’ll take more than a big budget to see a good return on your investment—without a solid strategy, you’ll soon see underwhelming campaign…

You likely already know what a search engine is. Chances are you used one to find this blog post or to find Semrush.com because you wanted to conduct some SEO campaigns and keyword research. But have you ever heard of a metasearch…

Google's John Mueller said that when it comes to web search, Google does not "look at the specific images on the page" for web search or ranking purposes. For image search, Google does but for web search, John said no. John said this…

In September we said Google Merchant Center would enforce that all products would have unique product identifiers (UPI) within the product feed. If there was not UPI, Google would immediately disapproved and no longer showed in free…