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The author's views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.Having a website that doesn’t convert is a little like having a bucket with a hole in it. Do you keep…

This is just a programming note that I will be 100% offline starting Wednesday night (September 15th) through Thursday night (September 16th) for Yom Kippur. I am scheduling stories on Yom Kippur, anything posted would have been…

Ah, ranking factors. The ancient art of ranking in search engines is a lesson in balance and patience.Yet some people read an article like the example below that talks about the most important ranking factors and think, “Yep, I’ll follow…

Search campaigns have goals that can range from generating awareness, to driving traffic, to achieving specific conversion types.While the level of data we get in analytics and aggregated Search Console reporting has changed over the years,…

About a month ago, Google made a change to the snippet titles it shows in its search results, then confirmed that change a week after it was launched. The SEO community went a bit nuts about the changes and Google said, hold on, we…

Google's John Mueller said on Reddit that if you want to slow Google from crawling your site (or speed it up), it can take about a day from when you set the crawl rate setting in Google Search Console for it to kick in. The official…

Microsoft is testing a new "compact view" in the Bing search results interface. It is a toggle you can turn on and off that makes the search results page, um, more compact.Frank Sandtmann, a German based SEO consultant, gave me a…

If you search for and some other queries on Google Search you might run into a weird bug with Google's pagination. Scroll down to the footer where you can go to the next page of results (like anyone does that) and you will see only…

Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout that Google Search does not specifically differentiate and treat differently category pages or filter pages or search pages or tag pages from other pages. John said it is not about the…

Looks like some of the Google Search Advocates had an outside lunch or breakfast meeting the other day, in Zurich, Switzerland. Daniel Waisberg who posted the photo on Twitter said "I bumped into 3 random people in the street - they…