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Peek Inside Our Monthly Issues

Sep '19 Featured Articles

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your September 2019 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on how to optimize your PDF files for mobile, how long is too long to wait when it comes to redirecting old links, the code needed to markup BOTH video and blog post on the same page, and how to carefully move a client away from multiple 'fake' Google My Business listings without doing damage.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Aug '19 Featured Articles

  • A Pro's Guide to hreflang Tags: Make a Multilingual Website that Google Loves & Users Flock to!
  • Here's your crash course in leveraging the hreflang tag to tell Google exactly which version of your page to serve to users based on their language and location. This strategy is how to push your multilingual website above your competition, seriously reduce your bounce rates and boost conversions! Simple put, for multilingual websites, this tag can be your biggest asset to generating more revenue.
  • 11 Ways Your Site's Server Can Kill Your Conversions!
  • Your site's server is its lifeline in so many ways. It effects your uptime, site security, site speed, if your international site can even be found in the right country specific search engine and so much more. The good news is that you don't have to be held hostage by your hosting company - you have options. Use these 11 tips to choose the best server for your site and a hosting company that will support you along the way.

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your August 2019 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on how to easily add tracking code sitewide to a WordPress site, how to know if your international website is being indexed in specific countries, the finer details of leveraging FAQ markup and why a new website isn't getting completely and consistently indexed by Google.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Jul '19 Featured Articles

  • PPC CheckMate: Audit Your Google Ad Campaign in 3 Quick Steps
  • With over 15 years of experience within PPC management, there is ONE question that gets asked more than any other: How can I tell how optimized my Google Ads Campaign is? And after answering this question countless times, I developed a methodology to efficiently audit a Google Ads campaign. I liked it so much that I went on to patent it in 2016! So read on to see how my patented PPC CheckMate methodology works on both simple and very complex campaigns - regardless of their structure and network used.
  • Beginners Guide to Optimizing Your WordPress Site
  • New to WordPress or just want a seriously simple guide to understanding the basics of setting up WordPress for SEO Success?! That's exactly what this article is designed to do. Learn how to get a highly optimized website with just a few hours of set-up time.

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your July 2019 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on how to pick a solid hosting company, why it's important to clear any manual action penalty prior to a site move, what to do if you believe your GMB has been suspended by mistake to get the quickest support by Google and how to add Google Analytics tracking code (or any code) to an individual page within WordPress.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Jun '19 Featured Articles

  • How to Quickly Migrate from Yoast SEO to the 'All in One SEO' WordPress Plugin Pack
  • We've begin migrating some of our Schema enabled WordPress sites away from Yoast and over to the 'All in One SEO' plugin. Why? Because for our non-ecommerce sites it's an easier to maintain and less invasive plugin that won't break our schema. And, now that we've made the (surprisingly easy) move, we've found a couple of cool benefits.
  • Your 2019 Complete Local Search Audit Checklist
  • Taking on a new local business client or just re-evaluating on existing one? This checklist will help you uncover the time consuming areas that can hide in plain site. Local Search Expert, Mary Bowling, shares the step by step checklist she uses when creating a proposal for any and all new projects. It's designed to give you a complete picture of any local business' online presence. It will not only provide you with a solid list of tasks that need to be completed but it will also allow you to create accurate and detailed client bids.

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your June 2019 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on keeping your product page FAQ section's keyword mentions as natural as possible, a quick way to check Google's local search results on a desktop and mobile device without leaving an impression, details on why your page's cache date seems to always be months behind these days, and no - it's not necessary to link to your site's XML sitemap from any page.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest