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Peek Inside Our Monthly Issues

Nov '19 Featured Articles

  • A Pro's 5-Step Program to Successful Link Building Outreach
  • Link building essentially boils down to contacting other website owners and asking them for a favor (a backlink). To be effective, you NEED to make a compelling case for why your link should exist on another site and that takes finesse. We've sent hundreds of thousands of outreach emails on behalf of our clients, and this article shares the lessons we've learned so you can apply them and boost the success your own link building outreach efforts.
  • 2020 Checklist to Protecting Traffic & Rankings During a Website Redesign!
  • Depending on the amount of planning you and your team put into the process, a site redesign can either be a relatively painless endeavor or a gut wrenching nightmare costing your company thousands of dollars or more in downtime, lost rankings, or other issues. Consider this article direct research from the school of hard knocks that our team and SEN members have learned through hard earned experience.

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your November 2019 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on how much you can trust Google's new responsive search ads, the best way to add another business location to your Google My Business account, how internal link optimization works and where you can easily go wrong, and finally when going down to the essentials - which are our top five tools we use to keeping a business owner abreast on overall site performance.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Oct '19 Featured Articles

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your October 2019 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on how your bounce rate plays into website quality, the best practice use of H1 tags, how to know for SURE that a website's higher impressions that leads to lower click through rates is a good or a bad thing, and if it's crazy to combine a complete website redesign with a shift to HTTPS?!

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

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