Do HTML Sitemaps Offer Any SEO Benefit?

Years ago, HTML sitemaps offered a clear SEO benefit to websites. They made site crawling easier for search engines and helped to distribute PageRank. XML sitemaps have long been a…

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How to create an XML sitemap and submit it to Google

30-second summary: A sitemap is one of the technical sides of SEO. A sitemap doesn’t boost your SEO traffic but helps search engines index your web pages faster. It’s very…

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Core Web Vitals report: 28 Ways to supercharge your site

30-second summary: Google plans to roll out the new Core Web Vitals update in early 2021. The overall size, dimensions, load order, and format of your images will drastically affect your PageSpeed…

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What’s technical SEO? 8 technical aspects everyone should know

An SEO Basics post about technical SEO might seem like a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, some basic knowledge about the more technical side of SEO can mean the difference between…

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The latest news in SEO and WordPress: November 2020

Another great edition of our monthly SEO news webinar has come and gone. In the November 2020 edition, we opened up broadcasting for everyone — not just members of the…

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An introduction to Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools

As a search engine, Microsoft Bing often finds itself playing the ‘underdog’ to Google’s bigger market share, budgets and brand. But Bing Webmaster Tools can still be incredibly useful when…

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Yoast SEO 15.1: Keyword research with SEMrush

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could get keyword data while working on your content in Yoast SEO? Well, we asked ourselves that same question and now we have an…

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How to build Google Web Stories in WordPress

What do Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories, Snapchat Stories and Twitter Fleets have in common? They are all so-called social media implementations of the same stories idea. A story is a…

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Top six ways to optimize crawl budget for SEO

30-second summary: Crawl budget is an area that remains underrated in SEO. If you’re running a large-scale website, crawl budget is something that site runner can, and should, be optimized…

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How to teach an old blog new SEO tricks

30-second summary: It’s common for organic search traffic to a website or old blog to decline over time. While some of the factors causing that are outside the site owner’s…

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