You may have heard in the past that your AdWords quality score is an important part of determining both pricing and positioning for your AdWords ads.  What’s a little less clear, though, is what exactly goes into you…

I’m going to do something a little unusual here; rather than spend a couple thousand words talking circles around a topic before I answer it, I’ll give you an answer straight-up. Does Google penalize a website when…

Anyone experienced in monitoring SEO efforts knows that keyword rankings can spaz out and go crazy for days or weeks at a time. Good SEO efforts are a long-term plan; they take effect slowly and increase overall trends, not day-t…

Bots are exceedingly common on the web. In fact, as of 2012, bot traffic exceeded human traffic on the web. That’s right; more than 50% of the hits on your website, on average, come from robots rather than humans. Bots have a…

There’s an interesting conundrum some of us entrepreneurs face when we’re developing various businesses. That conundrum is the question; how much can we cross-link different websites we’re building? L…

301 and 302 are both HTTP status codes. They are very common, but the average user doesn’t see them; they’re codes to help an admin troubleshoot when something goes wrong, and they’re codes that servers use w…

Owning your own business is a risky venture, but one that has a lot of potential rewards. If you’re successful, you can bring yourself financial freedom, the ability to set your own hours, and the kind of success many peopl…

2017 was a year of webmasters finally making the migration from an insecure HTTP site to a secure HTTPS site. A primary impetus was Google’s continued push for security, along with all of the massive large-scale hackings…

There are a lot of different “optimize your SEO” articles on the web, with 5, 10, 15 or so steps on them. That’s fine, that’s good, though a lot of them end up repeating the same tips over and over. I decide…

One of the problems we’ve written about before is that the bounce rate for a site is not inherently accurate in Google analytics. The problem is that it requires two interactions with a page to record a site visit as anythin…