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Crawlability: What It Is and Why it Matters for SEO

By Jake Serota

Nothing.  That’s what will show up in the results whenever someone searches for your brand name if Google can’t crawl and index your content (the same goes for other search engines, too).  Accordingly, crawlability and indexability are two crucial concepts every search engine marketer needs to understand. Without knowledge of how both processes work, your … Continued

The Ins and Outs of E-Commerce Technical SEO

By Jake Serota

E-commerce is one of the most fiercely competitive industries around, with 40% of online store owners reporting the market has ‘very tough competition’ in a recent survey.  Online shoppers also have sky-high expectations and lack patience for things like slow loading times and stores that don’t have many reviews.  These two factors make standing out … Continued

14 Technical SEO Tools You Need to Start Using

By Jake Serota

Whenever site owners hear about technical SEO for the first time, it’s normal to feel slightly intimidated.  After all, the word ‘technical’ usually means that something is pretty complicated and requires special knowledge to understand.  The good news? There are plenty of free technical SEO tools out there that simplify and speed up the process.  … Continued

How to Identify Websites For High-Quality Guest Posts In 2025

By Jake Serota

Link-building is a significant needle-mover for SEO, which is something we bring up time and time again on this blog.  Yet, for the process to bear fruit, you need to know which tactics are worth your time and which aren’t.  One of the most tried-and-true methods for building powerful backlinks is to publish guest posts … Continued

How to Do a Competitor Analysis in Semrush to Find SEO Ideas

By Jake Serota

Consistently coming up with outstanding content ideas and high-authority backlink opportunities is a tall task for anyone, even seasoned digital marketing experts.  The good news is that in the SEO world, it’s perfectly acceptable to cheat off a classmate’s test.  What we mean by that is you can analyze your competitors’ websites to find new … Continued

An Empty Cookie Jar: Google Phases Out Third-Party Cookies

By Jake Serota

On January 4th, 2024, Google disabled the tracking data from third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users – which is part of a greater plan to phase out tracking cookies completely by Q3 2024.  These aren’t the type of cookies that your grandma makes, either.  Despite the innocent-sounding name, third-party cookies are small files that … Continued