You have asked for it and here it is: the ranking opportunities and the alerts in the ranking monitor now show the exact location of the checked keywords:
The ranking monitor in SEOprofiler informs you about the keywords that can deliver many more visitors to your website. It also informs you about the keywords the don't perform as well as before.
Rankings checks from all officially supported Google locations
The ranking monitor in SEOprofiler supports all 85,262 locations from 49 countries
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If you want to succeed with your website, you have to
decide how much you will spend on search engine optimization. As SEO is
crucial to survive the fierce online competition, the question is not
if you should invest in SEO but how much you invest. SEO can be very
expensive. How can you get more for your money?
How much do SEO companies charge?
If you decide to hire an SEO agency, there are several
pricing models:
1. Hourly consulting: the average SEO agency
(or individual) charges
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Posted by Johannes Selbach on January 22nd, 2015 to
Ranking,
SEO
Some days ago, Google started to send email notifications to webmasters whose websites are not mobile-friendly. Basically, this message is a reminder that these websites won't rank well in mobile search. Adjust your pages to make sure that they get better rankings.
How does the message look like?
Here's an example message:
How to check if your website is mobile-friendly
Google has a tool that enables you to check if your website is mobile-friendly. Websites that pass
Google's test
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Optimizing the backlink structure of your website can
have a big impact on the rankings of your web pages. As it is difficult
to obtain good backlinks, it often makes sense to benefit from the work
of your competitors.
Step 1: check the basics
Before you work on the links that point to your
website, you should make sure that your web pages are ready for high
rankings.
Without a good website, it will be difficult to get good backlinks. The
web pages of your website must be relevant
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The web pages that Google shows on the first result page for your query contain a lot of information that can help you to improve your own web pages. If you want to improve the rankings of your web pages for your keywords, taking a closer look at the result pages can help you a lot.
Google's ranking algorithm uses a variety of different factors. Some of them are obvious by analyzing the top ranked pages. Search for one of your most important keywords and then take a look at the search results:
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Google's John Mueller said in a hangout video that it was possible to recover from a Penguin penalty without removing bad links. Instead of removing bad backlinks, it might be better to build good backlinks:
"We look at it on an aggregated level across everything that we have from your website. And if we see that things are picking up and things are going in the right direction, then that's something our algorithms will be able to take into account. So in the hypothetical situation of someone
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Posted by Johannes Selbach on January 12th, 2015 to
Link Building
On Twitter, Google's John Mueller said that it does not matter if you write the domain: directive in upper-case or lower-case:
@Marie_Haynes Yes, upper-case or lower-case for that directive is fine.— John Mueller (@JohnMu) 7 January 2015
How to create a disavow links file for Google
The link disinfection tool in SEOprofiler can help you to locate backlinks that have a negative influence on the rankings of your website. The link disinfection tool also creates a disavow links file
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Posted by Johannes Selbach on January 9th, 2015 to
Ranking,
SEO
Readability is the ease with which text can be read and understood. Easy-reading text improves comprehension, retention, and enjoyment.
Research has shown that businesses and organizations waste millions of dollars by not creating texts that are easy for the average reader to read.
Readability is a ranking factor for Google
Google determines the reading level of your web pages and uses it in the ranking algorithm:
"Since Penguin 2.1 was launched in October 2013, MathSight has been
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Kaizen is Japanese for "improvement", or "change for the better". It refers to a philosophy that focuses upon continuous improvement of processes in manufacturing, engineering and business management.
According to Wikipedia, Kaizen is "a process that, when done correctly, humanizes the workplace and eliminates overly hard work".
At SEOprofiler, we're continually improving our tools to make sure that they make your life easier. Even small improvements can contribute positively to the overall
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In a video on YouTube, Google's John Mueller said that the desktop version of your web pages will influence the position of your web pages in Google's mobile search results. A user was afraid that hidden content in the mobile version of his web pages had a negative influence on the rankings:
"We are looking at the desktop version. That's the canonical version so if you have the connection between the two pages, if they're separate pages and we'd be looking at the desktop version and that someone
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Posted by Johannes Selbach on January 1st, 2015 to
General
May all of your plans come true this year. To help you on your journey, we’ll continue to provide you with leading-edge website promotion tools that will help you to get more website visitors, more customers, and more sales.
You are special, you are unique; may your year be also as special and unique as you are!
