Google shared a three-step guide on hiring an SEO for businesses who may be doing so for the first time. This advice was provided in the latest episode of Google’s Search for Beginners series on YouTube, which is an extended version of the advice provided in the previous episode. See: Google Recommends Hiring SEOs…
Google is updating its image search results pages with icons indicating what type of content the images lead to. If an image surfaced in search results comes from a product page, a recipe, or a video, Google will highlight it with a special icon. Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, shared the following example on…
Posted by Dr-Pete Being #1 on Google isn’t what it used to be. Back in 2013, we analyzed 10,000 searches and found out that the average #1 ranking began at 375 pixels (px) down the page. The worst case scenario, a search for “Disney stock,” pushed #1 all the way down to 976px. A lot…
Google is sending email notifications via Search Console to alert site owners about spikes in search traffic for specific pages. “Your page is trending up,” the email reads, followed by a number indicating the page’s average daily clicks over the past few days. To illustrate the significance of that number, Google’s email alert will note…
![Are H1 Tags Necessary for Ranking? [SEO Experiment]](https://econcero.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1582642743_Are-H1-Tags-Necessary-for-Ranking-SEO-Experiment-768x512.jpg "Are H1 Tags Necessary for Ranking? [SEO Experiment]")
In earlier days of search marketing, SEOs often heard the same two best practices repeated so many times it became implanted in our brains: Wrap the title of your page in H1 tags Use one — and only one — H1 tag per page These suggestions appeared in audits, SEO tools, and was the source of constant head…
