If you are seeing a decline in traffic or parts of your website disappeared altogether from the search engines, you’re probably stressing thinking that your post is being penalized by Google. Google penalties are real, but how can you know if a particular post or your website as a whole has been affected? Here are […]
How Do I Check If My Content Is Indexed?
Wanting to check if your content is indexed has both a basic and an advanced use. For beginners, it’s simply wondering if they are doing everything right. Why build a website if Google won’t even put me in their search engine? If that’s the case, checking your index status is simple. For advanced users, knowing […]
Does SEO Setup Work Differently for Bing and Yahoo?
When it comes to search engine optimization (SEO), most experts in the field gravitate towards optimizing websites for Google and with good reason. Currently, the search giant has more than 90 percent of the search engine market share. Statistically, more consumers use them as of the date of writing this article. Bing and Yahoo combined […]
Why Are Only Some of My Blog Posts Indexed?
Google hates you. Well, at least that’s what you might think if none or too few of your blog posts are indexed. I mean… you spent tons of time working on your content so maybe it deserves to be indexed. So why are only some of my blog posts indexed? Indexing can take anywhere from a […]
Why Am I Ranking in Bing But Not Google?
Google is synonymous with search engine. Even in my own writings on this blog, I often use the terms interchangeably, and have to remind myself that Bing, Yahoo, and even DuckDuckGo are being used as well. Even so, Google is the largest referral of organic traffic on the web. So when we talk about SEO, […]