Posts Tagged ‘Google Webmaster Tools’
How To Fix Coverage Issues In Google Search Console: Data Driven Daily Tip 237
WATCH LISTEN READ The world of Google Webmaster Tools has changed. It used to be super easy to find “Fetch As Google” or “Robots.TXT” tester in the old platform, but now that Google has changed their SEO Tool to Google Search Console, it is harder to find these tools. This video not only shows SEO…
Read MoreWhat Is Google Webmaster Tools? Data Driven Daily Tip #220
WATCH LISTEN READ Don’t worry, you’re not alone. You’re clearly smart. You’re a successful small business owner OR an extremely intelligent marketer at an emerging brand or mid-size company, possibly the director of marketing, VP of Marketing or even VP of IT – but you don’t exactly know what Google Webmaster Tools is. It’s fine.…
Read MoreMarketers: Are Your Google Search Console And Google Analytics Linked Yet? Data Driven Daily Tip #212
WATCH LISTEN READ Between 40 and 52% of all website traffic comes from Organic Search. 95% of Organic Search traffic comes to all websites from Google. This, according to the 2018 Data Download. This makes it critical that all Marketers and Small Business Owners understand where they rank on Google, exactly, and for which search…
Read MoreHey Google: WTF Is Mobile-First Indexing And What Does This Email Mean?
READ ATTN Small Business Owners and Marketers: Have You Seen This Email? Basically, it’s another “WTF, Google?” email. I mean if you received it, that’s good, because it means that your site is verified with Google Search Console / Webmaster Tools, perhaps the best SEO Tool available. And if you didn’t receive it, it doesn’t…
Read MoreDon't Get Ripped Off By A Shady SEO Company
WATCH READ I feel super-bad for so many small businesses, and even mid to large size businesses that just completely get ripped off month-after-month and year-after-year by their SEO company. I can’t tell you how many bills and invoices I’ve been asked by my clients to audit that are just full…
Read MoreSEO WTF? Google Search Console's Emails Explained
READ Congratulations! You’re part of history. Welcome to the first ever “SEO WTF?” blog post. After 12 years of SEO work, I’m finally realizing that SEO is actually simple now. SEO Rule 1: Google is Confusing. SEO Rule 2: The DATA in Google Search Console is the only thing that matters. The result: My new…
Read MoreWeb Development and SEO Tip: How to Properly Switch SSL to New Primary Domain
WATCH READ Many businesses buy a domain name, like datadriven.design, then at some point in time later, want to buy a different domain name – like dataoveropinions.com, but make it the primary for their preexisting website. This means that instead of simply forwarding dataoveropinions.com to datadriven.design, the business actually needs dataoveropinions.com to host the website,…
Read MoreGoogle Search Console Tips: How to Remove Your URLs from Google Indexing
WATCH READ Why would you want to block some URLs from Google? Well, you know your website is powerful enough to have certain pages like client invoices, perhaps reports that you don’t want made public, or even pages that should be password protected but aren’t. Another reason may be sitelinks. These are the links that…
Read MoreSEO Tip: Google Improves Search Console
WATCH READ If you’re like me, you’re looking for better free data from Google around how your website is doing in Organic Search (aka, where you’re ranking on Google). Specifically, which landing pages on your site are ranking for which specific keywords, phrases (queries), and how many users are clicking through after seeing your ranking.…
Read MoreHow To Really Tell Where You Rank Organically On Google
WATCH READ Several years ago, Google starting hiding most organic keyword data under “not provided” in Google Analytics. If you go into Google Analytics and go to Acquisition, Channels, Organic Search, you will see that 98% of your keyword data will show under “not provided.” The way to get around this is to link Analytics…
Read More