TLDR; Experiments show that adding square brackets to the title tag and/or turning H1/H2 headings into questions will break Google’s tendency to put something other than your title tag in the SERP links. Starting in about August of this year, us SEOs were shocked to discover that Google was rewriting the title links in the […]
Moving a WordPress site? We’ve moved WordPress sites 100s of times in connection with our WordPress SEO Services. Your site move will be easier and faster by following these tips. Essentially, we want to shrink the size of the site and its corresponding database (and do some cleaning/housekeeping). If you want to preserve a copy […]
How to Run Screaming… …Frog in Google Compute Engine There have been a few blog posts about using Screaming Frog to crawl extremely large sites. By controlling the depth of the crawl and your hardware resources, you can do quite a lot. For a year we crawled extremely large sites on a dedicated laptop with […]
Intro to Installing Dynamic Remarketing on Shopify Before we get started, let’s make one thing clear: The instructions below are only applicable to those of you wanting to set up Dynamic Remarketing through Google Analytics (GA). Before We Begin As with any Remarketing Campaign, make sure the following steps are completed before you continue: Enable […]
In the last post we talked about how to get AMP working in WordPress and how to get it optimized for the Accelerated Mobile Pages search results. Today we’re going to talk about how to get Google Analytics working on the AMP content. We’re huge GA fans, and if we’re not tracking the traffic for […]
Do you have Accelerated Mobile Pages working? Unless you’re a major news outlet like The Guardian, you probably don’t. In this post, we’ll talk about what AMP is and what it’s not, how it will be hugely important for SEO (or totally irrelevent), and lastly how to get it working on your own WordPress site. […]
We’ve been doing SEO for WordPress for a long time. A big part of that has always been controlling the amount, and quality, of indexed pages, since WordPress creates so many different flavors of content automatically. If you’ve read Michael David’s book on WordPress SEO, you’ve seen his ultimate robots.txt file https://tastyplacement.com/book-excerpt-the-ultimate-wordpress-robots-txt-file which goes something […]
An Inside Look at the Startup Scene in Austin We did some research on startup companies in Austin and discovered the following results. This infographic takes a look at the current startup scene and should provide some insight into where your own company stands in the bustling Austin market. Feel Free to Share Our Austin […]
First, a confession: I have had my WordPress sites, and my clients’ WordPress sites, hacked a few times. Most hackers do very little damage, and you can clean and secure your site with a little bit of know-how. We’ll divide this lengthy guide into several sections: Diagnosing if You Have Been Hacked Cleaning Your WordPress […]
20-Year Resident Offers Epic Local Insight…Bon Appetit! Hello fellow Pubcon attendees! As you may already know, Pubcon 2013 is taking place in New Orleans, Louisiana — a city known for jazz, good times and most notably for its food. While you take in everything Pubcon has to offer, be sure to take in a bit […]
