Many businesses invest a lot of time and money into search engine optimization: spending weeks working on keyword strategies, checking links, and working on the site’s technical framework. But then – nothing happens. This could be because mobile SEO has been neglected. It’s important to remember this vital step, since most searches now come through mobile devices, and Google expects website...
Without a doubt, high-quality, content-rich articles are the essence of a good blog. Due to the huge selection of blogs and high rate of competition, blog operators need to actively promote their web projects. Search engine optimization for blogs, in particular, is an often-underestimated means of increasing the reach of a blog and attracting readers from the target group.
The readability of online texts influences not only user satisfaction, but also the search engine ranking. In this respect, it is an important criteria for SEO measures. So-called readability indexes measure how comprehensible a text is. Google also seems to take readability into account because texts with good legibility are easier to read. We introduce the Flesch Index, the Flesch Kincaid Index,...
These days dealing and engaging with foreign languages is easier, quicker, and more direct than ever. Whether you’re at work or on holiday, numerous language tools and smartphone apps can help with the translation of difficult words, sentences, and online texts. Google Translate and alternative translation websites offer comprehensive tools that easily enable us to understand other languages....
To offer a website in several languages is a challenge in every respect. Apart from the translation and preparation of the navigation elements and content, other aspects such as networking and search engine optimization of the different versions require effort and a planned approach. To make sure that all your efforts are not in vain, and that search engines like Google can identify all the...
One of the most important tasks when it comes to designing your own website is creating and publishing high-quality texts. They shouldn’t just be highly relevant and readable, they should be optimized for search engines to rank highly as well. While the days of using keyword density as a quick path to success are over, semantic analysis methods like WDF*IDF are becoming more and more important...
Today you launch your website and tomorrow you’re ranked at the top of the list of search results? This is every website operator’s dream, but it’s sadly not that easy. SEO is an effective and sustainable marketing method, but it takes a while before the success starts to show. Some marketers use black hat SEO techniques to accelerate this process and in doing so are taking a big risk.
In May 2016, Google launched the next big change to the appearance of its search engine results pages with Rich Cards. Given that more than half of searches on the world’s most popular search engine come from mobile devices today, it’s hardly surprising that the latest results format update is designed specifically for smartphones and tablets. So what do Rich Cards entail? And how can web...
In our everyday life, we search for and receive a lot of information. Through the Internet, the searching for data and facts has changed tremendously. Search engines help us find the information we need from the vast amount available. But how do Google and other search engines actually gather the information? Behind both large search engines and smaller library databases, there are so-called...
Even for young children, the World Wide Web is a very important tool for gathering information for doing homework and a wide array of other activities. In order for these younger internet users to only have access to content that is suitable for them, special search engines have been designed specifically for kids. They help to make sure that children do not come across harmful content, either on...
