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August 18, 2019

So how expensive is it to be in the first page of Google?

It has always been our understanding as SEO professionals in Some Web Devs, that being on the first page of Google Search Results or what is otherwise called the SERP ( Search Engine Results Page ), is not a matter of cost per say. Its a matter or time and effort put into something that is called SEO or Search Engine Optimization.

June 29, 2019

Why and how important is to keep your WordPress website up to date

Keeping your WordPress website updated and all of its components too is essential to avoiding problems with stability and security. One of the most important things about WordPress is its vast community and large number or committed premium developer and developer vendors, constantly keeping their WordPress plugins and themes updates at the same time with the core of WordPress being kept up to date by the WP community.

October 15, 2018

WordPress Speed : Browser VS Server Cache, Explained

One of the most common reasons of a website’s speed degrading, is image size. In more general terms, it’s how your browser receives these assets from the server and how often. When you load a web page on your browser, along with the html code, css context and other external assets, come the images and static assets embedded on that web page. What’s static assets? By static assets we mean all the items or files what don’t dynamically change with each server page load. For instance, a php page’s output might change each time you load that php page, some […]

October 13, 2018

SEO : been there, done that, now what?

In case you did all of the above and your question is “what happens then”, then you should know that neither on-site SEO nor off-site SEO are one-off actions. On-site SEO should be performed regularly, not necessarily frequently. Every here and there, you should be checking your on-site SEO and maybe apply micro- optimizations. For instance, you go back on your website and see that in your law services page, the “criminal” term is not all that much optimized, edit it and optimize it, it will be good. Off-site SEO should, on the other hand, be performed regularly and maybe […]

September 17, 2018

Off-site SEO : link-building, what about links on Social Media?

Most people consider links from social media are active links to your website. One of the most common misconception is that when you post a link from your website on Facebook, this link is considered an active link and will help your website grow in search engines. Do social media links help my website on search engines? Most social media mark all links that are posted on them as rel=nofollow. As mentioned before, rel=nofollow means that the link is indeed active and clickable, will drive the user to the destination, but it will not be “seen” by search engines. So all […]

August 26, 2018

Off-site SEO : link-building, inbound links from the network

There are a couple of ways you can add links to other peoples’ websites. Since you don’t control their website but they do, then you can’t really go in and add links unless they want it or allow it. So you will need to follow some digital-PR steps to “convince” them to add a link to your website. Local online directories and business listings Find your local or national business directories and directories, register and add your business by adding your website ( which in most cases automatically turns into a link to your website ), write about your business […]

August 7, 2018

Off-site SEO : link-building, Find blogs and forums that talk about your stuff, join the conversation

There are a couple of ways you can add links to other peoples’ websites. Since you don’t control their website but they do, then you can’t really go in and add links unless they want it or allow it. So you will need to follow some digital-PR steps to “convince” them to add a link to your website. Off-site search engine optimization: Blogs and forums Another place online you can add links to your website is blogs and forums that talk about the same stuff your website is about. Our website is about law services so we should find blogs […]

July 30, 2018

Off-site SEO : link-building, write articles and send them to press websites or magazines

Or in other words, your link-building strategy. There are a couple of ways you can add links to other peoples’ websites. Since you don’t control their website but they do, then you can’t really go in and add links unless they want it or allow it. So you will need to follow some digital-PR steps to “convince” them to add a link to your website. One way to make it happen is to write an article about your own concept and then send it to online magazines and press websites ( again of high quality and relevancy ). So let’s […]

July 13, 2018

On-Site SEO : Body text and first paragraph

Mainly in case you don’t use a meta description, the first paragraph of the text of each page is very important. In all cases, your first paragraph should be descriptive and contain the target terms. Use correct wording and a “human” text, readable, but include the target terms of your page. Each website’s content and text can be organized into paragraphs ( like this document ) which in HTML is marked with an opening <p> and a closing </p>, each paragraph is enclosed into <p> and </p> and your web page’s first paragraph should too. Your page’s body text By […]