Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg gave a keynote presentation at the F8 Conference where he revealed that Facebook-owned WhatsApp is moving toward hosting web shops where customers can browse a store’s products and make purchases. This may represent a way to move beyond the advertising model by becoming an eCommerce platform. […]

Google has alerted site owners that nearly all of last month’s reports in Search Console were affected by a data outage. A data outage occurred between April 9-25. The problem was fixed on April 26, however, the data was not recovered. All missing data from April 9-25 was replaced with the data […]

A study on Twitter usage among US adults finds a disproportionate amount of users are responsible for the greatest share of tweets. The study from Pew Research Center also analyzes the demographics and attitudes of Twitter’s most active users. Findings from the study are based on survey responses from 2,791 US adult […]

Google informally announced a new feature coming to Chrome. It will allow lazy-loading images and iframes with an HTML attribute, no JavaScript required. It will improve the user experience, which is good for publishers and site visitors. But there is also a potential negative impact to ad revenues. What is […]

Architecting an effective website can be an arduous task. It begs the question, where should one start? This can also be asked of simply improving an existing site to provide better content pathways, usher conversions or portray content importance to crawling search engines. The answer: your main navigation. Website main […]

Useful, valuable content for your readers is the keystone of any content marketing strategy. Without content that has worth in your audience’s eyes, you’ll be publishing fluff that no one will care about. The factor here to keep top-of-mind is, of course, your audience. Unless your content is useful to them, it’s […]

More than once during his recent AMA on Reddit, Google’s Gary Illyes advised SEOs to stick to the basics. In particular, that means making sites more crawlable. A question was asked about his thoughts on the future of SEO and what will continue to play a role in ranking websites. Illyes […]

Google’s John Mueller recently stated there’s no fixed time frame for search ranking changes after improvements have been made to a site. When it comes to improving page speed in particular, Mueller says that’s a small ranking factor. Google cares more about serving the most relevant content rather than serving […]

This is a sponsored post written by SE Ranking. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Backlinks are the backbone of your website – the stronger they are, the better the position of your website. However, even the slightest change in your backlink profile – like the link disappears […]

Although Google supports emojis in search results, it may choose to filter them out in certain circumstances. The topic of emojis in search results came up during a recent Google Webmaster Central hangout with John Mueller. A site owner was concerned about emojis not showing up in search after being […]