Written by Adam Riemer - Today’s Ask An SEO question comes from Peter, who asks: “What’s the risk of focusing on what competitors are doing, as opposed to charting your own path? If all competitors are looking at each other, there’s no differentiators.” Great question, Peter! And one that comes up a lot. If a company is focusing on what [...]
Written by Adam Riemer - Are you planning to launch a new website? If so, your first step to acquiring traffic will be to get your website indexed on search engines like Google. This will allow your target audience to find you for relevant search queries sooner than later. This article will look at the many reasons for getting your [...]
Written by Adam Riemer - Today’s Ask An SEO question comes from Abdul from Nairobi, who asks: “I’m a junior in-house SEO for a company that resells items both in a traditional store and online. Is there a way to create linkable assets for a reseller company like the one I am working for? And is there a way to [...]
Written by Adam Riemer - Today’s “Ask An SEO” question comes from Yvonne from Whitby, who asks: “An old website of ours, now deleted, was hacked a while ago. Now, it’s sending thousands of spammy backlinks to our current website with a different but similar domain. The hacked site no longer exists (the files were all deleted months ago), but [...]
Written by Adam Riemer - Today’s Ask An SEO comes from Dan in California, who asks: “I have several products that are “specialty” products due to their size, all titled similarly (12 inch…). This has caused some keyword cannibalization. I also have a collection page with all of these items further adding to the cannibalization. None of these products are [...]
Written by Adam Riemer - Today’s “Ask An SEO” question comes from Bhaumik from Mumbai, who asks: “I have a question about automatically generated URLs. My firm had previously used different tools to generate sitemaps. But recently, we started creating them manually by selecting URLs that are necessary and blocking others in robots.txt. We are facing an issue now with [...]
Written by Adam Riemer - This week’s Ask an SEO question comes from John in London, England, who asks: “I came here from your post Should You Use Nofollow, Sponsored, or UGC Links? In the ‘Affiliate Links’ paragraph you write, ‘These should be sponsored because you are posting them with the goal of earning a commission.’ My question is, should [...]
Written by Adam Riemer This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from Jeff in Houston, who writes: “We have a very authoritative site linking to our website. We set them up with UTM parameters to track traffic and sales that they make. This is what it looks like:https://www.example.com/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=example We have the canonical of this page pointing to the homepage without [...]
Whether you like to plan ahead or are rushing around at the last minute like the rest of us, boosting holiday sales is essential for ecommerce sellers of all kinds.Total retail sales worldwide are expected to rebound to pre-pandemic levels this holiday season, surpassing $25 trillion USD.E-commerce will build on its massive growth of 25.7% of total sales in 2020 [...]
Today’s Ask an SEO question comes from David in California, who asks:“I have a .us domain. I just also purchased the .com equivalent. From an SEO perspective, does it matter which one I use? My intent right now is to stick with .us and redirect any .com traffic to the original URL. Thoughts?”Hi David,This is a great question and something [...]