In today’s world, most businesses live or die by their website. Here are the essentials for driving and converting users to your site. The post The Long Game: How to Drive and Convert Web Traffic by @ItIsMillerTime appeared first on Search Engine Journal

For paid search marketers the holiday season is already in full swing and competition is going to be tough.

There’s a new shady tactic that spammers use to draw traffic to their sites called referrer spam.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has a webmaster who has deployed App Indexing and is upset because the content mismatch report within the Google Search Console seems to have stopped producing data. Supposedly, the data has not updated since September 9th…

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google will see links on a page that are not hyperlinks, they will consider them links, but will not pass any PageRank or link signals to the link. John wrote “we can pick up links from text too, but they don’t pass PR…

Twitter’s support team announced today the number of accounts you can follow has increased from 2,000 to 5,000. The post Twitter Increases Follow Limit From 2,000 to 5,000 Accounts by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Facebook’s ‘Other’ inbox is being replaced with more noticeable Message Requests. The post Facebook to Replace ‘Other’ Inbox With More Visible ‘Message Requests’ by @mattsouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Posted by jenstar If you’re a webmaster, you probably received one of those infamous “Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files on example.com” warning letters that Google sent out to seemingly every SEO and webmaster. This was a brand new alert from Google, although we have been hearing from the search engine about the need to ensure all resources are unblocked—including both JavaScript and CSS.