These SEO best practices will help your write better and compelling meta descriptions. The post SEO Best Practices: How to Create Awesome Meta Descriptions via @BrianHarnish appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

There is some significant chatter in the SEO industry around a possible new years update that started late December 31, 2019 and throughout January 1, 2020. The chatter is high but similar to the Christmas update chatter, the tracking tools are not showing huge signs of an update.

Here are eight important aspects to consider when optimizing title tags on your website. The post Title Tag Optimization: A Complete How-to Guide via @coreydmorris appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

TurboTax and others are prohibited from noindexing their free e-file landing pages, per new IRS rules. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Throughout 2019 social media marketing has continued to be a source of opportunity, change, and contention in the marketing world. We’ve done our best to keep on top of many industry changes as they happen, while also offering helpful insight and research-based strategy. We’re quite fortunate to a great group of social media marketing professionals contributing to the TopRank Marketing blog, including our CEO Lee Odden , Joshua Nite , Caitlin Burgess , Anne Leuman , and Nick Nelson , among others.

Google’s John Mueller explains the proper use of heading elements (H1, H2, H3) for SEO. The post Google Explains How to Use Headings for SEO via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Just like on every Christmas, John Mueller from Google dials up to the internet and logs on to the support channels on New Years and helps out folks in the Google Webmaster support and social media channels.

New Years Eve is tomorrow (December 31, 2019) here in New York but if you are in New Zealand, it is already tomorrow and Google.co.nz already has the New Year’s Eve Doodle. It has a frog sitting and bringing in the new years with fireworks over the water.