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Google PageSpeed Insights helps make your site faster

16 February 2023 | 3 Comments Edwin Toonen

As someone working on SEO, you must understand the importance of site speed. You must realize that fast sites equal happy users and happy search engines. PageSpeed Insights is an invaluable tool from Google that can help you optimize your website. It enables you to improve your rankings by giving you everything you need to …

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Google PageSpeed Insights helps make your site faster

How to speed up your WordPress website: 12 tips to start optimizing website for speed

1 February 2023 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

We’ve said this time and time again: a fast website is necessary for SEO. In a sea of similarly good (or not-so-good) results, Google will favor fast pages that can deliver a good user experience to searchers. If your goal is to attain higher rankings and drive organic traffic from Google, you need to speed …

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How to speed up your WordPress website: 12 tips to start optimizing website for speed


SEO in 2023: Your chance to shine!

28 December 2022 | 1 Comment Edwin Toonen

For most sites, SEO in 2023 will probably be similar to the past couple of years: you still need to improve your work but set the bar higher and higher. Competition is getting fiercer, and Google — and your potential customers — are getting better at recognizing true quality. Also, you should keep an eye …

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SEO in 2023: Your chance to shine!


Local ranking factors that help your small business’ SEO

8 November 2022 Edwin Toonen

If you have a local business selling products or services, you have to think about the local ranking of your website. Local SEO will help you surface related search queries in your area. As Google shows local results first in many cases, you need to make sure Google understands where your location is. In this …

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Local ranking factors that help your small business’ SEO


How to get ratings and reviews for your business

1 September 2022 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

Reviews or testimonials are mostly said to work based on social proof. Social proof is a psychological process in which people copy the behavior of others in an attempt to reflect correct behavior. In addition, search engines are increasingly looking for that proof as well. In this post, I’ll look at how reviews work, how …

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How to get ratings and reviews for your business

What’s technical SEO? 8 technical aspects everyone should know

25 August 2022 Edwin Toonen

In this post, we’ll go into the basics of technical SEO. Now, discussing the basics of technical SEO might seem like a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, some basic knowledge about the more technical side of SEO can mean the difference between a high-ranking site and a site that doesn’t rank at all. Technical SEO isn’t …

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What’s technical SEO? 8 technical aspects everyone should know

Is your site the victim of internal site search spam?

24 August 2022 | 6 Comments Jono Alderson

Over the last year or so, we’ve seen large-scale, widespread SEO spam ‘attacks’ on WordPress sites, all targeting their internal site search functionality. In most cases, these attacks aren’t harmful from an SEO perspective, but they do come with time and resource costs – for both the attacker and the victim. Most sites won’t need …

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Is your site the victim of internal site search spam?