After years of working on websites I’ve gathered a constantly updating list of my favorite tools. Below I’ve compiled my list of the best free website speed tests with their features. Enjoy! GTmetrix Website Speed GTmetrix is by far my favorite, it pulls data from
It goes without saying that backlinks are hugely important when it comes to SEO. Not only do they help drive traffic to a site, search engines are able to gain a lot of information information about a site based on the sites that link to
Our parents tried to warn us, and as much as we hate to admit this, it sounds like they were right – all the jobs these days are “in computers”. As unhelpful as that was, when most people hear their great-aunt talk about “computer jobs”
Joomla Solution Source: http://magazine.joomla.org/issues/issue-august-2015/item/2815-googlebot-cannot-access-css-and-js-files-on Assuming that our template is called “mytemplate”, and as a rule all templates have a / css / directory, we will open the door through robots.txt to our CSS directory, or even all of our template directories. To do this we
Google’s Local Snack Pack Shake-Up: What You Need to Know Source: https://moz.com/blog/google-local-snack-pack-shakeup Local SEO has seen the biggest shake-up since Google launched their first local algorithm, Pigeon, just over a year ago. On Thursday, August 6th, people began to notice that the usual 7-packs that
These days there are a lot of tools to get a free SEO analysis and site audit, the hardest part is knowing which ones are actually worth using. These are high level tools, as opposed to the more in depth technical tools such as the Screaming
For some reason I’ve still been seeing a lot of confusion relating to the mobile-friendly algorithm Google is rolling out on April 21st. Barry Schwartz at seroundtable highlighted the following tweet from the Google Webmaster team. @Jumzle The upcoming mobile-friendly change is for mobile users,
In enterprise and professional SEO, it’s crucial to keep a close eye on your backlink profile. Regardless of anything you may have read, backlinks remain the single largest search engine ranking factor. In a later post I’ll be covering why you should be monitoring your
I’ve been an editor at Dmoz since 2000, and there is a lot of good and bad information and incorrect information on the internet. Now, DMOZ is generally pretty closed mouth about itself, but I’m going to try and address a few things to help
There seems to be a lot of questions with regard to the validity of the results of SEO correlation studies. In order to understand the studies and use the information shared properly, there is a need to put it in the right context. The