"What's the best WordPress SEO plugin?" I'm asked that question all the time, and recently took part in a debate discussing which plugin is best. I decided to draft a features list comparing the top three most downloaded SEO plugins to get a better picture of what each plugin has to offer, … Read more

Privacy and SSL encryption are important to a lot of internet users. Google recognizes this and is always looking for ways to improve online security for its users. A major announcement was published yesterday on the Google Blog, touting enhanced search privacy for signed-in users. Last year, Google introduced an encrypted search … Read more

Last week Google announced a change to the way they classify internal and external links in Webmaster Tools. The update shouldn’t change the number of links, but should report your links in a more accurate way in regards to where they are coming from. In the past, links from subdomains (ie: example.seo.com) … Read more

You may or may not have seen our recent post about the nose hair waxing event at SEO.com. Yes it is just as painful as it looks on the video. And yes that is my wife doing the torture. Which leads perfectly into our subject at hand: How well groomed is your … Read more

In SEO there are a lot of little things we can tweak to help a site rank better. This includes improving a site’s URL structure by making it more SEO friendly. The problem is, if you do this incorrectly your rankings could drop significantly and it could take a long time to … Read more

For those of you who aren’t aware yet, Google just announced some new features in Google Webmaster Tools. The most incredible is the top search queries enhancement which shows clickthrough rates, percentages and impressions along with some useful and pretty charts. This additional long-awaited data will provide webmasters with some incredible insights. Here are the top 4: