Are you a small business owner who wants to take their venture to the next level? Have you considered SEO, but aren’t quite sure whether it’s really for you? It can be hard to know if it’s the right step, but in many cases, it can totally transform your business. Here, we take a look […]
Google does a pretty good job in detecting websites which use black hat SEO techniques that violate its Webmaster Guidelines and it often takes steps and bans them. Those penalties can either be algorithmic ormanual and they can heavily affect both the rankings and the organic traffic of those websites. Given that you have followed all the tips that we […]
Today is the 20th anniversary of the robots.txt directive being available for webmasters to block search engines from crawling their pages. The robots.txt was created by Martijn Koster in 1994 while he was working at Nexor after having issues with crawlers hitting his sites too hard. All major search engines back then, including WebCrawler, Lycos […]