Each week the Croud SEO team collate the latest news from relevant sources around the web so you don’t have to. Read through the top SEO news stories for this week below and follow us on Twitter or sign up to our Newsletter.
Ten reasons your SEO campaign isn’t working
25/02/2019
SEW released a checklist of reasons why an SEO campaign may not be working as well as you’d expect. Reasons includes poor content, choice of hosting, link profile issues, Google updates, high bounce rate, low site duration times, lack of patience, not tapping social media and not being mobile-first.
What can we learn from voice search in 2018?
25/02/2019
SEW looks at what we can learn from voice search in 2018, which includes voice search very often being local, domain authority being more important than page authority and mobile voice losing ground to smart speaker search.
Lessons learned from launching 100+ content-led link building campaigns
22/02/2019
SEW reflects on a case study across over 100 content-led link building campaigns, with valuable takeaways such as journalists cover stories and not content, focusing on headlines before content formats, campaign concepts need to be validated (data source, legalities, brand restrictions, interested journalists), the wider the audience the more potential for links, making the campaign linkable, optimising subject email lines for outreach, accepting not every campaign is going to earn links and making campaigns link sustainable rather than one viral campaign.
Digital in 2019
22/02/2019
A report by Hootsuite and We Are Social indicates that there has been a decrease in the amount of time users are spending on the internet per day by 1.7% compared to last year across all devices. However, looking just at mobile internet usage, this has increased reflecting changes to user device behaviour.
18 companies with brilliant digital strategies
26/02/2019
Need some inspiration? Econsultancy runs through 18 companies with brilliant digital strategies. This covers a range of industries and companies from Greggs to Boohoo who are making great use of social and other channels to achieve success.
Announcing domain-wide data in Search Console
27/02/2019
Google announced that it was launching “Domain Properties” which allows webmasters to see data from an entire domain in one view in Search Console – this consolidates https, http, www, non-www etc all into one property so all performance and errors can be view in one place.
Controversy over Google Featured Snippets stealing publisher traffic reignites
25/02/2019
Google recently tested a featured snippet that has caused some controversy; the snippet featured a card of snippets answering a complex query but did not include visible links to the source of the information – essentially Google created it’s own webpage using publisher content but not immediately crediting the them as the source.
Tools to build a better mobile experience
25/02/2019
Google has revamped its Test My Site mobile site tool to now include both the speed of the entire site and individual pages and how site speed has changed month on month, scores for site or page speed are benchmarked against competitor sites, impact on revenue and detailed list of fixes to increase speed on the top 5 pages on site, and a complete report to download and share.
