Authors: bbriniotis

SEO and Software Engineer.

Changing web hosting company is something that most webmasters are likely to consider at some point in time. Nevertheless as we discussed in a previous article, the web hosting and the physical location of the server can affect the SEO rankings of a website. As a result, even though transferring to a new web host [...]

Changing the domain name of your website can have a serious impact on SEO and organic traffic and generally it is not advised from SEO perspective. This is because each domain name is linked with several metrics (trust, authority, etc), characteristics (domain age, GEO location signals, etc) and above all the hyperlinks. In this SEO [...]

On Tuesday 18th of October, Google announced that within the next weeks, all the logged-in users that use Google search will automatically be redirected on the SSL version of the website. As they mention on their article “Making Search more secure” this new feature targets on protecting the privacy of the users and on making [...]

Improving the Online Marketing presence of an Ecommerce website is usually a very challenging task. This is because the Online Marketers & SEO Professionals have to optimize the website in order to achieve better rankings on Search Engines, they must improve the user experience, they have to use all the available channels to promote the [...]

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 or manual and they can heavily affect both the rankings and the organic traffic of those websites. Given that you have [...]

Almost 2 years ago, Google has proposed a new way of making the AJAX applications & websites crawlable. As most of you know, search engines are very good in indexing and analyzing HTML documents but they are not particularly good in understanding JavaScript and thus crawling AJAX content. Even though 2 years have passed only [...]

Few weeks ago ComScore released some figures which suggest that the Bing & Yahoo alliance has increased its marketshare to 30.5% in the US which is almost half of the marketshare of Google. Moreover Bing has signed a deal with Baidu, a very popular Chinese Search Engine, to power its SERPs for English queries. This [...]

Few weeks ago Google announced the new series of Google Webmaster Help Videos and requested from SEOs and Webmasters to post their questions. One of the questions that our team posted was the following:

Yesterday, 7th of September, our team has released the brand new version of the WSA API. The 1.10 version focuses on removing all the Yahoo! Search features that were deprecated by Yahoo Inc. Moreover it targets on increasing the speed & the accuracy of the tools and on adding new features on the existing toolbox. [...]

Usually in the world of SEO, the links and the content are considered to be the two most important parts of the strategy that one should optimize in order to achieve high rankings. Despite the fact that Google and the other major search engines use a large number of signals to ensure the quality and [...]

The Google Webmaster Tools is a free service that allows webmasters to submit their websites & sitemaps to Google, affect their indexing process, configure how the search engine bots crawl their sites, get a list of all the errors that were detected on their pages and get valuable information, reports and statistics about their websites. [...]

One of the most common mistakes that companies make while designing their Social Media Marketing campaigns is that they fail to choose carefully the online channels that suit best their businesses. As a result they end up investing time, money and effort on networks that can’t help them promote their business and this makes them [...]

Yesterday, the 27th of June, Google has updated the PageRank Toolbar values. This happens almost 5 months after the previous update which took place on January 20th. It seems that even after the Panda 2.2 Update, Google is not willing to give up on PageRank, despite the predictions of many SEOs.

It’s a common knowledge that higher rankings lead to increased probabilities of having our pages clicked by the users. Nevertheless the position of the result by itself is not the only factor that affects the Click Through Rate (CTR). Most users take into account several things before selecting the most relevant page of the search [...]

The first thing that most people think when they want to boost their online sales is to increase their website traffic. Thus they focus on getting more links, achieving better Search Engine Rankings, investing more on advertising, sending more emails and newsletters, finding more affiliates, becoming more active on Social Media and using other ways [...]

Most SEO Professionals and Online Marketers would agree that the creation of high quality content & services is the basic ingredient for a successful SEO & Online Marketing campaign. Still though just by providing great content & services and by optimizing your pages for the targeted keywords, it does not automatically lead to the increase [...]

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For the last couple of years, Web SEO Analytics team has been working hard to provide high quality SEO Tools and Services that cover the needs of the Online Marketers, SEO Professionals and Webmasters. During this time, with your valuable support, we have managed to create a website that receives thousands of visitors every day, [...]

Wordpress is currently the most popular weblog software in the world since millions of bloggers use it to power up either their blogs or their dynamic websites. One of the reasons why this platform became so successful is because blog owners are able to find a large variety of plugins to extend the functionalities of [...]

The design of a Website heavily affects the Sales and the Image of a company and at the same time it might positively or negatively affect the SEO campaign. Developing an impressive and SEO compatible Web Design can help you improve your conversion rates, increase your sales and improve your placement in Search Engine Results. [...]

In the SEO business nothing can taken for granted. Every year new techniques and methods are introduced, new tools become available and several algorithmic updates take place. As a result, the circumstances of this uncertain and fast changing environment give birth to several myths and misconceptions. From time to time few of those myths get [...]

Today we have an interview with Dixon Jones, Marketing Director of MajesticSEO. In this interesting interview we discuss about the new backlink analysis features of Majestic, the importance of backlinks in SEO and the future of Search Engine Marketing.

As we discussed on the previous blog post “The new Google +1 button and the Effects on SEO”, the Google +1 button has a lot of similarities with Facebook like. Indeed the idea behind the +1 button is not new to the average user since the bookmark buttons have flooded the web for quite many [...]

Google has recently announced the release of a new social button called “+1” (plus one). Similarly to Facebook like button, the new +1 button will allow users to bookmark and share the cool websites, pages, advertisements and search results that they find on the web.

Launching a brand new website or publishing a new site version is typically a straight forward process given that it is well planned and well organized. Failing to take into account all the known ranking factors or failing to build an SEO-friendly website can lead to low rankings in Search Results. As a result before [...]

Email Marketing is an important tool for Online Marketers and if it is used correctly it can help you boost your business. In this guest article M. Sufi discusses the current E-mail Marketing trends and he describes in detail the Best Practices and tools that you can use to improve your email campaigns.

Today we have an interview with Chris Burns, co-founder of SERPd. In this interesting interview we will start with questions concerning the new fast growing SEO/Online Marketing community that was launched few months ago and then we will continue with hot questions concerning the recent changes and the future of Search Engine Marketing.

One of the most important debates in SEO is how important PageRank is nowadays and how much it affects the Search Engine Results. Is PageRank still an important parameter or is it something that we can simply ignore? In this article we will touch upon this controversial topic and we will try to give an [...]

Building website traffic is of crucial importance for any business, nevertheless this process requires a lot of time, effort and of course know-how. While there are a lot of traffic building methods out there, in this article M. Sufi recommends the ones that have a solid proven track record of providing long-term success.

One of the most essential parts of the SEO campaign is selecting the right keywords right. In order to do so you must have a good understanding of your website’s strength, of the competition on Search Engine Results and of the way that people search. In this blog post we will focus on how to [...]