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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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Protecting the reputation of a brand has become a difficult task. Internet has made it possible for customers to talk directly both to the companies and to their audience by using social networks and other online channels. As a result negative comments for a particular brand can affect the online reputation of the company and [...]

The design of a website is one of the most important key success factors and it does not only affect the user experience, but also the SEO campaign. In this article we will discuss the subject of SEO friendly design and we give 30 tips that will help web designers and web developers to build [...]

E-mail marketing is a cost effective marketing tool that aims on building long term relationships with your customers. With clear objectives and messages, e-mail marketing can effectively support your marketing efforts on and off line with a relatively low budget. As the objectives can vary depending on the industry and the audience, we decided to [...]

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 [...]

Twitter is one of the most popular social media networks where users are able to meet others with similar interests, find experts of a particular field, learn about the current trends and share useful articles and websites. A recent well known quote describes exactly the difference between Facebook and Twitter: “Facebook is the people you [...]

Making money online and monetizing your Website’s Traffic is generally neither as easy as it sounds nor as profitable as most people think. In many cases major changes in the philosophy of the service/website must be done (especially if the website used to offer free services) and several trade-offs must be made. As a result [...]

Assume that visitors are arriving at a landing page of your website, what’s their next step? How do they interact before leaving that page? In this article we focus on how to use the 2 advanced tracking options that Google Analytics provides: the Event Tracking and the Virtual Pageview. Both are useful, but it is [...]

The link structure is one of the most important factors in SEO because it can heavily affect the Search Engine Rankings, the PageRank flow and the number of pages that get indexed. Obviously the link structure is also extremely important because it seriously affects the user experience and the conversion rates.

Usually the most important decisions in SEO are the ones that affect the structure of the website. A popular SEO debate is if one should use multiple domains, sub-domains or folders when he/she has multilanguage websites or various main categories/activities.

One the most common mistakes that many Webmasters and SEOs make is that they misuse the robots.txt, the META-robots and the rel=nofollow anchor attribute. All the above affect the indexing, the crawling and the PageRank distribution and as a result they can heavily affect the SEO status of a website and its rankings. In this [...]

Titles are considered important both for the users and for the search engines. This week we’ll discuss some practical tips on how to optimize the Titles of your site and on how to boost your search engine results and click through rates.

It’s a common knowledge that nowadays users don’t only search for trusted sources of information but also for fresh content. That’s why the last couple of years, the Search engines have been working on how to speed up their indexing process. Few months ago, Google has announced the completion of their new indexing system called [...]

The Link Building is one of the most important aspects of SEO. Having quality links pointing to your site not only helps your Search Engine Rankings but also it can provide quality traffic to your website.

The Link Structure of a website is one of the most important SEO factors. It affects how the pages point to each other and how the links are placed within the pages.

In a previous article we focused on the Common On-page Optimization mistakes that affect the SEO campaign. In this blog post we will focus on some technical principles that web developers should have in mind when they develop SEO-friendly static or dynamic websites.

When it comes to explain why your SEO campaign failed, there are hundreds of things you can mention. This is due to the fact that major Search Engines use hundreds of signals to determine both the authority of a site and the rankings.