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Check validity of structured data in Google Search Console

23 February 2023 | 6 Comments | Edwin Toonen

Google Search Console is an essential tool for website owners. This tool shows you how your site appears in Google’s search results. It also shows you what to improve to maximize your listings in the results. One of the many cool features of Search Console is the structured data analyses found in the Enhancement reports. …

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Check validity of structured data in Google Search Console

How to track video SEO performance using Google Search Console

11 January 2023 | Phil Nottingham

Google Search Console is the best data source for tracking the traffic you are getting to video content on your website from Google search, as it provides data directly from Google about the queries actually driving traffic, and can be segmented by video search specifically. In this post, we’ll provide a quick summary of how …

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How to track video SEO performance using Google Search Console

How to use Google Search Console: a beginner’s guide

15 December 2022 | Meike Hendriks

Do you have a website or maintain the website of the company you work for? Of course, to do this right, you need to keep a keen eye on the performance of your website. Google offers several tools to collect and analyze data from your website. You probably have heard of Google Analytics and Google …

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How to use Google Search Console: a beginner’s guide

How to use the new video indexing report in Google Search Console

17 November 2022 | Phil Nottingham

In July 2022, Google launched a new video indexing report in Google Search Console. This report will allow you to see how many pages Google has found, crawled, and indexed a video on, and much more. It’s incredibly useful because it helps you understand the foundation of your video SEO performance. Plus, the report also …

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How to use the new video indexing report in Google Search Console

Is your site the victim of internal site search spam?

24 August 2022 | 6 Comments | Jono Alderson

Over the last year or so, we’ve seen large-scale, widespread SEO spam ‘attacks’ on WordPress sites, all targeting their internal site search functionality. In most cases, these attacks aren’t harmful from an SEO perspective, but they do come with time and resource costs – for both the attacker and the victim. Most sites won’t need …

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Is your site the victim of internal site search spam?

What is an XML sitemap and why should you have one?

11 August 2022 | Meike Hendriks

A good XML sitemap acts as a roadmap of your website that leads Google to all your important pages. XML sitemaps can be good for SEO, allowing Google to find your essential pages quickly, even if your internal linking isn’t perfect. This post explains what they are and how they help you rank better. What …

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What is an XML sitemap and why should you have one?

What queries are you ranking for, and with which pages?

23 November 2021 | 2 Comments | Amy Lees

When you’re doing SEO, it’s because you want your pages to rank in Google. You will have picked out one or more keywords to optimize your pages for, but ranking for those keywords is just a tiny part of the story. In reality, you could be ranking for queries you don’t even know about! In …

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What queries are you ranking for, and with which pages?



Did Google Search Console send an email with an error message?

18 June 2021 | 10 Comments | Edwin Toonen

We are big fans of Google Search Console — and you should be too! It’s an essential tool to keep your site working properly and find opportunities to get better results from the SERPs. But, one thing Google Search Console also does, is send you emails when they encounter an issue. And those error messages …

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Did Google Search Console send an email with an error message?