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What is ‘Crawled – currently not indexed’ in Search Console?

23 May 2024 Edwin Toonen

Google Search Console (GSC) is a powerful tool for site owners. It helps you monitor and maintain your site’s presence in the SERPs. One of the common issues you might encounter is the “Crawled — currently not indexed” status. This message means that Google has crawled your page but hasn’t indexed it. As a result, …

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What is ‘Crawled – currently not indexed’ in Search Console?


All about Core Web Vitals: INP (Interaction to Next Paint)

26 March 2024 Edwin Toonen

Google’s Core Web Vitals have emerged as critical metrics for SEO. These metrics help you optimize your websites for a superior user experience. A new player is making headlines among these vital metrics: Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This one replaces the First Input Delay (FID). This post will explain what INP entails, its significance, …

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All about Core Web Vitals: INP (Interaction to Next Paint)


Link building strategy: a successful approach in 6 steps

8 February 2024 Camille Cunningham

SEO is all about creating a great experience for the people visiting your website, or seeing your snippet in the search results. That’s why a lot of your SEO efforts will likely be focused on things like content, UX and pagespeed. Efforts that help you optimize your page or website overall. As they should! They …

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Link building strategy: a successful approach in 6 steps

Holistic SEO: Improve all aspects of your website

2 January 2024 Cindy Paul

SEO isn’t just a trick. Sure, tricks might get you ranked quickly, but they usually don’t work in the long run. In fact, they might even backfire. If you want to permanently rank well in Google, you need an extensive SEO strategy focused on every aspect of your website; the technical stuff, the user experience, …

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Holistic SEO: Improve all aspects of your website

Mastering Google Search: Using search operators for SEO

7 December 2023 | 2 Comments Edwin Toonen

Finding specific data on Google can be akin to searching for a needle in a haystack. Thankfully, Google’s search operators are here to transform your quests for knowledge into efficient and targeted searches. When used skillfully, these specialized commands can drastically reduce time spent sifting through irrelevant results. It can also help in your SEO …

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Mastering Google Search: Using search operators for SEO

What is Google’s Knowledge Graph?

21 November 2023 Edwin Toonen

If you search for a specific company, you’ll likely see a big block of information on the right (sometimes the top) of your screen. That’s Google’s Knowledge Graph. This block – also known as the Knowledge Graph Card or Panel – contains relevant, context-specific information regarding your search, powered by the Knowledge Graph. If you …

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What is Google’s Knowledge Graph?

Benchmarking SEO: Do a competitive analysis

27 September 2023 Edwin Toonen

Have you ever felt that some of your keywords don’t perform as well? And are you wondering why other companies outrank you in Google? Then, it might be wise to do a quick competitive analysis. Because in most cases, it’s not necessarily your site performing worse; it’s other sites doing better. Luckily, if you want …

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Benchmarking SEO: Do a competitive analysis

6 questions about redirects for SEO

21 September 2023 Edwin Toonen

A redirect happens when someone asks for a specific page but gets sent to a different page. Often, the site owner deleted the page and set up a redirect to send visitors and search engine crawlers to a relevant page — a much better approach than serving them annoying, user-experience-breaking 404 messages. Redirects play a …

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6 questions about redirects for SEO