Kewei Lin is the founder of FlipWeb and a long-time operator in digital assets — websites, domains, e-commerce and online business brokerage. He writes about how online businesses are built, valued and transferred, and oversees editorial standards across the site.
While you would imagine that only small websites would need to do SEO, that is certainly not the case. We have seen that many big websites have SEO professionals working on their website as well. However, someone on Reddit asked a very interesting question to which Google’s John Mu answered. In this
We are back with another episode of Google’s John Mueller answering something regarding SEO. While we know that there are a lot of things that people don’t know, there are things that people know which are not true. For example, you might have heard that the length of any article makes a difference
Google is known for updating its Search algorithm frequently in a year and the last update we saw was in June 2019. After that, there have been smaller updates as well but they have not been confirmed. As we reported previously, Google only confirms updates that are major or have a wider impact. Sim
We have seen that the biggest core update to be released by Google this year was the June 2019 Core algorithm update. This update was so big that almost all the websites around the world were hit by it. On top of that, many websites have already announced that they are shutting shops or reducing [&h
We have known that Google updates its search algorithm every year. And this happens many times every year as well. However, there is no announcement from Google regarding these updates. But we were surprised to see Google announcing an update prior to its rollout. This happened as Google said that t
Bing is currently the closest competitor to Google Search followed by DuckDuckGo and others in terms of traffic and daily searches. Now, we know that the Google Search Webmaster Guidelines are discussed at length by everyone in the SEO industry. However, we cannot say the same about Bing’s Webmaster
While we have heard that there are benefits of doing SEO, there are also disadvantages of doing SEO. For example, you might have heard that big publications are keeping every outgoing link on their websites as nofollow. By outgoing links, we mean that links that take you to a different website if yo
There is another confusion which has been solved, somewhat, by Google’s John Mueller. We know that there are several questions asked on Twitter to John Mueller. Also, he tries to reply to as many people as possible so long as the questions are sensible. Out of these questions, some are already known
You must have seen people referencing a term called “Outbound Links” in the various SEO groups. Basically, these are the links which you have on different websites, forums or other places. This is one of the best methods to improve the ranking of any website according to various SEO professionals. T
We have often heard people saying that everyone has a political opinion. Yes, it is true that everyone does but it is for people to decide if they want to openly show it or not. However, things get tricky when there are political opinions between huge tech companies such as Google, Apple, Facebook,
While we do know that Google is the best search engine globally, there are various alternatives out there as well. In the global region, we have DuckDuckGo which is turning out to be a great competition for users focused on privacy. Apart from that, China has its own search engine as does Russia. Ho
Google is known to be the best search engine out there which attracts over a billion users every day. However, Google’s search engine is totally free, as is every other search engine, so the company needs advertisements to make money. And it has to be said that Google is doing extremely well in its
While things have already been bad for Facebook recently, it had to get even worse. We know that Facebook has had several data leaks, privacy scandals as well as fines from different regulators. However, the trouble does not seem to be stopping for the company anytime soon because a new issue has co
We saw the last update from Google which was rolled out in June and was also announced by the company. Now, it is not common to see Google announce any update so everyone was quite surprised. However, the update was a pretty major one which affected almost every website on the planet so it made [&he
Earlier this week, a new loophole was found inside Google’s Chrome browser which is being used by millions. This loophole relates to the users who are browsing in incognito mode for whatsoever reason. Basically, this loophole present inside Google Chrome would allow website owners to see who is brow
Last month, we saw the announcement of Google June 2019 Core algorithm update from the company. Now, it is very rare of Google to announce an update to its Search platform, however, it did which means that the update was quite big. And it turned out to be a massive one which affected almost every [&
Google’s flagship product for advertising is the Google AdSense platform. This platform has not only helped publishers earn millions of dollars, but it has also done the same for advertisers too. We know that most of the ads that we see today are from the AdSense platform which can be on Google Sear
Sedo is a huge marketplace for buying and selling domains all over the world. If you place your domain on Sedo, there is a higher chance that you will get some bids and your domain will be sold. However, Sedo as a platform is not perfect at all and we have some evidence now to […]
We have seen that tweaks are made to Google Search and other Google products on a daily basis, almost. Now, it is also true that most of these changes don’t see the light of the day. However, there are some changes which come to the public. And of them has just been officially announced as […
You must have heard that consistency is the key in SEO industry. Although that relates to everywhere you go, it is particularly true in the field of SEO. Now, you must have heard this when you wanted to stop putting content on your website or working on it as it was not ranking. However, a […
We have known that everyone in the SEO industry is finding reasons why a website has a better ranking than the others. While there are some reasons that are quite obvious, there are other reasons which are not so obvious. There are certain myths in the SEO industry as well which get busted from time
We know that there is a file called robots.txt which is one of the most important files for a webmaster. It is also a guideline on how the Googlebot should scan the website and check the pages. However, you can also block pages from getting indexed inside Search engines if you mention them in Robots
If you have been following the domain market closely, you might have seen the list of trending domain name keywords every month. Now, we have also covered this list of keywords without fail every month. This list of keywords are revealed by Verisign itself who is the registrar of .com and .net keywo
As we have already mentioned before, there are many myths in the SEO industry. Unless someone clears those as true or false, those remain to be the truth. Now, one of the longest standing myth which most of the SEOs believe is true is regarding domain age. SEO professionals say that it is better to
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