Whitespark has surveyed dozens of local SEO experts to compile what they believe are the most important ranking factors for local search. The 2023 local search ranking factors survey is now out, it is ...

John Mueller posted something interesting on LinkedIn because it offers insight into how an attribute of quality sometimes isn’t enough to be an actual ranking factor. His post also encourages a more ...

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that it is a bad idea for Google to try to rank its ranking factors. To say content is more or less important than links, or to say one search ranking factor is ...

If some keywords are good, then more must be better, right? That’s the simple logic behind keyword stuffing as a ranking factor. In the early days of web search, way before SEO was a thing, Google ...

Google's John Mueller has another good one-liner about SEO and Google ranking. He said on Mastodon, "No ranking factor compensates missing relevance, or missing user interest." He explained, "it's ...

SEO used to be all about keyword stuffing and link building. However, as search engine algorithms grow more sophisticated, more and more factors contribute to effective SEO. Directly and indirectly, ...

A former employee allegedly leaked a Yandex source code repository, part of which contained more than 1,900 factors used by the search engines for ranking websites in search results. Why we care. This ...