Recent content by Dubyah

Take a look at your top tier competitors, analyze their backlinks. Rinse and repeat.

Relevancy is a strong factor, and definitely carries more weight. Generally you would want the link to be relevant to the content on the page that is linking to you. Else over time you may see a negative effect, as they're probably seen as low quality, out of place, spammy. Here is an...

Try checking your crawl rate, it will tell how often the site is being crawled etc. You should see a difference once the site is crawled 2-3 complete times. Depending the sites crawl rate that could take anywhere from 7 days to 30 days. You can see your crawl rates in google search console via...

Common sense.

Clean them up, it will benefit you in the long run. Lots of custom html/divs make maintenance a pain, especially if you want to redesign or update the templates. Not sure that it's going tot hurt your site though.

The value is for the user, I imagine page rank won't bleed out as you're essentially linking to the same page. Update your robots.txt to exclude ?filter=value parameters. Example: Disallow: /?search=*

Just do it naturally, an exact number depends on the length of content and how it fits. Make use of sidebars, and link banks.

Execution.

Depends on the niche, what youre going for.. Is it for a quick buck, or are you actually going to make a business out of it. Do you plan on becoming an authority or are you cool with picking up the crumbs. Unless you can write quality content, and garner great links yourself you're probably...

Not surprised. Think about link equity flow. You just introduced X amount of links to almost every page of the site. While the boilerplate algorithm/patent does exist, it does still pass a certain amount of equity. "The patent says that it has the option to not use what it calls “boilerplate”...

Services like callrail are amazing you can generate dynamic phone numbers on the fly and even attribute It to the page level.

HON stands for health on net it’s the organization that the world health organization endorses for health related content on the web. You need to apply, and be a legitimate business. It also costs some money.. they spend quite awhile combing through your content and mandate that you do not sell...

Cite your sources, YMYL need to be trustworthy. Limit your ads until you gain traffic / authority in your space. Guestpost on repuatable sites. Get .edu / .gov backlinks (the best way to compete quickly). Goog time to get in the health space. A lot of players got hammered with the Medic upadte...

Google has come out on the record, that content hidden in accordians / dropdowns / tabs is indexed, and ranked. I'd point you to the article but I dont have 15 posts yet. Check Gary Illyes twitter Sept 14th 2018. Or just think about how much of a UX disaster it would be if google couldn't rank...

Strongly suggested. "Sites that remain on the h.t.t.p. non-secure protocol will be flagged with a warning in the URL bar of the surfer’s browser". As of July chrome started flagging non h.t.t.p.s sites. As Nike says "Just Do It".