If ranking well in Google Image Search is important to you, don't worry about necessarily hosting images on your own domain.

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In general, it's typically pretty easy to rank first for your own brand name. But what if you're not? Google has some thoughts on that.

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A user recently came across some uniquely-named CSS content, and asked Google if that mattered. Google's response, as expected, is that it's ignored.

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Getting more links to point to your site is important and difficult, but some people think they found a way to trick Google. No, it doesn't work.

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Google's Martin Splitt has started a new web series focused on SEO and JavaScript, and his first installment has some interesting details on how Google indexes JavaScript.

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If you've done work on your website specifically to improve the mobile speed, that's great! However, your job isn't done; mobile speed and experience is something that should always be worked on.

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Ranking category pages on an ecommerce site can be tough, so many resort to just putting a bunch of text at the bottom of each page, below the product listings. Google says you shouldn't do that.

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It comes around every few years, with someone saying that the click through rate in search results affects your rankings, but Google always denies it. Now a new document seems to counter that argument, but does it really?

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Using UTM parameters on your links can be a great way to better understand how users find your site, but leaving those parameters on internal links can cause some problems for Google.

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For many businesses, a solid ranking on Google Maps is vitally important. Unfortunately, it's very easy for competitors to sabotage your listings. Are you keeping a close eye on things?

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