If you've used the Posts feature inside of Google My Business, you may have noticed recently that they're showing up less and less in the search engines. While they may be fading, here are some reasons not to give up on them yet. 

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There are a lot of different ways to generate web pages, such as PHP and JavaScript, but if you're trying something creative with your site, make sure Google can still tell your pages apart. 

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We talk about 301 redirects on here quite a bit, as they're an important technical piece to help your site rank well. If you set up a redirect, how long should you leave it in place? 

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As they've done for a few years now, the folks at Stone Temple Consulting have studied thousands of search results to see the impact that links have on rankings, and the results are quite interesting. 

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Coming later this year is a new publishing platform called "Newspack", developed jointly by Google and WordPress, to help make it easier to publish local news. 

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There are a lot of technical things you should do on your website if you want it to rank well, but Google reminds us that all of the technical work is for nothing if you don't have good content on top of it. 

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While having good names for your images is important, such as "greenapple.jpg" instead of "DSC1058.jpg", changing the image names once they're already live on your site might be a bad idea. 

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WordPress version 5.1, due to come out in late February, will have a new feature that will help keep you out of trouble when working on your site. 

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 As 2019 gets going, here are 11 great content marketing quotes to help inspire and direct your work in the coming year. 

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When you need to remove a page from your website, you might consider redirecting that page to your home page, rather than making it a proper "404 not found". Google says not to do that.

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