As you build your website over time, it'll likely be important to set up redirects to handle pages that you remove, or when adding SSL, or other things of that nature. Google wants to remind you that when you set up a redirect, they will no longer index that old page.

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It can be frustrating when your company gets mentioned on a popular site and they "nofollow" the link to your site (essentially hiding it from Google), but I recently heard something about that which made me change my perspective on that a little bit.

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In marketing, it's long been said that people do business with those that they "know, like and trust". However, establishing trust on your website with Google can be much different than establishing trust on your website with other users.

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The folks at Search Engine Land just published a list of the five SEO trends that will matter in 2019, and I thought it was a great list, so we'll share it here.

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We all know that it's important to have a fast loading website, but how exactly does speed affect users on your site? The folks at Yoast just shared some stats, and they tell quite a lot.

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Google already has a variety of tools to help you optimize your website (Analytics, Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, and others), but now a new one has joined their ranks — web.dev.

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WordPress powers roughly 1/3 of the entire internet, but starting next month more than half of the WordPress sites out there could become much less secure. Is yours one of them?

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Having more pages can potentially help a site rank better in Google, for a few reasons, but simply having a bunch of pages means nothing in an of itself.

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When you search for something on Google, the text the appears below each link often comes from the "meta descriptions" on those sites. While Google will generate them automatically when needed, they suggest you write you own.

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If you remove a page or change websites, or somehow just need to set up a redirect, the best way to do it (for the sake of Google) is with what's know as a "301 redirect". Much has been said over the years about how they work, but Google has just revealed a bit more.

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