Stacking Knowledge

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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If you use WordPress, you're likely familiar with the new Gutenberg editor that is coming soon. They just released version 4.1 of the editor and consider it "feature complete", meaning it's getting close to being added to WordPress.

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The days of submitting your websites and pages to Google are long gone, but you still need them to find you. How do they do that? The biggest way is through links, but they can also find your content through sitemaps.

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As a general rule, having more content on your site will help with SEO. However, quality is a big factor and Google makes it very clear that better content beats simply having a ton of content.

Recently at PubCon, Google's Gary Illyes advised that you should include "no hashtags in URLs" for the sake of rankings, but it's a bit nuanced.

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