Google Webmasters
Martech Zone articles tagged google webmasters:
- Search Marketing
What is a Robots.txt File? Everything You Need To Write, Submit, and Recrawl a Robots File for SEO
We’ve written a comprehensive article on how search engines find, crawl, and index your websites. A foundational step in that process is the robots.txt file, the gateway for a search engine to crawl your site. Understanding how to construct a robots.txt file properly is essential in search engine optimization (SEO). This simple yet powerful tool helps webmasters control how search…
- Search Marketing
Google Search Console Goofed And Sent False Alerts on WordPress
Sometimes I scratch my head where exactly Google is going with its search console. While I do believe it’s an amazing service to detect malware on sites and prevent those sites from being listed in search results, I’m not so sure I want Google actually scanning sites looking for issues. Case in point was a premature alert that went out…
- Search Marketing
Finally, It’s Time to Retire Your WWW
Sites like ours that have been around for a decade accumulated SEO rank on pages that have sustained incredible traffic. As with most sites, our domain was displayed and started with www. In recent years, the www has become less prominent on sites… but we kept ours because that subdomain had so much authority with search engines. Until now! Moz…
- Search Marketing
How to Minimize Search Impact When Migrating to a New Domain
As with many companies that grow and pivot, we have a client who is rebranding and migrating to a different domain. My friends who do search engine optimization are cringing right now. Domains build authority over time and ripping out that authority can tank your organic traffic. While Google Search Console does offer a change of domain tool, what they…
- Marketing Infographics
Responsive Design and the Mobile Search Tipping Point
One of the reasons why we pulled the trigger on getting our site up on a new mobile-optimized theme wasn’t just all the noise that Google and professionals were making in the SEO space. We were seeing it for ourselves in the observations of our clients’ sites. On our clients with responsive sites, we could see a substantial growth in…
- Search Marketing
Google Search Console Scared the Crap out of Me!
We’ve been working day and night preparing Martech for an upcoming design change. Work has included going back through 4,000 blog posts – ensuring we have featured images, the content isn’t out of date (like platforms that have gone out of business), and ensuring we don’t have other strange problems… like about 100 posts that I messed up the html…