Google typically finds websites through backlinks or XML sitemaps, but can it find them other ways as well? You can read more about this from this post on Search Engine Journal. We talked back in episode 33 that Google finds new sites via links and through sitemaps, but can they find sites any other ways? […]
DigitalCast Episode 119 – There is no “site authority” score from Google
People talk about website authority scores quite a bit, and I use them from time to time myself, but Google has made it clear that they have no such official metric. You can read more about this over on Search Engine Journal. When talking about search engine optimization, the phase “site authority” or “domain authority” […]
DigitalCast Episode 118 – Are XML sitemaps coming to WordPress core?
XML sitemaps are a great way to help inform Google about the content on your site, and there are many great WordPress plugins to help with that. Soon, though, XML sitemaps might be part of WordPress core. You can learn more about this from this post on Search Engine Roundtable or this discussion on Make […]
DigitalCast Episode 117 – Title tags and links are still important to Google
Sometimes Google likes to point things out that are obvious yet need repeating, so we’ll help repeat them here; links and title tags still matter. You can read more about this over on this post at Search Engine Roundtable. If you’ve ever heard me speak about SEO, I likely have a slide in there that […]