SEO
Coping With Dramatic Changes In Google Rankings And Traffic – Auto Parts eCommerce
For the most part, Google rankings and traffic are fairly consistent. Google likes sites with good quality content, good quality links that were obtained in a natural (or mostly natural) way, and that have good engagement/performance metrics (mobile friendly, low bounce rates, etc.). If your site has all of these things, you get traffic from…
Read MoreTwo Minute Guide To Optimized Title Tags
The HTML <title> tag is an important element of on-site search engine optimization (SEO). While a good title tag isn’t going to make your page #1 on Google all by itself, it can help boost rankings, search traffic, and even help with sales. Title tags can also be important for social media sharing, and can…
Read MoreVideo SEO Basics Part 2
In Video SEO Basics Part One, we talked about the SEO benefits of adding a video to a page, where to host a video, where to share it, and how to optimize the video when it’s placed on your website. In part two, we’ll talk about the basics of optimizing a video you upload to…
Read MoreVideo SEO Basics Part 1
Wondering how you can maximize the SEO value of a video you’ve created? If so, this article is for you. We’ll discuss: Why video can boost your site’s rankings Where you should host your videos online Where you should share videos to maximize their SEO value How to optimize your site for your video to…
Read MoreWhat’s The Difference Between SEO And PPC?
Here’s a basic question that a lot of people have for us: What’s the difference between SEO and PPC? In the screenshot of Google search results below, all the ‘green’ stuff is advertising, and all the rest is SEO.
Read MoreDo You Need SEO, Or Do You Need A Better Website?
Every so often a potential client with a poorly converting website asks for search engine optimization (SEO) services. We want to give people what they ask for, but we know that finding a way to bring more visitors to a poorly converting website isn’t going to help. Sometimes the problem isn’t that people aren’t finding…
Read MoreAsk Spork Marketing – What’s The Value Of A Link?
Here’s a question that we’ve heard a few times: Do you have a way of evaluating links and their effectiveness compared to their cost / effort needed to acquire them? Short answer: No. There’s no reliable, proven metric for determining the value of an individual link. This is by design, as search engines don’t want…
Read MoreProper SEO Tagging For Auto Parts Ecommerce Sites
Optimizing your site’s “tags” is an SEO basic, and while perfectly optimized HTML titles and META description tags are not going to make your auto parts ecommerce site rank #1 on Google, they can definitely help your site. Updated tags can improve rankings, and they’ll also help you generate more clicks from Google and Bing…
Read MoreQuick Tip: Figure Out How Your Auto Parts Website Ranks
Most website owners want to know where they rank for a specific search term on Google or Bing. Meaning, when a potential customer searches Google for “sunroof parts” (or whatever), where is your website? While the value of knowing where your site ranks is attenuated a bit by personalized search (Google changes search results for…
Read MoreAsk Spork Marketing: How Fast Does Google Index A Website?
An auto parts ecommerce client recently asked us this question: When I make a website live, we add the site and site map to the Google Search Console, but I’m finding that not all of the pages are getting indexed as quickly as I thought they would. Do you have any insight into how and…
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