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SEO Tasks to Boost Your Site's Performance and UsabilityUnderstand which SEO tasks will effectively, efficiently, and strategically optimize your website.
Connor LaheyMay 05, 2025
General SEO
Whether you’re a beginner or an expert, general SEO can help you improve your website’s ranking and reach. Discover the best practices, tools, and strategies from the leading SEO experts.
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SEO Monitoring: A Complete Guide to Tools & Key MetricsSEO monitoring is tracking search metrics to measure performance and spot opportunities for improvement.
Carlos SilvaApr 30, 2025
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How to Optimize Your Website for SEO (Beginner’s Guide)Learn how to optimize your website for SEO with our clear, actionable guide and framework.
Carlos SilvaApr 30, 2025
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How to Use Semrush Position Tracking to Monitor & Report SEO ResultsLearn how the Semrush Position Tracking tool helps you easily track SERP rankings for keywords and get traffic from specific locations and devices.
Brenna KellyApr 16, 2025
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5 Common Myths About Choosing Domain Names for International SEO
Is a .COM domain really the best choice for international targeting? Can a local TLD rank as well abroad as at home? Can a domain rank well internationally even when we don’t use ccTLDs? Read on to find out about the most frequent misconceptions concerning domain names and international SEO.Martin KuraAug 12, 2015
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Dips and Spikes in Traffic: Using the Position Changes Report in Semrush
As a former customer support specialist, I understand the most commonly asked questions by customers. One of these repeated questions was about the traffic graph. “Where did this huge dip/spike come from?” You would constantly monitor the traffic for a particular domain and out of nowhere this huge dip occurs in the graph. You prepare for the worst.Mike IsaacJul 27, 2015
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Parallax Web Design vs. SEO: What You Need To Know
As search engine marketers, we know that the best time for us to be involved with a web design or redesign project is right at the beginning, so that SEO can be ‘baked in‘ to the process right from the start.Steve MorganJun 04, 2015
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Your Guide to Understanding Google's Sitelinks Search Box
Have you ever Googled a website only to find a second Google search box embedded underneath the first? That’s a recently updated Google feature, the Sitelinks search box. It has the capability to streamline your own website’s search function, but opinions are mixed regarding the benefit it provides.Shane JonesMay 28, 2015
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Google’s Fetch and Render: Why It’s Important
Lots of folks think that SEO is about “gaming the system.” Well… that’s true of “black hat” SEO, but those of us who are trying to make pages easy for Google to crawl and evaluate are working towards what I like to think of as “natural” SEO.Pat MarcelloApr 20, 2015
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How To Identify and Fix a Google Penalty
Experiencing a large drop in rankings can be confusing and frustrating. It could also mean a significant loss in leads or profits for your website. If you don’t have the know-how or the means to fix the issue quickly, the future of your company’s income could be in danger. The first step in recovering from a large drop in rankings is identifying what type of penalty you have.John Leo WeberApr 07, 2015