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Competitor Analysis: A Structured Approach
Paola Didone –
This blog post is for you if you need a structured way to do competitor analysis that allows you to focus and prioritise tasks without missing out on any important information. It’s also for you if you’ve never done a competitor analysis before or don’t know why you might need to do one. Some of... Read more
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Reading Between the Lines - Three Deeper Takeaways from John Mueller at BrightonSEO
Tom Capper –
Last Friday I had the pleasure of watching John Mueller of Google being interviewed on the BrightonSEO main stage by (Distilled alumna!) Hannah Smith. I found it hugely interesting how different it was from the previous similarly formatted sessions with John I’ve seen - by Aleyda at BrightonSEO... Read more
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A Website Crawler for Search and Information Architecture
Benjamin Estes –
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Distilled is all about effective and accountable search marketing. Part of being effective is being able to gather the data we need to diagnose an issue. For a while, we’ve been using a custom crawler at Distilled to solve technical problems with our clients. Today, we’re making that crawler... Read more
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How to Check Your Site Speed: 5 Things You Need to Know About the Google User Experience Report
Robin Lord –
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You’ve done your keyword research, your site architecture is clear and easy to navigate, and you’re giving users really obvious signals about how and why they should convert. But for some reason, conversion rates are the lowest they’ve ever been, and your rankings in Google are getting worse and... Read more
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10 Quick Wins We Can Make Using ODN as a Meta CMS
Emily Potter –
The Distilled Optimization Delivery Network (ODN) is most famous for SEO A/B testing and more recently full-funnel testing. But fewer people are familiar with one of the other main features; the ability to act as a meta-CMS and change pretty much anything you want in the HTML of your site, without... Read more
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DA is the Wrong Metric for Reporting on Link-Building
Tom Capper –
Moz's Domain Authority has become an industry staple for reporting on link-building efforts - but it makes little sense in that context. In this post, Tom Capper explains why, and outlines some alternatives. Read more
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7 Tips for Structured Data on E-commerce Sites
Tammy Yu –
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BEFORE READING: If you’re unfamiliar with JSON-LD, check out this article to learn more about the structured data format and why we prefer it. Overall, JSON-LD is much more flexible and scalable in comparison to microdata. Rather than having to add and edit microdata spread throughout the HTML of a... Read more
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The Easiest Tool for Testing Page Speed - PageSpeed Insights API
Meagan Sievers –
In November 2018, Google released an updated PageSpeed Insights API, which provides performance reports from both lab and field data on a page. Using the PageSpeed Insights API, we can test multiple URLs at once to get a better idea of our site’s overall performance and identify areas of our site... Read more
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A Beginner’s Guide to Google Tag Manager
Shannon Dunn –
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Google Tag Manager has come a long way since its release in 2012. Throughout the years, the interface terminology has changed, and additional features have been added that make it much easier to use. Tim Allen ’s previous post on “ Getting to Grips with Google Tag Manager ” gives a great... Read more
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SEO Practices: Search Engines Around the World
Arpun Bhuhi –
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There is plenty of information and data out there about Google and its dominance as a search engine. But what about if your business is in China? What if you want to optimise for Russia or even that 21% of the USA that doesn’t use Google? SEO practices and search engine dominance will... Read more
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Backlinks: How to Analyse Competitors
Paola Didone –
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I’ve recently worked on a backlink audit that also focused on competitor’s backlink profiles. The results helped my client create a long-term strategy for obtaining backlinks from additional authoritative domains. I put together a list of steps that will be useful if you also are thinking to... Read more
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