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Safari Changes Will Impact Analytics

May 29, 2019 by katherine ong Leave a Comment

Safari Changes Will Impact Analytics

You might have noticed something weird in your analytics starting in March 2019. Its partially because your website visitors from Safari browsers on both mobile and desktop had the expiration of their _ga cookie — changed from 2 years to 7 days. Why is this, and why does it matter to Safari users, specifically? What […]

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Search and Social News — April 2019

May 2, 2019 by katherine ong Leave a Comment

Search and Social News — April 2019

Usually I start off these monthly updates with what I’ve learned this month, but I didn’t want to bury the important Google announcements. You can see my excitement and key takeaways from Mobile Moxie’s presentation later in this post. In the meantime, here are the big announcements over the last month that I wanted to share: […]

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Google Search Console Limitations and Measurement Issues

April 9, 2019 by katherine ong Leave a Comment

Google Search Console Limitations and Measurement Issues

Google Search Console Data can be misleading I’d actually like to walk through the ways in which the data Google gives you is misleading and why I recommend that my clients use ranking data from a SEO software platform like Ahrefs, SEMRush, or GetStat instead for their SEO measurement and planning. One caveat before we […]

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Search and Social News — March 2019

April 1, 2019 by katherine ong Leave a Comment

Search and Social News — March 2019

March was a crazy month for search and social news. First, Google randomly announced it hasn’t been supporting rel=prev and rel-next recommendations (it turns out it hasn’t for years, and it just didn’t tell us). Then, expandable Featured Snippets (see below) was rolled out. It was a tough month to be an SEO where it […]

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Goodbye rel=prev/next – Why you might still want to use it

March 25, 2019 by katherine ong Leave a Comment

Goodbye rel=prev/next – Why you might still want to use it

Did you see the Google announcement that they don’t use rel=prev and rel=next? The SEO community is in an uproar around not being told that this signal has not been used by Google for YEARS without telling us. If you’re just catching up, here’s the Google announcement: And here’s a screenshot from their blog post about […]

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Search and Social News : February 2019

March 1, 2019 by katherine ong Leave a Comment

Search and Social News : February 2019

Below you’ll find the SEO, social media research and tips that you should absolutely read and bookmark. I’ve also inlcuded what I (a marketer who has been doing SEO for 15+years) learned over the last month. In full disclosure: last month I was recovering from a surgical procedure, so my personal digital marketing learning “to […]

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Ahrefs vs Moz vs SEMRush: The 411 on SEO Management Tools

February 7, 2019 by katherine ong Leave a Comment

Ahrefs vs Moz vs SEMRush: The 411 on SEO Management Tools

Are you just getting started in managing an in-house SEO program for a brand or organization and not sure what SEO management tool to pick? Many of my clients are managing a program that does not include local SEO elements and/or they are on a budget (or building a case for an enterprise level tool). […]

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Ahrefs vs Moz vs SEMRush: The 411 on SEO Management Tools

February 7, 2019 by katherine ong 1 Comment

Ahrefs vs Moz vs SEMRush: The 411 on SEO Management Tools

(This is the old version of this article and its being redirected to https://wostrategies.com/ahrefs-vs-moz-vs-semrush/) Are you just getting started in managing an in-house SEO program for a brand or organization and not sure what SEO management tool to pick? Many of my clients are managing a program that does not include local SEO elements and/or they […]

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New SEO Tips and Tricks I Picked Up: January 2019

February 5, 2019 by katherine ong Leave a Comment

New SEO Tips and Tricks I Picked Up: January 2019

Search and social news and what I learned about SEO last month… Over the last year I’ve been sharing SEO and social media news with you monthly and I’ve decided to change the format a bit. In addition to sharing with you what I believe are the news announcements, research findings, and new tactics of […]

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Search and Social Updates: December 2018

December 31, 2018 by katherine ong Leave a Comment

Search and Social Updates: December 2018

Wow. 2018 is coming to a close and what a year it has been for search updates! It’s also been a big year for me personally and professionally. It’s been nice over the last next few weeks during the holiday break. I’ve used it to catch up with my own reading and professional development. I hope […]

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