Google (Core) Updates: Everything you need to know

6. March 202412. November 2024 by seobility • SEO

Last updated on November 12, 2024 Have you seen your organic search traffic change drastically in a matter of hours or days? It’s possible that your website has been affected by a recent Google update. See the list of recent Google update...

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Switching from HTTP to HTTPS – Migration Guide

28. November 202322. May 2024 by seobility • SEO

HTTPS (HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure) helps keep your website visitors safe and is non-negotiable for any modern website. It also has SEO and usability implications. Google uses it as a ranking factor and major browsers clearly mark sites wit...

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Google’s Helpful Content Updates: What You Need To Know

17. October 202316. August 2024 by seobility • SEO

Last updated on August 16, 2024 Promoting high-quality, people-first content in search has been one of Google’s top priorities for some time now. Google’s Helpful Content System, which was first introduced in their August 2022 Helpful Content ...

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Seobility & neuroflash Partnership: Create Well-Optimized Content with AI Support

24. August 202219. October 2023 by seobility • Seobility news

When you’re creating new content, do you often find it hard to come up with the first few lines? Does your computer screen stay blank for way too long? If so, you’re not alone. This is the very reason why modern AI text generators exist. I...

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Recap: The most important Google updates of 2022 (so far)

28. June 202219. October 2023 by seobility • SEO

The nature of Google updates is changing. Major core updates that completely shake up the search results are becoming less frequent. Instead, it’s getting harder to distinguish updates from “regular” SERP fluctuations as their impact seems t...

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New SEO Quiz by Seobility [+ Giveaway!]

1. June 202219. October 2023 by seobility • SEO, Seobility news

Are you ready to prove your SEO expertise in an ultimate knowledge test… while getting the chance to win one year of Seobility Premium for free? Then keep reading 🙂 Because today we’re introducing our brand new SEO Quiz that lets you test y...

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2021: Looking back at a year full of changes

31. December 202119. October 2023 by seobility • SEO, Seobility news

An exciting year is coming to an end tonight – do you also feel like time flew by in 2021?! During the past 12 months, we've not only experienced a lot here at Seobility but there have also been numerous Google updates that kept SEOs all over th...

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New Feature: Local Pack Rankings in Seobility’s Rank Tracking

16. November 202119. October 2023 by seobility • Local SEO, Seobility news

Are you running a local business or providing local services? Then we’re happy to introduce a new Seobility feature to you that we’ve developed to support you even better in local SEO: from now on, you’ll be able to track your website’s ranki...

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Seobility speaks Spanish! – Why you should consider Spanish for your SEO strategy

13. October 202119. October 2023 by seobility • Seobility news

We are happy to announce that Seobility is now fully available in Spanish! Maybe you already know that Spanish is a very widespread language, but do you really know how important it is on the Internet? Whether you already have a business in S...

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Google Title Update: Everything You Need To Know

23. September 202119. October 2023 by seobility • SEO

Over the past few weeks, one topic has clearly dominated the SEO community: Google’s recent title update. Since mid-August, Google has been rewriting page titles of search results much more often, which leads to title tags (also called meta titles)...

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Google (Core) Updates in June and July 2021: An overview and recommendations

14. July 202119. October 2023 by seobility • SEO

Last updated on August 2, 2021 There's been a lot going on in Google search during the last few weeks - the June 2021 Core Update, the Page Experience Update, two spam updates, the July 2021 Core Update and finally the Link Spam Update. That makes...

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New: Seobility Keyword Research Tool

13. July 202119. October 2023 by seobility • Seobility news

We’re happy to introduce a new tool today that has probably been the most requested Seobility feature ever: our brand-new free Keyword Research Tool! As with all of our tools and features, our main goal was to develop a tool that’s easy to use...

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What’s the cost of SEO? – Free Tool: How Much To Rank

8. April 202119. October 2023 by seobility • SEO, Seobility news

What’s the cost of SEO? Or, to be more specific: How much does it cost to get a top ranking for a given keyword? Chances are that you faced this question before. If you ask an SEO expert, they will most likely respond with “it depends…”. A...

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Zero-Click Searches: What You Need to Know

31. March 202119. October 2023 by seobility • SEO

On March 22, Rand Fishkin published data at SparkToro that sent shockwaves through the SEO world. His conclusion: zero-click searches surged in 2020, now making up two-thirds of all Google searches. In his analysis of recent data from SimilarWeb, ...

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Google’s Passage Ranking Update: What You Need To Know

18. February 202119. October 2023 by seobility • General, SEO

On February 10, Google announced that a new ranking signal, Passage Ranking, went live for US-based searches in English. Passage Ranking is a new approach Google developed to identify and rank relevant passages within web pages in search. In its O...

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Google’s December 2020 Core Update – What should you do now?

10. December 202019. October 2023 by seobility • General, SEO

After a long break, Google finally decided it was time for a new core update: on December 3, Google announced the rollout of the "December 2020 Core Update"... Have you noticed considerable changes to your rankings since last week? It’s very lik...

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Interview with Seobility’s CEO on WebsitePlanet.com

6. August 202019. October 2023 by seobility • General, Seobility news

Have you ever wondered how the name of our SEO tool “Seobility” originated? Or what the story behind Seobility is? Our CEO Thomas Gareis recently gave an interview to the team of WebsitePlanet.com, where he answered these and many other questi...

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New Seobility Feature: File Source Analysis

16. July 202019. October 2023 by seobility • General, Seobility news

The correct use of file sources on your website is essential for properly displaying your content to users and to make sure that Google can index your website completely. Issues with these files will not only affect user experience and indexation in ...

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SEO Best Practices for Businesses that are Impacted by Corona Crisis

27. April 202019. October 2023 by seobility • General, SEO

The recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has left a lot of business owners in a precarious situation. Many had to put their services on “pause” by either closing up completely or by offering a limited range of services for a temporary period of...

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Google Featured Snippet Update & New Seobility Feature

24. February 202019. October 2023 by seobility • General, SEO, Seobility news

On January 23, Google made a big announcement on Twitter: web pages that are listed as a featured snippet will no longer repeat on the first page of the organic search results. This caused a great outcry from the SEO industry with many site owners be...

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Google Update: BERT – The biggest update since RankBrain

4. December 201919. October 2023 by seobility • General, SEO

On October 24th, 2019, the way Google Search works took a huge leap when Google introduced a new update called BERT. According to the official announcement, this is the biggest change to the Google Search algorithm not only in 2019 but in the past fi...

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Google’s September 2019 Core Update – First Reactions

27. September 201919. October 2023 by seobility • General, SEO

It happened again: Google has released a new core algorithm update on September 24, which is still rolling out at the moment. If your website rankings have changed a lot this week, this could be due to this update. In this blog post, we will share wh...

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Google introduced new link attributes and announced to treat “nofollow” as a hint in the future

16. September 201919. October 2023 by seobility • General, SEO

Today we have some big news for you: On Tuesday, Google announced on its Webmaster Central Blog that it will treat nofollow link attributes only as a hint and not as a directive in the future. In addition, two new link attributes "sponsored" and "ugc...

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100,000 Seobility Users – 100,000 Stories

8. August 201919. October 2023 by seobility • General, Seobility news

It’s time to celebrate – Seobility reached 100,000 users! We are incredibly happy that so many people trust Seobility and we would like to thank you all with this blog post. For this special reason, we will have a closer look at the abstract numb...

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Crawl Budget Optimization: How to improve the crawling of your website

28. June 201919. October 2023 by seobility • General, SEO

The World Wide Web has become a huge mass of information in recent decades and is still growing rapidly. For search engines like Google, it is impossible to fully capture this ever-growing number of web pages which is why they only crawl a certain nu...

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Google’s “March 2019 Core Update” – Insights overview and the importance of on-page optimization

21. March 201919. October 2023 by seobility • General

Since last week, there's one topic SEOs all over the world are talking about: Google's latest core algorithm update. For many websites, the update has brought significantly higher rankings but some others have suffered heavy losses. Although not much...

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Link Building Tactics – How to build sustainable backlinks

7. June 20184. February 2021 by seobility • General

Link building is an important aspect of search engine optimization (SEO), more specifically of off-page optimization. The goal is to maximize the number of high-quality backlinks onto your website, as this is one of the most important factors when it...

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