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If your HTTP pages are linking to your HTTPS internal pages, you have an HTTPS internal linking issue. Since incorporating HTTPS into a website’s infrastructure is a best practice and a ranking factor for search engines, using the HTTPS protocol is recommended (though not necessary).  When you’re already using HTTPS and have internal links to […]

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URL parameters, frequently referred to as “query strings,” are a means of organizing information that’s associated with a specific URL. To do this a question mark (?) and a parameter or parameters are appended to the end of a URL. Multiple parameters can be present in a URL by separating them with an ‘&’ symbol.  Let’s […]

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Undoubtedly, search engine optimization (SEO) is a vital part of your web marketing. After all, a site or page’s ranking directly affects how often it’s seen and how much traffic it receives. It is, therefore, of primary importance that your site loads swiftly. Many people become impatient and leave the page if it’s slow to […]

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If you want your web pages to be fully viewable on all devices, setting the width and scaling the viewport with the viewport meta tag is essential. This ensures that the viewport is the appropriate size on all devices, particularly mobile ones. If you do not use the viewport Meta tag, your website could be […]

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Is your goal to grow your brand worldwide? Your current SEO strategies could be doing well domestically, but that doesn’t mean you’ll have the same success on an international scale. You need to employ the correct hreflang tags to create the best possible user interface for multilingual and multinational audiences. Hreflang tags explained Hreflang is a straightforward […]

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Because of the increased priority placed on safety across the internet, every site should use HTTPS protocol to ensure a secure connection and protect users. Making a switch from HTTP to an HTTPS site requires you to install an SSL certificate, which sounds simple enough. But in making this transition, you could run into a common […]

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Canonical tags are are important for any website that has similar or duplicate content on several web pages. By consolidating all the ranking signals into one “master” page, they prevent your pages from competing with one another in search engine rankings. But the link element rel=”canonical,” also known as a canonical URL, while incredibly significant, […]

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A 301 redirect or canonical URL ( rel=”canonical”) is used to tell search engines which version of a web page should be indexed and displayed in search results. In comparison to canonical URLs, 301 redirects accomplish a little bit more since they also send visitors to the updated version of the page.  URL canonicalization is […]

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A nofollow attribute is a small bit of code that may be added to a link in order to notify Google to ignore the link. Using no follow attributes in search engine optimization (SEO) stretches back a very long time, and the practice is somewhat complicated. In most cases, this kind of thing isn’t a […]

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According to Joe Moorcones, vice president of SafeNet, “the entire commercial world functions off the idea that encryption is rock-solid and not breakable.” In truth, the advent of quantum computing could make deciphering encrytion codes an easy task in the not-too-distant future.  It is beneficial to understand the current state of encryption before delving into […]

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