The SEO Blog from cognitiveSEO

We can already see a convergence between digital marketers, SEOs and webmasters. Although they all have their own tasks and responsibilities, at some point all of their work will revolve, more or less, around the concept of link building. This is the topic that we’re going to talk about in today’s article.   While link building, alongside content, might have a bad name in the industry it still is the number one signal Google looks at when deciding to rank a website. There are countles [...]

Here it is: a new episode of our cognitiveSEO Talks - On Search and Traffic, this time with David Harry, one of the most important pioneers in SEO. Before jumping into the nitty-gritty, you need to know that there are 20 years since David is working in the SEO niche.    David Harry spent about five years doing forensic SEO (which is helping people with SEO problems, penalties, and things related to this) and he got to the point where he doesn’t need to pitch to clients to attract th [...]

We all know that BlackHat SEO is considered to be a bad thing. One might think: "as long as you can rank a website well with it, it must be good; there are risks of getting caught and penalized by Google's algorithms, but most people take that risk, don't they?"    Well... actually no. BlackHat SEO really is a bad thing. Not only for the one that uses it, but for you and everyone else, as well. Why? Because most BlackHat SEO tactics started off as legitimate ways to optimize your websit [...]

Google started talking about the Mobile-first indexing since November 04, 2016. At that time, Google announced that they wanted to make some experiments with their algorithm so it would primarily use the mobile version to rank pages from a website, to understand the structured data and to show it accordingly in the mobile search results.   Google’s system for crawling, indexing, and ranking was using the desktop version of the website, which led to lots of issues for mobile searches bec [...]

Image optimization for SEO purposes is an art you should learn how to master. Since images take a lot of space on your website, it’s only natural to find ways to optimize them not only for better user experience and functionality but also for better ranks and traffic.The big dilemma is finding the balance between a well-optimized image that still preserves its visual quality and a fast, high-peformance website. Thus, the better question to ask is: Can optimized images help/complement your SEO [...]

If you want to raise true brand awareness and drive massive organic traffic to your website, then you're in need of some really effective off-page SEO practices. Big time. There's little clear-cut and effective content across the Internet on what exactly digital marketers need to focus most of their resources, knowledge, and time on to drive organic traffic to their site from an off-site SEO point of view. That's where the idea of writing a complete off-page SEO techniques checklist came from. H [...]

We can finally share with you el cuarto episode of our cognitiveSEO Talks: On Search and Traffic where an energetic and truly inspiring Aleyda Solis challenged us to reconsider our marketing tactics and views. Aleyda is an international SEO consultant, blogger for multiple high-authority outlets such as SEL, State of Digital, and Moz, experienced speaker, with more than 100 conferences in 20 countries, and also the author of the SEO book in Spanish SEO. The Essential Points.    We can al [...]

The relationship between JavaScript and SEO started a long time ago and has been a highly debated topic in the virtual world, mostly in the SEO circles. Creating websites using JavaScript to feature content was a big hit back in the days. Many developers used this technique, with some lacking knowledge on whether search engines can parse and understand that content.   Along the way, Google changed its methodology and standpoint regarding JavaScript. Everybody started to doubt whether sear [...]

We're thrilled to bring to your attention the third episode of our cognitiveSEO Talks: On Search and Traffic, this time with a beloved digital expert, Sujan Patel. He's a marvelous marketing expert, entrepreneur and growth hacker widely known for his multiple publications and articles in the industry, his successful management of various big companies, and his extensive knowledge in the world of digital.   We constantly feel the rush to know what that one or the other say about something [...]

Content Marketing is dominating the internet. It stays at the core of everything, be it an article, a video or even an ad. So, in order to succeed or even attempt to be successful at digital marketing, you have to create some form of content.   However, many people find it very difficult to create content or do link building, especially if they're in a 'boring' niche. This complaint often comes not only from the website owners themselves, but also from various digital marketing experts tr [...]