Following on from my SEO review of EKM Powershop, a UK based e-commerce platform a small number of other e-commerce solutions have reached out to me asking for similar reviews. One such outreach was Anna from 3dcart. It’s worth going on record now to say that I haven’t received any payment or gifts in exchange …
We know that the number of pages that search engines crawl and index when they visit our client’s websites has correlation with their success in organic search, but is having a bigger crawl budget always better? Like everything with Google, I don’t think that the relationship between your websites crawl budget and ranking/SERP performance is 100% …
As you’re probably aware, there is a wealth of information and benefit to be had from paying attention to and scrutinising your log files. That said, it’s important that the information provided by them is accurate, which means that you must be aware of subtle errors and mistakes that are easy to overlook. Ensure you …
SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation, is the process of optimising a web application (website) for search engines as a service. Typically SEO is shown as three pillars; Technical, Off-site and On-page. You may have seen the below, and very popular SEO Venn Diagram that has been used a lot – but from what I can …
For the second TechSEO Boost, in association with Moz, the conference opened a call for research papers to show the most innovative studies currently going on in the world of technical SEO. Previously, I’ve written about being named as a finalist — but at the conference we were named as the winner of the research …
This article represents a write-up of our technical research paper, which won the TechSEO Boost 2018 Call For Research competition, alongside entries from 2018 Drum USA Search Personality of the Year Eric Enge, and French software company OVH. Over the past few years we’ve noticed an increasing trend of large brands being unable to implement …
Having worked in SEO for a number of years, and having been able to work with some of the biggest brands from across the globe, I’ve experienced a few things. I’ve also read a lot of content, some good and some… Left me speechless. There is a lot of noise in the SEO community, and …
EKM has some great potential and with some amends to it’s technical SEO capabilities, EKM can easily rival Shopify in my opinion for OOTB proficiency, from an SEO standpoint. TL:DR; In my opinion, based on in-depth reviews and experience, there are better alternatives out there for an e-commerce website at this price bracket. Like with a …
Making sure that the pages of a website return the correct header status codes is pretty much on the basics checklist for any technical audit. The number of times I’ve had a webmaster gleefully tell me their website is free of 404 errors, only to find out the 404 page doesn’t return a 404 server …
One of the best things about working in SEO is the community, and that it’s so active and diverse. SEO studies and research pieces are also great, and help the industry evolve. There are however, a lot of SEO studies published that will all best intentions, make the mistake of confusing correlation with causation. Notably, …