Jim Stewart
9 Tips for Recovering Your Google Rankings After a Site Hack
This is a post by ProBlogger SEO expert Jim Stewart While WordPress is a relatively secure platform, it can still be hacked. In fact, out of the 11,000 hacked websites Securi analyzed in 2016, 75 percent of them were running WordPress. If your WordPress site has been hacked, fear not. ...more
Finding readers
5 Essential Blog Foundations for Strong SEO
This is a post by ProBlogger’s SEO expert, Jim Stewart. Many bloggers start a blog with gusto, rushing to establish a blogging website and share their opinions and knowledge with the world. They choose a popular platform to build on, select an attractive theme with all the bells and whistles, ...more
Blog Design
The Site Speed and SEO Connection
From ProBlogger SEO expert Jim Stewart of Bloggers SEO Last year the Australian retailer Booktopia gave a presentation where they shared that speeding up their page load times by 1 second, equated to an extra $600,000 on the bottom line. Today, speed matters. Turning your blog into a highly optimised, relevant, platform ...more
Blog Promotion
Has Google’s ‘Fred’ Update Left Your Rankings Dead?
Recently, Google’s ‘Fred’ ranking update hit the search pages. While Google hasn’t confirmed the update, it’s certainly live. Webmasters across the board have been impacted by Fred, but not every page is created similarly. Low-value content and poorly configured sites are taking a heavy blow. Meanwhile, SEO-jammed pages prioritising revenue ...more
Search Engine Optimization
How SEO Can Help Your Blog Rank Well
In the final part of our three-part series on the What, Why and How of SEO and how it can be used to improve your blog’s rankings, we’ll be exploring how SEO can help your blog rank well. Ranking well in the major search engines means added visibility for your blog. Visibility ...more
Search Engine Optimization
Why Your Blog Needs SEO
In the second part of our three-part series on the What, How and Why of SEO and how it relates to your blog, we’ll be exploring why your blog needs SEO (you can find the first post SEO For Bloggers: A Basic Explanation here). The reasons for writing a blog ...more
General
SEO for Bloggers: A Basic Explanation
By ProBlogger SEO Expert Jim Stewart of StewArt Media. Search Engine Optimisation. Just reading that phrase can make some bloggers break into cold sweats. You know how to blog, and you know you have to incorporate SEO in your pages somehow to be successful, but the technical aspects of SEO are ...more
Search Engine Optimization
How To Structure Your Blog Content For Great Rankings
From ProBlogger SEO expert Jim Stewart of Bloggers SEO. Content may be king, but if you don’t optimise your blog content in a way that Google likes, your readers will never find it. Structuring your content in a way that Google understands means higher rankings across your entire site. This ...more
Search Engine Optimization