News SEO for Publishers Covering the Coronavirus Pandemic

News SEO optimization is crucial to publishers, they understand why optimizing stories for Google and Google News is so important. Greg Jarboe (@gregjarboe) shared some great SEO News tips and tools. Get started with implementing News SEO as a publisher while covering stories during the coronavirus pandemic.

How Coronavirus is Impacting Marketing and Web Traffic

Because NP Digital ad agency works with hundreds of companies in all the major sectors with 7 offices around the world. They are already starting to see how Coronavirus is impacting marketing and web traffic. Last week NP Digital saw huge drops in organic traffic for most industries they are tracking.

Beating the Big Brands with SEO

If you are having a great product or service, and doing great effort to reach customers, don’t be afraid of competing with big brands. Don’t lose hope reaching customers. Big brands won’t kill you if you know the SEO game. Steven van Vessum (@Stevenvvessum) wrote an interesting article explaining how to beat brands with search… Read more Beating the Big Brands with SEO

Google Webmaster Central

Here are some SEO answers by John Mueller this week from Google Webmaster Central hang out. Watch the recording of the Google Webmaster Central office-hours hangout from February 7, 2020.

Having Hard Time Doing Manual Request Indexing Your Website Pages?

If your site content isn’t indexed automatically and trying to request indexing in Google Search Console with no luck, then you need to work more on enhancing your site. John Mueller from Google recommends submitting a sitemap to Google to solve this issue since force indexing will not do you any good.