For this post I used an article from Moz.com called “What are Core Web Vitals”. https://moz.com/learn/seo/performance-metrics Core web vitals are a series of metrics that Google uses to analyze the loading abilities of pages as professor sweet talked about in class these are based on user experiences from the Chrome browser. There are three primary […]
For this post I decided to dive a little bit into the way one of my professors as someone with no SEO experience uses the same quality signals that Google uses to assess websites. In my SCIC 201 class Dr. Wagner requires us to write several form posts much like this one, on various scientific […]
For this post I read an article on the Semrush website entitled “Link Building For Seo a Guide to the Basics” By Rachel Handley. https://www.semrush.com/blog/link-building/ I thought this article would be relevant because it covers similar material to what we’ve been talking about in class recently. As we learned in class link building or baiting […]
For this post I looked at an article in the Semrush blog https://www.semrush.com/blog/link-bait/ about link baiting. I thought the concept of link baiting in class was really interesting as it sounds like a very negative thing but it’s actually quite a useful website tool and not as nefarious as it would sound. There were some […]
After reading some of the documents for the midterm I came across the Google search quality rater manual after it being recommended on one of the pages. I decided to read it and I’ve found it very interesting. I think it will help my SEO here are a few insights I found from these guidelines: […]
In doing my keyword research I found two sites which used clear black hat SEO practices yet they both ranked very highly on Google. I thought I would research two of these sites risking my computer in the process to demonstrate the black hat practices inherent in each. The first website that used black hat […]
INTRODUCTION: Since we have gotten access to the Yoast SEO analysis Yoast Website tools I decided that it may be a good idea to analyze my prior content with Yoast. Since I really want see how I could write more optimiziable content/SEO friendly content. WHAT WAS WRONG AND RIGHT: In my first posts on the […]
This week I read a very interesting article called Rising Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Trends for 2026 on SEO.com https://www.seo.com/blog/geo-trends/#151-4 there was one aspect of the article that I felt were iffy at least from a traditional SEO perspective. was the idea that businesses should try to get mentions on aggregating websites and mentions on […]
For my project in this class I chose to work with a local non-profit organization All Good Things, where I volunteer. I have already begun doing research on how I can optimize the site I will build. Their current website is a Facebook for business profile which through their own efforts has decent optimization and […]