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80% of the answers delivered by Google’s voice assistant came from the three top results in search engine results pages.Even more, 60% of the results came from featured snippets and 70% overall came from SERP features.

If you think of optimizing the paragraph for the intent of voice, make sure it’s around 42 words,

SEMrush found schema was indeed in use in the vast majority of results, but 36% of the answers given by the Google Home devices contained no Schema at all.

Private WhoIs information may be a sign of “something to hide”.

consider including just your site name at the beginning or end of each page title, separated from the rest of the title with a delimiter such as a hyphen, colon, or pipe

Differentiate the descriptions for different pages. Identical or similar descriptions on every page of a site aren't helpful when individual pages appear in the web results. In these cases we're less likely to display the boilerplate text. Wherever possible, create descriptions that accurately describe the specific page. Use site-level descriptions on the main home page or other aggregation pages, and use page-level descriptions everywhere else. If you don't have time to create a description for every single page, try to prioritize your content: At the very least, create a description for the critical URLs like your home page and popular pages.

Programmatically generate descriptions. For some sites, like news media sources, generating an accurate and unique description for each page is easy: since each article is hand-written, it takes minimal effort to also add a one-sentence description. For larger database-driven sites, like product aggregators, hand-written descriptions can be impossible. In the latter case, however, programmatic generation of the descriptions can be appropriate and are encouraged. Good descriptions are human-readable and diverse. Page-specific data is a good candidate for programmatic generation. Keep in mind that meta descriptions comprised of long strings of keywords don't give users a clear idea of the page's content, and are less likely to be displayed in place of a regular snippet.

The WordPress extension WooCommerce lags far behind in last place. Just under half of the WooCommerce shops currently meet the Google specifications. An alarming 26% are actually bad. The self-operated hosting solution with low-performance mass providers is clear here.

Even if you hand over the security role for your site, you should still have a good understanding of WordPress security – so you can be sure you’re really getting the protection you need.

recognize risk signs. A risky product is: Rarely updated – it’s hard to code a security fix for a theme you’ve virtually abandoned Has many bad consumer reviews Lacks adequate support Has a bad history of being hacked

how do you know if a theme or plugin has been hacked in the past? You can start by checking wpvulndb – a database that tracks thousands of exploits across a wide range of plugins and themes.

The real power of SEMrush is its long tail keyword suggestions. SEMrush empowers my research process to identify profitable keyword phrases throughout the buyer funnel.

SEMrush helped me find related keyword ideas. I used that along with Google's Keyword Planner to find keyword opportunities. From there, I “reverse engineered” a profitable ad strategy based on their competitor’s mistakes. In turn, this information helped me seal the deal with a new client. It also saved me from wasting the client’s time and money chasing unprofitable keywords.

Historical CPC data from competitors' domains help me project ROAS for clients who don't have any search ads history. With this information, I'll review my client's average conversion rate from non-paid traffic sources and then cast it against the average click-through rate of the target ad position as well as each target keyword's estimated monthly search volume and average cost per click.

The ranking changes described in this post will not happen before next year, and we will provide at least six months notice before they’re rolled out.

The unpaid results found in the Shopping tab are based exclusively on data submitted via Merchant Center. This is the same as how the paid results have always functioned.

Due to the fact that the calls immediately stopped coming in after we got rid of the featured snippet, it tells me that users put a tremendous amount of trust that a featured snippet is authoritative. Why else would they completely ignore the fact that the website you land on after clicking the featured snippet is clearly for a company called Sterling Sky?

Our title tag that appeared in the featured snippet has our company name in it. Not Google. Hundreds of users either did not bother to register this or, going back to the first lesson, the illusion that the featured snippet provided, trumped the fact that the title tag clearly tells them that we are Sterling Sky.

We also learned how users skim pages rather than read them fully. Our phone number isn’t even listed anywhere on the page except for the footer! So they had to scroll all the way down to the bottom and breeze past our content before calling us.

If you’re able to separately identify basic directions and/or landmarks and add these on-page, this is also generally good UX that you should consider.