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Why you should care how green your website is

5 April 2023 | 12 Comments Sam Alderson

If you own a website or are thinking of creating one, you should be mindful about your ecological footprint. Because the tech industry plays a big role in the current climate crisis. With its data centers, large manufacturing operations, and huge amounts of e-waste, it’s accountable for nearly 4% of global CO2 emissions. Which, shockingly …

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Why you should care how green your website is

How to speed up your WordPress website: 12 tips to start optimizing website for speed

1 February 2023 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

We’ve said this time and time again: a fast website is necessary for SEO. In a sea of similarly good (or not-so-good) results, Google will favor fast pages that can deliver a good user experience to searchers. If your goal is to attain higher rankings and drive organic traffic from Google, you need to speed …

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How to speed up your WordPress website: 12 tips to start optimizing website for speed

SEO in 2023: Your chance to shine!

28 December 2022 | 1 Comment Edwin Toonen

For most sites, SEO in 2023 will probably be similar to the past couple of years: you still need to improve your work but set the bar higher and higher. Competition is getting fiercer, and Google — and your potential customers — are getting better at recognizing true quality. Also, you should keep an eye …

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SEO in 2023: Your chance to shine!

Don’t relabel your old content as new; it’s a lousy SEO tactic

21 December 2022 | 4 Comments Edwin Toonen

Content freshness is a ranking factor in Google’s algorithm and has been that way for years. Google tends to favor unique, recent, and timely content on the search results page. However, there’s a repercussion stemming from this – many websites would relabel their old content as new to try to game the algorithm. This is …

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Don’t relabel your old content as new; it’s a lousy SEO tactic

Sustainable SEO: How to focus on a lasting SEO strategy

24 November 2022 Marieke van de Rakt

You’re probably familiar with SEO, but what do we mean by sustainable SEO? Well, it’s all about spending your time on the right things in order to outrank competitors in the search engines! But how do you keep doing SEO in an efficient and successful way? How do you keep ranking in the long run? If you’re …

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Sustainable SEO: How to focus on a lasting SEO strategy


10 tips to improve the quality of your page

13 September 2022 Camille Cunningham

Is your page not attracting the number of people you thought it would? Or are you wondering what you can improve to get your page higher up in the search results? And to get people to stay on (and come back to) your site? There are a few things you can do to give your …

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10 tips to improve the quality of your page

Page experience: a Google ranking factor

7 August 2022 Edwin Toonen

In May 2020, Google announced Web Vitals — a new set of metrics to measure websites’ speed and user experience. Sometime later, Google announced that these metrics would make their way into a core algorithm update as new ways of judging and ranking sites based on the page experience they offer. This update was gradually …

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Page experience: a Google ranking factor

Link building from a holistic SEO perspective

9 May 2022 | 2 Comments Marieke van de Rakt

Link building isn’t easy. That doesn’t mean it’s rocket science. It means it takes a lot of work if you do it right. Link building done the wrong way can backfire, resulting in a ban from Google altogether. In this post, I’ll discuss our ideas about getting more backlinks: link building from a holistic SEO …

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Link building from a holistic SEO perspective