periscopeUP makes your site faster "Help me, help you." It was one of the most memorable lines from the movie Jerry Maguire. In the scene, Tom Cruise's character (a desperate pro sports agent with only one client) is trying to explain to his client, Cuba Gooding Jr's character (an entitled football player [...]
We have clients that come to us on a daily basis asking why their Google PageSpeed Insights score is not higher. Some want to know how they can achieve a score of 100. Page speed tools attempt to give a score to a website, which is independent of the ranking process on Google or other [...]
I love this time of the year. It’s great to reconnect with friends and family over the holidays. The traffic in DC gets a little less horrible every day through the end of the year (when it reverts back to dreadful). But most entertaining is reading the growing list of predictions and forecasts for the [...]
An SEO report demonstrates the effect that optimization work has on client business. Why should a customer care about what you're doing with their website? The report tells them exactly why. Let’s take a look at some components of SEO reports and why they matter. Get a full SEO report or audit for your [...]
Even though this article is geared towards a more technically versed audience, there’s still plenty to learn for any business when it comes to WordPress SEO. These little tidbits come from years of study, trial and error. Here’s what we find works best for our clients. Don’t tell anyone though, OK? The WordPress CMS is [...]
In September, Google announced Penguin would be updated in real time. Introduced over four years ago, the Penguin search algorithm updates have been Google's tactic for fighting webspam -- things like, keyword stuffing, cloaking redirects, duplicate content and link schemes. Penalizing websites for spammy link schemes has become the primary focus of many SEO's and [...]
https://periscopeup.wistia.com/medias/0gqr5y6nv2?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640 Listen in as Dan and Razvan Gavrilas, discuss the types of Google penalties, how to detect them, and how to recover if you have been penalized. Razvan is the Founder & Chief Architect of Cognitive SEO, an SEO tool set that focuses on increasing traffic, and cutting edge analysis, research & reporting. He also [...]
A client recently asked us what we recommend when launching a website. From an SEO standpoint, we at periscopeUP do a LOT to ensure the search engines are properly indexing a site, including quality control on the site using our SEO checklist, and webdesign checklist, submitting the site, XML sitemaps, webmaster accounts, and redirecting the [...]
Using this checklist, 4 out of 5 websites we have relaunched have maintained or improved rankings. The others have come back after a short time with some promotion. […]
