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Google’s reversal on third-party cookies: what it means for you

24 July 2024 Carolyn Shelby

In a happy yet surprising move, Google has announced it will not be phasing out third-party cookies as previously planned. This decision has significant implications for website owners, digital marketers, and SEO practitioners, particularly those using tools like Yoast SEO to optimize their WordPress sites. Here’s a closer look at what this means for Yoast …

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Google’s reversal on third-party cookies: what it means for you


Traffic dropping? How to determine the cause and fix it

22 September 2022
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Amy Lees

It’s Monday morning and you open up your Google Analytics stats. Then there it is, something you don’t wish to see at the beginning of the week: a sudden drop in traffic. And not just a small decline in traffic, no this is a significant drop. Panic strikes, time for action! First, take a couple of …

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Traffic dropping? How to determine the cause and fix it


What is the Google Site Kit plugin?

10 November 2021
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Amy Lees

Site Kit is an official Google plugin designed for WordPress. It brings together a collection of Google tools to manage and optimize your site. It’s easy to use, even if you don’t have a lot of technical knowledge. So if you’ve ever wanted to check things like which of your pages gets the most visitors, …

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What is the Google Site Kit plugin?

YouTube ranking: How to use analytics to optimize your video

23 August 2021 Davey Smeekens

If you’re trying to optimize your videos to get YouTube ranking them (as well as Google), then you need to do three things. Firstly, you need to understand what’s working. Second, you want to discover where there are opportunities to do better. And thirdly, you should assess how your search performance is progressing over time. …

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YouTube ranking: How to use analytics to optimize your video

Understanding bounce rate in Google Analytics

15 July 2021
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Thijs de Valk

“I came, I puked, I left” is a very famous definition of the bounce rate by Avinash Kaushik. But what does it mean exactly? When does a visitor bounce? Is it purely a visitor that hits the back button or is there more to it? And what can you tell by looking at the bounce …

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Understanding bounce rate in Google Analytics

Everyday website optimization: 6 tasks for your daily SEO routine

Many of you log into your site every day, or, at the very least, once a week. But, if you’re managing a small business or team, you can’t always spend a lot of time on your SEO. You probably have tons of other things to do! Here, we discuss a few small yet impactful things …

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Everyday website optimization: 6 tasks for your daily SEO routine

How to measure the success of your content SEO strategy?

9 March 2021 | 12 Comments
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Marieke van de Rakt

If you want to measure your content SEO strategy’s success, you first need to establish your goals. What’s the purpose of your strategy? Do you want higher rankings? More traffic? To evaluate your content SEO strategy, you should identify what success means to you! Once you’ve established your goals, you can measure the success of …

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How to measure the success of your content SEO strategy?

An introduction to Microsoft Clarity

11 November 2020 | 4 Comments
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Jono Alderson

Microsoft’s Clarity is a new, free analytics tool which provides website usage statistics, session recording, and heatmaps. Compared to Google Analytics (and other analytics platforms), it’s a little basic. But it’s robust, it’s easy to use, and it has some interesting features. What is Microsoft Clarity? Clarity records information about users who visit your website, …

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An introduction to Microsoft Clarity