August's most popular SEO stories

SEW | Monthly Sep 3, 2016 Welcome to our first ever monthly email, where we round-up the top 10 most popular posts on Search Engine Watch from the last four weeks. August has been a huge month, with the announcement that AMP will roll-out across the entire organic mobile results page, and this is reflected in the list below. However, it's still the honest-to-goodness, thoroughly detailed, evergreen advice that proves to be the most popular attraction on our site. So sit back, pour some coffee, and enjoy these 10 helpful big-hitters at your own leisure... Today's Top Story 26 best expert-recommended free SEO tools SEO at its most technical level is all about the minutiae. The small, precise details that no-one else may notice, but can make the world of difference to your website's place on the SERPs. by Christopher Ratcliff PPC How to create winning ad copy using a scientific approach I have a question for you: what's the program you first turn to when creating your ad copy? If you're like the majority of people today, your answer would be Excel. Read more by Purna Virji SEO 10 tips to get your website to the top of Google search Back when we first published a 10 step guide on how to top Google search, the world of organic and paid search was a vastly different place. Read more by Christopher Ratcliff How content marketers and SEO experts can optimize for RankBrain Around October 2015, Google announced it would be using artificial intelligence to help deliver its search results. This machine-learning AI system is called RankBrain. Read more by Nikolay Stoyanov 11 SEO myths to forget in 2016 You may be surprised at how common some SEO myths still are in 2016, so it's definitely time to leave them behind. Read more by Tereza Litsa How to implement Google AMP on your WordPress site as easily as possible With the news that Google will be rolling out its accelerated mobile pages (AMP) to all organic listings beyond the 'Top Stories' you'll be forgiven for getting a little bit anxious. Read more by Christopher Ratcliff Nine quick fixes to improve your stagnant SEO You're no SEO beginner. You've sorted your technical SEO. Your site is being crawled regularly and Google is quick to index new pages on your site. You've got a solid keyword strategy and you've implemented all your main terms across site. Read more by Tom Smith 55% don't recognise paid ads in Google SERPS: stats 55% of searchers don't know which links in the SERPs are PPC ads, according to a new survey. ... Read more by Graham Charlton Preparing for SEO in 2017: yes it's that time already It might be hard to believe, but we will soon be entering the fourth quarter of 2016 and it will be time to start preparing our digital strategies for 2017. Read more by Jim Yu More News Google AMP is coming to organic search results Six months ago, Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative was only available in the 'Top Stories' carousel of it search results. Now Google has announced that AMP support will be rolled out across the entire organic search results page. Read more by Christopher Ratcliff Latest Report Innovation in Digital Grocery Retail Rapid advancements in technology have diminished the long-standing influence of the bricks-and-mortar store, with technology-empowered customers becoming increasingly comfortable using multiple channels to shop. This report contains an analysis of the grocery retail sector, with a focus on its digital evolution and related trends that are having an impact on the major players in this space.   Free Download     →   Unsubscribe Unsubscribe from SEW Update subscription preferences Useful links Promote your business Submit a job 55 Broad Street, 22nd Floor New York, NY 10004 sales@searchenginewatch.com feedback@searchenginewatch.com Copyright ® 2016 Search Engine Watch. All rights reserved. You received this email because you subscribed to Search Engine Watch. Add us to your address book