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4 Common Mistakes E-commerce Websites Make Using JavaScript
Justyna Jarosz

4 Common Mistakes E-commerce Websites Make Using JavaScript

By leaving JavaScript unoptimized, you risk your content not getting crawled and indexed by Google. And in the e-commerce industry, that translates to losing significant revenue, because products are impossible to find via search engines. In this article, Justyna demonstrates how to avoid some of the most common mistakes e-commerce sites make when implementing JavaScript.

The Leading Characteristics of Review Writers, Review Readers, and Successful Owner Responses
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The Leading Characteristics of Review Writers, Review Readers, and Successful Owner Responses

Following our publication of The Impact of Local Business Reviews on Consumer Behavior, Miriam distills the dominant traits, characteristics, and behaviors shown by reviewers and business owners. These insights are meant to help you envision both the public and practices in an approachable manner, and enable you to form a useful mental picture of who and what you’re working with when it comes to growing and managing your reputation.

A Different Way of Thinking About Core Updates
Tom Capper

A Different Way of Thinking About Core Updates

Google algorithm updates seem to come in two main flavors. There are very specific updates, like the Page Experience Update, which tend to be announced well in advance, provide detailed information on how the ranking factor will work, and eventually arrive as a slight anti-climax. This post is about the other flavor: the updates announced when they're happening or have already happened with vague guidance. The kind that can have cataclysmic results for affected sites.

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Study: Which Link Metric Correlates Closest to Organic Visibility?
Domenica D'Ottavio

Study: Which Link Metric Correlates Closest to Organic Visibility?

Since 2019, Google has acknowledged that it uses Natural Language Understanding (NLU) when understanding the relevancy and intent of users' search queries. So why is no one measuring relevance when it comes to link profiles? The team at Journey Further sought to do just that – and in their latest study, they demonstrate why link relevance is more important than ever.