Articles by Sam Mannell

Sam Mannell has been a writer for the Pure SEO content team since August '18. He quickly found his place in the company as resident Dungeon Master and coffee expert. Sam holds a BA from University of Auckland, where he double-majored in Linguistics and English.

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    Controversies & Real-time Indexing – YoastCon 2019
    The dust is still settling from last week's YoastCon - an interactive conference held in the Netherlands by SEO industry leader Yoast, known for their widely used WordPress...
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    Google SEO

    Top SEO Ranking Factors For 2019
    Given that Google ranks the 644 million websites out there based on hundreds of ranking factors, it can be easy to feel a little intimidated by the idea of wading and trying to find ways to rank your page among it all. Many have said that SEO is a...
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    New WordPress Plug-in ‘Site Kit’ Integrates Google Tools
    Late last week Google announced its new free, open-source plug-in for WordPress, Site Kit. The plug-in helps webmasters manage their site by rolling a number of Google-powered insights into one channel. This helps website owners collate...
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    Google News

    Google Search to include Comment System for Live Sports Events
    Google has announced its intention to allow users to comment on specific search results, directly on the Search Engine Results Page. At this stage, the comment system can only be used on results for live sporting events. Google has further clarified...
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    The Royal Tour in New Zealand – Was it worth it?
    They say that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s recent royal tour of New Zealand cost the taxpayer one million dollars. Was it money well spent? While it may not be that much relative to the nation’s operating allowances from 2018 until 2021,...
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    Moz Releases Annual Local Search Rank Factor Survey
    Lauded SEO toolset developer Moz has released their 2018 Local Search Ranking Factors Survey, and have illuminated where recent growth has been most distinct. Local search as a whole continues to be a hotbed for progress, but the Moz survey...
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    News SEO

    5 Reasons Avoiding SEO Could Be a Mistake For You
    Trying to explain why SEO is worth it can be hard, and those of us who need to do this on a regular basis come across the same  doubts and hesitations time and again: it’s too erratic, it takes a long time, PPC is better – all common...
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    News SEO

    DuckDuckGo Hits Milestone 30M Daily Searches
    Google may not be the only engine in SEO forever – as of Monday 8th October, DuckDuckGo hit a record 30 million daily direct searches. While this pales in comparison to the Google’s daily search figures, which are several billion strong,...
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    Google News

    Google+ Closing for Good Following Security Breach
    Google announced at the start of this week it’s intentions to begin the process of sunsetting the consumer version of the companies social media platform, Google+.  According to their statements, the process is expected to take around ten...
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    Analytics SEO

    4 Tips For Keeping Up In SEO
    Here at Pure SEO, we know better than most how fast search engine optimization is changing. It doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in the game – the rules are constantly shifting, and no-one can stay on top of them forever. SEO...
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    Google SEO

    What Does Semantic Search Mean for SEO?
    These days, SEO is changing and growing faster than ever, and our strategies for optimization have to change too. Rather than reverse engineering content that ranks by dissecting Google’s algorithms, we’re starting to find that we need...
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    Google

    Google Partners Summit 2018
    Last week was a cornerstone event in the world of Auckland SEO,  the Annual Google Partners Summit – known previously as the Google Masterclass. The event was held Friday 31st of August on the Auckland waterfront, and featured several talks...
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    Google News

    Study Finds Disparity Between YouTube and Google Video Rankings
    Video content is an often overlooked but potentially very powerful tool in the world of SEO.  But a new report published by RankRanger has found that having a highly ranked video within YouTube  may not increase it’s chances of appearing in...
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    Google News

    Google Approaching Election Ads with More Transparency
    In today’s blog, were taking a step away from search engine optimisation and looking into Google’s new transparency measures. Google has decided to build in more transparency into the political advertising being run on its ad networks....
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    Google

    Celebrities Film Q&A for Google Search Results with New App Cameos
    From news outside the world of search engine optimization; a new app from Google – Cameos – has officially launched, allowing celebrities and other public figures to shoot home-made video responses to frequently asked questions in Google...
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