Brand Factor: What You Need to Know
What is Brand Factor? Brand Factor is a search engine ranking signal that considers a brand’s overall credibility and reputation when determining its position in search results. It goes beyond…
How To create a Google-Friendly FAQ section
Originally Published on SEMrush October 29, 2019 (Jason Barnard) Modified Transcript Hi. I’m Jason Barnard and welcome to Weekly Wisdom. Today I am going to share with you my cheat…
How-To: Great SEO Meta Titles, Meta Descriptions, and H1 for Your Pages
What are Meta Titles and Meta Descriptions? Meta titles and meta descriptions are both snippets of text embedded in a webpage’s HTML code that provide information about the page’s content….
How To Submit a URL or Website to Search Engines like Google, Bing or Yahoo (A step-by-step guide)
Originally Published on SEMrush June 10, 2020 (Jason Barnard) If you have just launched a new website, on a brand new domain, you are not going to see it ranking on…
Brand SERPs: What You Need To Know
In this article, you will learn the definition of a Brand SERP and get a basic understanding of how to create a compelling and optimised Brand SERP by The Brand…
How Bingbot Works: Discovering, Crawling, Extracting & Indexing
Originally Published on SearchEngineJournal April 15, 2020 (Jason Barnard) Learn how Bingbot works during the discovery, crawling, extracting and indexing stages from Fabrice Canel, Bing’s Principal Program Manager. Here’s a…
Google’s Knowledge Graph: trusted sources
What are Google’s trusted sources for the Knowledge Graph? Google gets its information from many sources and nobody knows exactly which ones they are. However, Jason Barnard (The Brand SERP…
How to Get Your Brand in Google’s Knowledge Graph Without a Wikipedia Page
Published on SearchEngineJournal April 1, 2020 (Jason Barnard) Learn the three steps you can take to get into the Knowledge Graph (and trigger a knowledge panel for your brand) without…
What is a Featured Snippet?
Sometimes Google provides a short, simple answer to the user’s search query right at the top of the results. These are called Featured Snippets. They are most prevalent for queries…
The simple 5 minute explanation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
What are Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning? Artificial Intelligence is a technology where a computer aims to perform tasks that otherwise a human would need to do. What is considered to be…
the 3 pillars of seo – Understandability Credibility Deliverability
the three pillars of seo jason barnard created this new definition of the three pillars of seo in 2019 when giving a talk in melbourne, australia. the pillars are based…
Semantic HTML5 for Content Writers – The Essential Guide
Originally Published on SEMrush November 01, 2017 (Jason Barnard) Google and Bing love semantic HTML5, so it is great for SEO! This article provides a simple guide to the essential semantic HTML5…