Core Web Vitals: How Google Measures Your Site’s User Experience Updated on December 8, 2025 by Carrie Smaha Google Core Web Vitals are a set of metrics that measure real-world user experience for loading performance, interactivity, and visual stability of a web page. These metrics directly influence Google Search rankings and serve as a benchmark for how visitors perceive your website’s performance. Continue reading –>
Are Your Impressions Increasing But Clicks Are Declining? Updated on July 29, 2025 by Sam Page If your Google Search Console shows impressions climbing while click-through rates nosedive, you’re witnessing something industry-wide. Business owners running high-stakes websites, especially in SaaS, eCommerce, and professional services, are seeing the same pattern. The disconnect between visibility and engagement isn’t your SEO strategy failing. It’s a fundamental shift in how Google delivers search results. Continue reading –>
Why AI Crawlers Are Slowing Down Your Website: The Case for Dedicated Hosting Solutions Updated on September 25, 2025 by Carrie Smaha AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot are overwhelming websites with aggressive traffic spikes—one user reported 30TB of bandwidth consumed in a month. These bots strain shared hosting environments, causing slowdowns that hurt SEO and user experience. Unlike traditional search crawlers, AI bots request large batches of pages in short bursts without following bandwidth-saving guidelines. Dedicated servers provide essential control through rate limiting, IP filtering, and custom caching, protecting your site’s performance against this growing trend. No, you’re not imagining things. If you’ve recently checked your server logs or analytics dashboard and spotted strange user agents like GPTBot or ClaudeBot, you’re seeing the impact of a new wave of visitors: AI and LLM crawlers. Continue reading –>
Online Essentials Your Business Needs to Thrive Updated on February 15, 2024 by Guest Contributor For your business to thrive, you need to constantly bring in new customers and clients. While cold-calling and traditional advertising both have their benefits, we now live in an online world – when people want something done, their first stop isn’t the Yellow Pages, it’s Google. If your small business marketing plan is going to succeed, you need to have a strong online marketing presence. Continue reading –>
How to Become an SEO Specialist Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting If you like spending time optimizing web pages for the internet, then you might have a calling as an SEO specialist. In this article, we will cover what an SEO specialist is and what they do, as well as the skills needed to perform well in the role. We will also take a look at an average SEO specialist salary and tell you how to become an SEO specialist. Continue reading –>
What is Off-Page SEO? Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting Off-page SEO refers to all the things you can do outside of your website to improve a page’s ranking in the search engine results pages (SERPs). In short, it covers all SEO tactics that take place outside of your website. Continue reading –>
What is a Digital Marketing Funnel? Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting The digital marketing funnel is a modern, online strategy for gaining and retaining clients for your business. The four steps to the digital marketing funnel are: AwarenessDiscovery (first part of lead generation)Consideration (second part of lead generation)Conversion Continue reading –>
Learn SEO for Free (With No Formal Training) Updated on January 23, 2024 by Guest Contributor Learning the search engine optimization (SEO) game is still an important part of the web marketing world. Large sums of money and time are readily sunk into the costs of software and training, everyone wants to learn SEO to at least a competent level. But much of what the in-the-trenches SEO professional learns on the job can be attained (mostly) for free. Continue reading –>
Video SEO: Google’s 5 Best Practices Updated on December 9, 2025 by InMotion Hosting If you have ever made a video, you know that it takes time and effort to make one worth watching. The last thing you want after putting in that time and effort is to see that your video is not getting any views. Continue reading –>
Favorite SEO Blogs from Around the Web Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting In the search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) world, it’s often difficult to know to where to turn, and what projects to tackle. So much is required to form a well-rounded search strategy. There’s the technical considerations, making sure your site is adequately crawl-worthy, the softer skills like content generation, and keyword targeting. There’s a mix of both harder and softer skills. Once you’ve identified a good strategy, what kind of data will you measure and how will you know if the data you’ve chosen to measure indicates what you think it does. Continue reading –>
Rank Math SEO Plugin Review Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting There are a lot of SEO helper tools on the market. And it’s getting more difficult to try them all. In this article, you will get a closer look at the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress and how it can help your website pages and posts make a better showing for search engines. Continue reading –>
Google Algorithms: How Do They Work? Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting If you type a query into Google Search, no matter what you search, you are likely to get millions of results in a fraction of a second. Although the speed of the results may suggest a simple system, there are actually tons of things going on behind the scenes of your search. Continue reading –>
What is Readability? How to Improve Your Readability Score Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting Readability is a ranking term for how easy your content is to read and understand. It can have a big impact on your SEO score, and can be a make or break factor for how likely users are to engage with and benefit from your content. Continue reading –>
What is a Featured Snippet? How to Get Featured Snippets Updated on January 23, 2024 by InMotion Hosting Google featured snippets are special boxes of selected information that are featured below ads and above search engine results when performing a Google search. This information provides one definitive answer that Google believes to be the best fit for a specific question or query. Continue reading –>
SEO For Beginners – A Comprehensive Guide Updated on June 19, 2025 by InMotion Hosting Want to DIY your SEO? Don’t worry, it’s not as hard as you might think. In fact, you can get the same results that the pros do, right from the comfort of your living room – if you know what you’re doing. Continue reading –>