The Hive Digital Blog

Take-Aways from AMA with John Mueller on /r/TechSEO

John Mueller of Google participated in an AMA on /r/TechSEO, and gave some great information and tips regarding technical SEO. This is a roundup of ...

Troubleshooting Screaming Frog’s Memory Allocation

John Gibbings

For months, I have been wracking my brain trying to find a workaround for a bug that I’ve found in Screaming Frog’s Memory Allocation settings. ...

Backlink Monitoring: A How-to Guide

In the post-Penguin era of search engine optimization, backlinks are still the backbone of a well-ranked website. Many webmasters have had their encounters with bad ...

Can You Keep Historical GSC Data After Losing GTM Verification

John Gibbings

Spammy Structured Markup Penalty Removal

A spammy structured markup penalty will be levied against a website that violates Google’s structured data guidelines. We have created a helpful guide that will ...

Site Audit with SEMRush SEO Audit Tool

Last week I had the privilege of being invited by SEMRush to perform a live site audit using the SEMRush platform. In case you missed ...

Benefits of Evergreen Content

The root system of a website would be the service pages & unique selling points (USP), which breathe life into all parts of the website through ...

Panda Risk

After careful consideration, we've decided to decommission PandaRisk.com as a self-serve tool, and give away the insights! The Google Panda update targets low-quality websites identified ...

5 Quick Reminders When Changing URL Structures and Migrating Sites

I’m often asked to provide some quick advice for clients that are changing site structure, and there are a few things (other than the normal ...

Canonical Attachments in WordPress

While working on a client project, I realized they had a significant number of PDF files that they had uploaded into wordpress, and this was ...

TWIL: Expires Headers in .htaccess for Fonts and Images

Google Updated Penguin, Finally

The Penguin algorithm has been part of the lives of online marketers since early 2012 when the first iteration was unleashed and decimated an industry ...