Meet new Domain Competitors and Topic Competitors features in Rank Tracker. Now you can easily find out who you compete with across the whole topic or niche.

Let's admit to each other, all personal and professional differences aside, when we visit any website, we expect everything to be intuitive and logical.

What makes it possible is an efficient site structure geared towards better user experience and unhampered search engine crawling.

Well, your business has grown enough to expand the boundaries or, probably, you're starting as a global business or service provider. So you came to the idea of creating language/country-based versions of your website to target users in the new markets. A daunting task that will make you look closer at international markets and dive into all things international SEO.

A daunting task I said, but in fact not that daunting, if you gear up and have a plan. But let's do things in the right order.

Custom Search is a great feature in SEO PowerSuite's WebSite Auditor that can power your technical SEO activities saving you tons of time on many tasks that used to take hours.

To help you make the most of Custom Search, I've put together some handy examples on how we use it at SEO PowerSuite — and how you can use it, too, for SEO, content marketing, and way beyond.

Search is very competitive. For each query that a user enters into a search bar, the search engines come up with a huge number of results. This means that unless you sell socks hand-made by Argentinian mountain monks, it's more than likely that there are businesses offering a similar product or service to you. In order to beat the competition, you can't go without competitive analysis.

When done properly, it gives loads of insights into the competitor's strengths and weaknesses that you can both learn from, and take advantage of. However, competitive analysis often seems complicated to those with little SEO experience. Below, I describe it in the form of a simple step-by-step guide, aimed first and foremost at beginners.

We’re happy to announce these new features released in Rank Tracker:

- Find the keywords any URL ranks for.
- Compare exact URLs in Keyword Gap.
- View ranks in Keyword Map.
- Get keyword ideas with ‘People Also Ask’.
- Enjoy improved Search Console integration.

Read more about these (and a few more!) updates in our release guide and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

Ryazan Duray-Tristram, the owner of an award-winning travel and photography blog, shares actionable tips and strategies on how to build a successful travel blog.

Getting involved in the blogging scene, gave Ryazan loads of different opportunity working with the various budget and luxury brands in the tourism and hospitality sector around the globe. Ryazan's work has been featured in various media and publication including Huffington Post, Lonely Planet, Discovery Channel, Reader's Digest and many more. Everything Zany is also one of the 2018 finalists for UK Blog Awards for Travel and Photography categories.

Back in 2017, Google Lens and Pinterest Lens were launched. Around the same time, ASOS Style Match application was brought to life. Differing in the offered functionality, those apps had a major common feature. They allowed users to snap or upload an image of an object and get the info about it or recommendations on similar objects.

All those apps played a bet on visual search. And it appeared to be something people have long anticipated. Bing, Amazon, eBay, and dozens of smaller companies joined the club bringing consumers' experience to a new level. So probably, it's high time to keep an eye on visual search.

Before Google introduced RankBrain, semantic search and all things machine learning, the life of SEOs seemed to be easier. Now we are exposed to a flood of speculative information from industry influencers. To make things worse, Google's spokespersons share obscure bits of information about the quality signals and repeat the "Content is king" mantra. Is there a way to tell assumptions from real facts about the algorithms? The answer is "yes". There are two fields of computer science, which are natural language processing and information retrieval, that address a huge set of problems related to SEO. There exist well-documented algorithms for text classification and retrieval of relevant documents in response to a user query. No guess-work – just pure science.

Jill Caren, an SEO consultant and the founder of 2 Dogs Media, shares her experience with WebSite Auditor. She decided to put the tool through a test with one of her posts to see if it could help improve its rank. This test was specifically targeted at WebSite Auditor's content analysis tools. The result was just amazing!

Meet a much-anticipated keyword gap feature in Rank Tracker. A no-brainer competitive research tool to identify new keyword opportunities.

It's hard to doubt that in 2019 links still have a massive influence on rankings. But even though it's a well-known fact, a lot of small business owners still underestimate and even deny the power of link building. The truth is, links define the authority of your webpages and domain— the two factors that Google considers when ranking pages. So if you don't want to kiss your rankings goodbye, make sure to invest your time and effort in quality link building.

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are used across almost every industry to measure how well something is or isn't working. In SEO, you can use KPIs to identify how efficient your campaigns and strategies are. In today's article, I'll be covering which KPIs to watch for different aspects of SEO. Some handy tools and how-tos that can help make the process both easy and effective are also included. If you're struggling with matching your SEO results with your real business goals, then this post is for you.

As time changes and new technologies evolve, user experience also becomes different. This includes the way people search the web for information, make reservations, orders, purchases, etc. Smartphones have changed user behavior. The search focus has shifted to local and user expectations to getting faster (even immediate) results. Now, technology's moving further offering people voice and digital help. Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant, and others — voice assistants are bringing user experience to a new level.

Search volumes & competition stats are now delivered instantly, without connecting to Google Ads or any other data sources.

Evgeniy Nosov, an SEO with 7+ years of experience, shares his approach to content optimization and some best practices he's elaborated during the years of his work. How to search for keywords and how to use them wisely on your page? How to understand what to write about by analyzing SERPs? How to ensure your copy is relevant enough? Read more to learn the answers.

Google's PageRank score is not visible, but it's still a part of the ranking mechanism. To prove that, we took one of the PageRank alternatives and ran an experiment to test the correlation between its scores and search engine positions. Read on to view the results.

TF-IDF is something we've been hearing about for quite a while in our SEO universe, but in truth, it's rarely implemented in the optimization process. Some people think it's too complicated, and they don't want to bother with digging into its specifics. Some consider TF-IDF a form of keyword density and want to steer clear from it. What if I say I can change your mind?

In this case study, you'll find out how Liraz Postan, an SEO geek and content expert, managed to drastically improve visibility and increased clicks by 300% for a relatively new website. The uplift was instant — just 14 days of actual optimizations.

Just like most Google algorithm updates, RankBrain is shrouded in mystery. It has been 4 years since it went live in October 2015, but the subject is still surrounded by a lot of buzz and controversy. But the truth is, RankBrain is one of the most essential parts of Google's core algorithm and the only machine learning system it uses at the moment.

So in this article, you'll receive answers to the most frequently asked questions, including how RankBrain actually works, how it changed SEO, and how to optimize for it.