Updated for February 2021 – The Best of Social Media & SEO

Welcome to the winter edition, of what is now becoming a monthly roundup of what I consider to be some of the best SEO and internet marketing article. Without much ado, here are some of the most exciting and informative articles I came across during the month of February 2019.

“Top landing Page Creators on the Market for Each and Every Business Model” by John on onlineprofits blog.

The Best Landing Page Builders:

Instapage
GetResponse
Hubspot
ClickFunnels

“5 Types of Content E-commerce Businesses Can Use to Boost Sales” by Louisa Atto on canirank blog.

Case Studies
How-to Articles
Buying Guides
Testimonials
Research Studies

“20+ Website Load Time Statistics [Infographic – How Speed Affects Your Website]” by Nick Galov on hostingtribunal blog.

Average Page Load Time in 2017

1-3 seconds load time increase the bounce rate probability by 32%
1-5 seconds load time increase the bounce rate probability by 90%
1-6 seconds load time increase the bounce rate probability by 106%
1-10 seconds load time increase the bounce rate probability by 123%

“404 Sitemaps To Remove Them In The New Google Search Console” by Barry Schwartz on SE Round Table.

https://twitter.com/seocounseling/status/1090723513512718337

“Page Speed Optimization: Metrics, Tools, and How to Improve” by Britney Muller on Moz blog.

Issues that could be slowing down your site:

First and foremost is images. Large images are the biggest culprit of slow loading web pages.
Hosting can cause issues.
Plugins, apps, and widgets, basically any third-party script as well can slow down load time.
Your theme and any large files beyond that can really slow things down as well.
Redirects, the number of hops needed to get to a web page will slow things down.
Then JavaScript, which we’ll get into in a second.

“How to Start a Blog That Makes Money in 12 Easy Steps — The Complete Beginner’s Guide” by Lars Lofgren on Quick Sprout blog.