Pop-ups Affect SEO, Measure Instagram Hashtag Performance, Must-Dos For SEO Beginners, Speedlink 18:2017

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great and productive week.

Have you thought about what your pop-ups might be doing to your SEO? There are plenty of considerations, from their timing and how they affect your engagement rates, all the way to Google’s official guidelines on the matter.

In Rand’s Whiteboard Friday video below, he goes over all the reasons why you ought to carefully consider how your overlays and modals work and whether the gains are worth the sacrifice.

Pop-Ups, Overlays, Modals, Interstitials, and How They Interact with SEO

5 Tools to Measure Instagram Hashtag Performance

Do you use hashtags in your Instagram posts? Wondering which hashtags resonate best with your target audience? Choosing the right tool to analyze Instagram hashtag performance makes it easier to achieve your goals.

#1: Command Analytics & Stats for Instagram
#2: Sprout Social
#3: Simply Measured
and more…

In this article, you’ll discover five tools to evaluate the performance of your Instagram hashtags.

5 must-dos for SEO beginners

If you’re new to SEO, or if it isn’t your primary focus, you might be neglecting tactics that will really move the needle. SearchEngineLand.com outlines 5 things you should be doing and shares tools to help you accomplish these tasks.

#Keyword grouping
#Page change monitoring
#Competitor SEO research
and more…

With that said, here are some of the significant — but sometimes forgotten — levers you can pull to enhance your SEO efficiency.

And as usual, in no particular order: