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The increasing relevance of mobile website optimisation has received a further boost this year. On everyone’s lips since 2016, Google officially announced the first roll-out for the switch to the mobile-first index in March 2018. But what does this mean in concrete terms for individual webmasters? What needs to be...
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Google's Mobile First Index

Porträt von Markus Kilius
Markus Killius
29. June 2018
3 min reading time
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    Holistic content - what is important?

    Porträt von Tim Kallenbach
    Tim Kallenbach
    22. June 2018
    2 min reading time

    Holistic content refers to the grouping of several keywords on one topic and the resulting landing page or text. This means that similar topics are grouped together and dealt with extensively and in detail on one page. Instead of creating a separate page for each individual keyword, one page is...

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    Featured Snippets - Are you already ranking at position 0 in Google search?

    Porträt von Roman Swoboda
    Roman Swoboda
    21. June 2018
    2 min reading time

    Featured snippets are highlighted snippets or info boxes that give the search engine user a direct answer to their search query and are displayed before the organic search results. Users are shown the answer directly without having to click on a search result. Google uses content from other sites and...

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    Top 5 free SEO tools

    Porträt von Elias Hildebrand
    Elias Hildebrand
    11. June 2018
    3 min reading time

    With the Google Search Console, formerly Google Webmaster Tools, you are informed directly by Google about the quality of your own website. Among other things, information on 404 errors, crawling status and blocked resources is displayed here. You also get an overview of the number of clicks, impressions and positions...

With its latest newsfeed update, Facebook has named Meaningful Interactions as the most important currency for increasing reach. The idea behind this is that it is no longer so important how many people are simply reached, but how many people react to the post – in other words, how many...
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Meaningful interactions - what's behind them?

Porträt von Markus Kilius
Markus Killius
01. June 2018
< 1 min reading time
The schalk&friends team, together with colleagues from strategy, programming, consulting, search engine optimisation and UX, has once again analysed the most important digital trends for this year. And these are the eleven digital trends – from AMP to voice search:
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The top 11 digital trends of 2018: what will be important this year

Porträt von Elias Hildebrand
Elias Hildebrand
15. March 2018
9 min reading time
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    Voice Search

    Porträt von Roman Swoboda
    Roman Swoboda
    06. October 2017
    3 min reading time

    Voice search is on the rise. It is used to easily query topics, questions and keywords and obtain corresponding search results. Voice search is not only possible via smartphone and tablet, but also via desktop PC. All you need is a Google Chrome extension and voice search can also be...

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    Onpage analysis with the Website Checker

    Porträt von Roman Swoboda
    Roman Swoboda
    25. May 2017
    4 min reading time

    Regardless of whether website visitors want to buy a product, book a service or find out more about a topic: holistic and detailed content in the form of text, images and videos is relevant for every page.

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    Baidu

    Porträt von Tim Kallenbach
    Tim Kallenbach
    05. May 2017
    3 min reading time

    Baidu is the most widely used search engine in China. While Google is the number one search engine in the USA and Europe, the Baidu search engine dominates the search engine market in China. Companies that operate a website for the Chinese market should work according to the rules for...

The schalk&friends newsroom is the website’s digital content hub that brings together all the news. Clearly presented, it provides an overview of all the content that you regularly publish. The editors have no extra work. Our product offers interfaces to all relevant social media networks and blog engines. This means...
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Newsroom

Porträt von Roman Swoboda
Roman Freedom
11. April 2017
1 min reading time