Sam Gooch

Biography

Sam Gooch has over 10 years of experience in both in-house & agency Digital Marketing roles across a range of industries. Sam is the Head of Technical SEO at WooRank.

Published articles:

Free SSL Certificate: Wordpress Guide to Going Secure

Acquiring an SSL certificate has never been more important, but it doesn't have to cost you a penny to implement. Follow this step-by-step guide for a free SSL certificate.

Google's Latest Core Algorithm Update: What We Know

What is Google's Broad Core Algorithm update? Learn what it means, how it's impacting the web and what everyone else is saying about it.

WooRank Keyword Tool Update

WooRank has made an update to the Keyword Tool, providing a new Positions Spread to show keyword position distribution across all keywords in a project.

Google Increases Pressure to Secure Your Site

Time has run out of HTTP: Chrome will now be marking all HTTP sites as “not secure”, making it more important than ever to take the leap to https.

Pogosticking is NOT a Ranking Signal for Google

Long though to be a negative ranking signal, it turns out the user behavior known as "pogo-sticking" is not used by Google to rank pages in search results. What does this mean for SEO?

Google's Speed Update has arrived!

Google has introduced its new Speed Update algorithm. We go over what the speed update is, what it means and what you can do to get ready for it.

Robots and You: A Guide to Robots.txt

Robots.txt is an important technical SEO element. Learn how to create, optimize and test your file in our in-depth robots.txt guide.

SEO Hacks for Developers

We’ve put together five quick and easy hacks for developers to give SEO a jump start and get websites into search results.

Negative SEO: How to Identify, Fix and Prevent an Attack

What is negative SEO? Are you vulnerable? What steps can you take to prevent it? Learn to prevent, identify and fix negative SEO attacks.

Google Treats Hreflang in Sitemaps and HTML the Same

In a recent Twitter exchange, John Mueller informed us that Google sees and processes hreflang tags in sitemaps and page HTML the same way. What doe that mean for SEO?

Google: GDPR Compliance is No Excuse for Intrusive Popups

During a Google Webmaster Central hangout, John Mueller explained how Google handles all those GDPR compliance updates and how to avoid penalties for intrusive interstitials.

Google Changes Search Snippet Length Yet Again

Just 5 months after increasing snippet length, Google has reversed course. Average snippet length is back to 160 characters, but still more change could be coming.

5 Technical SEO Traps to Dodge

5 commonly overlooked issues with technical SEO that could be holding your site's ranking performance back.

Someone Could Steal Your Link Juice Without You Knowing!

Tom Anthony from Distilled discovered that Google Search Console's sitemap ping URL followed open redirect URLs, allowing him to use hreflang tags to steal a website's ranking power.

What's the SSL Apocalypse and How Can You Avoid It?

Google Chrome will stop trusting Symantec SSL/TLS certificates issued before June 1, 2016 or after December 1, 2017. Check if your certificate falls in that range and avoid the potential fallout!

Sam Gooch

Biography

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