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Happy Holidays

Trees for Everybody! Happy Holidays from Jtree!

It’s that time of the year again… the time for singing loud for all to hear!

This year, we wanted to give a gift that gives back in the theme of the holiday spirit.

As a result, we teamed up with the Arbor Day Foundation in order to plant over 40 trees for our partners and clients.

Why? Aside from the fact that trees are awesome, there’s this:

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. – John Muir

Happy Holidays from your friends at Jtree SEO!

Arbor Day Holiday

Google Mobile Speed Test

Make Sure Your Website Passes This Google Mobile-Friendly Test

Test Mobile-Friendliness and Site Speed with 3 Tools from Google

A fast loading website just isn’t enough these days unless it is mobile-friendly. The three tools below are provided by Google and were developed in order to test website speed and mobile-friendliness. The first tool is especially important, websites that don’t pass this test are not treated as mobile-friendly in the eyes of Google. The other tools have been included because they provide expanded insight about how to increase site speed and imporove mobile-friendliness.

1. Google Search Console Mobile-Friendly Test

Google Mobile-Friendly Test

Tests your website to see if it meets Google’s criteria for mobile-friendly and provides details about page loading issues and site-wide usability.

Why it’s important: Mobile-friendliness is a weighted organic search engine ranking signal. If your site doesn’t pass this test it will not be treated as mobile-friendly nor will it benefit from the added signal weight.

Launch Test

 

2. Google Developers PageSpeed Test

Google Page Speed Test

Tests page speed in order to provide relevant optimization suggestions and assigns a speed score out of 100 to both mobile and desktop versions of your website.

Why it’s important: Gives options about how to speed-up both mobile and desktop versions of your website.

Launch Test

 

3. Think with Google Mobile Speed Test

Google Mobile Speed Test

Tests the speed of your mobile website and plots the results on an industry comparison speed graph. Provides top fixes and an option to receive a report.

Why it’s important: Shows gain/loss mobile speed estimates and top fixes.

Launch Test

Jtree is based in Boise and Portland and has assisted companies throughout the nation with increasing site speed and maintaining mobile-friendliness. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Jtree Holiday Cheer Gift Boxes

Jtree Holiday Gift Boxes En-route!

Jtree Clients, Partners and Friends – Check Your Snail Mail!

Here’s a sneak peek of the holiday cheer we just shipped:


Jtree Holiday LogoFeeling a little left out? No worries, friend! You, too, can Jtree! Companies and agencies contact us here.

A HUGE shout out to all of our supporters, we wouldn’t be moving towards year 8 without you! Happy Holidays! – Team Jtree

Google Trends SEO Interest

Google Trends: Interest in SEO at 4 Year High

SEO Interest Highest Since March 2012

Google Trends SEO Interest

We often monitor Google Trends for interest sentient with regard to a number of different searches and sources. Upon revisiting data from our popular SEO vs PPC vs Social Media post we noticed that search interest in SEO was at a 4 year high.

Take a Closer Look: View the Google Trends Graph