When Google announced the phasing out of Google+ listings, we recommended ensuring that your company’s Google Business listing was fully optimized and utilizing the “create a post” feature to share news or events. In early 2018, we started noticing event listings from various sites being promoted in Google Business listings. We’ve continued to advocate the [...]
Mary Meeker, sometimes referred to as “Queen of the Net”, started publishing an annual Internet trends report in 1995 while at Morgan Stanley. Today, she is a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The just-released 2019 Internet Trends report has a number of interesting takeaways. Among the insights is a graph [...]
Google Advanced Search Commands enable a user to make a search query more precise. As we’ll show below, they can also be useful for SEO work. The list of available options has evolved over time, with Google occasionally dropping a search operator and introducing others. Most recently, Google replaced the sort by date feature in [...]
Automated advertising campaigns certainly aren’t new. Google launched Universal App Campaign in 2015 and then rolled out Smart Campaigns last year along with the rebranding from AdWords. Smart Campaigns automates audience targeting and also Ad creation (the advertiser supplies a few images). Smart campaigns are especially attractive to small businesses because they are easy to [...]
Realizing that visual content sells, Google Ads is incorporating its Shoppable Ads into Google Images search results. This a familiar concept to consumers who frequent Pinterest or Instagram or Houzz - various products in the ad will be “tagged” so that the brand and price will be displayed when a user hovers over the image. [...]
For several years, Google has categorized local businesses into broad categories: brick-and-mortar businesses which customers regularly visit (e.g. a retail store, restaurant, etc.) and service area businesses (SABs) in which the business owner or employees visit customers or clients (e.g. electrician, lawn service, etc.). Lost in this rigid categorization are the “hybrid” businesses which may [...]
Is Google+ still worth it? Do I still need a Google Plus listing? Is Google Plus going away? For several years, we heard a version of those questions fairly frequently. Then, in October 2018, Google announced that Google+ would gradually be phased out by August 2019. After a security breach was disclosed in December [...]
Moz has announced the development of Domain Authority 2.0, to be introduced in March 2019. Originally introduced around a decade ago by Moz, Domain Authority (DA) has become one of the most important metrics for SEO practitioners. Based on a 100-point scale (with 100 being the best), Domain Authority is a predictor of how well [...]
How do you determine what topics to write about and what types of content to produce for your website? To effectively drive website performance, we recommend leveraging data to assess your most successful content and determine what future content will resonate best with your target audience. Experiment With Different Strategies There’s no reason to approach [...]
Although this news was hinted at during Google I/O 2018, the official announcement came out at the recent CES 2019 show in Las Vegas: Google Assistant is now available in the Google Maps app for both iOS and Android. This means that it’s available on Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and also other new car [...]
