The much-coveted featured snippet, often referred to as “position zero” still exists, but it is now essentially position #1 on the page. In a recent change that has been confirmed by Google (see below Twitter exchange between Moz’s Pete Meyers and Google’s Danny Sullivan), a search result that appears in the featured snippet will no [...]
In 2018, Google introduced a Products and Services section for Google Business Listings. Since then, it has split the two – initially offering a Services section and more recently rolling out a beta version of the Products section. We started noticing “Products (beta)” in the Google Business Listing dashboard of some clients earlier this [...]
Back in the early days of search engine optimization, some overly opportunistic parties took advantage of then-current data showing a positive correlation between the number of backlinks and Google ranking. This gave rise to automated link building, link farms, links for sale and all sorts of other spammy scenarios and gave SEO, in general, a [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Google is gradually rolling out a search queries report for local businesses as part Google My Business Insights. This was originally reported by Search Engine Land in early July, and we now see queries for nearly half of our local business clients. To see if the this change has been rolled out for your business, [...]
Since launching AdWords nearly two decades ago with just 350 advertisers, a lot has changed. In 2000, online searches were conducted exclusively on desktop, and now those searches are more likely to occur on a mobile device. In addition, today’s online users are more agile - jumping effortlessly from watching videos to making online transactions, [...]
With the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) in effect as of May 25, 2018 there’s been a fair amount of press around this new regulation. GDPR gives European residents more control over how their personal data is collected and used online. Any company that conducts business within the EU must understand and comply with this [...]
Google’s Danny Sullivan stated that Google was not targeting low quality websites and confirmed there is nothing wrong to fix in sites that lose rankings. This is not targeting based on quality, but based on relevance. In other words, Google is doing their job. Here is the text of Google’s announcement: “Each day, Google usually releases [...]
