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 [...]
As a business owner, you've got a unique opportunity to use Google Reviews to interact with your customers. Whether you’re thanking a customer for their wonderful five star review, or acknowledging a customer who had a bad experience, Google Reviews are a critical piece of your business’ online presence. In order to respond, you'll either [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In Summary: Re-optimizing for SEO is taking well performing content and improving it to perform even better in search results. You simply review which content is doing well and make improvements including metadata, content, keywords and relevance. You can even implement new keywords where appropriate. So you wrote a blog post, and it’s getting some [...]
As was recently reported in Search Engine Journal, Google has launched a beta version of a website grader tool - called Lighthouse, and it is currently available at web.dev. The tool is designed to provide insights into aspects of the site that are directly related to user experience: SEO, performance, accessibility and best practices. How [...]
For local or regional businesses, hosting community-based events or activities can be beneficial for reaching new audiences. Additionally, the online promotion of these events can be a vehicle to raise awareness and increase site visits. As an added benefit, we’ve also seen the consistent promotion of hyper-local events contribute to increases in local rankings for [...]
Websites need good content as often as humanly possible. Content fuels your entire SEO plan. Good content drives visitors to your website, improves search engine rankings, helps get more high-quality backlinks, and increases business growth. What if you are too crunched for time to create content regularly? Or what if you don’t have any good [...]
