Understanding Crawl Budgets and How to Increase Your Website Crawl Budget with Google
Google admitted in their Webmaster Central Blog on January 16, 2017, that they don’t have an official “crawl budget definition”, indicating that a single term would not suffice. They went on to indicate that they would clarify what they…
SEO Voice Search
There has been a lot of discussion in the past few years about SEO voice search and how it has been changing SEO in many ways. I tend to agree. I also suggest that the acoustic nature of voice search will hasten the development of new ways…
Is Your Website Being Marked as Not Secure in Chrome?
The Chrome 56 Update
Google has taken a very strong stance on website security over the last couple years and very soon its latest update, Google Chrome 56, will hit the web.
Set to release sometime late January 2017, the new Google Chrome…
Your Guide to the Google Interstitial Ads Penalty Update
We’ve all seen them. The annoying popup ad layered over the page of a website which prevents us from reading the content after we’ve followed a link on our mobile device.
Google has decided that these interstitial mobile ads are intruding…
Voice Activated SEO Strategy for Google Home Device
Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by Google Assistant. You can ask it questions or tell it to do things, much like the Google Search function on your computer or phone, but in a hands free speaker version.
As Google’s entry…
What Does it Take to Rank #1 on Google?
According to marketing consultant Mathew Barby in his recent article How to Rank Number One in Google: A Study of 1 Million Pages, some of the most common elements of top ranking websites in Google are:
Backlinks
Anchor text
Page…
3 Ways Featured Snippets in Search Can Boost Your Website Traffic
Those rectangular boxes are at the top of a search engine results (SERP) page are called Featured Snippets. How can you get your website's information to appear in them. To get your website to appear there you need to have the most relevant…
Google Mobile Search Algorithm to Update May 2016
https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly?utm_source=mft&utm_medium=redirect&utm_campaign=mft-redirectOver the years we have talked quite about Mobile Search here on our blog including this post about the Google Mobile Update on…
What is the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project and Why Is It All the Rage in the SEO Community?
Clunky. Slow. Frustrating.
These are the exact mobile web browsing issues that the Google-led Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project has worked rapidly in the last three and a half months to solve once and for all.
Rising to the challenge…
SEO News and Google Updates – September 2015
Here’s what’s making news in the SEO community in the last several weeks.
Google Says HTTPS Sites May Get Ranking Boost
In a hangout this month between Bruce Clay and Gary Illyes of Google, Illyes reconfirmed that Google’s HTTPS ranking…
What You Need to Know About Google’s New Local 3 Pack
It has been almost one month since Google replaced its “Local 7 Pack” results with its new “Local 3 Pack” results.
This means that searchers only see three businesses listed in the local map results. We briefly explain…
SEO News and Google Updates – August 2015
Here’s what making news in the SEO community in the last couple of weeks.
Moz Ranking Factors Preview
Moz is getting ready to publish its latest set of Search Engine Ranking Factors and gave author Eric Enge early access to some of the data.…
