Are Your Summer Hours Correct in Google Plus?
As the mercury on the thermometer keeps rising and the sun sets late into the evening more than 25% of small business changes their hours during summer months. Are you one of them?
If so you have probably already updated these hours on your…
Bing to Encrypt Search Queries Starting This Summer
Bing has recently announced that they will now encrypt search traffic by default starting sometime this summer. This comes from a commitment to help keep data safe and secure, and following the industry’s general move to use TLS protocols.…
What is a Spammy Website? Have You Done a Website Spam Check Lately?
When was the last time you conducted a website spam check on your website?
Recently, Open Site Explorer released a new Spam Score Metric as a way to evaluate your backlink profile and measure penalization risk for unnatural backlinks.
Most…
Google Algorithm Quality Update – May 2015
Google recently confirmed that it indeed changed its algorithm earlier this month.
Many website owners and SEO’s started noticing changes in rankings in early May although Google kept saying there were no updates. Some were even calling…
Google Webmaster Tools Now Called Google Search Console
Google is making some big changes lately including rebranding Google Webmaster Tools to Google Search Console this morning.
For the last ten years Webmasters, website owners, SEOs, programmers, designers and others have been using this…
Bing Claims 20 Percent Search Market Share in 2015
The latest numbers by comScore are out and Bing search percent has officially hit the 20% market share in the US:
Entity
Share % (March 2015)
Google Sites
64.4%
Microsoft Sites (Bing)
20.1%
Yahoo Sites
12.7%
Ask…
How Higher Click Through Rates Help Maintain Your Higher Rankings
Once your site achieves a first page search engine ranking, your listings’ click through rate plays an important factor in whether it will remain there. Once you learn how to increase your click through rate it will not only help you keep…
Google Mobile Search Algorithm to Update April 21, 2015
This is the first time in the history of Google that we can remember them giving official notice of an upcoming algorithm update and telling Webmasters the exact date the algorithm will go live!
In the Google Mobile Algorithm announcement…
Stay Up To Date with All the New Features in Google AdWords
Last week Google released a new helpful AdWords resources in their Help Center to keep you informed on all the new AdWords updates and tools and to help you understand how they work.
Check out the official Features of Google AdWords page…
Prepare for a Potential Google Mobile Algorithm
The above warning in a recent Search Engine Land article titled Is Your Local Site Mobile Friendly? Should It Be? caught my attention. Would your website be ready if a Google mobile algorithm update was released today?
On our blog we have…
Google Sends Notices to Webmasters With Sites That Are Not Mobile Friendly
Google has made two strong moves towards encouraging (or gently forcing) all webmasters to become more Mobile Friendly. Could this mean Google is launching a new mobile algorithm update soon?
The first move was in November 2014 when Google…
Will You Adapt and Evolve With Google?
Are you constantly looking for ways of improving SEO for your business?
Do you ever read an article where you find yourself thinking, “I couldn’t have said it better”?
This Search Engine Land article written by Trond Lyngbø (Head…
