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…
SEO in 2017 and Beyond: The Numbers Game
So what did we learn about SEO in 2016 that we can carry over into the New Year and improve our SERP positioning? We learned numbers! Lots of numbers!
I think that the most interesting statistics this year (and even from previous years) center…
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…
Top 8 Mobile Website Shopping Problems According to Consumers
A recent study done by Bizrate Insights uncovers the top problems consumers experience when mobile website shopping, ie; shopping online from their mobile device.
Almost all of these mobile website shopping problems relate to usability. Does…
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.…
Are Mobile Fanatics Finding Your Business in Local Search?
Mobile fanatics make up 40% of the US smartphone population. You may even be a mobile fanatic.
Mobile fanatics are people who do at least 10 searches per week on at least two devices from multiple locations. Maybe you are watching TV with…
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…
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…
6 Reasons You Can’t Survive Without a Mobile Site
An interesting set of new statistics came across my desk that confirms you absolutely must have a very user friendly mobile version of your website.
Mobile nears two-thirds of time spent online by 18-24 year olds (source).
As the up and…
78% of Local Searches Result in This
Never underestimate the power of local search.
The recent 2014 Local Search Study by Neustar Localeze and 15miles suggests that between 61 and 78% of local searches result in a purchase, depending on what type of device the person was searching…
New Mobile Traffic Stats: 1 in 3 Google Searches Now Mobile
Late last week RKG released the latest mobile traffic trends in their quarterly digital marketing report which show website traffic stats for Organic search visits in the last quarter of 2013.
Mobile Website Traffic Statistics by Search Engine
The…
