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September 2014

Automatic Item Updates for Merchants in Adwords

Google has set in motion an “automatic item updates” in Adwords to help retailers maintain a consistent visibility in PLAs. It wasn’t until recently Google has disapproved PLA’s when there has been price or inventory variances between the microdata and the product feed on retailer’s websites. Google is substituting disapproving ads with price and inventory …

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Google Hands Out Penalties to Sites Using PBNs

Google has reportedly handed out penalties to sites using PBNs, penalizing them for “thin” content.  What is a PBN? PBN stands for private blog network.  Private blog networks are a group of blogs or websites that are all controlled by one publisher. The name is a little misleading because they aren’t actually private. People can …

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How to avoid future hits after recovering from Pandas Penalties?

Being penalized by Panda can be detrimental to a website’s traffic. Experiencing a major drop in organic traffic from Google can lead to a company losing a substantial amount of money. Once your site recovers from a penalty you must make sure it doesn’t happen again. Here are a few steps to make sure you …

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Bing Announces Ad Campaign Planner

Bing has announced the arrival of Campaign Planner, a supplemental resource for planning and managing paid ad campaigns. Much like Google’s AdWords, Campaign Manager will bring Bing Ads users a variety of useful info, including search traffic trending and forecasting data, industry benchmarks and competitor performance, and keyword suggestions. One important caveat is that data can be …

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Google Receives Patent Allowing Watching Habits to Affect Search Results

Google now uses many different factors in their algorithm to determine page rank. They take into account, geographic area, search history & much more. Google has just received a patent that will allow them to use people’s television watching habits to determine page rank. This is how it would work. A person would make a …

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Why Should I Want My Website to be ‘Crawled?’

No crawl, no index. Our sole purpose of launching a fully optimized website is to get that website found, respectfully, on page one of search engine sites like Google, Yahoo and Bing. If you want your website to drive organic search visits and sales, then you must make sure that your website is crawlable and …

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How to Change an Incorrect Google Places Business Address

If you move your physical business to a new location, you need to change your address on your Google Places page so that your local search results are not affected. To do this, first make the edit on the Google Places page. You will get a message notifying you that the change is being processed …

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