In a tweet yesterday, Google announced that it would be adding account level sitelinks to Google AdWords. Normally, Google’s mysterious algorithms would only show your sitelinks underneath an organic search result, when it thought it was relevant to the user’s search. Now they will also begin appearing in any of the ads in your account. …
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Android users have been waiting for this since Apple launched Spotlight a while ago, allowing users to search for contacts, photos, and videos, across apps like Gmail, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Google will add support for more apps like Facebook Messenger, LinkedIn, and Evernote in the future, so users can look for information with keywords. …
SEO tasks can sometimes seem redundant due to all of the maintenance work it entails to ensure your site is up to par. For those of you who wish you could find a way to check for your SEO efforts efficiently, we have your answer. Google Chrome provides tools that can help assist you in checking …
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According to Mike Blumenthal, Google has updated their local reviews guidelines regarding when schema markup on reviews can be used. Please see below for the new guideline: Snippets can only be written by the content provider or business if they are genuine and unpaid reviews. Customers must be able to write both positive and negative …
Last week, Google announced that they were going to institute a penalty geared towards curbing the use of intrusive interstitials, or pop-ups, on mobile pages. While it was clear that Google’s new algorithm update, due to launch in January 2017, was certainly going to affect individual pages, it was unclear whether or not it would penalize …
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Everybody is looking at optimizing their website the best way possible and this includes looking for more tools and tips to help with the process. With the help of some Google Chrome extensions, you can increase your efficiency within daily SEO tasks. These extensions can help save you time and allow your work load run …
Link building is still important for organic SEO, and getting the proper links back to your site can make or break your organic rankings. But building links back to your site can be a difficult process, especially if you are just starting out. Here are a few tips on how to get started on building links …
With Google AdWord’s new extended text ads, you now have more room for your ad on the SERP’s. Recently, the headline went from one 25 character line, to two 30 character lines, and the description went from two 35 character lines, to one consolidated 80 character line. With much more space available for headlines and …
Yelp and Google Reviews are generally seen as the two most important review aggregate sites for businesses. The two sites don’t allow business owners to remove reviews, making it so each business’ score has an element of authenticity to it. Of course, these scores can still be manipulated by business owners, but not to the extent …
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Since launching in 2010, Instagram has grown to be one of the most downloaded apps on the Apple App store and has grown their community of over 500 million users. This comes as no surprise to the many people who use this app every day, but what does this mean for marketers? If you are a …
Unfortunately, the hacking of your WordPress website is inevitable for business owners. In the event that your website does get hacked, we have some steps you should take after the fact! In most cases, some of these steps can even be done before. Once your website has been hacked, the first thing you should do …
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Google is raising the minimum for Seller Rating extensions to display in Adwords ads. No longer will businesses have to accumulate 30 reviews of their business, as they must now have at least 150 reviews in the past year. This update has not been finalized yet online, but when it does it will promote smaller …
If you have checked your Google My Business Insights lately, you may have noticed that it has changed! On Tuesday August 9th, Google announced that they updated the Google My Business Insights feature. The feature helps business owners view how people find and interact with their Google local listing in an analytics setting. The updated feature …
Two weeks ago when Google announced that they were limiting Keyword Planner Data through AdWords, users were not sure what they could expect for all of their accounts. In 2013, Google updated and launched the Keyword Planner to include traffic estimation, and only allowed users access to the tool through AdWords. For SEO reps and …
Yesterday was a very important birthday. 25 years ago on August 23rd, the World Wide Web was introduced to the masses. Designed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web became royalty-free forever in 1993 when CERN declared that no individual should be denied access to the wonders of this new technology. The page that started …
Google stated today that they are getting rid of the mobile-friendly label that is showed in search results. So no need to fret if you don’t see the mobile-friendly label on your site! Also, Google removing the mobile-friendly label does not mean that the mobile-friendly algorithm is dead. They decided to make the change to …
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Google has recently announced that it will now be focusing on intrusive interstitials on mobile web pages. The reasoning behind it is that this form of ads can be difficult and bothersome for those using mobile devices. An interstitial is a pop-up ad or full page ad that impedes you from accurately being able to …
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Google Trends is a tool based on Google Search that shows how frequent a specific search-term is entered in correlation to the total search-volume across various areas of the world, and in different languages. Earlier this month, Google Trends launched a new interface, along with several new features to improve the functionality of the Explore …
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What is a Meta Description? The “official” definition given by Moz is “HTML attributes that provide concise explanations of the contents of web pages.” Someone who lacks the regular SEO knowledge would be like “huh?”. Let me put it in a simpler way, if you Google something, there would be a few sentences under the …
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OpenStreetView (OSM) is being launched by OpenStreetMap as a means to generate street-level photography for OSM on a global scale. People who enjoy mapping can grab images and upload while driving; it’s not readily available to general users. They are able to do this through the Android and iOS apps built by OSM supporter Telenav. …
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