30 Jan 2020

Google 1 Comment
The coronavirus outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China, has nothing to do with Corona beer, but some people seem to think it does. s the outbreak spread last week, searches for “corona beer virus,” “beer virus,” and “beer coronavirus” increased substantially worldwide, according to Google Trends. Searches for “corona beer virus” jumped 2,300 percent globally from January 18 to Ja...
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17 Dec 2019

Local SEO 3 Comments
Google Bedlam Recovery Plan: We’ve been receiving a lot of questions lately about the latest Google algorithm update known as “Bedlam.” The Bedlam update (also called “Possum 2.0”) rolled out in early November 2019 – which has now been completed globally. According to Google Search Liaison, this update involved prioritizing neural matching in an attempt to provide local searchers with m...
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21 Nov 2019

Search Engine Optimization 0 Comment
So your new website needs backlinks. If you've ever worked on SEO for a new site, you've run into the challenge of trying to outrank websites with more authority than your site. More than likely these sites have more backlinks than you do - which is a huge contributing factor when we talk about "site authority". So this post is about a really simple strategy to get new backlinks - and...
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20 Nov 2019

Search Engine Optimization, SEO 0 Comment
backlinks
What are backlinks? Backlinks, also called "inbound links" or "incoming links," are created when one website links to another. The link to an external website is called a backlink. I'm sharing a lot of this information from Moz's learning center - thats where I got started learning SEO and if you want to learn more you should check them out :)   Why backlinks are important? Ba...
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20 Nov 2019

SEO 0 Comment
Having done SEO for several years, I run into people all the time who aren't always thinking about 404s, redirects, backlinks, spiders, canonicals, and indexing like we do. Talking about this stuff in public will get a confused looking person with their eyes glazing over. That's typical, but when you get the same blank stare from the decision-maker at your company,  this could be a bi...
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14 Nov 2019

Google 0 Comment
Google is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing up to offer checking accounts to consumers, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal, starting as early as next year. Google is calling the project “Cache,” and it’ll partner with banks and credit unions to offer the checking accounts, with the banks handling all ...
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13 Nov 2019

Google 0 Comment
Is it the web page that’s slow or is it your network connection? In the future, Google’s Chrome web browser may have an answer for you. Google announced today a plan to identify and label websites that typically load slowly by way of clear badging. The company says it may later choose to identify sites that are likely to be slow based on the user’s device and current network conditions, ...
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13 Nov 2019

Local SEO 1 Comment
I've been working a lot of overtime so far in November, with Black Friday coming in a few weeks and new clients and oh yes the sky is falling again in the local Local Search world. Some people are calling it Possum 2.0 - and others are calling it Bedlam.   Yeah - sounds about right. Threads on Bright Local, Google WHC, Search Engine Land, and numerous facebook groups are a...
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06 Nov 2019

Google 0 Comment
Google is now rolling out the highly anticipated page speed report in Search Console that was shown off earlier this year. Google officially previewed the new page speed report this past May, but it was first uncovered back in February. That marks roughly 9 months of waiting for this report to launch. Google Search Console Page Speed Report Google’s new page speed report pulls data ...
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