5 reasons to give SEO experts a seat at the website planning table
Whatever the reason for your website planning meeting, there’s an important voice that should be at that table: your SEO expert. Here are five ways that your go-to SEO expert can positively affect the outcome of your website project.
How to optimize Google My Business listings for multi-location businesses
Being listed on Google My Business (GMB) is an essential part of any local SEO strategy. But how can businesses with multiple locations make sure they aren’t penalized in search rankings?
Should Google be more transparent with its updates?
Most of Google’s algorithm updates nowadays are unconfirmed and unannounced, leaving website owners and SEOs guessing as to what caused a change in ranking and what they can do to fix it. Does Google owe it to its users to be more transparent?
8 technical issues holding your content back
Failure to properly audit and resolve technical concerns can disconnect your content efforts from the benefits it should be bringing to your website. Here are eight issues you should be considering before committing to any major campaign.
Utilize Page Value in GA to Improve Your SEO Strategy
It’s human nature to seek out instant gratification, but as search marketers we are trained to deploy data driven strategies to hit long term goals. Unfortunately, our bosses aren’t always content with our long term strategies.
Fortunately, there is a metric in Google Analytics called page value.…
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How to identify and fix indexation bloat issues
Indexation bloat is when a website has pages within a search engine “index” and can cause issues if not monitored and policed properly. It is an extremely common SEO problem and affects websites of all sizes. So how can you identify and fix it?
Bulk GMB Insights Reporting: What It Means For You & Your Business
Enterprise users of Google My Business, rejoice! Late last week, Google rolled out the ability to download Insights data, in bulk, straight from your dashboard. With no access to the API required, this new feature enables a whole new set of users to measure and report on the performance of their listings within Google Search and Google Maps.…
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Is charging by time damaging your agency? Value-based billing could be the solution.
Is billing by time damaging your agency? In this post you’ll discover the limitations of billing by time, and get advice on switching to value-based billing.
Post from Tara West
The State of Schema.org: What are the biggest challenges surrounding Schema markup?
A recent survey carried out by Schema App, a provider of tools to help with implementing Schema markup, has shed some light on the question of why adoption of Schema.org is so low among marketers despite its considerable benefits.
How to use Search Console for quick SEO wins
SEO doesn’t have to be complicated or technical. Laura Hogan, Head of Search at Rice Media, shared her tips at Brighton SEO on how to use Search Console to achieve quick SEO wins.
4 things to note when optimizing for local SEO in 2017
According to digital marketing expert Jordan Kasteler, 1 in 3 of all Google searches has local intent. This means users search for and expect local information in SERPs, and now more than ever, priority should be given to optimizing on-site and off-site strategies for local SEO.
Mobile-First Indexing: Everything we know, and how it could affect you
For the past five to six months the search industry has been buzzing with talk around Google’s mobile-first index. In the midst of this noise, it is very easy to get lost with what you actually need to know about the update.
Why Google is Eating Healthcare Marketers’ Lunch
It’s no secret that Google has spent billions of dollars improving its’ search algorithm to quickly answer users’ questions. In this quest, they’ve begun to remove actual websites from the end result by listing answers right in the SERPs – and with “off-line” products that respond back to questions immediately, like Google Home and Google Now.…
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Thinking Beyond the Sale – Practical E-commerce Optimisation Tips
A comparatively small proportion of e-commerce websites are delivering value outside of the constraints of the sale or making the most out of more creative technology and content opportunities that exist. In this post, we explore some of these overlooked opportunities and provide practical insight into implementing them for business.
Post from Lee Wilson
Study: Why do marketers still struggle with innovative search tactics?
A new study commissioned by Microsoft’s Bing and search agency Catalyst may have some light to shed onto why many marketers aren’t realizing the full potential of search.
Google adds rich results for podcasts to SERPs
On its Developers blog, Google stealthily launched some new guidelines for structured data to bring rich results for podcasts to search results. What does it look like, and how can you get your podcasts indexed?
Understanding voice search: What are the implications for marketers?
One report by VoiceLabs predicts that voice device growth will quadruple this year. What data can help us to understand the impact of voice search when it isn’t yet a reporting field provided by most publishers? And what are the implications for search marketers?
A visual history of Google SERPs: 1996 to 2017
Over the past 20 years, Google has revolutionized how we source information, how we buy products, and how advertisers sell those products to us. And yet, one fact remains stubbornly true: the shop-front for brands on Google is still the Search Engine Results Page (SERP).
Can Google get users on board with “shortcuts in search”?
Google announced yesterday the launch of “shortcuts in search”, which will allow Android users in the US to access quick answers on a range of topics with the touch of a button.