Google My Business Upgraded Profiles; $50 Per Month
Google is now trying a subscription billing model for Google My Business, something Google has explored doing in the past, and is now actively pursuing. Google sent Tom Waddington an email asking him to “upgrade” his business profile for $50 a month.
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How To Improve Google Indexing? Create Great, Unique & Compelling Content.
Google’s John Mueller said that “best way to improve indexing is to create great – unique & compelling – content that users have been seeking out, and which users recommend to others.” Google has said that many indexing issues are related to quality issues.
Google Mortgage Search Results Box For You To Compete With & In
Google has a newish search feature for searches related to mortgages. While Google had mortgage calculators and tools for a while, those featured only came up for specific and exact queries. Now, Google has a much wider search feature box that gives yo…
Apple Lists Its Search Ranking Factors
Apple has updated the “about Applebot” help documentation page the other day and in that document it lists information about how Apple ranks web results. It also updated information around Applebot.
Google Tests Search Refinements When You Scroll Up
Here is a new test Google is running, where when you do a search on mobile, scroll down and then scroll back up, Google will show you other search refinement options for your original query. I cannot replicate this but Brodie Clark posted a video of th…
Buy on Google goes commission-free, will enable checkout via PayPal, Shopify
This is the second big shake up for Google’s commerce efforts this year.
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Why SEOs are going to miss the Structured Data Testing Tool
Google’s decision to deprecate the testing tool in favor of the Rich Results Testing Tool isn’t sad because of nostalgia, but because this feels like a downgrade masked as an improvement.
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How 9 major Google My Business updates in 2020 can help you rebound
A long road of recovery awaits but the good news is that your customers are paying attention to your GMBs so capitalize on that to help your business make it to the other side.
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1000 Ranking factors: How Google finds signals through the noise
LinkGraph’s CTO, Manick Bhan, explains how machine learning is helping us better understand how Google finds and evaluates content quality signals when ranking web pages.
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Google offering ‘upgraded’ GMB profile with Google Guaranteed badge for $50 per month
Google tested the idea of subscription-based services for GMB in April 2019.
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4 ways to speed up your Shopify site
Lower load times can increase your organic visibility and help you sell more.
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What content survives Google algorithm updates?
Be able to anticipate your target audience’s needs.
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Replay: How to future-prep your skills to advance your marketing career
Performance media marketers discuss the digital marketing skills that will be in-demand.
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Microsoft Advertising Now Offers Free ShutterStock Photos For Image Ads
Microsoft announced yesterday it is offering free high quality images from ShutterStock for use in Microsoft Advertising’s image ads. “To help you find the right images for your campaigns, we’re partnering with Shutterstock to provide you free access …
Bing URL Submissions Plugin To Get Your WordPress Content Indexed Fast
Bing announced a new WordPress plugin that integrates your WordPress site with the Bing Webmaster Tools URL submission API. In short, the plugin looks for new and updated content and automatically submits it to Bing for fast indexing.
Google Shopping Sponsored Web Results With Material Label
You know when you go shopping, either online or offline, and you get the shirt in your hand, you look at the label and it tells you the materials it was made of? Well, Google is testing showing you that information before you buy, before you even clic…
Google Site Command & Navigational Query Operators Failed Yesterday
Yesterday for a period of a few hours, you may have been unable to find the site or content you were looking for on Google Search. Google said it had an issue with some navigational queries and site commands.
Google Ads Editor v1.4 Adds Recommendations, Local Campaigns & More
Google released version 1.4 of the Google Ads Editor. This comes a few months after version 1.3 was released. In version 1.4, Google added recommendations, local campaigns and much more.
Google Deadline For Mobile-First Indexing Now March 2021, Not September 2020
Google, as expected, has decided to push off the deadline for going 100% into mobile-first indexing. The previous deadline was September 2020, but after COVID hit, Google said they may push this deadline back to give site owners more time to prepare du…
Google adds new mortgage feature box to search
If you are in the mortgage business, you have one more Google feature to compete with.
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