Be Your Own Designer – The Best Free Resources for when You’re Short on Time
You’ll be pleased to hear we recently updated this post. It was originally written in June 2015, but now it contains a whole new suite of design tools!
How to keep your page out of the search results
If you want to keep your page out of the search results, there are a number of things you can do. Most of ’em are not hard and you can implement these without a ton of technical knowledge. If you can check a box, your content management system will probably have an option for that. […]
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Google Local After Antitrust – Careful What You Wish For
In the EU and the US, Yelp has been actively seeking to get regulators to look at Google’s behaviors in local and to change the search results to stop favoring Google’s own local results. Yelp’s Luther Lowe noted: When a mother does a search for a pediatrician in Berlin, instead of being matched with rich … Continue reading Google Local After Antitrust – Careful What You Wish For →
Mobile SERP survival: Technical SEO checklist
A responsive website is not enough to survive in the mobile-first indexing era, says contributor Barry Adams. Here’s a list of technical SEO and general optimization aspects you need to be aware of and fix on your site if necessary.
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Six Nudges: Creating A Sense Of Urgency For Higher Conversion Rates!
By every indicator available, ecommerce is continuing to grow at an insane speed. Although it may seem impossible to imagine with ecommerce already totaling up to 5% of overall commerce, there’s astronomical growth still to come. Still, I’m heartbroken that some the simplest elements of ecommerce stink so much. It is 2018—why are there still […]
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Google Posts testing different design and functional treatments in the search results
Have you seen a new look for Google Posts in Google search results? Well, you are not alone.
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Google doodle honors long distance runner Tom Longboat
On Tom Longboat’s 131st birthday, Google honors his life and achievements with an animated Doodle in the United States and Canada.
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The top 10 tools for getting an insight into your website analytics
By tracking your site’s most important metrics, you can get a valuable look at how well your SEO strategy is working; what a typical customer does on your site; and even what your competitors are doing differently. Amanda DiSilvestro reviews ten platforms to get your research journey started.
Google Posts Testing More Visual Display
Petra Kraft, a long time Local SEO and careful observer in the hospitality space, noticed an interesting test in Google Posts. She found a Knowledge Panel where Google was showing six posts using the primary image and a text over lay and the abilitly to see more via a right arrow. This is one of … Continue reading Google Posts Testing More Visual Display →
New Optimize & AdWords Integration Boosts Landing Page Testing
With the advent of free, effective, and user-friendly testing tools such as Google Optimize it’s getting progressively easier to run quick and impactful A/B tests in order to serve up relevant experiences to users and streamline the path to conversion.
In fact, Google recently updated the Optimize & AdWords integration to allow for more powerful testing.…
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Google Websites Passes 2 Million Websites Nearing its First Anniversary
On June 13, Google Websites will be one year old. It was created to satisfy the needs of the very small business to have an easy, fast mobile website. In that time Google has managed to have had at least 2.2 million of the sites built. Given that Google also allows a business to purchase … Continue reading Google Websites Passes 2 Million Websites Nearing its First Anniversary →
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Mobile First Index, GDPR, TLS PCI, Speed & Honoring
This week was a tad slower in the search and SEO news front. We had a fourth batch of notices about the Google mobile first indexing. Those sites moved over have issues with the Google cache, but no worries there. Googleâs rich results testing tool now supports movies…
eCom in the Wild: Solving the Size Problem
Seer team members have a thing for shopping online and we geek out when we find a new company who provides an amazing online shopping experience. It’s not easy to woo marketers with marketing, but the following companies have stolen our hearts … and our dollars.…
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SearchCap: Google Wikipedia prank, Google answers & search pictures
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
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Ask Yoast: Using heading tags in interview-based content
If you know a specialist or influencer in your niche, interviewing them and writing an article about it for your site can be a great idea. It’ll give your readers a different perspective, and it offers a nice change from regular blog posts. At Yoast, we have a tag for interviews, and we enjoy the chance […]
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7 personalization strategies to convert more callers to customers
In today’s mobile world, the customer experience when someone calls must be as frictionless, relevant and personalized as the online experience.
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Google Search Console Crawl Stats Stopped Updating On May 23rd
If you try to check your Google Search Console report for crawl stats…
Google Search Supports TLS 1.1 & 1.2 With Upcoming PCI Compliance Requirements
On June 30, 2018, the PCI Council is suggesting that all web sites migrate from TLS 1.0 to TLS 1.1 or higher…
Google Will Tell You If They Are Up Or Down
Do a search for [is google down] and Google will return an answer telling you if the search engine is currently working or not. The ironic thing is that if Google was down, it wouldn’t be able to tell you if they were up or down…
Google Tests Gray Review Stars In Search Results
Google is once again testing gray colored stars in the search results, where you would typically see orange stars for the rich results review snippets. Google did a lot of testing on the colors of the stars in 2014 including green, yellow, gray…
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