Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Mobile-First Web Design: Google’s New Focus
A couple years ago an algorithm update began penalizing websites that were not mobile-friendly. One of the latest changes Google has made to how websites are ranked is to take the mobile focus a step further. Rather than scan the full blown version of the website for content and then check if it’s also mobile-friendly,…
Read MoreGoogle Favors Users Over Businesses For Local
A question that crops up a lot is how to deal with false Google Local reviews. For example, what if you receive a one-star review from someone who was never actually a customer? Or what if they were a customer but are blatantly giving false information? Surely there’s a process in place to prove it and…
Read MoreGoogle Continues to Reward Quality
Closely following the “Mobilegeddon” change of April, Google has released some news about another algorithm change that recently took hold. The SEO community is dubbing it “The Quality Update”, reflecting the search engine’s ongoing strides to deliver the best results to users. Like the Panda update a couple years ago, this change seems geared toward…
Read MoreGoogle May Reshape the Web With A New “Truth” Algorithm
Things like back links and other measures of a site’s authority have long been cues for search engine ranking, but that may be about to change. Recent headlines in Google’s algorithms speak of a radically new approach to ranking websites, often being referred to as a “truth” algorithm. The core idea behind this proposed change…
Read MoreGoogle Begins Rewarding Mobile-Friendly Sites in April
As we’d blogged about previously, Google announced a few months back that it was planning to implement some changes to its ranking factors that would penalize sites that aren’t mobile-friendly. In its ongoing quest to produce better results in an increasingly mobile world, Google apparently sees less value in sites that won’t display well on…
Read MoreWhy Using a Sitemap Helps Your Indexing
Google is constantly sending its crawler bots, little web programs designed to read website information and report back to Google’s indexing service, to sites across the web to update its massive index. These bots will periodically revisit sites to scan for changes or new information, and if they see changes they’ll add the new information…
Read MoreGoogle’s Content Focus Helps Local Business SEO
When Google made some heavy algorithm changes that favored both local results and quality content more so than ever before, the SEO playing field began to look a lot different.
Read MoreGoogle Update Rewards Mobile Friendly Websites
When using a mobile device to do a search, Google will now include a designation that a website is mobile friendly.
Read MoreWhat Your Local Google Reviews Are Doing For Your Rankings
Google has made it easier than ever for potential customers to quickly compare similiar businesses based on reviews. How do you stack up?
Read MoreSEO is a Genre of Tools
SEO is a genre of tools, or rather a way to look at a collection of functions that synergize to create a web presence that attracts new business.
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