Here’s an odd feature that is new to me that I’ve never seen in Google search results before- Categories. They act sort of like “Google breadcrumbs”, if you will. Here’s a screenshot, which you can (currently) duplicate by searching for German Shepherd Health Problems: The search does
Read more →Below are my current thoughts, as of 2017, as to how Google interprets what I call “geographical relevance”. If you are looking for a highly technical whitepaper citing Google documents, this isn’t it. Move along, ’cause you will be disappointed. But, Google has no word on this,
Read more →Adding city pages for your business’s products or services can bring in more search traffic and paying customers, but if they are “doorway pages” or not depends on a variety of factors. Are city pages doorway pages? In the past, doorway pages were easy to spot. Let’s
Read more →A few people have asked me if there was a Google update in March of 2017. The answer is yes. Currently, there are 800-1200 updates to the Google algorithm annually, as far as I know. Some people are calling it an “unconfirmed” algorithm or something as well,
Read more →I have been seeing more and more websites showing up in Google search results recently with HTTPS prefix. This would normally be a good thing, however, in many cases the website itself hasn’t been migrated to HTTPS! Many business owners and other website owners are shocked to
Read more →As of 2017 there is a lot of questionable news out there. You never know what will surface in search results. While Google’s results are fairly accurate there have been many infamous examples of search results which serve up incorrect information which goes against scientific consensus and
Read more →The 2017 Google Quality Rater Guidelines are here. Each year the Google Quality Rater Guidelines are updated around spring, giving interested SEO people and webmasters a glimpse into the future of Google algorithm updates and what Google sees in their eyes as a quality website which will
Read more →Lawyers all over the planet have review stars displaying in Google search results. They accomplish this by adding structured data to their site. Over the last two weeks I have been noticing the review stars missing in Google search. Shortly after writing about the review stars missing
Read more →Over the first 2 weeks of March 2017 I have been noticing more and more sites losing their review stars in Google search. The stars have legitimate uses but are typically used by attorneys and law firms to gain attention in search results. I wrote about how
Read more →Google Analytics shows average session duration of 0 when visitors do not visit a second page on your site. This is because they can’t measure how long someone was on a page unless they visit an additional page. Average Session Duration of 00:00:00. What gives? If you
Read more →Below you will find out why Google has blacklisted (aka penalized or de-indexed) NaturalNews.com, along with input we have received directly from Mike Adams himself. You will only get this information here, despite Gizmodo, DailyKos and other organizations trying to steal the headlines without the full story.
Read more →Over the last few days I have been asked if Google bans sites over controversial content. That prompted me to put together and article about a potential Google Fake News Penalty. In the article I explain that, historically, no, Google does not ban or blacklist (or de-index)
Read more →Today I wondered if and when Google would begin to try and remove websites from Google Search Results which promote what they identify as “fake news”. A Google Fake News Penalty makes sense It makes sense that Google will one day create a “Fake News Penalty”. With
Read more →On February 21, 2017, someone asked me why they could not find a website in Google search. The website is “Natural News” (http://naturalnews.com/). Indeed, the site has been penalized by Google. This means, for whatever reason, the site does not show up in Google organic search. I
Read more →Today Google released a video called “How to Hire an SEO”. I personally would have called it “How to hire a good SEO consultant”, but other than a couple of minor critiques, overall the video is pretty good and I agree with most of it. Google does
Read more →I have been doing a lot of HTTPS migrations this year and clients have been asking me some common questions which include: Should I expect a loss in traffic? Will I get more traffic? Will my rankings change? What will happen in Google Analytics? There are a
Read more →Post updated 3/2/2020 with new auction house information. In late 2016 an expired domain came up that I wanted. So, I began my journey to purchasing my first expiring domain. I had bought many domains over the years that had previously expired months or years ago, but
Read more →There is some buzz in the SEO industry that there has been an algorithm update to Google in February 2017. Indeed, SERP tracking tools such as Mozcast and RankRanger do show some fluctuations in results. If your site dropped in the rankings this month, I would be
Read more →The “Yandex.Webmaster” section of Yandex’s site is ironically webmaster.yandex.com. Why didn’t they just call it Webmaster.Yandex? Anyways, do you need it? Fiddling with Yandex Today I logged in and poked around a bit. I decided to register my site and upload a sitemap to it. I poked
Read more →There are lots of ways to convert WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS, and the ways it is accomplished have changed significantly over the years. I have now upgraded a few dozen WordPress websites to HTTPS and I will outline the basics below. Will Moving WordPress to HTTPS
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