If you search Google on your cell phone you have seen Google mobile search results. And if you have seen Google mobile search results you may have noticed that some websites get their brand name or website title instead of a URL. Google implemented this change in
Read more →Fiverr is a neat place to order services, starting at $5. People offer everything from pictures of their dog for $5 to professional video editing services that could cost $1000 or more. But is it a good place to buy backlinks? After all, backlinks are what help
Read more →I rarely put this kind of news on this blog but bear with me here, as I have some BREAKING NEWS. The boxed layout test has been affecting people all over the world randomly since June 2016. It picked up steam in January 2016 and I wrote
Read more →I am pleased to publish a short interview that I have recently conducted with Stuart Langridge, a British SEO Manager that works for an online casino firm, based in Malta. Stuart has worked in online marketing and SEO for more than a decade, for a media firm,
Read more →I’m not sure if anyone cares about this except for me, but it is a neat little discovery new to Google search results pages. Recently I wrote about Google featured snippets showing content from “hot topics”. That means, they know when a topic is hot and then
Read more →According to a recent Reuters article, current CEO Marissa Mayer will step down once the deal with Verizon is closed. Verizon is purchasing Yahoo’s core Internet business for nearly $5 billion. That is a lot more than hackers are selling stolen Yahoo email addresses for. According to
Read more →January 10, 2017, Google began rolling out the Google Pop Up Penalty. This decreases the ranking in mobile search of pages which have annoying pop ups which cover the content of a webpage people expected to see when clicking through to a page. One of these annoying
Read more →A featured snippet, sometimes called an answer box, appears in Google search results when Google can quickly provide a summary of an answer or an answer to a user’s search query by extracting content from a webpage. Featured snippets contain a page title, URL, and often an
Read more →Back in September 2016 I wrote about the looming interstitial penalty and how much I was looking forward to Google dropping it in January 2017. What is in interstitial, you ask? An annoying pop up. In fact, I think this should be called the Google Pop Up
Read more →In December 2016 I noticed that Google was showing fewer and fewer review stars / review snippets in search results. However, the review stars can be generated by Microdata or JSON+LD. It appears the review stars being filtered away are from websites which use Microdata. Review snippets
Read more →I have been a bit infatuated lately with obtaining featured snippets, the little answer boxes in Google search. Not for this site, for client sites. Anyways, last week there was an opportunity which arose. Teens on Snapchat were playing a game with fruit. A buddy filled me
Read more →A personal injury attorney reached out to me today to inquire about 301 redirecting a website they purchased to their existing site (I do SEO for a wide variety of attorneys and hear from them 365 days a year). Attorneys are interesting as they like to learn
Read more →Back in 2015 I explained how to quickly get one of your own pages crawled and indexed using Fetch and Render. This is especially useful if you have time sensitive content. Just last week I threw up an article which was hit around 27,000 times while the
Read more →Recently I began playing with a website approved to be in Google News. One of the first questions I ran into was the ability to ditch the existing URL structure. Do I need dates in URLs for Google News? There was a time when 3 digits were
Read more →Telapost broke the news of “Top Stories” in Google Search earlier in 2016. Since then, I have been paying closer attention to the “Top Stories” section and how it behaves. The previous “In The News” section of Hoogle has historically been limited to websites which were accepted
Read more →Redirecting a website is like moving to a new home. Instead of telling the post office where you have moved, you are telling the search engines.To do this the best option is to use a 301 redirect. But will the 301 hurt your SEO or your search
Read more →Since I discovered the new “top stories” section on Google news last month I have been playing with the news feature quite a bit. Lately, I have noticed some spam in the search results quite often, from a website called Car Chat (car-chat.info). No, I have no
Read more →I recently predicted Google would remove some review rich snippets in late 2016 or early 2017. Well, here we are. It is December 8th, 2016, and yesterday I noticed that lots of websites are missing their review snippets, aka the “little stars in search results”. It is
Read more →Beginning about a week or so before the Presidential Election, something odd popped up in Google Analytics in the Audience Overview section. The default page lists languages, but standing out in November many users were greeted by this message below. Note the “G” in Google is not
Read more →Today on November 23, 2016, Thanksgiving Eve, I noticed something brand new in Google search results. Google has rolled out a “Top Stories” section which is beginning to replace “In The News”. “Top Stories” was previously only seen on mobile search. The mobile top stories carousel required
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