Late October and the month of November have been very active in Google search results. October 24 was a very active day, in particular. Results went a bit crazy. I wrote an article that maybe Penguin had failed and specifically stated that hopefully the algorithm changes would
Read more →No, it is not your imagination, search results in LA change almost every day. I’ve monitored the niche in LA for many years. I have put multiple important keywords on to page 1 there. It isn’t easy. Now, as of October 2016, you can be on page
Read more →A new email is making its way around the Internet. No, it is not a Nigerian prince who is leaving me billions of dollars. It is a company selling “SEO and Spy Tools”. The email is targeted at SEO providers. Majestic, MOZ, SemRush, ahrefs, Alexa, and Raven
Read more →On November 4, 2016, Google announced they are experimenting with “mobile first indexing”. On November 1, 2016, Telapost announced Google is experimenting mobile first indexing. (Ref: Google Search Results Changing in Mobile Before Desktop). But, I was referring to search results changing on mobile before they changed
Read more →In the second half of 2016 I have noticed that many search results change in mobile search about 24hrs before they change in desktop search. At any time, in competitive niches you can type in a search on a cell phone and get different results in mobile
Read more →I monitor several search results in the UK, Australia, and especially the Western Coast of the USA, or more specifically, attorneys on the West Coast (California, Washington, etc). I am seeing huge fluctuations in Google search results on October 23, 24, and so far on the 25th.
Read more →Getting rich snippets in Google search results has been a big pain for quite some time. In most cases “they aren’t allowed” if you decipher whatever it is Google’s engineers are attempting to communicate to webmasters. Then, in search results, are 5 bright, shiny yellow stars beside
Read more →If you are an attorney there is no doubt that you have seen one of your competitors that had some review stars showing up in Google search results. Criminal defense, bankruptcy, and personal injury lawyers use the review stars to take up more space in Google search
Read more →If your website is hacked you will likely either discover it in Google search, or if you have Google Search Console, you will get an email notification there. Or, maybe you will just bump into it in Search Console. In Google search console, webmasters are warned about
Read more →If you have a website that has been ranking poorly for quite some time and you had hoped that it would bounce back to life post-Penguin 4.0 yet it still ranks poorly feel free to contact me. I would be happy to take a look at it,
Read more →Google Penguin 4.0 is an update to Google’s algorithms. The Penguin updates are designed to decrease rankings of web pages in Google’s search results which ranked due to manipulative links. Penguin 4.0 announced On Friday, September 23, 2016, Google announced that Penguin 4.0 is now live. This
Read more →The SEO world is a funny place. The truly infatuated people are either completely out of touch or 1 or 2 days ahead of the rest of us by monitoring search results like scientists who measure vibrations in the earth’s crust. Regardless, at some point there will
Read more →In a previous life I owned an IT related business which had a brick and mortar location. Prior to selling this company I became well acquainted with local search when Google introduced it. These days I pay even more attention to it; thankfully, at this point in
Read more →News websites get lots of love from Google. If they are a Google News site, their articles show up in search for 72hrs or so. If they are a major publisher, they get the benefit of AMP (accelerated mobile pages). Many news websites rank very highly in
Read more →Depending on which niche you are in there is a good chance that one or more of your local competitors are buying links. In some competitive niches, everyone on the front page is guilty of obtaining links in one way or another that Google would frown upon.
Read more →Well there it is. If you Google “DUI checkpoints + your city” and you may see DUI checkpoints & recent alerts. Much of the data is taken from DUIBlock.com. I tried the search on Raleigh, Los Angeles, Chicago and a few other big cities and it worked
Read more →Almost all of my clients have a previous SEO company who they parted ways with for one reason or another. Sometimes they goofed up a website so bad it has to be restarted from scratch. In other cases, I have to scrap the entire domain, simply because
Read more →People looking to sell guns and ammo online often start by building an inadequate website and then try to advertise on Facebook or Google AdWords only to find out that these outlets do not allow pay per click advertising on such items. While I do not necessarily
Read more →Over the years Google employees have hinted around that interstitials could become a negative SEO factor. Finally, as of January 2017, they will be, at least for mobile device users. Thank God. What the heck is an interstitial? When you do a search and then you click
Read more →If you have a problem with your hreflang implementation you will receive an email about an error in Google Search Console that looks like this: It reads: Errors in hreflang tags on http://www.dav*******njury.com/ We found the hreflang tags on your site, but a few of them have
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