I'm not one of those who think Google is inherently evil, and that everything they do is a devious attempt to … Continue Reading ››
Another manual penalty revoked
I think this makes it 7 out of 7 for my clients with Google manual penalties. Some I've gotten out in 1 request, a bunch took 2, and one took 7 rounds. MozLocal update
I've been a huge fan of the MozLocal tools for submitting and managing location information for my clients. David and team have just launched a major update to the tools--one I had the privilege of beta testing (if only Google's released tools had NEAR the quality of Moz's beta products! #donerantingfornow).
Highlights:
- Ability to … Continue Reading ››
Google Local Search Puts the K in Kwality
Discovered today: when you're looking at the maps results for a Google search, and click on one of the listings to expand it (here, I'm clicking on the result for J. Rollins Art of Framing):
what ACTUALLY expands is the … Continue Reading ››
what ACTUALLY expands is the … Continue Reading ›› Setting your city in Google–only works for Maps now
It USED to be that when you set your location via Search Tools in Google, it would control where Google thought you were searching from, affecting the organic/local universal results and the maps results (yeah, the AdWords results were ALWAYS messed up on this, and still are).
As of today, it seems that setting your location … Continue Reading ››
Moz Whiteboard Friday: Panda Optimization
New Company Info Pulldown in Google SERPs
Google is now showing a little pulldown to the right of the website URL in their search results. When you click the pulldown, you get a synopsis of the company or organization.
In the admittedly limited testing … Continue Reading ››
What is SEO? Rand Fishkin Explains
Super Whiteboard Friday presentation by Rand at Moz, explaining at a high level what really SEO encompasses:
Tips on Amplifying the Reach of Social Media
Ben Lloyd and Brian Rauschenbach of Add3 did this great Whiteboard Friday at Moz, talking about an assortment of tips on how to take a piece of content and get the most results from it in your social media channels:
Ben is one of … Continue Reading ››
Google testing a hundred results per page
While doing keyword research for a client, I spotted a longer than usual set of results.
REALLY longer.
So I counted them. 100 organic results for "vinyl fencing". Redid the search, back to the usual 10.
Here's the screenshot of the page compressed as much as I could...so at least you can see I'm not lying … Continue Reading ››