If your site isn't mobile friendly yet, you either haven't been paying attention, or you have been so busy that you haven't had a chance to address it. Google started rolling out mobile first indexing in 2018, and now your rankings are based on the mobile version of your site. Even if you aren't worried [...]
Google had announced long ago that they were officially moving to a "mobile first" index this year and have slowly rolled it out throughout the year. If you have an account with Google Search Console for your site, and you should, you would get an email when the official change happens for your site. As [...]
Martech Advisor recently published an article on trends in search that touched on what many of us have been talking about in recent years. "Near me" searches have doubled in recent years with even higher jumps in certain shopping areas, per Google's data. There is an opportunity here for small businesses in both SEO and [...]
Fresh back to my room from Day 1 at SMX Advanced and wanted to jot down some headlines from the different sessions I sat in today. I chose to focus mostly on SEO today, after watching Gary Illyes of Google speak, and prioritize speed, AMP, and Progressive Web Apps (PWA). My sessions after the Q&A [...]
As mobile search has finally taken over as the leader in search volume and technology improves, location based search marketing and local search will become more and more crucial for any business, but especially local business counting on bringing in people in their markets. Adam Dorfman over at Search Engine Land recently did a nice [...]
So the frustrating world of managing your Yahoo local listing for your business has taken yet another turn, and unfortunately it leads us to Yext. Yahoo has announced that it will be outsourcing their local search listings to the somewhat spammy (my own personal opinion) Yext in November. Below are some things to keep in [...]
David Mihm does a great job every year putting together a survey to figure out the local search ranking factors. Overall, the numbers don't typically change drastically, though at times the articles that come out of it make it seem that way, but it is great work and it is good to stay on top [...]
I typically try to break down the biggest story of the week and break it down to a post that helps you with an easily understandable takeaway that can be digested and used to help your business today. The past week or so has had a number of mentionable news items come out so I [...]
This week and next week I'm in Eastern Europe along the Adriatic coast. From my ventures through Albania, Montenegro, and Croatia so far, I have noticed some issues with Google maps. It seemed only fitting that Google came out and discontinued access to Google Mapmaker on the same week, sort of giving the week a [...]
Though it isn't going to be clear immediately how mobilegeddon is going to impact your overall traffic, I have been getting a lot of questions about how to check mobile rankings. This isn't as easily done as one might think, especially if you have a mobile responsive site rather than a separate mobile version. One [...]
