Webmaster Tools

2019 Growing Ranking Factors: Lighthouse and UX

In the second of my posts on growing SEO Ranking Factors in 2019, I want to touch on Google's Lighthouse tool. As Google tries to turn more and more of your user experiences into specific metrics, the Lighthouse tool is an open window into much of the data that they are using to determine UX. [...]

EMACC Search Engine Marketing Workshops

Come Learn How to Be Better in Search with You Can Be Found and EMACC We will be offering a one hour consulting meeting once per month for EMACC members to help work directly on their site with SEO, Google Adwords,  local search consulting, and even a little Google Analytics and Search Console integration. It [...]

Did You Get a CSS/JS Warning From Google Today?

If you have a website and received a warning message from Google today, please take heed.  Though they have sent out some mistaken messages in recent weeks, this one is for real. They are warning people that if their site blocks CSS or JS it can hurt you in the rankings.  This rule has actually [...]

Google Rebranding, Quality Update & Twitter…Oh My?

This is my last week abroad but lots has happened while I'm out of the country.  Just wanted to use the blog this week to touch base on some new and somewhat important news items from the week that could be important to you and your rankings. Google Quality Update: Many noticed ranking changes earlier [...]

Google Webmaster Tools Mobile Presence Check

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 [...]

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