Well it’s not a Google Places help phone number, but I guess it’s the next best thing. Today on the Google Small Business Blog they announced support for Google Places. It’s a small success for SMB’ers who desperately need assistance, due to all the problems with Google Places. All I can say is, “thank-goodness!” I [...]
Google Adword’s Ad With A Optin Form in The Actual Ad
Since When Did Adwords Ads Allow You to Capture Emails Right in The AD? I don’t know if anyone else has seen this yet, but I have seen a couple Google Adwords Ads (like in the example image above) where the Adword’s Ad has an email optin form built into the ad. It’s awesome and [...]
The 30 Day Challenge – Not Just for IM’ers
Every year I do the 30 Day Challenge. It’s 100% free. And it’s totally awesome. It’s where you follow along with 10-15 minute video tutorials for 30 days and then work for 30 minutes acting on those video instructions. The goal is to build a website from scratch to make your first $1 doing it. [...]
7-pack vs Blended Local Results – What Triggers It?
My good friend Darren Shaw over at Whitespark (who has the best citation finder ever!), wrote a very interesting post yesterday. The whole post is about what triggers the the different search results for local. I highly recommend you go and read the post. I added my thoughts in Darren’s comment section, but I wanted [...]
Google Displaying New Sitelinks
Is Google displaying or testing new sitelinks layout? Looks like Google is displaying new sitelinks for websites in the search engine result pages. I just noticed it today, but looks like people have been seeing the new sitelinks since yesterday. Each sitelink now has it’s own title and mini description. I suspect that if this [...]
What is ‘Bounce Rate’ in Google Analytics?
I recently pointed out to a client of ours (who’s website we did not build), that they had a very high bounce rate and that was probably a bad indicator that there is a website design challenge, especially when you are driving targeted traffic back to that website. According to Google ‘bounce rate’ means: “Bounce [...]
How to Remove Dates From WordPress Posts
I was reading this amazing post from Ben Hunt (no relation) about a month ago about the how “SERP Snippets” can greatly affect your click through rates (CTRs). And one of those aspects that causes lower CTRs is having old dates show up as rich snippet in your meta descriptions in the search engines from [...]
Inside Google’s Search Algorithm
Google’s Search Algorithm Video Very interesting video about how Google decides on their search algorithm. Google makes over 500 changes a year to their algorithm. Matt Cutts says, “There is no perfect algorithm that will make everything perfect in search”. Go to 41 minutes to hear why they do not hand choose results and why [...]
