Personalized search is obviously important to Google. We are seeing more and more personalized results in Google search results and looks like Google wants to push the envelope even further with Search Plus. Not sure if this is a further step to compete with Facebook or not…? Danny Sullivan said in Search Engine Land: Perhaps [...]
Long Tail Search Engine Optimization
Why Long Tail Search Engine Optimization is Essential to Small Business SEO Success When your small business decides to invest in search engine optimization services you may decide to target some highly competitive keywords, which in turn take months or even years to surface on the first page of the search engine’s pages. A great [...]
Google Places Redesign – From Red to Grey Pins We Go!
I was notified of this official Google Places change of “red pin to grey pin” during GetListed’s Local U yesterday while Mike Blumental was presenting. What was even stranger was he was tweeting as he was speaking…? I think maybe his son was sending out tweets while he was speaking. Mike’s Tweet: #Localu Gotta love [...]
Does Google Consider SEO Spam?
I am really glad Matt Cutts answered this question on the Google’s Webmaster Youtube Channel about whether Google considers SEO spam…? I thought his answer was well stated and painted a good picture of most SEO’ers. Sometimes, I find our community is painted as a bunch of spammers and I think there is nothing further [...]
Merging Google Places Listings Just Got Easier
Google Places Announced Some Better Support Recently. Google Places published on their blog: That’s why we have the “Report a problem” tool on Google Maps, and also enable users to click on the “Edit this place” link at the top of the Place page to provide updates to a business listing.And while some business owners [...]
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 [...]
