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An Update: How to Get Rich (Answers, That Is) with Google
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on December 3, 2015, and then updated on July 28, 2016, to provide you with the latest information. 2016 Rich Answers: Update Over the years, we’ve continued to follow and analyze Google’s perpetually evolving search engine results page (or SERP) to stay on top …
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AI Is Here, and It’s Affecting Your SEO: A Look at Google’s RankBrain
In late October, Google announced that they are actively using an artificial intelligence algorithm called RankBrain as part of the search results engine. This has rolled out slowly since early 2015 and has become a factor for website owners and search marketers to pay attention to, according to Bloomberg. “RankBrain has become …
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Google My Business Brings the Holiday Cheer with Special Office Hours Pre-Sets
Yesterday, a new My Business feature was published by Google in the product forums. This new feature allows business owners to pre-set special hours to their My Business listing for holiday closings or special times that are exceptions to your day-to-day office hours. There is more information in Google Support documentation. If …
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‘Tis the Season: Ten Ways to Enhance Your Online Presence All Year Round
Traffic to your website depends on how relevant your landing page is in relation to the terms being searched and how well optimized your site is in the eyes of Google. If demand for your products and services is low for a certain time of the year, chances are search …
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Don’t Leave Your Website Buffering: How to Make Big SEO Gains with Video Content
Everyone likes watching videos on the Internet—funny videos, cute animal videos, cute kid videos, and cute videos with kids AND animals. And while there will always be a place for these videos in our hearts and on the web (what would YouTube be without them?), video content has recently found …
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Ya-Who? The Slow Decline Has Already Begun for Yahoo’s Local Listing Service
Changes can surprise the SEO world (looking at you, phantom Google updates), and sometimes, changes can be seen a mile away. This is when everyone should look at Yahoo and their local listings. Their importance is diminishing every day, and eventually they will be a thing of the past, like …
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Patience Is A Virtue, But If You Don’t Have It, Use Google’s Popular Times
As a naturally impatient person, I struggle with the following: people who take forever to text me back, traffic, and long lines. Thankfully, Google Search’s newest feature called Popular Times lets impatient people like myself know when a restaurant, business, or venue is busiest so we can avoid rush hour. …
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Hello Bing, Goodbye Yahoo Local: Moz Local Makes Moves
Moz Local made some small changes to its reporting dashboard over the past week or so. These small layout differences indicted a large change in the capabilities of the tool. Only announced on August 18th (though acknowledging that updates slowly rolled out over the previous week), Moz has added City …
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Running With The Pack: Competing in Local Search Just Got Harder
Overnight on Aug. 6, Google updated search results for mobile and desktop searches from local seven-pack to a three-pack. This is not just in the United States; it seems to be worldwide and rolled out at one time. It’s really early to start dissecting this change, but I’m not seeing …
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Reconstruct the SEO Strategy of Your Medical Practice
A referral by a physician used to be the most common way people chose health care specialists. However, now patients are turning to Google and other search engines for health information and to select a physician. In fact, 62 percent of smartphone owners used their phone to search for information …
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