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A Spoonful of SEO to Nurse Your Rankings Back to Health
The Internet isn’t just where people go to find out whether they can self-diagnose a brain tumor. Increasingly, the Internet is where potential patients shop around for the best local clinics and medical services. Fortunately, there are a few SEO principles that can help make your website easier to find. …
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Master SEO on Your Lunch Break with Free Search Influence University Webinars
Beginning this February, Search Influence is launching a free online webinar series called Search Influence University to provide business owners the opportunity to learn the ins and outs of online marketing. Designed with small business owners and operators, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit entities in mind, classes will be held during lunchtime …
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How To Fix A Manual Action
In recent weeks, there’s been chatter about a large influx of manual actions. This got me thinking: how many people actually know how to fix manual actions? Stay tuned, ’cause you’re gonna learn today! But First, the Basics: What Is a Manual Action? A manual action is a manual penalty …
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Dude, Where’s My Location? Google Removes Location Search Ability
While most people were recovering from Thanksgiving food comas on December 1st, Google was quietly removing the ability to change the location of your search. For those of you who don’t fondly remember, there used to be an option in the search tools that allowed you to pretend you were …
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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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