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Tiny Houses and Tiny Spaces: Making the best use out of space
The term “Netflix” is Internet speak for “how to kill 2 hours on a rainy Saturday evening.” Well, it was one of those times, and I had stumbled upon Tiny: A Story About Living Small. This documentary shows Christopher Smith’s yearlong journey to find a home of his own. To …
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Google Instant Verification Passes The Sentence & Swings The Sword
On July 31st, Google rolled out an instant verification option for local businesses that have already verified their websites with Google Webmaster Tools. There is, however, very specific cases. As the Google support page linked above states, it’s important to note “that some business categories may not be eligible for …
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Give Your Site Some Link-building Lovin’
With this year’s Google algorithm updates, we’ve heard a lot of buzz about implementing disavows and getting rid of bad, non-relevant links to your site. However, what we’ve heard less about is what to do after you get rid of all of those links. Now that those disavowed or deleted …
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A Few Things You May Or May Not Have Ever Wanted To Know About Schema, But Were Too Bored To Ask
As Google continues to affirm its support for more detailed types of schema markup when crawling sites, it seems that there is an increased level of general interest in the concept and implementation of schema. I know that across our office, there are constant enraptured whispers about the ethereal mystery …
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HTTPS: Guardians Of The Google Galaxy
Last week, Google published a blog post stating unequivocally that encryption will be a ranking factor for websites. They said, “We’re starting to use https as a ranking signal.” They did downplay that message slightly by adding the impact would be a small amount of rankings trust: Here is a …
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Survive Your Serving of Google’s Pigeon Pie
Late last week, influencer Erika Karas wrote an informative blog about Google’s algorithm update, Pigeon. The new Pigeon update might make it more difficult for individual businesses to rank among sites that Google deems more useful and relevant to local searchers’ results. Most local directories received a boost in rankings …
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“Pigeon” Algorithm Update Released Thursday 7/24/14
Pigeon: The New Google Local Search Algorithm Takes Flight Yesterday, July 24th, 2014, Google pushed live what Search Engine Land is calling the “Pigeon” update. SEO sources are reporting that this update is specifically affecting the local search algorithm. This update has further intertwined organic and local indicators, algorithms and …
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Call Me, Tweet Me (If You Wanna Rank Me) – Google Update Favors Mobile Sites
Recently, Google released a blog about the importance of having a modern website that supports modern devices. Google has always put emphasis on the user’s experience. Now, they are trying to avoid sending users to sites that don’t promote a good user-friendly experience. Google explains that flash sites will display …
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Is Your Website Healthy? Increase Its Organic Intake & Watch It Grow!
Whether you’ve noticed it or not, all website owners are in the parenthood business. Our websites are our babies; despite how frustrating they can seem, how stressed they make us, and how much of our money and time they require, we love them anyway. And, of course, we want them …
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Google Changes The Way Authorship Shows In Search Results
Last Wednesday, June 25, John Muller, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, made a pretty big announcement on his Google plus page. In the ongoing effort for a better and more consistent mobile experience, Google has decided to remove authorship circle count and profile photos from search results. Muller said, “Our …
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