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Why You Should be Posting on Google My Business
“Just Yahoo it,” said no one ever. It just doesn’t have the same ring as “Google it,” which was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in 2006. That’s because Google has practically monopolized internet searching. According to NetMarketShare, Google accounted for over 79 percent …
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What Are The Most Important Review Sites? Start With These Three
In order to remain competitive in the local search space, it is essential to encourage your customers to provide feedback about your business. Reviews and interaction with your digital properties help search engines and users learn more about your business; in today’s environment, if you are neglecting these review sites, …
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The Beginning of Google’s Mobile-first Index Rollout Is Underway—Are You Prepared?
In 2016, Google announced they had begun testing a new ranking system based on indexing all mobile content first. Now, it’s official. The eagle has landed! The beginning of Google’s mobile-first indexing rollout is now well underway. As Google continues to move toward the big shift, it’s important that your …
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What Happened to My Meta Descriptions in Search Results?
During a typical day-to-day interaction with Google’s SERP recently, I started to realize the variable nature in which meta descriptions were being pulled into search results for our site. We know that last December Google announced the expanded the character count guidelines for meta descriptions, but that did not seem …
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Mobile Travelers: 4 Ways Mobile Search is Used in Vacation Planning
We’ve come a long way from lugging around heavy guidebooks and drawing out routes on paper maps. In fact, we’ve even come a long way from planning vacations on desktop computers. Google shares that a growing number of travelers are planning vacations on their mobile devices, with mobile’s share of travel …
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Rookie Website Mistakes, Part 6: You Abandon Good Work When Replacing an Old Site
So, you’re launching a new spiffy, user-friendly website? Or, maybe you’re migrating your site from an HTTP to HTTPS secure domain? To make the launch as successful as possible, there are a few important steps you (or more likely your web developer) should take on the backend to facilitate a …
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The Final Countdown: Secure Your Website to Align With Google’s Update to Chrome
The year is almost over, October is finally upon us, and if you’re wondering what you should be checking off of your business plan “to-do list,” then you should definitely place priority on reviewing the security of your website. Starting this month, Google will officially be letting your visitors know …
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Turning Links Into Lemonade: Your Guide to Juicy Internal Linking
You’ve likely heard of internal links. In terms of SEO jargon (which there’s a lot to sift through), they’re pretty straightforward. Internal links are just the hyperlinks on your site that point to other pages within the same domain. For example, your homepage content probably has internal links pointing readers …
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Rookie Website Mistakes, Part 4: You Have a Single Page Website
Single page websites are very popular right now with web designers. With so many new ways to develop websites, they’ve become a unique and scroll-friendly way for users to interact with a company in a way that they’re used to (cue the token image of people scrolling through phones). And, …
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Rookie Website Mistakes, Part 3: Your Site Isn’t Mobile-Friendly
Now that you have learned how to get your website found in Google searches, Part 3 of our Rookie Website Mistakes blog series will explore how to get mobile visitors to stay. It’s no secret that the current generation is keen on the combination of mobility and technology. We are …
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