These days, Google isn’t really trying to hide that fact that they’re pretty frustrated with the pace of mobile-friendly content development across the Internet. That’s why it wasn’t terribly surprising when the search giant took the unprecedented step of telling websites to get mobile friendly or else. As you’ve probably heard by now, on April 21st […]
Share14 was high on my list of 2014 conferences not to miss, and it delivered. The impressive speaker line-up included SEO professionals from large enterprise organizations such as BING, Google, M3 and Marriott International sharing insider tips and tactics that we can use to help clients at our own agency. The overall focus […]
Search quality has undoubtedly been Google’s watchword over the past 18 months, as unprecedentedly prickly algorithm updates have sent shock-waves through the SEO community. As search marketers have squawked and scrambled to adjust, Google has firmly stood by its message of making the experience better for the user. Set against this backdrop, the problems that […]
One of the biggest pitfalls of adhering to so-called “SEO best practices” is that human beings are creatures of habit. As such, we cling to ideas that have been relevant to us based on personal experience, sometimes in the face of all logic (just look at all of the websites still using the keyword meta […]
Among the standing room only crowd at the SES conference in Toronto last week, Avinash Kaushik, the Google Marketing Evangelist spoke about the things that annoy users and keep businesses from maximizing their online results. There were two points that really stood out. “The obsession businesses have with ranking is stupid,” he said. The primary goal […]
Since Matt Cutts announced the Penguin update some weeks ago (aka, the over-optimization penalty), the SEO industry has been trying to figure out exactly what it means. Penguin officially rolled out late last month, and there have been a whole passel of accounts of sites getting hit pretty hard. In the official post on the […]
There seem to be two types of companies: Those who get mobile, and those who don’t. It’s often a function of cost: they’re investing in search, SEO, local listings and landing pages — and mobile is simply one more line item. If a visitor can already access a site on his or her mobile device, […]
I am going to start by assuming that social media is already a key part of your marketing strategy (if it’s not, please watch the video below, and take a giant leap into the present). Now, for those of you who are active in social media, I’m sure many of you will attest, implementing social media […]
Matt Cutts, Google’s sheriff of all things SEO, caused quite a stir among search folks when he let slip at SXSW that Google is essentially rolling out an official algorithm update that will penalize sites that engage too vigorously in search engine optimization. To paraphrase, Cutts said that, as part of Google’s ongoing effort to rank the […]
There are lots of questions to ask yourself when planning your social media strategy for the year, but spending time focusing on how your social media efforts will affect your search results should be top of mind. What does that “like,” retweet or +1 mean for your business or client? How is it affecting the […]