Search engine optimization may be one of digital’s most traditional and well-established disciplines, but change is afoot. In fact, few other aspects of digital are evolving as radically as SEO, and much of it is being driven by Google’s reinvention of the SERP (search engine results page) from simple directory to personalized portal. In the […]
Ah, the illustrious deity that is Google and its faithful servant, the search engine results page (SERP). We bow down to thee and ask that this content may rank highly and claim the glorious throne that is the first results page… If only a prayer could really earn that top spot on page one! While […]
If you are seeing a drop in traffic to your website in 2018 I can assure you, you are not alone. With SERPs looking a lot more like the below and Knowledge Panels housing vast amounts of information, the reality of local search right now is a user can get a ton of information without […]
A few years ago, I was interviewing for a search engine marketing position and the interviewer (who happens to be an SEM guru of sorts) asked me what my favourite Google innovation was. “Sitelinks,” I answered very quickly (they were new at the time). He nodded and asked the highest increase in CTR I had […]
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 […]