Google My Business has taken the country and world by storm. My clients and other local businesses are taking advantage of GMB to get better exposure in Google. Google is offering more and more functionality and interaction to GMB and is rewarding businesses that use it. We have seen many clients increase calls from GMB [...]
Digital Marketing scams have been around for ages and seem to keep recycling with twists based on the latest offerings or focus from Google or other venues. In recent months, I have seen the account hijacking scam attempted multiple times on different clients or prospects I have been working with. I guess the easiest answer [...]
The Google My Business (GMB) page is becoming more and more important for not only just local businesses but every business trying to do business through Google, which is pretty much a required piece of your marketing strategy going into 2019. Earlier this year, I did video posts on how to claim your GMB listing [...]
Search Engine Watch recently put out an article on the key ranking factors for 2019. Keeping in line with what I have said for years, the ABC's of ranking in Google have stayed the same since day 1. Google has simply gotten better at quantifying the user experience than they used to be so they [...]
I posted earlier in the week about the latest local search ranking factors study that came out. With that post, I discussed which factors seemed to carry the most weight and some of the things a business owner could do at lower levels of effort to improve their positioning and exposure. With this post, I [...]
Whitespark and Moz, two great and trustworthy sources in search engine marketing, just released the latest local search ranking factors study. For you small business owners, the good news is that things that you have complete control over are increasing in importance as Google tries to get more people to utilize Google My Business (GMB), [...]
I still regularly get calls from business owners who seemed to have a sudden disappearance from search. This post is to help these people. If you aren't close to the search industry and living with Google algorithm changes and adjustments every day, often you think that you hit a button or made some change that [...]
I work with many small businesses who are primarily locally targeted, and one of the questions I get most often is "Do I have to blog?" In the world of SEO, they say "Content is King" and many people are sold that they need to keep blogging to succeed, and there is some truth to [...]
I have posted about the importance of redirects when doing site updates or redesigns in the past, but I am seeing more and more complication with the problem in recent months than ever before. Having your redirects done incorrectly or not at all can be one of the most devastating things you can do to [...]
It is the summer of 2018 and though Google says they try to simplify things, SEO gets more and more complicated. I wanted to do a quick overview for the small business owner to at least have a basic knowledge of what is important to ranking for that phrase they want to show up for. [...]
