I was talking to a young Local SEO type, a kid in his mid-30s, who was lamenting that his new gig at some dysfunctional digital marketing company sucked and he didn’t want to stick around but he, and most notably, his wife, were scared at the prospect of leaving a job so soon and what would interviewers think of that, etc. My response was basically “If you are unhappy in your job and you don’t want to try to improve the…
When we relaunched LocalSEOGuide.com at the end of June, we decided it was time to start publishing content on a more regular basis. As long-time readers know, I have been a sporadic blogger at best since my early glory days of daily blogging. Now that we have more hands & brains on deck, hopefully we have more to say. We started out with a bang with the publishing of our monster Local SEO Ranking Factors study and I thought it would be…
If you have been doing SEO for the past few years, particularly for start-ups, chances are you have had to figure out how deal with SEO for Progressive Web Apps. Progressive Web Apps can be great for users but they are not always the most reliable for SEO. Google has not exactly been consistent in its recommendations for how to deal with AJAX crawling. We always recommend to clients the “Sleep At Night” strategy when it comes to SEO – meaning…
We often get asked why Google is not indexing the URLs in a client site’s XML sitemaps. There are plenty of reasons why Google may be ignoring these sitemaps. For example: Sitemap URLs don’t work URLs in the sitemaps redirect/don’t work/timeout, etc URLs in the sitemaps are not linked in the UI or are generally low-quality The site switched from http to https and the XML sitemaps are http (see #2), etc. But the #1 reason by far that Google…
SearchEngineLand just posted my transcript of the Ask The SEOs session from last week’s SMX Advanced 2016. I started reading it to make sure I had accurately represented the conversation and it occurred to me there were some real gems in there that might benefit from being summarized here. I also loved the shot I got of Greg, Todd, Laura and Adria and couldn’t resist using it on these hallowed pages. With that, I proudly present Ask The SEOs Cliff…
A tiptoe through the Enterprise SEO tulips… Seo Is Always the Lowest Priority…Until It's Not MNSearch Summit2016 from Andrew Shotland
Q: Why Did We Update The Site? A: Because The Old Site Sucked, Right? Well, that’s not completely the case, although I had received my fair share of requests (mostly from Pakistan for some reason) to redesign the old site over the years. Here’s the ready-for-Medium explanation for the ten of you who care: I launched LSG.com in 2007 after working as an SEO consultant for a year without a site. I used to love to say to prospects “Real…
PLEASANTON, CA – On June 20th, 2016, Local SEO Guide, one of the world’s premiere providers of Local SEO Services (a high volume keyword according to Google Keyword Planner), after months of procrastination, several false starts and stops, awkward discussions about putting up or shutting up and endless debates about which font “really expresses who we are”, is proud to announce the launch of its new website to celebrate the company’s tenth year in business. While it is in fact…
I just downloaded GBoard, the new Google iOS app that replaces the standard iOS keyboard with a keyboard that allows you to search Google from the board itself – and the results show up as cards at the bottom of the browser. Check it out: Gboard appears when you start to search in an iOS browser: Results show as a single card at the bottom. Scroll to the right for more results. If this thing catches on, you’d best be…
Check out the “342 matches” snippet attached to the MadisonApartmentLiving.com result for “madison wi apartments“: That “342 matches” is only visible on the MadisonApartmentLiving home page when javascript is turned on: So not only is Google seeing content in JS, it considers a number + “matches” relevant enough to put it in the SERP snippet. We always tell clients not to rely on Google to see your content that requires JS, and we still will, but GOOG is getting pretty…