Smart speaker sales have skyrocketed -- Nearly 58 million Americans now own one of these voice assistants. As a result, savvy business owners are thinking up new ways to optimize their websites for voice search and reach more customers. Google Home, for example, provides these business owners...
What were the top searches in 2018? Google Trends Data As each year closes, Google Trends data reflects not only these everyday queries, but also the moments, people, ideas, and questions that made that trip around the sun so unique. Celebrate all the good the world searched for...
How long should your meta descriptions be? That's the million-dollar question webmasters everywhere are asking. It's an understandable question. Google is continuing to tinker with meta descriptions throughout 2018. At issue is the greatest. amount of characters allowed to describe the contents of a web page. But what is...
The interwebs are buzzing about Google's latest algorithm update, dubbed the Medic Update. After the update, many sites reported rankings boosts while other sites fell like a rock. How did your site fare? And who else was impacted by the Google algorithm Medic Update? Read on as we examine...
Every year Google handles around two trillion searches, sifting through over a billion websites. The algorithm it uses represents the best in software and gets updated all the time. But why is that? Why does the Google algorithm have to change so much? It all has to...
We received notifications to email this morning about Mobile-First Indexing. Apparently a good percentage of sites managed are now officially indexed according to Google's new Mobile-First Indexing algorithm. Here's a screenshot of the entire message: They said it would happen and now it has. We will be...
Google is constantly updating its algorithm to improve its user experience. In fact, the internet behemoth admits that it makes one or more updates a day to its algorithm. Trying to keep up with them all is practically impossible. That's why most businesses focus on the...
Internet marketers today are used to being tossed to and fro by Google's steady, but frequent algorithm changes. But this doesn't mean we're not constantly sitting at the edges of our seats each time an update rolls out. If there's anything we learned in the past...
Google confirmed that they ran a "broad core algorithm update" in March of 2018. But there's nothing new about these updates. They do them rather routinely. What makes this particular Google algorithm update noteworthy is that it impacted the appearance and rankings of some websites in the...
The first wave of Google mobile-first indexing notifications went out yesterday. For the first time since Google announced the rollout of the mobile-first indexing process just over a month ago, SEOs and webmasters are now getting notifications via Google Search Console of their sites being “enabled”...