After the Legislative leadership postponed the vote ending cannabis prohibition on March 25th, headlines in the papers claimed, “Effort to Legalize Cannabis Collapses,” and “Marijuana Vote Postponement a Major Blow to Legalization Movement.” Everyday, conversations and negotiations continue amongst leadership, their staff and certain legislators to address the issues they need addressed. As we’ve said … Read more
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 a meta description? And what … Read more
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 key findings from the Medic Update. … Read more
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 sure to track visibility impact from this update. … Read more
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 big changes. Every few months, the company releases a … Read more
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 search results. And this caused some panic. … Read more
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” for mobile-first indexing. The notification reads “mobile-first indexing enabled … Read more
Google News and Its New Minimalist Look Google News is one of the most trusted sources for world news. Because of this, Google is revolutionizing their News section. Google is developing a minimalist view, perfect for users who desire more control over the way News is viewed. The minimalist view of News will be focused … Read more
Never underestimate the power of local SEO — especially since half of all local searches conducted on a mobile device get customers in your store that same day. Of course, many of those local searchers are also using Google Maps to help them navigate directly to your store. As a result, it’s highly likely that you’ve already … Read more
Google Update: How to Check if You Were Impacted In the middle of March 2017, the latest Google update, known as ‘Fred’, hit without word or warning. Needless to say, the SEO community is buzzing with speculation about the update. Many website owners may have witnessed a change in their traffic and rankings, as a … Read more