Should We Even Care About The 2019 Local SEO Ranking Factors?
Wow, really waiting until the last minute to get this one out huh Dan? You betcha random voice from the internet. Literally the last calendared work day for Local SEO Guide from the year and here we are. And there is a reason for that. I have been suffering with severe intellectual malaise around this […]
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Open Sourcing 2017 Local SEO Ranking Factors Data
I just got back from #TechSEOBoost and spent a lot of time engaged in amazing conversations about data analysis, math and very importantly sharing data. So, after thinking about it, I decided I’m going to open source the data we used for the 2017 Local SEO Ranking Factors. This data is pretty interesting, and honestly […]
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Did Local Review Spammers Just Get Self-Served?
See Betteridge’s Law of Headlines for the answer. For those looking to procrastinate, feel free to read on. Yesterday’s Google announcement about it’s new “algorithmic updates” review mark-up caused a fair amount of Local SEO Twittering and Slacking. Today, we’re introducing an algorithmic update to review snippets to ease implementation:– Clear set of schema types […]
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Moz Local 301s To Uberall
Update: A Mozzer pinged me in a private Slack channel to lmk that they they are punting on listings management and working on relaunching MozLocal with more valuable features. This is slightly at odds with my guess at what happened below (but hey, #blogger), but it sounds like they are looking at baking more “Local” […]
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Free Beer!!!!!! SEO Contest!!!!!!
Hey friends! I’m way over-invested in rare beer and underinvested in giving back to the SEO community (aren’t we all?). There has been a lot of tweetin’ and discussin’ about forum/comment links lately. Do they have zero value for SEO, or is the devil in the details? Anyway, enough talk. If you can create a […]
How To Force Q&A On a GMB Page That Doesn’t Have It
Here’s a stupid little GMB Q&A thing I figured out yesterday I thought you all might enjoy. I was asked by mi nuevo amigo, Ruben Coll Molina of PA Digital in Spain, what is the event that triggers the Q&A functionality in a GMB profile? Ruben had found that some of their SMB customers did not have […]
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It’s Not Too Late To Localize Your Black Friday SEO Strategy
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are closing in. For most retailers, Black Friday is one of the biggest revenue generators of the year, but it’s surprising (except perhaps to most SEOs) how many of them neglect the basics. If you fall into that category, you still have a few days to try to turn that […]
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SEO Smoke Tests for Dynamic Rendering
via GIPHY Google just published an article on how to “Get Started With Dynamic Rendering.” If you are working on a site with a “modern framework” (e.g. Angular, React, or other tech with a lot of JavaScript features), you’ll want to bookmark that post. If reading is not your thing, a few weeks ago […]
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Structured Data Can = MehSEO
In 2011, Google, Bing & Yahoo announced Schema.org which got SEOs all excited to start marking up website content to turn it into “structured data.” The benefit would be that search engines would be more certain that a text string of numbers was in fact a phone number, or at least they would be more […]
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Structured Data Can = MehSEO
In 2011, Google, Bing & Yahoo announced Schema.org which got SEOs all excited to start marking up website content to turn it into “structured data.” The benefit would be that search engines would be more certain that a text string of numbers was in fact a phone number, or at least they would be more […]
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How Long Does It Take SEO Traffic To Recover From Blocking Googlebot?
Two weeks ago a client reset its bot-blocker, unintentionally blocking Googlebot. We had SEORadar monitoring the site so we quickly discovered the problem and alerted the client. Unfortunately, by the time they fixed the bot-blocker settings, they had lost about 100,000 daily visitors from Google. Of course, the first thing they asked was: How Long […]
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How Long Does It Take SEO Traffic To Recover From Blocking Googlebot?
Two weeks ago a client reset its bot-blocker, unintentionally blocking Googlebot. We had SEORadar monitoring the site so we quickly discovered the problem and alerted the client. Unfortunately, by the time they fixed the bot-blocker settings, they had lost about 100,000 daily visitors from Google. Of course, the first thing they asked was: How Long […]
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Server Side Rendering For Dummies (& Non-Technical SEO Decision-Makers)
Your engineering team just mentioned they are rolling out a new type of product landing page built with REACT or Angular or some other hipster tech name you may have seen out of the corner of your eye on your Twitter SEO feed. Your gut says this could be an SEO problem, and your gut […]
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Server Side Rendering For Dummies (& Non-Technical SEO Decision-Makers)
Your engineering team just mentioned they are rolling out a new type of product landing page built with REACT or Angular or some other hipster tech name you may have seen out of the corner of your eye on your Twitter SEO feed. Your gut says this could be an SEO problem, and your gut […]
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Paid Search Targeting Brand Keywords = SEO Death
For fans of the long-running SEO Death series, this isn’t really a new issue. About two years ago I posited Is Your Adwords Campaign Hijacking Your SEO Traffic? The answer of course was “yes.” Here’s the graph that illustrated the problem: I am re-upping this because we just got a new client that hired us […]
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The Ultimate Guide to Google Cache Text Strings
We have a client site whose SEO often defies description, along with canonicalization. We often have to check Google’s cache of various URLs to see what in fact Google is getting, but sometimes when you view the Full Version of the cache it just rapidly reloads like a blinking strobe light. Kind of like this: […]
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The Ultimate Guide to Google Cache Text Strings
We have a client site whose SEO often defies description, along with canonicalization. We often have to check Google’s cache of various URLs to see what in fact Google is getting, but sometimes when you view the Full Version of the cache it just rapidly reloads like a blinking strobe light. Kind of like this: […]
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Google Still Has A Lot of Work To Do When It Comes To Location…
One of the perks of international travel is getting to see what the SERPs really look like in other countries. Check out this query for “Sams Club”* I did while in Barcelona yesterday: So Google thinks the “Barcelona” line of Sam’s Club furniture is relevant to me simply because I am in Barcelona. Note my […]
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
Seriously Google Search Console, why do you do this to me? I want to like (trust) you, despite the historically numerous discrepancies in your data. I’m delighted you are addressing the feature lag that SEO’s love to complain about. But seriously, can we get internally consistent URL level data? Please?
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