Does Homepage SEO exist at all?

It’s clear that a homepage serves a number of different purposes. Among others, it is your welcoming page and your main user guide for your website. I promise to devote another post to that. There is however one purpose that I feel a homepage does not have, and that is ranking for keywords other than your business name or…

This post first appeared on Yoast. Whoopity Doo!

Sitelinks Search Box

Google’s new sitelinks search box threatens to take your hard won branded traffic and hand it over to competitors unless you implement the specified markup. Here’s what’s happening and why you need to bump the sitelinks search box markup implementation to the top of your priorities. Sitelinks Search Box On September 5th Google announced the […]

Sitelinks Search Box is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.

When it Comes to URLs, Does Size Matter?

Pop quiz: You’re buying a website domain. You sell disco balls. Disco-ball-fever.com is $200. Disco.ball is $20. Which one do you buy? Answer: If you are trying to maximize how many people can recall your website domain five seconds after seeing it, then buy disco.ball. You’ve probably seen the internet awash lately in bizarre domain extensions. Speculators, […]

A Hack to Track Local Carousel Traffic

Proving the fruit of your labor can sometimes be tricky for anyone working to increase local visibility for a client. If the business is in the local pack, that’s one thing. But if a business appears in the local carousel, things get less clear because they’re ranked horizontally instead of vertically. And even if you […]

The Rich Snippets Algorithm

There’s been a tremendous amount of chatter recently about rich snippets vanishing from Google search results, whether it’s Amazon losing their review aggregate snippets or a wholesale reduction in video snippets. What we’re really talking about are changes to the rich snippets algorithm. That’s right, we need to go deeper. There’s an algorithm within the […]

The Rich Snippets Algorithm is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.

So You Have a Ton of Big Data, Now What?

Collecting, storing, and managing big data can be an invaluable asset for a business; however the thought of analyzing a copious amount of data – even if it does reveal a hidden company gem – can appear to be an exhausting, time-consuming, and repetitive process. As SEER interns, we had the amazing opportunity to research […]

8 Months at SEER

When I first started working at SEER, a friend sent me this meme: To which I responded, “Har har har”, and nothing more because I actually had no idea the extent of exaggeration/accuracy this stupid internet meme might represent. My story is similar to many young professionals. About a year ago, I was a fresh […]

Pinterest: The Must-Have Social Media Platform

These days it seems like there’s a new site that pops up every day claiming to be the next best thing when it comes to promoting your business, but does your site really need another social media platform to manage? Well, if you’re going to add additional social platform to your roster, Pinterest is the […]