We all are familiar by now with Alexa and Google Home. You can ask them questions and most of the time they will provide you with the right answer. Sometimes it’s right, and sometimes it’s wrong. Sometimes you get some odd answers, as well. But this one is pretty intriguing. You would think that Google knows a lot about historical figures, especially given the fact that Google has a very extensive Knowledge Graph. [Read more…]

Back in May 2016, Google made some changes to the search results where they started showing longer title tags and longer meta description tags. This, overall, was a significant change from the search results where they were generally only showing up to about 60-70 characters of a web page’s title tag and about 160 characters in a meta description tag. [Read more…]

We keep hearing about negative SEO, and negative SEO attacks against websites. If you have ever had a negative SEO attack leveraged against your website or your client’s website, then you probably know what a negative SEO attack looks like. It’s a lot of links pointed to a page or several pages on your website. In the past several years I’ve dealt with a lot of negative SEO attacks, and cleaned (and cleaned) those links up, and always disavowed those links. [Read more…]

Blockchain certainly has been on everyone’s mind lately, especially since Bitcoin’s value continues to go up. A lot more companies are accepting Bitcoin, even myself. In fact, I’ve been accepting Bitcoin for SEO services since 2013. I took a look at Google’s search results, and it’s interesting to note that Google is indexing over 8.7 million Blockchain URLs. [Read more…]

A while back, Google My Business launched a few new features, including the ability to make posts and the ability to create a website. I’ve written about these before. Just recently, though, I started looking into how successful these new Google My Business websites are. In effort to see more data about them, I’ve used a few tools to do a deep dive into the data about Business.Site. After all, Business.Site is, in fact a New gTLD domain name (.SITE is a Top Level Domain), and Business.Site is a domain name. [Read more…]

I haven’t noticed this before, but Google customizes their home page for you on your birthday. Perhaps this is new this year, as I didn’t notice it last year on my birthday. Yep, it’s my birthday today, November 27th. [Read more…]

With customization of the search results being so prominent these days, it’s difficult to really know where your website is ranking. Based on the actual location of the searcher, the search results will be different. Sometimes you’ll see a map in the search results, and for some search queries you won’t see a map. This can be very frustrating if you’re trying to check search engine rankings. [Read more…]

A while back, Google My Business launched a feature that allows verified local businesses to create their own website. Once logged in to Google My Business, you can use their interface to upload a header image, a title and headline, and text about your business. You can link out to other web pages, and a Google map is also embedded, so visitors can get directions to your business. Before publishing, you are asked to create a URL for your website, or order a custom domain name. [Read more…]

I’m honestly scratching my head on this one. Even though Google has made several different versions of a page on their website (i.e., one for each country), and they use the hreflang tag, Google’s own search engine doesn’t display the right page. Let me explain. [Read more…]

FoxNews.com is not currently HTTPs. As a result, the media outlet is losing out on what I suspect is a lot of ad revenue because ads are not being shown. Google AdSense ads, for example, are currently showing with an error, and ads are not loading. This is one major reason why, if you’re a website owner, you need to move your website to HTTPs immediately. [Read more…]