When marketers talk about SEO, their focus is almost always on Google’s search engine. There is a good reason for this. Google accounts for more than 85% of all online web searches, while Bing comes in around 7%, meaning that the majority of your customers will be reaching your site via Google. But 7% of […]
When someone searches for something on Google, the search engine looks through its index of sites and webpages to determine which will have the best answers to the users’ query. Those sites are returned in the search results. Google creates this index by crawling all of the pages available on the internet. The Google crawler
How to Make Google More Likely to Index Pages on Your Website Read More »
In recent Google searches, you may have noticed new information popping up underneath different websites. A list of events, customer reviews, FAQs, and other items now show on the search results page. These features are possible with schema markup, a type of website content that lets businesses customize what shows in their listing on a
What Is FAQ Schema Markup and Why You Should Be Using It Read More »
It is the goal of every online marketing company to get your business to the top of Google search. Studies have consistently shown that users are more likely to click on the first, then second, then third website before the click through rate drops off dramatically. So the top of search engines is valuable real
The primary goal of content writing is to improve the website’s rank in search engines. While there are other benefits, such as improving conversions, building trust, etc., content writing’s main goal is to help a website raise its status in Google search for specific, targeted keywords. To do that, it has to appeal to the
How Some Websites Drop in Google Before They Get Better Read More »
Google is by far the dominant search engine. It has gotten to the point where Bing is actually paying people to use their search engine (note: if five of you sign up with that link, I get a free Starbucks gift card!) and other search engines, like Yahoo, are basically obsolete. So Google pretty much
Google has long been “the name” in online marketing. It is the search engine referenced by nearly every SEO company and the baseline that people use to find out how well their marketing efforts are working. Google’s claim to fame is an algorithm that does a fantastic job removing spam and providing users with “answers”
Online marketing can, at times, seem expensive for a small business. While big businesses spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on temporary advertising every day (that would be better invested in online marketing), small businesses usually invest in very little marketing, if they invest it anything at all. For those businesses, the idea of spending
Long Term Thinking: Companies that Invest Now Have Massive ROI Read More »
Google has always had one mission: to link people to answers to their search queries. The recent Google Hummingbird update – the biggest overhaul of the Google algorithm in possibly a decade – is simply another step to making sure that people are provided with information that answers their questions. One of the types of
Google Hummingbird may not have received much press outside of the marketing world, but it’s believed that the Hummingbird update may have been the single most important update Google has made since its algorithm was first released. It’s a change designed specifically to assist websites that offer real, valuable content. We’re pleased to share that
About 5 months ago, I created a research post on pest control marketing, specifically looking at what it takes to complete in online marketing and branding for pest control. I chose the Staten Island area, because it’s a fairly large area without a large online branding presence. Five months seems to be a decent time
An Update on Staten Island Pest Control Marketing Read More »
Search engines regularly update their algorithms to answer search queries. Most of the time this helps legitimate businesses. Sometimes it doesn’t. There is a growing movement of marketers that believe Google is trying to make sure businesses need more content and more marketing to compete – more than they can afford – so that they
The Death of SEO: Introduction to Content Writing in a Post Search Engine World Read More »
YP, formerly known as the Yellow Pages, now offers website rentals for small businesses. YP creates a small, five page website for your company and charges close to $100 a month. For companies that don’t have a website, this may seem like a steal. After all, you get an attractive, mobile ready website almost instantly,
Many businesses limit their online marketing budgets to a few hundred or a few thousand dollars a month. Because of the financial limitations, most of those companies put all of their marketing money into pay per click ads. The hope is that with their monthly investment of a few hundred dollars they’ll be able to
Content Marketing vs. PPC – Short and Long Term Benefits Read More »
Google’s pagerank is fluid. It updates constantly through its web crawlers and it’s not really a number, but a mathematical generation of value that can change any given minute of any given day. But Google does release a “pagerank” every three months or so – a numerical representation of your current rank in the Google
2012 November Google Pagerank Update Expected Soon Read More »
Quick post for today, but answering a common question that people have about the future of search – whether or not the most popular search engines can ever be beaten. Spoiler Alert! The answer is yes. Take DuckDuckGo.com, for example. It’s a simple search engine with no ads that doesn’t track your search history. It
