Google Eliminates Right Side Ads
Google is no longer showing ads on the right hand side of their search results. Additionally, Google is showing four ads at the top of their results instead of just
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Updates To Google Webmaster Guidelines Summary
One of the documents that I always urge anyone interested in learning about SEO to read is the Google Webmaster Guidelines. It is essentially Google’s playbook on how to format
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Google Unveils Their Search Quality Rater Guidelines
Over the past 10 years, Google has used focus groups to help them review their search results and the quality of the pages that they rank highly. If a user in the program, called a Search Quality Rater, gives a site a low rating, that doesn’t actually (immediately) impact current Google rankings. Rather Google sets their Search Quality Raters into action for running their experiments. For example, if Google decided to run a specific mobile site experiment, the Search Quality raters are used to both help Google run that experiment and to better understand the experiments they’re running.
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What Is RankBrain & Why Should I Care?
Fix all thin content. Check. Use disavow tool to remove bad links. Check. What’s next on the SEO checklist? Learn about RankBrain and why it has become the third-most important Google ranking signal.
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4 Quick Ways To Get Your Small Business In The Top 10 On Google
You just launched a new site for your small business. Congrats! You may be a bakery, a dog salon or an ice cream shop. Now the trick is getting the word out. Focusing on SEO is a great way (and in most cases entirely free) to promote your website and more importantly your business. After all, over 90% of consumers use the internet to find local businesses. Here are a few relatively quick tasks you can complete in a day or two to help those consumers find you.
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Three Reasons Why Your Blog Isn’t Getting Traffic
At A2 Hosting, we’re all about making sure you get the fastest page load speeds possible. That way your audience can have an excellent user experience when they visit your site. Your audience’s experience is a big part of the puzzle for you to be successful, but you need an audience in the first place.
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Blocking Referral Junk & Spam Traffic In Analytics
Do you ever look at your referral traffic in Analytics and notice sites that aren’t even linking to you sending hundreds and maybe thousands of visits? At first glance you may be tempted to pat yourself on your back because these referrals gives your traffic stats a boost. At second glance however you realize these aren’t real referrals; they’re spam referrals. These so called visitors aren’t actually going to your site. Instead they are sending data to Google Analytics making it look like they’re visiting your site.
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Is User Experience The #1 SEO Ranking Factor?
Still stuck in the mindset that tons of backlinks and tons of content is the most effective way to skyrocket up Google’s rankings? Sure these both have an impact on your rankings, but always make sure to provide a positive user experience for your users. Google has even been quoted in previous blog posts about rewarding high quality sites that “The goal of many of our ranking changes is to help searchers find sites that provide a great user experience and fulfill their information needs. “
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