You may have noticed recently that Google added favicons to search results. Favicons are those little square images that sometimes appear in the address bar of a web page or bookmarked URLs. But there is a reason why Google added favicons to the search engine results pages (SERPs). This was not a feature that was […]
Why Google Added Favicons to Search Results
Google Announces June 2019 Core Update
On June 3rd, 2019, Google started rolling out a broad update to the ranking algorithm, named the June 2019 Core Update. They announced this over the weekend, and on June 2nd, 2019, there were temporary outages of Google services (Gmail, YouTube, Google Search, Google Cloud) across the world in various locations. Maybe they needed to […]
Should You Pay For a Wikipedia Article?
This is a question I see every week in SEO forums. Should you pay to have someone create a Wikipedia page for your company? Many online marketers believe that having a Wikipedia article will help boost your SEO. My advice is, unless you are a national or international company, hold off on that. Wikipedia has […]
Can You Do SEO Without Paid Tools?
Today I’m answering a great question that I saw in an SEO forum, “Can you do SEO without paid SEO tools?” When we say, “paid SEO software”, it refers to tools like Ahrefs, SEMrush, Moz Pro, Majestic, Mangools, and many others. I believe that you can do SEO without any tools except for Google itself. […]
Did the Google Search Quality Raters Visit Your Site?
What are the Google Quality Search Rater Guidelines? They are a checklist given to Google independent contractors, who are tasked with scoring the search results that Google returns for certain search phrases. If you want to see the Search Quality Rater Guidelines, there’s a link here. They were last updated publicly on July 20, 2018. […]
“We Have 100 Google Reviews, But We’re Not in the 3-Pack Map?”
Updated November 16th, 2020 No Comments on “We Have 100 Google Reviews, But We’re Not in the 3-Pack Map?”I saw an interesting question recently: a mattress company with over 100 Google reviews wants to know why they don’t come up in the 3 pack map. When they search for mattress company related keywords close to their location, the Google 3 pack map shows businesses farther away. These other companies have far less Google […]
Should You Change the Publish Date of a Post for SEO?
Today’s question is, “What criteria does Google look at when they are trying to figure out the last time a blog post or article was updated?” “I have some blog posts that need updating. Some need a few tweaks. Others need major overhauls.” “But I need to know what they are looking for when reconsidering […]
Social Media Colors 2020
Social media colors in HEX and RGB for 48 top brands, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, Reddit, Twitch, and more social platforms.
Embed YouTube Videos Without Competitor Videos At The End
Updated November 16th, 2020 No Comments on Embed YouTube Videos Without Competitor Videos At The EndPeople want to embed YouTube videos on their website, but don’t want competitor videos showing in “Recommended Videos” at the end of the video play. YouTube changed embeds in 2018, to where you can no longer disable recommended videos from appearing after a video finishes playing. They want people to keep watching videos as much […]
Why Google Rewrites Your Titles and Descriptions in Search Results
Updated November 16th, 2020 8 Comments on Why Google Rewrites Your Titles and Descriptions in Search ResultsIn certain cases, Google will rewrite your title tags and meta descriptions in search results. We look at some reasons the Google algorithm will choose to do this.