March was an exciting month for Internet marketing. In this video, John Lincoln, President of SEO and Social Media at Ignite Visibility, covers the biggest changes. Internet Marketing News for March 2014 Changes in Internet Marketing in March 2014 Media servers gaining popularity Internet of things Yahoo Shows more Yelp Panda Update My Blog Guest…
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Google News Sites See Drop in Crawl Rate in March
This is an important industry update. Google has decided to drop the crawl rate for news sites. You can see your Google crawl rate in the Webmaster Tools crawl rate report. Apparently, they have figured out a way that they do not need to crawl news websites as often. See tweets from Matt Cutts below….
How CDN Could Impact Your Google Crawl Rate and Sales?
Many websites are moving to CNDs or Content Delivery Networks. These CDNs can really help page speed, which is excellent, but what a lot of people don’t know is they can also kill your Google crawl rate and in some cases your sales. What is Issue with CDNs? Over the past month, I have had…
Heartbleed Bug – New Critical Vulnerability You need to Know
Change your passwords, watch your data and keep an eye on your accounts. The Heartbleed Bug is putting web security at risk and you need to be aware of it. According to the LA Times, “The discovery of a significant flaw in software that was supposed to provide extra protection for thousands of websites has…
Key Takeaways from UCSD Tech Night: John Lincoln & Mikel Bruce
This week Mikel Bruce and I spoke at UCSD technology night. The subject, SEO, Social Media and Analytics. We had an excellent class and it was a ton of fun. A big thanks to everyone who attended. We only had an hour, so it was very hard to cover all the different aspects of SEO….
How Reviews Affect Local Search Rankings
Online reviews have taken on greater and greater significance over the past few years for local business. Yelp was founded nearly a decade ago, and since it’s emergence on the scene has grown to make and break businesses all over the US. In 2001, Google purchased Zagat in 2011, and since then the importance of…
5 Tech Media Servers Marketing Departments Should Watch
No intro needed, let’s just look at these tech media servers! Google TV Google TV is pretty amazing. Not only does it give you quick access to YouTube, it also allows for voice search. That’s right, you can do a voice search right into your remote and then Google TV will pull up a show….
Affected by a Google SEO Penalty? How can you Tell?
In this video, Matt Cutts discusses how you can tell if your site has an algorithm penalty from Google. The answer Matt gives is very long and complicated. He first states that if you have a manual action you will know by logging into webmaster tools. But an algorithm penalty is very hard to determine,…
Multiple Breadcrumbs on a Page for SEO
In this Google webmaster video, Matt Cutts discusses how Google handles multiple breadcrumbs on a page. Matt reveals that Google will actually only pick the first one to follow. Matt mentions that you should try to get pages in the correct category and hierarchy due to this particular issue. Google states that you can have…
Ignite Goes DiSC! Cool Test for SEO Companies and Marketing Departments
At Ignite Visibility, like most Internet marketing companies, we are a pretty close-knit team. However, we wanted to learn even more about each other so that we could work better together. We often have multiple deadlines in a day, so it is critical that we all know the best ways to communicate. The Process Over the…