As the most used and highest performing search engine with more than a billion users, Google works hard to improve search results. However, the average user doesn’t know the search engine is specifically designed to handle complex searches for more relevant results using Search Operators. With the release of the Hummingbird algorithm in 2013, Google…
Should You Buy The .Sucks Version Of Your Company’s Domain
Most of us would like to think that terms like “sucks” would have been long ago left on the schoolyard, but companies are now suddenly forced to confront the unpleasant slander to protect their brands. Starting at the end of March, .sucks web domains will be open for registration, which means that companies with trademarked…
Crawling and Indexing Location-Adaptive Pages for SEO
We’ve been seeing a lot of dramatic changes and updates to Google SEO lately, particularly with respect to location-based ranking and mobile results. And just recently, Google made another significant change by introducing improvements to Googlebot that enable crawling and indexing of location-adaptive pages for SEO. The update will come as particularly great news for…
Google Testing Scrollable Mobile Local 3-Pack
A few months ago Ignite Visibility first reported Google testing the scrollable answer box feature on mobile. Now it seems they are testing a similar feature on the mobile local 3-Pack. Here are a few screen shots to exemplify what I am referring to. (The first screen shot is to show what I searched. You…
What you Need to do on Twitter to Rank Better on Google
In 2011, Google and Twitter cut ties with the end of the Real Time Search, which caused the search engine to have to crawl Twitter to index tweets. As a result, searching Twitter from Google was left very ineffective. Since cutting ties, Twitter has been working tirelessly to improve its position in search results. Twitter’s…
What is ILoveVitaly Referral Spam in Google Analytics?
The plague of ghost referrals to hit the internet includes a new one– ILoveVitaly. The spam referral is similar to darodar, priceg, blackhatworth, hulfingtonpost.com, and cenoval, creating fake page views that are posted to Google’s tracking services via random tracking IDs to wreak havoc on unsuspecting websites. If you search Google, you’ll find reports of…
What are Google Updates Pigeon, Panda, Penguin, Hummingbird? – A Simple Video Explanation
Google made some very big updates to its algorithms in 2o13 and 2014. 2015 should be no different! Some of the biggest name updates were the Pigeon, Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird updates. In this video, John Lincoln, explains the difference in these algorithm updates. Each update has different types of content or links that it…
The Ultimate Guide to the Google Pigeon Update
In July 2014, a local search algorithm update was released, which was dubbed Google Pigeon. Under the algorithm, Google aims to release more useful, accurate, and relevant local search results, which are visible within Google Maps and Google Web search. With local searches attracting 50 percent of mobile users to visit stores, Google Pigeon may…
An Honest Look at 5 Important SEO Practices that Google Demonized
Over the last couple years Google was on a rampage. Manual actions, panda, penguin, pigeon, hummingbird, sandboxes, too much anchor text, ahhh!!! All of the commotion around SEO topics is enough to freak anyone out, especially if you don’t read between the lines and study this stuff on the daily. Nonetheless, there are still important…
Google Answer Box Mobile Feature
There has been much debate over the Google answer boxes lately. We have also seen that it is showing much more frequently in search results. Last night I noticed a new feature when performing a mobile search. I searched “richest rappers” and the first result was of course an answer box from Google. However there…