We’ve been keeping a close watch on the variety of tests and changes Google has made recently to improve local results, including helpful mobile features and location-adaptive pages. Yet, there’s some new, incredibly useful local features that we’ve noticed many businesses often overlook: enabling Google to more easily find and display additional preferred business phone…
Google Now Provides Subdomain Support with Change of Address Tool
Webmasters who want to move a subdomain to a new domain now have an easier means to notify Google of the change. Although the official Google announcement only came on April 15, 2015, late last month, Google secretly unveiled the new added support for webmasters to move a subdomain to new domain through the use…
Game Changer, Chrome 42 to Show Warnings for non-HTTPS
On Monday, Google’s Ilya Grigorik posted a stern reminder that Google Chrome will start displaying warnings for websites that don’t hold a verification for HTTPS in Chrome 42 (make sure yours is up to date). Also, sites that are non-HTTPS will be flagged as vulnerable. This anticipated move comes after a proposal from the Chrome…
Ultimate Guide to Google Search Operators
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…