Authorship can help your SEO. It increases CTR, can help build backlinks and overall establish credibility. But you can’t get all of these benefits unless you hook it up! In this blog, we walk you through setting up Google + authorship for your website. Full disclaimer, I took these steps straight from Google. Sign up…
Hummingbird Update SEO Video
The Hummingbird Update Changed SEO – In this video, John Lincoln, President of SEO and Social Media at Ignite Visibility, covers key changes to SEO as a result of the Hummingbird update. Some of those changes include better answers to questions, less emphasis on dead links, increase importance on social media, schema.org as a ranking…
Google SEO and Internet Marketing Changes from Matt Cutts PubCon 2013
PubCon is an excellent event that attracts Internet marketing experts from across the world. This year, Matt Cutt’s, head of webspam at Google, revealed some exciting news about the future of Google and search engine optimization. Watch Matt Cutt’s at PubCon 2013 Important SEO Points from PubCon 2013 Google is working hard at fighting blackhat…
Does it Matter How you Bold for SEO? Strong vs B HTML Tags
Sometimes search engine optimization experts get a little weird. They start focusing way too much on the details and often get in endless debates over little things that don’t matter. This actually drives me crazy. Which is why we try to be much more big picture oriented here at Ignite Visibility. That being said, SEO…
Key Google Hummingbird Update Changes, A New World of SEO
We are pretty much thrilled with the new Google Hummingbird update. The focus of this new algorithm falls directly into Ignite Visibilitiy’s quality content and high-touch SEO strategy. Things have changed with this new Google update. Here is what you need to know. Google will only value links that are clicked on As a result…
Internet Marketing Changes in September – Hummingbird, Blocked Keywords, Facebook!
There were some major updates in September in SEO, AdWords, Analytics and Social Media! Some of the updates include the Google Hummingbird update (and another Penguin Update), Cross Device Conversion Estimated in AdWords, Google blocking all organic keyword data in Google Analytics, Facebook introducing penalties, Facebook changing their contest rules and Pinterest and Instagram launching…
Google Hummingbird Update to Impact 90% of Searches
Google has announced a massive update that will impact approximately 90% of searches. This update is the largest since it switched to Caffeine back in 2010. Exciting! According to Mashable, “Google on Thursday announced a handful of new updates to the company’s search offering, including a major update to Google’s search algorithm that the company…
Does IPv4 and IPv6 Create Duplicate Content for SEO?
Duplicate content can be a major issue in search engine optimization. There are so many rules in duplicate content it is exhausting. I could talk to you about it for an hour but you would probably be so board you would leave the room. One more topic to add to the endless duplicate content debate…
Google Confirms URL Citations Can Help Pages Get Indexed
It is always nice to get confirmation and even further insight on something from Google. Google has been doing this quite a bit recently. Just a few weeks ago they gave us more insight into how analytics works as a ranking factor than ever before. Now they have done it again, having revealed key points…
Google + Embedded Posts, How to Embed Google + Posts
Facebook launched embedded post and now Google + has added this functionality. Similar to a YouTube video, Google + users can now copy embed code and paste their post right into an article. This will make the post show up in the article. The post will be fully functional, in that it can be +1ed…