4 out of 5 customers utilize search engines to find regional service providers. Using Local SEO allows you to increase your chances of being discovered. Learn exactly what is the f Read More
Read More »Google My Business now lets businesses edit their listings directly in search results
Google has announced they are now fully launching the ability for businesses to quickly edit their Google My Business local listing directly in the Google search results. We saw Google testing this feature back in July 2017, and now it is officially rolling out. Google said all you need to …
Read More »When it ‘can’t answer that,’ Alexa begins recommending third-party skills
Most of the random questions you ask Alexa devices will be met with “Hmm, I don’t know that” or “Sorry, I’m not sure.” By comparison, Google Home, with its search index access, typically does a better job on general knowledge and information queries. To better compete with Google over time, …
Read More »Google Analytics adds feature to unify users to Google AMP Cache pages & non-AMP pages
As more site owners have adopted AMP for speeding up mobile pages, measurement has lagged. That’s quickly changing. A visitor who went to an AMP-enabled page and a non-AMP page of a site was being counted as two separate people in Google Analytics. In May, Google fixed the double-counting issue …
Read More »Optimize your GDN accounts with more hidden gems
In last month’s column, I talked about taking advantage of the summer months to optimize your SEM account. Using the summer slowdown (if it exists for you!) to examine your settings, review your ads and take a closer look at location options won’t transform your PPC account, but these small …
Read More »Google AdWords’ automated ad suggestions test is getting a reboot
Earlier this year, Google launched a beta test that automatically launched machine-generated ads in a small set of AdWords accounts. The lack of control in that test wasn’t particularly well-received. Now, Google is giving it another shot, with some adjustments aimed at addressing advertiser concerns. A limited number of advertisers …
Read More »Ad-jective Analysis: Look deeper into your AdWords search queries
Using adjectives can really bring a piece of writing to life. But what your English teacher didn’t know is that some adjectives have a higher search volume than others, and sometimes the prettier ones don’t get a whole lot of traffic, elegant as they may be. So at Brainlabs (my …
Read More »Accelerated Mobile Pages: Is faster better?
Google has doubled down on Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP), its open source initiative designed to improve web page speed and performance for mobile users. More than 2 billion AMP pages have been published from over 900,000 domains, and many online publishers report significant gains in both traffic and conversions as …
Read More »SearchCap: Google AdWords ad suggestions, ad performance & Doodles
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google AdWords’ automated ad suggestions test is getting a reboot Sep 5, 2017 by Ginny MarvinThe new ads beta takes into account advertiser feedback on the …
Read More »Google officially adds AMP based featured snippets to mobile search results
Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that last week they have rolled out the ability for AMP links to show up in the featured snippets section at the top of the Google mobile search results. Google tells us this launched last week as some started noticing. Google did confirm …
Read More »