As soon as Facebook launched its Graph Search in 2013, it was only a matter of time before it became a big player in the search engine game. But Graph Search was limited as far as optimization was concerned. The results it returned focused on providing an answer on the relationships between people, places, and […]
Facebook is a local search engine. Are you treating it like one? Read More »
There are so many great plugins available, and it’s difficult to choose which are the best for you. To help you decide which tools will make your work easier and more productive, I’ve asked SEO experts to share what they use. Per the experts, I compiled this list of 17 of the best plugins and
Over the past couple weeks there was a lot of media coverage, in both traditional and social mediums discussing the Gillette “The Best a Man Can Be” ad. The ad has a lot of layers to it. But for the search engine marketing crowd, we know one of the most important questions is, “What was
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Over the last several years, we’ve seen the typical search engine results page (SERP) change a great deal. It was once primarily a list of blue links. To that, we’ve seen direct answers added — sometimes replacing a list of links entirely. We’ve seen video answers added, we’ve seen the advent of the local pack,
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When we hear the words “lead generation,” our minds automatically conjure up a B2B marketing strategy aimed at filling the top of the sales funnel. But leads are not exclusive to B2B companies. Every type of business, be it wholesale, retail, startup or whatever else, needs qualified “potential” customers who can be nurtured into actual
Search industry has seen its share of updates over the years. The folks that have been in the industry long enough know Google introduces multiple changes in its search algorithm yearly. These changes range from being minor to major changes. Panda, for instance, affected the search engine result page (SERP) in substantial ways. When such
How did the 2018 SERP changes impact organic search? Read More »
We talk a lot about local search and local search trends here at SEW and in the industry as a whole. How have consumers changed the way they interact with local businesses? How can local businesses respond? And what can we anticipate about future trends? Yext recently released some interesting findings on local search trends
What’s changed in the new Google Search Console? And how might those changes affect us? In this article, contributor Mike Zima gives us a text / video combo showing us around the updated Search Console. Specifically we explore how these updates can be beneficial to small businesses. Watch the nine minute video here, or read
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The latest tweak to Google’s search results which lets us browse, save, and delete results from similar searches we’ve made before is the next step in the company’s journey toward making the SERPs even more intuitive, tailored, and useful. Access to our respective search histories is not a new Google feature. Each of us can
Have you ever tried to search for some data online when you were multitasking and couldn’t type the text? It would be quite challenging without the opportunity to conduct voice search. According to PWC report, 71% of respondents would rather use their voice assistant to search for something than physically typing their queries. And what’s
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