Has your site seen a dramatic drop in search traffic sometime in the past few weeks? If so, you've probably been scrambling to figure out what on earth is going on. You're not alone. Sites across the web have been reporting huge drops in rankings and traffic. With so many sites reporting issues at the same [...]
You may or may not have noticed some small, light-blue buttons with a "+1" inside them showing up next to your Google search results lately. Welcome to +1, a new social feature Google has slowly been rolling since an announcement on March 30. If you don't have any idea what I'm talking about, you can opt-in [...]
When you're on the ecommerce side of things, trying to improve your site's ranking in search engine results, it can be easy to forget the purpose search algorithms are created to serve: giving searchers useful, relevant, trustworthy results for their queries. You get caught up in SEO concerns like counting keyword occurrences, optimizing META tags and [...]
Late last week, Google announced a major algorithm update. "Major" means that a hefty 12% of US search results are impacted by the change. Just how is Google hoping to improve their results with the update? The official blog post states: This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for [...]
A couple of weeks ago in a post about owning your brand's SERP, we recommended creating subdomains for your site with the goal of getting more of your site's pages on a single SERP: "Because Google tries to give searchers real variety in their search results, they’re unlikely to rank more than one page from the [...]