“Content is King” - Bill Gates 1996. It’s a saying almost as old as the world wide web itself. Bill Gates predicted in a 1996 essay that the real money to be made online would be made in content, specifically in supplying information to the masses--and no company would be too small to participate, he
Website security has always been serious business, but will soon become mandatory if you want to appear in search results. Google just announced that by July 2018, any non-SSL website on Chrome 68 will be flagged as “non-secure” in the search results. This is serious step up from Google’s previous announcement that only websites
Technology is driving the evolution of consumer expectations at a dizzying pace. Searchers want the best answers, and they want them NOW, wherever they happen to be and whatever device they happen to be on. Consumer tolerance for lackluster brand experiences is at an all-time low; in fact, Google recently informed us that 53%
Google’s Local 3-Pack is a lucrative opportunity for your retail locations to appear prominently in front of motivated shoppers searching for your local store location, hours and contact information. The search giant uses the Local 3-Pack to help searchers make an immediate decision; all of the information they need to do so appears right there
As Google’s Juan Felipe Rincon emphasized again for us at Rio SEO's third-annual Local Search Summit 2017, updates to the search giant’s constantly evolving algorithms are typically designed with one core mission in mind: to improve the experience of search for users and offer the best answers. It makes sense then that traditional SEO signals are
There has been a recent Google algorithm update that lit up the SEO community with chatter and speculation (although it has yet to be officially confirmed). It started March 8th, with a great deal of activity on SEO forums, as reported by Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable. The update dubbed ‘Fred’ was the suspected
We were lucky to join hundreds of marketers in our own backyard, at beautiful Paradise Point, for San Diego SearchLove. The two-day conference is packed with search strategies, analytics, content creation, and more. While the conference is predominantly search-focused, speakers present on a wealth of online marketing topics, from content marketing and advertising to
Domain authority has become part of the SEO jargon and yet still, many marketers struggle to understand what it is and why it matters. It’s no wonder… there are hundreds of factors Google considers when indexing and ranking websites -- can this one domain authority signal really make much of a difference? In local SEO,
Structured data -- it may sound like drab geek speak, but when local marketers learn the extent to which structured data can increase traffic, improve visibility in search, and make websites more attractive to Google, the term suddenly becomes a lot sexier. By definition, structured data refers to any data that resides in a fixed