If you’ve noticed a dip in local SEO rankings on Google you’re not imagining things. Google has finally confirmed its latest update and surprisingly provided some clarity behind it.   On November 3rd, the SEO community began buzzing about whether Google had made an algorithmic change as rankings began dropping and rising. A month later,...Read More

  After months of speculation, Google has finally confirmed that they have removed anonymous reviews from Google My Business. In this digital age, online reviews are gold. More users turn to reviews, whether it’s on Google, Yelp, Facebook, or TripAdvisor, before making purchasing decisions. That’s led to a range of problems, from competitor’s purposely posting...Read More

  If you don’t know it yet, reviews are a vital part of how consumers form their purchasing decisions. The amount and quality of reviews, particularly Google Reviews, has a big impact on local SEO rankings. But more importantly, it has a massive impact on consumers. Whether people purchase online or in person, you can...Read More

  In a refreshing twist, Google has just updated its Privacy Policy and worded it in a way so that users can actually understand it. These changes aren’t just out of good faith. Google actually made these changes in an effort to comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).   Whatever the reason,...Read More

Google has finally announced that it began rolling out mobile-first indexing for more sites. They stated last October that a smaller number of sites had been moved over to mobile-first indexing and now they’re expanding that. This rollout so far is only for sites that “follow the best practices for mobile-first indexing”, but this is...Read More

  Sometimes it feels as if it’s easier to keep up with the Kardashians than it is to follow Google. Google is constantly rolling out updates, and seeing as they have the dominant market share in search engines, it makes sense that they want to keep innovating to maintain that position.   Google tends to...Read More