Category Archives: Digital Marketing

Another small study says that reviews with photos with them last a lot longer in the Google local listing for a business than reviews without photos. This was another study done by Joy Hawkins and her company where Joy wrote, “You definitely want to encourage customers to add photos to their reviews. This will helpContinueContinue reading “Study: Reviews With Photos Last Longer In Google Local Results”

Google seems to be sending out surveys about Google Search Console and potential future development and features around that tool. The survey takes several minutes to complete.Glenn Gabe received the survey and he posted on Twitter saying, “See a request in GSC to take a survey? Take 10 minutes and fill it out. Your responsesContinueContinue reading “Google Search Console Survey – Hint On What May Come?”

Google has added a new section to the crawl budget management help document. The new section is for the If-Modified-Since request header. The section is titled “Specify content changes with HTTP status codes.”Google wrote, “Google generally supports the If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match HTTP request headers for crawling. Google’s crawlers don’t send the headers with all crawlContinueContinue reading “Google Crawl Budget Help Document Adds If-Modified-Since Section”

A Google research paper named Generative Models are Unsupervised Predictors of Page Quality paints a negative connotation of SEO practices. It has a section named “attempts at search engine optimization (SEO)” which says, “documents that attempt to perform SEO tend to be flagged as very low quality.”This paper was first highlighted by Roger Montti whoContinueContinue reading “Google Search Research Paper Says SEO Practices Tends To Be Very Low Quality”

As the Google December 2022 helpful content update and link spam update continue to roll out, I am now seeing more signs of volatility and chatter within the SEO industry in the past 24 hours. It seems like there is another Google algorithm update, or maybe a continuation from the previous ones, taking place onContinueContinue reading “Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Signals On January 3rd & 4th”