Much like its main rival however, Google Play Music All Access allows users to browse tunes by genre, with options also available to look through popular and local tracks. Google has confirmed earlier rumors that it was working on a streaming music...
Jones then walks you through how to create and link up your Google+ business page for optimizing for local SEO. One of the all-new chapters in the book, Optimizing for Local Search, introduces the importance of local search and how Google+ fits in.
One of the things that makes Google Analytics so powerful is its ability to create segments of your data in a very quickly and easily. When a filter is in place, Google Analytics won't even collect visitor data if it doesn't match the filter.
Google seems to be doing a limited beta test of a new style of displaying local search results, such as restaurants, in a unique carousel style that allows a user to scroll sideways through the results.
Optimizing your Yelp listing is equivalent to optimizing your website for search engines such as Google. You can do this by encouraging Foursquare check-ins, making your Yelp link visible on your website and email signature, promoting your company...
If you're a local business with a Facebook page, make sure you have selected "Local Business" as the category. Takeaway: If you are a local business and don't have a Facebook page set up, then set one up today.
Although it's still premature to talk about "ranking" on Google Now's information cards, we can safely assume that current best practices for local SEO will play a key role in staying ahead of the mobile search game.
Google has experimented with seven results on many SERPs since last summer. Bing changed the result page after a back button click in May 2012. When users click on the first result but don't find what they're looking for on that page, they...
One page out of millions gives Mozilla trouble with Google. Google Tag Manager grows nearly 300% since January, boosts enterprise performance – Google Analytics BlogWith nearly 300 percent growth in traffic and 120 percent growth in enterprise...
Linking a Google+ Page to Your Website Similar to Google Authorship, linking your Google+ page using the rel=publisher tag on your site not only helps you build relationships with friends and followers, but also gives Google information they can...
A new analysis says Google Image Search traffic is down 63 percent on average. chose Twitter; 82 percent LinkedIn; 77 percent YouTube; 71 percent Facebook; and .at 36 percent, Google+. Yet Google+ will be 3x more relevant this year somehow...
This comes soon after the Comscore/Neustar/15Miles study that showed Facebook has the second largest app usage for local search, behind only Google. They have the opposite problem of Google: Thousands of "feet on the street" reps to get their arms...
Your app is one of a million, with 700,000 available in Apple’s App Store, and an equal number in Google Play. Just as Google and major search engines frown on keyword stuffing on websites, stuffing the keyword field with unrelated keywords can get...
As Matt Cutts cited at SES San Francisco last year, if you're looking for poison control in an emergency, it makes sense that Google immediately provides you with the local number at the top of the page, rather than making you click through to...
Annotation also supported by Yandex.common mistakes with rel=canonical – Google Webmaster Central BlogGoogle shares its best practices to avoid the following problems: rel=canonical to the first page of a paginated series; absolute URLs mistakenly...
The study found that Facebook was second to only Google Maps as the place people go to conduct local searches on mobile devices. Local fans should never be greeted by a blank Facebook page. Carefully choosing the right person(s) to handle social...
Build rank for your Google+ Local Page by optimizing the most important ranking factors (on-site/offsite factors, social media/mobile factors, reviews) If you already set up a Google+ Business page in the category Local Business, then you have the...
Google's Matt Cutts answers SEO questions. Google search has technical issues listing iTunes app pages – CNET App rankings suffered as Google had some technical issues fetching iTunes pages. A new Google Places for Business interface rolls out.
The main drawback of using Google Webmaster Tools for ranking information, however, is that a view only ends up in the report when someone visited the page your website was on. Many of you might think there is no longer any need for tools to...
Reference them in your CSS to call the Google library of Webfonts. Site architecture needs connected Google+ profiles to benefit from social authority. Nowadays it's all sorts of devices, and people are not at desks – they are in all sorts of...
