Digital Things of Interest 31 July 2017 Read these Digital Things of Interest for 31 July 2017, which includes: – 5 digital trends you should be on top of; – A nice piece about using eye tracking to aid design; – The news that Volvo self-driving cars are confused by kangaroos. Like the rest of us then; – BuzzSumo’s massive social media headline analysis. Self-fulfilling, or what? #DigitalMarketing #SocialMedia #UserExperience #WebDesign #AutonomousDriving … Read More
SEO Bits & Pieces w/e 21 July 2017 Read the mind-bendingly marvellous SEO Bits & Pieces. There really are some interesting snippets in there. If you would like to discuss anything about these snippets of Google goodness, please feel free to contact me. #SEO #FeaturedSnippets #AMP … Read More
Digital Things of Interest 30 July 2017 Read these Digital Things of Interest for 30 July 2017, which includes: – Twitter thinking about fake news flag; – Complaints about how the web looks; – Sad story of woman shooting boyfriend for YouTube fame; – An poor bit of Content Strategy advice from Distilled. #ContentStrategy #UserExperience #Twitter #FakeNews #YouTube … Read More
Google Adwords CTRs Up But Paid Search Down Read about Google Adwords CTRs being up, but overall paid search click-throughs being down, sending up to 85% of clicks to organic search results. There’s a lot you can do with that that 85% of traffic. If you would like to discuss how to capture organic clicks and drive traffic, conversions and revenue through organic search, please feel free to contact me. #SEO GoogleAdwords #ClickThroughRates … Read More
Digital Things of Interest 29 July 2017 Read these Digital Things of Interest for 29 July 2017, which includes: – Google trying to keep brands safe on YouTube; – An explainer about hamburger menus; – The Nokia 6 – what could have been?; – Why Firefox market share is dropping. #Google #YouTube #UserExperience #DigitalTechnology #MobilePhones … Read More
New Google Search Console Layout Coming Read about the leakage of beta screenshots for the new Google Search Console layout and what you can do while we wait for it to be pushed live and rollout. If you would like help setting up Google Search Console, or ways to interpret and analyse its data, please feel free to contact me. #SEO #GoogleSearchConsole … Read More
Digital Things of Interest 28 July 2017 Read these Digital Things of Interest for 28 July 2017, which includes: – A clam story to illustrate innovation challenges and solutions; – Medical records added to Google’s Removal list; – Marketo forgetting to renew its domain (whoops!); – Some approaches to customer service from Seth Godin. #Innovation #Google #Marketo #UserExperience … Read More
Google Search Console Impression Data Change Read about the upsets caused by Google Search Console’s modification to impression and ranking reporting, as well as actionable insights to deal with them. If you would like to discuss the ways implementing Google Search Console and analysing its data could impact your web business, please feel free to contact me. #SEO #GoogleSearchConsole #KnowYourNumbers … Read More
Digital Things of Interest 27 July 2017 Read these Digital Things of Interest for 27 July 2017, which includes: – Excellent reasoning for using one persona per project; – A great look into mobile phone keyboard design; – Dallas getting rid of parking lots for parks; – How your undies can affect your servers; #DigitalMarketing #UserExperience #DigitalTechnology … Read More
Google Now Becomes a Feed Read about Google Now becoming a feed and the changes apparently coming to the Google homepage as it goes back to being iGoogle (kind of). If you would like to discuss ways these changes to Google could impact your web business, please feel free to contact me. #SEO #GoogleNow #NewsFeed … Read More
Digital Things of Interest 26 July 2017 Read these Digital Things of Interest for 26 July 2017, which includes: – A list of 7 things a developer wishes designers would do more of; – A US robocall scammer fined $120m USD; – Natural language processing key terms; – A colourful article about colour fonts – sunglasses advised. #ProjectManagement #WebDesign #ArtificialIntelligence … Read More
Google Analytics Ask Intelligence: Disappointing? Read about the ins and outs of Google Analytics Ask Intelligence and whether or not this new feature is fantastic, or a distracting plaything. If you would like to discuss ways to implement and set up Google Analytics to track and improve your web business, please feel free to contact me. #Google #GoogleAnalytics #AskIntelligence #KnowYourNumbers … Read More
Digital ToI 25 July 2017 Read the Digital Things of Interest for 25 July 2017, which includes: – HBR discussing using stories to highlight your purpose. – The rise and fall of Firewire – nearly tech. – Time saving social media keyboard shortcuts. – An amusing Dilbert cartoon. #ContentStrategy #DigitalTechnology #SocialMedia … Read More
TWIS SEO News & Updates w/e 21 July 2017 In the TWIS SEO News & Updates for w/e 21 July 2017, which you are about to read and enjoy, you will find: – Google Analytics Ask Intelligence; – Leaked Screenshots of Google Search Console Update; – Google Now Becoming a Feed; – Google Search Console Data Change; – Google CTRs Up Significantly for Organic Search; – As well as some mind-bendingly marvellous Bits & Pieces. #SEO #GoogleAnalytics #GoogleSearchConsole #Google #ClickThroughRates … Read More
Digital ToI 24 July 2017 Read today’s Digital Things of Interest for 24 July 2017 which includes: – Three Common Content Promotion Mistakes; – Zuck Using FB Stories on his Non-Presidential Tour; – Designers Prototyping & Usability Testing within 40 Hours; – Tech Giants Showing Russians their code. #ContentMarketing #Facebook #WebDesign #InternetSecurity… Read More
Twitter Apps Linking to AMP URLs AMP is extending its reach, with Twitter apps now linking to AMP variant URLs. It look like AMP is here to stay for a little while. Find out about this move and ways to implement this tricky little beast. If you would like to discuss ways to implement AMP and how it could impact your web business, please feel free to contact me. #SEO #AMP #SocialMedia #Twitter #PageSpeed … Read More
Google Posts Not Quite Ready Google Posts is a bit of a disappointment. It looked good, but appears to have been released in Not Quite Ready state. Read about the things that didn’t make it to the production release, making Google Posts “meh”, in its current state. If you would like to discuss whether you should be using Google Posts and how to take advantage of its current functionality, please feel free to contact me. #SEO #GooglePosts #GoogleMyBusiness #ProjectManagement … Read More
Menu Tab Hits Google Local At last! Google Local, in the US at least, is showing a menu tab for some restaurants. I can’t wait to be rid of the horrible PDF download, pinch and zoom. Read about it & how to move from PDF to HTML and structured data. If you would like to discuss ways to structured data can help your web visibility, please feel free to contact me. #GoogleLocal #StructuredData #Redirects … Read More
Google Claims Hidden Content Fine in Mobile First Index Google has claimed that hidden content will be fine under the looming Mobile First Index. I can’t see it working for search rankings, but, as I say in this post, if that is the case, then welcome to spam land. If you would like to discuss ways to check your website and get it Mobile First ready, then please feel free to contact me. #SEO #MobileFirst #MobileStrategy … Read More
Adsense Bans Pop Ups & Pop Unders Google Adsense is banning ads from appearing on pop ups and pop unders. They are also banning Adsense entirely from being served on sites which use pop unders. Good. Read more about it here. If you would like to discuss ways these changes to Google Adsense could impact your web business, please feel free to contact me. #GoogleAdsense #DigitalMarketing #AdStrategy #Revenue … Read More