Google Assistant on iPhone May 25, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Read actionable insights about Google’s launch of Google Assistant, which will integrate with Google Lens, in an effort to let Apple users embrace the full glory of Google’s ecosystem and entice them to dump Siri… #SEO #GoogleAssistant #MobileSearch #Apple #iPhone… Read More
What is Google Lens Visual Search Tool May 24, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Read actionable insights to deal with Google’s Visual Search Tool – Google Lens, a rather nifty app that allows you to search for things in your mobile’s camera viewfinder and (if the structured data is right) act upon the results… #SEO #GoogleLens #MobileSearch #StructuredData… Read More
SEO News & Updates TWIS w/e 19 May 2017 May 23, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Read the TWIS SEO Update for w/e 19th May 2017 – jam-packed with actionable insights: Google Lens Visual Search announced; Google Assistant Coming to iPhone; Rumours of a Google Update; Google Analytics AMP update; Google Testing Dropping Secondary Listings for Featured Snippets; And some exceptionally interesting Bits and Pieces. #SEO #GrowthHacking #GoogleLens #GoogleAssistant #GoogleAnalytics #AMP #GoogleUpdates #FeaturedSnippets #GoogleIO… Read More
Facebook Reducing Links to Low Quality Webpages May 17, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Find out more about the Facebook NewsFeed update combating low quality links and how to deal with it if you’re affected. From Belmore Digital: Organic Digital Marketing. #Facebook #NewsFeed #WebSpam #ClickBait #SocialMediaStrategy… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 12 May 2017 May 16, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Read the 5 most important updates to SEO for w/e 12 May 2017: Pages Ranking for 1000+ Keywords; BrightEdge / SearchMetrics Patent Dispute; Adding Video Does Not Assist Rankings; Events Debut on US Mobile; How Google Crawls 404s; and a number of other interesting bits and pieces. #OrganicSERPs #Googlebot #ContentStrategy #StructuredData #Patents… Read More
Basic SEO Guides v1 May 15, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Read about the launch of Basic SEO Guides v1 from Belmore Digital: Organic Digital Marketing. Find out how to start getting the basics of SEO covered. #SEO #SEOGuides #SEOStrategy… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 05 May 2017 May 9, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Read the 5 most important updates to organic search w/e 5th May 2017: Chrome’s Not Secure Warnings, RankBrain irrelevance to SEO, Google Job Search in the works, AdSense 300*250 ATF SEO issues and W3C Validation unimportant and a number of other interesting bits and pieces. #HTTPS #SEOStrategy #WebsiteStrategy #MobileStrategy #Googlebot… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 28 Apr 2017 May 2, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Read the 5 most important search updates w/e 28-Apr-2017: the Project Owl Fake News Offensive; Quality Filtering in the Local Pack; Google Assistant winning the battle of the PVAs; AMP disappearing from SERPs; Googlebot not listening to podcast audio; and a few further bits and pieces… #GoogleSearch #GoogleLocal #StarRatings #MobileSearch #AMP #GoogleBot… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 21 Apr 2017 April 26, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett TWIS 21 Apr 2017 has Google’s 2016 Webspam Report, HTTPS over 50%, Chrome Adblocker, Google Analytics Home View and Mobile First Link Graph. #GoogleQuality #GoogleSearch #GoogleAnalytics #AdBlocking #MobileSearch… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 14 Apr 2017 April 18, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett What’s happened this week? We have Moz Local Ranking Factors Survey, Google showing review numbers, Google Maps Fake Listings, Google disavowing the disavow file and Facebook Instant Article CTAs and more… #GoogleLocal #StarRatings #GoogleSearchConsole #BackLinkProfile #Facebook #InstantArticles #EmailStrategy… Read More
Soft Site Launch April 12, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Getting BelmoreDigital.com Up The last few weeks, I have been beavering away, sorting out all the elements to launch this site: hosting, CMS (WordPress), Plugins, Theme Updates, Social Media Accounts, image sizes, fonts, analytics, schema – all sorts! It is all a work in progress, built agile rather than waterfall – key things are up… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 07 Apr 2017 April 11, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett What’s happened this week? Pickings are a little thin on the ground this week Google’s mobile-first index is some way off, fact checking is hoping to overcome fake news, Siri is bigger than Yahoo or Bing on mobile, Google Customer Reviews is replacing Trusted Stores and Ask.com left its server status open for a while and a few more bits and pieces.… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 31 Mar 2017 April 4, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett What’s happened this week? Rich, structured, pickings this week as schema.org 3.2 is released, Rich Cards Go Global, and podcasts get rich markup. Also, mobile interstitials get clarified and Google Optimise is released for free. #StructuredData #RichSnippets #OrganicSERPs #MobileStrategy #CRO #GoogleOptimise… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 24 Mar 2017 March 28, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett What’s happened this week? It’s been a fairly quiet week in organic search terms, but not in other areas, as Google gets caught up in a storm over ads and controversial content, while it also releases Adwords Close Variants. Site hacks in 2016 were also on the agenda, tappable shortcuts got released and webmasters breathed easier as the date of the mobile-first index is… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 17 Mar 2017 March 21, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Google is having a stab at identifying upsetting or offensive content via its Quality Raters, Google Search Console had a day of missing Google Analytics data, before squeezing organic SERPs further with 6 Google Ads at the bottom . There has also been a study that shows Chrome does not pass URLs for googlebot discovery as well as another reiteration that 404s are… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 10 Mar 2017 March 14, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett Google has rolled out a significant, but unconfirmed update Fred, while AMP comes to Asian search engines, Gary Illyes “Good Comments Good”, YouTube and other embeds may cause PageSpeed issues and Google starts to notify webmasters of technical issues with incorrect AMP Hostnames. #GoogleUpdates #AMP #WebsiteQuality #PageSpeed #YouTube #GoogleSearchConsole… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 03 Mar 2017 March 7, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett So, this week, we have the joys of over-reported AMP traffic, nestled up nicely against a report about the size of AMP traffic, followed (handily) by a reminder study about mobile speed benchmarking, the sad extinguishing of DMOZ and relief for programmers who use special characters when searching Google. #GoogleAnalytics, #AMP, #PageSpeed, #GoogleSearch, #MetaTags… Read More
SEO News: The Week In Search w/e 24 Feb 2017 February 28, 2017 | Written by: Jeremy Beckett This week’s updates and search snippets include: a Google My Business service area update; an announcement that Google and Bing take action on UK Piracy; findings that proximity upweighted in Local Pack ; a reduction in Google Star Rating threshold and advice to use caution with using the GSC URL Removal Tool. #GoogleMyBusiness, #GoogleSearch, #GoogleLocal, #StarRatings, #GoogleSearchConsole… Read More