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State of the Industry – Real SEOs Solve Problems

July 15, 2014 at 7:30 am PST By Jim Hedger

State of the Industry – Real SEOs Solve Problems

The most important is the one we’ve foisted on ourselves. Search engine optimization has an ongoing reputation problem.  SEO has always been a controversial practice. There’s an air of manipulation inherent in SEO which is similar to the air of manipulation around other forms of prominence marketing. Though professional SEO is really about clarity, many […]

Google Adds Warning in Mobile Search Results for Flash Sites

July 15, 2014 at 3:27 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Adds Warning in Mobile Search Results for Flash Sites

Does your webpage use Flash?  If so, Google will now show a warning to all mobile users, warning them that the site “may not work on your device” with the option to “try anyway”. Even more significant is the fact this warning will replace the entire description for the search result, meaning if your site […]

Google Webmaster Tools Adds Hreflang Troubleshooting

July 15, 2014 at 3:00 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Webmaster Tools Adds Hreflang Troubleshooting

For SEOs who are dealing with international issues for a website, there is some great news from Google.  Google Webmaster Tools has announced that International Targeting is now available to all users.  International Targeting, which was previously in beta, enables advertisers to debug errors with hreflang implementation. The markup hreflang, sometimes referred to as href-lang, […]

Google AdWords Advertisers Can Merge Google My Business Location Information

July 15, 2014 at 2:40 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google AdWords Advertisers Can Merge Google My Business Location Information

Google has announced new feature that will allow AdWords advertisers to link their AdWords account to their Google My Business account, which will allow advertisers the ability to easily set up location extensions at the account level. This feature will make it much easier for businesses to manage location extensions for the advertisements both on […]

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