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Pages With App Interstitials Now Lose Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost

November 3, 2015 at 5:42 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Pages With App Interstitials Now Lose Mobile Friendly Ranking Boost

Google has officially begun making pages that serve app interstitials to users coming from the search results as no longer mobile friendly.  This means those pages lose both the mobile friendly tag and associated ranking boost. Starting today, pages with an app install interstitial that hide a significant amount of content on the transition from […]

The Pitfalls of a One-Man Web Marketing Band

November 3, 2015 at 5:06 am PST By Stoney deGeyter

The Pitfalls of a One-Man Web Marketing Band

Imagine for a second you’re at a concert of your favorite musical band. The curtain comes up, and there is the lead singer, sitting on a stool, and he begins to belt out the most beautiful words and melodies. It’s nice. The lead singer sings each song perfectly. If that’s all the concert was, you might […]

Facebook Testing New “Open in App” For Facebook Pages

November 3, 2015 at 4:59 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Facebook Testing New “Open in App” For Facebook Pages

Facebook appears to be testing a feature that allows Facebook Pages to promote and link to their app.  It shows up for users on both Android and iOS. This feature seems to be in a very limited test.  Despite checking many Facebook Pages, we couldn’t find any other examples of sites promoting it. Here it […]

Google Expands Holiday Hours to All Google My Business Listings

November 3, 2015 at 4:02 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Expands Holiday Hours to All Google My Business Listings

Google is launching a brand new feature to all local businesses, a feature we first saw being tested back at the beginning of September. Back in September we saw that Google was displaying alerts in the local knowledge panel showing that the business could have different hours due to the holiday – in this case, […]

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