Posts by Kristi Hagen

Google has begun releasing short 2-3min video tutorials on some of the most basic of questions related to search and your Web site. We have decided to feature these quick tutorials to be sure that ALL of your questions are answered!

Today’s question relates to the basic tenet of attracting Search Engines to your site: Content! By creating relevant, customer-oriented, and fresh content – you will create a quality website and a niche for yourself. This video also touches on the importance of ‘pruning’ your content for ease of navigation. This is an important step in creating a Search Engine friendly and customer friendly site. Take a minute, literally one minute and 23 seconds, to view this short tutorial today.

Google is still trying to unravel the mess that they've made of their local system and sometimes it seems that it might be getting worse rather than better.

The latest is that Google has given an official recommendation that if you are a service area business that does NOT accept customers at your location and have also created and verified or merged your place page with your local G+ page then you need to delete your G+local listing. Sounds scary now doesn't it. Well, we will let Google explain it to you themselves. Here's a quote from their Help pages:

Are you a Service...

The Internet is designed to keep businesses on their toes and Groupon is no exception. They're smart enough to realize that they need to evolve or they will shortly become yesterday's news and with that in mind Groupon has officially taken the jump into being something more than a Daily Coupon site.

Like Foursquare announced late 2012, Groupon is stepping out of their little nitch to become a Local Marketplace. You can now go to their site and search for a deal on something specific. Let's say you really want to get your carpet cleaned in your house. Before you'd have to patient...

Google has begun releasing short 2-3min video tutorials on some of the most basic of questions related to search and your Web site. We have decided to feature these quick tutorials to be sure that ALL of your questions are answered!

Today's question has to do with how you can know for sure if Google has indexed or found your new Web site or page and served it up in it’s search results. This quick 2min video answers all of your questions by teaching you about the simple ‘site.yourdomain.com” search command. They also go into detail about blocked pages from a mistake in your robots.txt and even filing a reconsideration request.

See the video below for complete details directly from Google so that you can be sur...

The argument that 'Mobile is the Future' has won so completely that it's more fact than fiction. The world is so obsessed with the latest gadget that it becomes worldwide news when the iPhone 5's mapping system falls apart after dropping Google's system to go out on their own.

It's obvious enough to anyone who has done a side by side comparison of the two mapping systems that ...

An excellent video for the beginner SEO is “SEO for startups in Under 10 minutes.” In it, Google’s Maile Ohye outlines how to create a Search Engine friendly site. She touches on 301 redirects, using Webmaster Tools, site design strategy, social media marketing, and much more. If you feel confused by the wide scope of SEO terminology, this video is a GREAT introduction.

However, after watching it, if you have any questions then feel free to use the comments box below and our experts will be sure to point you in the right direction.

Authorship rich snippets, which is almost a year old, is the little bit of code (rel=author) that gives you the opportunity to officially claim your content with Google. Doing this comes with 3 great benefits.

1. Increases your click throughs. When your content is marked up properly Google includes your G+ profile image next to the listing within the search results. There have been countless studies indicating this increases your listing's click through rate. People are naturally inclined to look at images in a body of text.