by Clark Kingsbury | May 2, 2019 | Posts, SEO
On April 10, The Manifest published a report on small businesses’ understanding and use of search engine optimization (SEO). The report, based on a survey of 529 businesses with between 1 and 500 employees, found that only 36 per cent of small businesses have an SEO...
by Clark Kingsbury | Apr 25, 2019 | Posts, SEO
The big news in the search industry this April was a lingering bug in Google’s search index. Starting in early in the month, SEOs and webmasters noticed pages being de-indexed for no apparent reason. Google swiftly announced that the bug was a technical issue; on...
by Clark Kingsbury | Apr 11, 2019 | Posts, SEO
Last week, Dmitry Gerasimenko, Founder and CEO of popular SEO agency toolset provider Ahrefs, announced on Twitter that his company is developing a “general purpose search engine to compete with Google.” The idea, in Gerasimenko’s own words, “sounds crazy.” But does...
by Clark Kingsbury | Apr 5, 2019 | Posts, SEO
The office of the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO), Kate Carnell, is taking aim at the country’s SEO service providers. It believes digital marketing consultants are over-promising and under-delivering to small- and medium-sized...
by Clark Kingsbury | Mar 28, 2019 | Posts, SEO
It’s hard to overstate the value of high-visibility search rankings, especially for small and local businesses. When your business appears in the top one or two spots on Google, you immediately become an authoritative source of information for users. It’s why...
by Clark Kingsbury | Jan 24, 2019 | Posts, search engine optimization, SEO
As every digital marketing and SEO agency knows, Google updates its ranking algorithm multiple times a week and hundreds of times each year. Each update is different: some significantly impact search rankings, but most are imperceptible. Google rolled out a fairly...
