Local SEO is crucial for local businesses like shops, hotels and restaurants. The latest study from Moz about the local search ranking factors shows the key factors for optimizing a website with local relevance for SEO. Local Ranking Factors The following graphic shows the most important ranking factors for local …
Google has refreshed Tag Manager’s user interface which makes the tool more powerful and easier to use. Here are 6 facts you need to know about the update. 1. Only New Accounts The new UI is only usable for new accounts. You can access the new UI at http://tagmanager.google.com/, which …
In the coming weeks Google will enable “custom affinity audiences” for AdWords to allow advertisers to better target audiences across the Display Network. This new option is meant to complement the existing targeting possibilities, “affinity audiences” and “In-market audiences”, in AdWords and to offer further flexibility. What is the …
New generic Top Level Domains (TLDs) such as “.finance”, “.help” or “.eat” have been introduced this year. The graphic below shows the current market share of each new generic TLD. So far it has been unclear how these new TLDs influence SEO rankings. According to Google the new TLDs are …
If you are responsible for the Google Analytics accounts, you know you cannot have Google Analytics open in the browser and actively monitor the activities 24/7. But you would like to stay posted on traffic spikes or conversion drops so you can react quickly. In Google Analytics there are “Custom …
After launching dynamic remarketing with AdWords for retailers in June, Google will roll out this possibility also for businesses in the vertical market like insurances, real estate, jobs, finance and education. The principle of dynamic remarketing is simple: advertizing businesses can target their website visitors in the Display Network with …
The latest study about click-through-rates in the organic Google results once more underlines the importance of a top ranking position in Google search. Only if your website is among the top five results it has a good chance to get clicked. On average the first five results on the Google …
If you want to track forms that are loaded and sent through AJAX, you will face two obstacles: You have to wait for the elements that are loaded through AJAX The default action of buttons and links is prevented We show you how you can track such forms using Google Tag …
Within the next months new formats and tools will be available for AdWords to create mobile ads for the Display Network, the AdMob network and DoubleClick. The four new formats, Engagement Ads, TrueView Ads, Anchor Ad and Magazine Style Text Ad shall be easy to generate and work across devices. …
A Google employee has announced an important SEO update last week: Google is rolling out an improved Panda algorithm. Unofficially the update is called Panda 4.1. According to the Google announcement additional signals have been discovered to help identify bad quality content. Small and medium-sized websites providing high quality content …
Did you ever wonder what the web analytics data of your competitors might look like? Then, you might be interested that Google has announced to make benchmarks for many industries available. But these benchmarks are only disposable if the option “Anonymously with Google and others” in the Basic Settings (under …
The steadily growing number of mobile internet usage challenges AdWords advertizers: The screens are fairly small and offer very limited space, users are on the way and in a hurry to find information as fast and easy as possible. To meet these requirements AdWords changes the appearance of mobile ads …
