Google has announced that it will include a “mobile-friendly” label in the mobile Google search for websites that are optimized for mobile devices. With this feature, Google wants to increase the user experience for mobile users. It will be rolled out globally in the next couple of weeks. For a …
Facebook has announced an update of its news feed leading to a reduced visibility of overly promotional page posts. This change will take effect in January 2015. With “promotional posts” Facebook does not mean paid advertising but regular posts that contain promotional content such as: Status updates aiming to push people …
How can you use Google Analytics to identify the areas where your site is most successful at conversion and areas where it needs to be better optimized? Fortunately, as a recent Search Engine Watch article points out, Google Analytics provides built-in Converters and Non-Converters segments that let you see the …
Usually operators of websites are interested in their visitors. What are their interests? How old are they? It is obvious that this kind of information is hard to evaluate through surveys. Google Analytics provides demographic reports for quite some time. To use demographic reports, the following steps are necessary: 1. …
For SEO reasons it is recommended to create one landing page per topic and optimize this page using the relevant keywords. Optimizing single page websites for search engines is more difficult because one page contains several topics. For this reason special rules should be applied for single page websites in addition …
Google Analytics offers real-time reports to monitor activities on your website as they happen. We show you how to use these reports to gain meaningful insights. Testing of Email Campaigns When you are creating an email campaign and link to website, you should attach UTM parameters to your links, so …
International websites often have similar content for different language groups and countries. The hreflang tag is an HTML tag communicating the language targeting of single pages to Google. This does not only ensure correct indexing but also avoids problems with duplicate content. Duplicate content issues are caused for example if …
A lot of companies have various Google+ pages but use only one of them. One reason for this are the previous overlaps between Google+ and Google Places. These have been eliminated with the introduction of Google My Business. The good thing is, you can delete unnecessary Google+ pages. However, this …
In the last couple of days Google has announced various new features for Google Analytics. To give you an overview, we would like to present three improvements: Demographics and interest reports are now available for mobile apps Dynamic remarketing available for all verticals Benchmarking Demographics and Interest Reports for Mobile …
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 …
