The Christmas season is a busy and lucrative period for most businesses. We have prepared a comprehensive checklist to help you optimizing your visibility in Google during the holidays. Google My Business Check and update the information in your Google My Business profile. This guarantees that your company is displayed …
In 2014 Google has again optimized its ranking algorithm through various updates. Since nobody can remember all the changes, we would like to give an overview of the most important ones. Encryption (HTTPS) In August, Google has announced that it would slightly boost websites that encrypt their traffic (through SSL) …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
