SEO strategies, local search tips, and digital marketing guides from the SEO Bandwagon team.
Google is rolling out another new search feature that they say will impact, and help, 10% of daily searches are for topics more complicated than finding out some specific piece of trivia or directions to a local business. Check out some of the suggested searches for this new feature from Google s blog: population growth, capital punishment and e-waste. None of [ ]
Pinterest is one of the most popular social networks in terms of number of users. Facebook, Twitter still lead, but depending on the study Pinterest use is equal to or exceeding that of Twitter. Pinterest for business is a huge opportunity for businesses to engage with customers on social media. Pinterest is highly engaging and [ ]
Kind of an old video, but here is a rel= author description and implementation as told by a couple of developers from Google geeking out over HTML 5 design standards. That markup needs to be added to a link to your Google+ profile from your site, and your profile needs to show that you are a contributor [ ]
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Just a day? I wouldn t worry about that much. You will get those messages from Googlebot time to time. What you should worry about is if your site experiences frequent outages, despite length, because you never know when your site could be trafficked do you? That would be incredible information to know. It s poor user experience [ ]
It doesn t matter if you are running for the US Senate, or if you are just trying to pass a local school levy, building an organization around an idea or a project isn t easy. You need to raise money, stay in contact with your supporters, coordinate events, and organize your volunteers. The ease of which [ ]
CNAME records are used to identify multiple domain names that point to the same IP address. An A record points directly to an IP address. That should make perfect sense. But in case it doesn t there is a video. Essentially a CNAME record is used when you don t have access to a A record, like [ ]
First off, WordPress is amazing software. And it s free. That doesn t mean that it s perfect, but I am a big fan. Jetpack has an alluring promise, Content Delivery Network via WordPress.com, fancy tiled images, social sharing options that includes commenting, and several other handy features. Here s the problem: It s slow. One of the slowest, if [ ]
If they are brand related it s not a bad idea to own multiple top-level domains, but if you are meaning to manipulate Google, duh, they hate that. Stop it. Keywords in domain names are being devalued because of that strategy. You could try to be clever and put your main service in your company name, [ ]
The best free seo advice I can give a small business that is looking to manage their own Internet presence is to focus on what you can control. You can t control the next algorithm update. You don t own your Facebook Page, Pinterest Account, Google Local Listing, Yelp!, or any of the social media sites. Owning a domain [ ]
An old friend of mine is also our newest client at SEO Bandwagon, Kelli Samson and her blog Fresh Scratch have outgrown wordpress.com and it was time to step up to a self-hosted WordPress install to have better options for monetization, tracking, themes, etc. So we ve updated the theme, added some functionality with plugins, semantic markup, [ ]
Clicky Web Analytics is a good compliment to Google Analytics, their premium product may cause you to switch completely.