Just this last week, Google announced that it was moving all web searches at Google.com to https settings which would mean that all keyword data would be encrypted and no longer flowed into Google Analytics. Although this may sound like business as usual and a great improvement for the typical…
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Is There Real SEO Value in Using Google+?
The unequivocal answer is yes, there is SEO value in using Google+ for your business. How so? Your Google+ activity, both profile and your own +1’s are shown in Google search results that others, who have circled you see. If you circle others, you see their +1 updates and Google+…
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Structured Data Gives Google What It Wants
Google recommends that website owners start to provide special XML code snippets to assist it in sorting and categorizing their website data. This is called structured data and is usually done in a format known as microdata. This new format is not hard to understand nor is it hard to…
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Google’s Duplicate Content Penalty – Is It Fiction?
I read this article at SiteProNews with interest “Duplicate Content — It’s Time to Shatter the Myths” by Martin O’Neill. In the article the author states: “..feel free to use content from online sources but your long-term goal should be producing quality, original content and material that will serve your website…
