Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

What we learn doing SEO for real clients. 1,311 posts since 2007.

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

LocalSEOGuide.com 2.0 Creative Brief

Q: Why Did We Update The Site? A: Because The Old Site Sucked, Right? Well, that's not completely the case, although I had received my fair share of requests (mostly from Pakistan for some reason)…

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After 10 Years, Local SEO Guide Relaunches Website So It Can Get Links

PLEASANTON, CA - On June 20th, 2016, Local SEO Guide, one of the world's premiere providers of Local SEO Services (a high volume keyword according to Google Keyword Planner), after months of…

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Answer Boxes Are Personalized And Brands Should Capitalize On It

We have been doing some research into Google's Answer Box and discovered that what is served as an answer is dependent on search personalization. In the screenshots below there are two different…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

GBoard SEO: Ready For Single Result Mobile SERPs?

I just downloaded GBoard, the new Google iOS app that replaces the standard iOS keyboard with a keyboard that allows you to search Google from the board itself - and the results show up as cards…

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I Don't Trust Google To Extract Data From Javascript, But...

Check out the "342 matches" snippet attached to the MadisonApartmentLiving.com result for "madison wi apartments": That "342 matches" is only visible on the MadisonApartmentLiving home page when…

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Robots.txt 503 = SEO Death: A Tragedy In 4 Acts

Another stellar entry in the long-running SEO Death series: Thanks to Julie Kosbab, our Director of Enterprise SEO, for her continual inspiration...

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Your Move "Speaker" Ryan...

So Paul Ryan has said he has no interest in running for President regardless of what happens in Cleveland, but Google's Knowledge Graph seems to have other ideas: To be fair Boehner is still…

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The Google Search Console Complaint Department

Hey it's a free tool (thanks guys!) and certainly better than nothing, but #IHaveADream... THE NAME The name, while arguably more descriptive, cannot escape its history as "Google Webmaster…

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The Future of Local SERPs

Per my previous post, Are You Doing Local Answers SEO?, we have noticed these types of results are becoming more common for queries that have local intent: Click to enlarge these sorry screenshots…

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Are You Doing Local Answer SEO?

My furnace died today. I went to Google and queried "replace furnace". Here's what I got: Click to Enlarge If you are focused on just ranking #1 for "HVAC", I am never going to get to your lead…

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