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

Local Search Ranking Factors 2014 TL:DR

David Mihm released the results of the 2014 Local Search Ranking Factors Survey today and per tradition, we will summarize the big headlines and then send you over to David's post for the data.…

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DanBlog

Local SEO Panels at SMX East

Oh October! The leaves are changing, fall is almost here and another SMX East is coming to a close. There were a couple of awesome local SEO panels, including a presentation from the affable…

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DanBlog

How To Add A Business Listing to Waze

In this article we cover how to add a business listing to the mapping service Waze. Since Waze data is in Google Maps, this is a important data source for local SEO.

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Real Estate SEO & Google's Pigeon Update

SearchEngineland just published my preview of the data I'll be sharing at SMX East later this week in the Deconstructing Pigeon Panel. The post Real Client Data On How Google's Pigeon Update…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

How To Get Found in Local (Podcast)

This week I was on Rich Brooks' "The Marketing Agents" podcast to discuss all things local search. I thought it was a great discussion so if you enjoy listening to me in your headphones, check it…

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DanBlog

Google My Business Insights Bug?

There is apparently a new bug that is impacting the reporting of listing/profile views in the GMB Insights dash. According to GMB, this client's views flatlined for 9/19 & 9/20: If I were a…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Thoughts on BrightEdge's Share14 Conference & Ferrari SEO Tools

A few weeks ago BrightEdge was nice enough to invite me to their Share14 conference where they announced the newest version of their "SEO and Content Marketing Management Platform" in front of…

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DanBlog

Another Carousel Replacement Being Tested?

It looks like Google is testing yet another carousel replacement. This time it's with the different "Points of Interest" searches in specific geos. This one looks different then the previous "new"…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

THE TOP 5 USES FOR THE REL=AUTHOR TAG

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Do HTTPS URLs Impact SEO?

A couple of weeks ago Google announced that it would be using HTTPS URLs as a "lightweight ranking signal". I have not switched any sites yet, but I thought it would be interesting to observe what…

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