Jim Stewart
What to look for when hiring for SEO
We’ve been hearing for years that SEO is dead, social is everything … but really, it’s not. Just recently, Google itself had to hire a…
Have you checked your website after February’s Google update?
Google had an update back on February 7 and, while it caused a lot of chatter, there really wasn’t much hard data for us to look at. We’…
Google claims the military and major banks are ‘not secure’
After all the times we’ve talked about HTTPS and Google in the past few months, I hope you’re all at least moving toward converting your…
What’s popular in SEO?
As an experiment last week, I tweeted President Donald Trump. I got the expected spike in the number of tweets, around 430 thousand impr…
Why Google is a popularity contest
There’s been a lot of talk lately about ‘crawl budget’, and Google recently published an article about it on webmasters.googleblog.com. …
You’ve been warned! Google HTTPS crackdown begins
We knew that Google was going to start forcing site owners to switch to HTTPS, and this past week saw the first clues of how this is goi…
Google Trends, SEO and predictions
I wanted to take another look at Google Trends this week because there are a couple of elections coming up. It’s time to take another te…
Google’s mobile pop-up penalty has started
We’ve been talking about Google’s upcoming penalty for mobile pop-ups, and it’s finally here. Starting this week, if you have a pop-up, …
Is Google broken? Where’s the relevancy for local business listings?
I’m finding some curious search results this week when searching for local business listings, and I want to know if you’ve found anythin…
Did you see Reddit spam in your Google Analytics?
Did you feel a bit of excitement last week after looking at your Google Analytics? If you had a traffic spike and thought your site was …