Today’s Challenges for Small Businesses

Simply opening a small business is a big achievement. However, once this achieved, there’s an even bigger challenge: maintaining that business. This is because there are several small business challenges every business must face (e.g. hiring the correct employees, building the brand). These are things that most of the larger companies have long outgrown. Depending …

How The Ranking Change In Google Nofollow Links Affects Your SEO

There’s been a major change to how Google counts nofollow links. In the past the nofollow was strictly followed, but today Google as using them as a hint for ranking your site – something that’ll impact your on-page SEO, content marketing, link building, and link spam. Understanding Nofollow Links Nofollow is an HTML attribute that’s …

Why It’s Important For Contractors To Improve Their Local Seo

About 33% of all the mobile searches conducted on Google are local. Searching for things “near me” is fueled by mobile technology. When people are out doing things they want to know the best places to do other things. As a contractor you may wonder if this affects you, but as mobile search continues growing …

July’s Unconfirmed Google Ranking Updates

Google search result rankings were quite volatile between July 11 – 18. Various tools that track Google’s changes (e.g. Mozcast, SERPMetrics, Algoroo, AdvancedWebRankings, Accuranker, RankRanger, Cognitive SEO, SEMRush) noticed that this was happening. This is something that Google hasn’t responded to themselves. John Mueller himself has said he doesn’t know anything about it or what …