There is big news on the Google front. These changes are likely to impact both your paid search and SEO strategy. For those who have not heard of the search results changes, here is the scoop. Since Google’s launch, they have had a similar search results layout. We have all become accustomed to 3 paid search results on the top of the page, up to 8 paid search results on the right rail, and SEO results immediately underneath the top 3 paid search ads. We would see occasional paid search ads at the very bottom of the page, although, those […]
Category: Analytics
Cozy Up and Learn About Consumer Behavior for National Hot Tea Month
This past week (and for the last few months) Philly Marketing Labs has been focusing on giving you valuable and usable information regarding Consumer Behavior. Our latest Meet Up put a nice bow on our focus on Consumer Behavior. Thank you to all who came out to discuss the topic with us and for my fellow co-workers who provided excellent and usable information to the attendees. We have these events quarterly, and you can join our Main Line Digital Marketing Meet Up to be notified of upcoming events on a variety of topics. If you haven’t been following us on Twitter, Google+ […]
Improve Your Website Performance Using Google Search Console
This post is the derivation of the content from the Meetup hosted by PML’s Main Line Digital Marketing Group “Improve Your Website Performance with Google Search Console” in King of Prussia on Wednesday, September 30th, 2015. Google Search Console used to be called Webmaster Tools and is a website diagnostic tool that will give you a quick snapshot of your overall site health and alert you to any high priority problems. For example, you can know if Google has uncovered any problems with pages that are no longer there or are not working properly, problems with crawling the site as well […]
Was There a Recent Penguin Refresh?
The excerpt above was from a blog post on Search Engine Land back on July 13th. Well, that would put the update possibly right around now. I happened to take a look at the Mozcast and saw a bit of a spike. Not much, but perhaps it is all it’s going to be. The image of the graph above is from Moz’s algorithm turbulence monitor (doesn’t that sound like Science Fiction!?). We can see that the highest level of reported algorithm turbulence in the visible data set was on October 17th of this year. That was […]
The New Search Analytics Report vs the Old Search Analytics Report
What is the Search Analytics Report? The Search Analytics Report in Google Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) shows how often your site appears in Google search results. It can be a helpful tool to improve your site’s search engine performance because, unlike the old report, you can filter into groups of data sorted by categories like the keyword phrase, date, country, or device. For example, view your organic search traffic changes over time and learn which keyword phrases are the most likely to cause your site to be presented as a search result. Tools such as the keyword data analysis tool […]