SEO

Introducing BERT, Google’s Language Algorithm Update

Introducing BERT, Google’s Language Algorithm Update

A few times each year, Google makes updates to its search algorithm. Major updates like Panda and Penguin change everything we know—or think we know—about search engine optimization and the way our content ranks in search engine results pages (SERPs). Other updates,...

How the Yext Spring ’18 Release Improves Local Search Optimization

How the Yext Spring ’18 Release Improves Local Search Optimization

Over the past five years, our local search optimization work has evolved. What started as simple citation management is now a comprehensive local SEO strategy that includes data standardization, business information management in data aggregators and industry-relevant...

General Data Protection Regulation: What It Is & Why You Should Care

General Data Protection Regulation: What It Is & Why You Should Care

On Friday, May 25, 2018, the new European General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR) will come into effect. These new data protection regulations are vast, and even though this is European Union legislation, it has far reaching consequences for all of us. On the...

The Importance of Online Reviews in 2017

The Importance of Online Reviews in 2017

According to the most recent local consumer review survey by BrightLocal, 91% of people regularly or occasionally read online reviews when searching for a local business. This is beneficial for businesses that recognize the importance of reputation management and...

Google Splits Off Mobile Index: What Does This Mean?

Google Splits Off Mobile Index: What Does This Mean?

It’s been just over a year since Google launched their Accelerated Mobile Pages (or AMP) project and released the mobile-friendly algorithm, both of which were aimed at creating a better mobile web. Now, after comments made by Gary Ilyes at Pubcon in October, Google...

The What, Why, When, & How of Google Featured Snippets

The What, Why, When, & How of Google Featured Snippets

In the fall of 2014, Google first introduced featured snippets to its Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Two years later, there are still only a handful of marketers taking full advantage of the opportunities this valuable real estate has to offer. With the...