Google+ Branded Business Pages and Direct Connect go LIVE!

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Google, Social Media Marketing
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We have been waiting for Google+ Pages for brands and businesses for a long time. Well, we are happy to say that they are finally here for your social media marketing enjoyment. The new pages are heavily incorporated with Google search and even have their own new feature called Direct Connect.

“People search on Google billions of times a day, and very often, they’re looking for businesses and brands. Today’s launch of Google+ Pages can help people transform their queries into meaningful connections, so we’re rolling out two ways to add pages to circles from Google search. The first is by including Google+ pages in search results, and the second is a new feature called Direct Connect.”

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Google’s New Fresher Update to Impact 35% of Searches

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Google, Search Engine Optimization
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You may have noticed that information in the Google search index can seem stale in regards to the content you are searching for. For example, say you search for San Diego Aztecs Football. In this case, you may be looking for recent information, not a webpage from 10 years ago that talks about one of the glory days. Google has noticed this lack of freshness in their algorithm results. In accordance, they are bringing more recent content to the index. This is going to have a BIG impact on search traffic for certain queries, which in turn means that some businesses are going to suffer.

“Building upon the momentum from Caffeine, today we’re making a significant improvement to our ranking algorithm that impacts roughly 35 percent of searches and better determines when to give you more up-to-date relevant results for these varying degrees of freshness.”

Google Now Indexing Facebook Comments & Other Third Party Comments

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Google
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Facebook comments, and other comments regardless of the platform they are left with, are the result of real people listing their true feelings, so why shouldn’t they rank in Google search space. Well, apparently Google had the same feeling because we are now seeing Facebook comments and comments left using other third party commenting systems on a website ranking in Google.

Who has the Best Halloween Costume! SEO Inc. Poll!

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• Categories: Search Engine Optimization
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We love search engine optimization at SEO Inc. So much in fact, that two of our staff dressed up as Google updates for Halloween. The rest of us just had some fun with it. Here is a list of who we are what we were dressed as for Halloween from left to right.

New Google SSL Equals Bad News for Google Analytics Data

• By: John E Lincoln
• Categories: Search Engine Optimization, Web Analytics
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How to Deal with a Drop in Search Engine Traffic

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• Categories: Google, Search Engine Optimization
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When you lose traffic from search engine optimization it can hurt your business. The first thing you want to know is, “What Can I do to get my Traffic Back?” In this video by Matt Cutts, Head of WebSpam at Google, we hear how to deal with a loss of SEO traffic from Mr. SEO himself.

Key Points on Dealing with Loss in SEO Traffic

Step 1: Find out if your site is BlockedEnter Site:mydomain.com and determine if you are completely not showing up in Google, or if only parts of your site are showing up. If you entire site is blocked, it could be a robots.txt or a no index that is blocking your website. Furthermore, you may see a warning that your site has been hacked or has malware. This can lead to a drop in traffic because people will not want to visit your site.