Mobile-First Indexing & SEO
In Google’s attempt to make the web more mobile-friendly, they will be changing the way they rank websites for their search results. You may have heard the term mobile-first indexing. But there seems to be …
How To Create A Link To Your Google Reviews in 2020
*Updated July 24, 2020 For local businesses, Google My Business (aka Google Maps listings) reviews are key. They are one of the first things that show up when someone Google’s your business name or, in …
How To Use Text Messaging On Your Google Listing
Today pretty much everyone prefers texting over calling. Google understands this. Therefore, they added a new feature to their Google My Business platform that allows people to text a business as opposed to calling them. …
What Are Google My Business Posts? And How Do I Create One?
Within the last week or so, a “Posts” feature was added to Google My Business* dashboards. This new post feature allows businesses to let the public know about upcoming events, products and services, special offers, …
What is Voice Search – And why is it important for SEO
Voice search seems to be all the rage these days. People have grown tired of typing and find it easier to simply ask their device to find something for them. Even beyond phones and computers, …
How to Get Your Google Listing to 100% Complete
When we begin working on a local business’s internet marketing, one of the most common flaws we see in their current local search efforts is an incomplete or inaccurate Google My Business listing (previously known …
Google Local Search Results Update: August 2015
You may or may not have noticed, but on August 6, 2015 Google started changing the way some of the local search results appeared on Google. By the morning of August 7, 2015 all of Google’s local …
How to Put Your Business on Google Maps – Free & Easy
*Updated November 28, 2018 As an Official City Partner of Google’s “Let’s Put Our Cities on the Map” program, St. Louis Digital Media wants to help every business get found on the web—starting with yours. People …
Google Searches Now Secure – What Does This Mean For My SEO Campaign?
Within the past week Google has decided to make all of their searches secure. As a result, the organic keyword data from Google searches in Google Analytics will no longer be provided. Below we will …
Google Penguin & Panda: A Simple Explanation
In the search engine optimization (SEO) industry there are a lot of ‘technical’ terms that seem to confuse local business owners. At St. Louis Digital Media, we spend a good amount of time figuring out …