Why you shouldn’t obsess over search engine rankings

Osessing over search engine rankings

It’s usually one of first things you check when you have a new website built: where does it appear when you search for your products or services on Google? Are you ranking at the top of the page or above that competitor that’s been outperforming you for years? I know business owners who check their … Read more

Search Marketing Review 2016

Search Marketing Review 2016

2016 has in many ways been quite a low key year in terms of changes to search marketing that have affected the search engine results pages.

But that doesn’t mean there have not been changes, in fact there have been a small number of huge changes, and in this blog post I’m going to focus on the three that I think has had the largest impact in 2016, and that could have implications as we move into 2017.

Google launches ‘Google My Business’

Google my business

Noticed anything different happening on Google recently?
Well, if you have a Google+ Local account or a Google Places listing for your business, you should now have been upgraded to the new ‘Google My Business’ account which merges search, maps and Google+ bringing all your business information into one place.