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With Alphabet, Google Spells Out the Future of SEO

When Google founders Sergei Brin and Larry Page announced yesterday that they were restructuring Google’s operations by making it a subsidiary of a...

SEO Will Stand the Test of Time: Why Organic Results Will Continue to Receive More Traffic than Paid Search Ads in the Future

If you ask any search professional about what an average Google SERP (search engine results page) might look like in the future—say, 10 or 20 years...

Why Modern SEO Still Requires Technical Expertise

Entrepreneur recently published an article that made the bold declaration that today's marketers don't need to have a strong handle on the technical...

Google vs. Yelp: The Decline of Yelp in Google Search Results

What just happened? Where’s Yelp? Ten years ago, in John Battelle’s book The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and...

More Google Algorithm Updates Looming: Google Testing Images in Mobile Results

Images In Google Mobile Search Results Recently while spot checking a few keywords on mobile for a client of ours, we noticed something in search we...

Google Mobile Algorithm Update

Levinux + Pilulate = Free SEO & Social Tools

This is not your typical end-of-year search predictions for a 2015 article. Instead, it’s my attempt to make a point about next generation SEO. If...

How to Manage Secure Pages & Duplicate Content Issues for eCommerce

Managing Secure Pages for eCommerce Sites When you're managing an eCommerce site, securing your shopping cart and other pages where sensitive...

5 Powerful SEO Ranking Factors in 2014

SEO has gone through a tremendous evolution in recent years, and 2014 has been no exception to this trend. Between Panda 4.0, Pigeon, Penguin 3.0,...