Guess what. September 27, 2013 marked Google’s 15th birthday as a business. How did they celebrate? They announced the biggest update in their algorithm in 12 years…a little gem they are calling Hummingbird. Actually Google’s new “Hummingbird” algorithm change was a little slow to hit the news press as they…
If you’ve had a small business website up for a couple of years you may have seen a dramatic drop in traffic once Google brought out the animals (Panda and Penguin) to play. Google’s intent was to improve the relevance of returns for searchers but in the process knocked down…
Typically the first question is, “What the heck is bounce rate and what do you mean it can hurt my website ranking in the search engines?” Sometimes search engine optimization can seem like witchcraft particularly when people start tossing around terms that you don’t recognize much less understand. “Bounce rate” is…