Google is at it again — making announcements that are stressing people out. Here is the tweet that started what Lily Ray called the “Featured Snippet-apocalypse“: If a web page listing is elevated into the featured snippet position, we no longer repeat the listing in the search results. This declutters the results & helps users […]
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What lies ahead for small business owners and entrepreneurs? Many people I’ve talked to feel like they are living in a Dickens novel. It’s the best of times: “The economy is going strong, driven by consumer spending,” says Sharon Miller, managing director, head of small business for Bank of America. She says according to bank
Markham, ON, Canada, 12/23/2019 / Story.KISSPR.com / Search engine optimization (SEO) has experienced many stages of evolution since its early days of keyword stuffing and link spamming. As Google and other search engines become more refined, elegant, and convenient for the user, businesses need to know how to keep their websites up to speed. Eight
Ever wondered how it’s possible to weigh a live whale in a non-invasive way? Dr Fredrik Christiansen, assistant professor of marine biology at Aarhus University, has – and he found an answer. Whales are the largest animals on the planet and important predators in the marine ecosystem. As a marine biologist, I have been lucky
There’s always a hot buzzword in marketing, and right now it’s the term “sales enablement.” Gartner defines sales enablement as “the activities, systems, processes, and information that support and promote knowledge-based sales interactions with clients and prospects.” While every marketer has a slightly different definition of what it is, to me, it generally means providing
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One of the most discussed topics in e-commerce over the past 18 months has been The Amazon Effect. Amazon has been throwing its weight around the industry, threatening to disintermediate retailers from their customers while eating into their profits. The reality is, Amazon and other marketplaces are not going away. Marketplaces represent approximately half of
One of the best ways to connect with potential clients and investors is through business or industry awards. Awards can give your brand or company weight, validate your skills and abilities, generate buzz and give those spending money with your company the confidence that they are contributing to an already successful project or product. Yet,
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It can be hard to decipher Google’s actual stance on HTTPS these days. When Google first officially announced HTTPS as a ranking signal in 2014, they referred to it as a “light” signal. Google’s own Gary Illyes would go on to call it a “tiebreaker” ranking factor a few months later, assuring us that “if
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On this episode of the Dot Com Lunch, I find out that Trent used to weigh 300 pounds! He went on a journey to find out the secrets to losing weight and living a healthy life. Along the way he founded Pureformance Nutrition and Elite Keto. Click Here To Download John Chow’s New eBook, The
Higher energy prices and borrowing costs make it more expensive than last year for Bill Savickas to operate his wholesale produce business — especially since it’s hard to pass the increases on to his customers. “No one wants to be the first in the industry to raise rates and then look like the bad guy,”
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