One of the things you can do to present your local business better in search results is Schema.org data for rich snippets. By adding structured data to your site, you can help search engines understand what your business is about and how it performs. For this reason, you have to add your NAP details, a…
Improve local SEO with Google My Business
Every business owner with a website is looking for ways to get noticed in the search results. Now, during the pandemic, it’s essential to offer customers an up-to-date Google profile for your business. There are loads of tactics to rank well as a local business, but there is no silver bullet. As with most SEO…
Contact page examples: What makes a great contact page?
In this post, we’ll go over a number of contact page examples, so you’ll be able to review your own contact page and improve it. For a lot of companies, that contact page is the main reason they have a website in the first place. For others, the contact page filters or manages all incoming…
Yoast Local SEO 13.9: Primary location & shared properties
For local businesses, doing well in the local search results is essential. Luckily, the Local SEO add-on for Yoast SEO is a great help for your business. The plugin makes it much easier to get your site to perform better in Google. For instance, it helps you improve your local business’s contact page so customers…
Why You Shouldn’t Google Your Company Name
Why You Should Never Google Your Company Name (And What You Should Do Instead) We’ve all done it. It’s nothing to be ashamed of—you might have done it at the office, at home, or even in your car. Maybe you just tried it for the first time; maybe you’ve been doing it for years. You…
Google’s knowledge panel: What is it and how to get one?
Google’s knowledge panel is the block you’ll find on the right side of your screen in the search results. Nowadays, you’ll see it for a lot of queries. It presents the results of Google’s Knowledge Graph, which can be seen as an engine connecting all kinds of data Google finds on the web. If you…
Yoast SEO 15.9: Performance improvements
Today sees the release of Yoast SEO 15.9 and Video SEO 13.7. In Yoast SEO 15.9, we focussed on performance improvements and general enhancements. In addition, we made Video SEO available in Elementor. Find out more! Performance improvements Improving the performance of our plugins is always on our radar. Sometimes, we do big changes that…
Google My Business Listing Suspended? Here’s What to Do.
UPDATED 02/08/2021 WITH NEW INFORMATION Google has increased their sensitivity to spam or fraud on Google My Business profiles, particularly in the home service industry. As a result, it is much more common for an account to be automatically suspended, even for just a simple change like editing your listing’s primary categories or phone number….