Almost seven years ago today, LSG released its first-ever free tool, NAP Hunter. NAP Hunter was a free Chrome extension that “basically runs a set of standard N.A.P. queries through Google so you can quickly find various citations, their URLs and their Google position.” The Local SEO community appeared to find NAP Hunter useful as…
What % Of Google SERPs Show Local Packs?
One of the operating theories here at LSG is pretty much everything is going “Local,” but we never were really sure by how much, until today that is. Behold the Local-Pack-O-Meter!: Over the past year, we have been building some pretty cool business intelligence tools for our clients often using massive amounts of keyword ranking…
Do Expired Domains Still Work? – Benefits and Drawbacks
On This Page Do expired domains still work? What is an expired domain? Can I buy an expired domain? How do expired domains work? Why buy an expired domain? Learn How To Find Powerful Expired Domains Step By Step What Can You Use Expired Domains For? How To Find Powerful Expired Domains Easily Why should…
How to rewrite and republish content with Yoast Duplicate Post
We all want to write the best possible content on our favorite topic. As writers, we also know that that not always happens on the first try. While you do need to deliver quality on that first try, it doesn’t hurt to dive back into published articles to updated and improve them wherever you can….
An introduction to Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools
As a search engine, Microsoft Bing often finds itself playing the ‘underdog’ to Google’s bigger market share, budgets and brand. But Bing Webmaster Tools can still be incredibly useful when it comes to understanding SEO issues and opportunities. Using these tools can help you to make improvements which help boost your performance in all search…
Live Blogging the 2020 Election with Scalable Google Trends
Updated at 5:17 pdt (at bottom) Wow, it’s November 3rd 2020! That means election day in the US, and what an election. I’m going to eschew politics except to say GO VOTE. We have the day of at LSG, but I figured this would be a great time to deploy a new tool and to…
What Even Is An SEO? (Can We Please Stop Talking About HTML)
Hi friends, it’s me Dan. Your friendly SEO curmudgeon in training. Recently the SEO community (cough cough, SEO Twitter) has been caught up in a veritable tizzy about knowing HTML. Beyond the obvious epistemological considerations, I think there is a real ontological question raised by the primacy of HTML as a programming language in the…
Google Stack Ranking – What is Google Entity Authority Stacking SEO Using G Drive
Google Stack Ranking is actually shorthand for Google entity authority stacking which in plain language is SEO using your Google Drive and sharing your documents freely on as many as possible of the Google Apps (word processor, presentation app, calendar, spreadsheet etc) as possible. These are all apps which Google provides for free (initially –…