The rebrand will take effect from the 18th of July so will keep you posted about any effects these changes might have.<\/p>\n
Which Social Network is Driving the Most Traffic<\/h2>\n
This week I saw a Poll (Link)<\/a> on twitter asking which social network was driving the most social traffic to their websites. The results were:<\/p>\n This isn\u2019t too surprising, considering how big Facebook has become, with over 2.2 billion monthly active users, but just remember these results were across many industries and sectors. So you will still need to give a lot of thought to where your target audience are socialising and how you want to communicate with them.<\/p>\n Over the last few months, I have been talking about the updates Google has been rolling out to there Google My Business (GMB) This month is no exception as they are once again rolling out and testing out new features.<\/p>\n Google piloting showing store return policies within Google My Business. It seems the return policies showed up for some businesses but not for others. This would be a useful feature giving potential customers confidence.<\/p>\n Performance Card provides a summary of your business\u2019s reach and engagement on Google. On this card is displayed how many views, searches, and actions you\u2019ve received over the past 28 days. Here are the metrics included:<\/p>\n The new Performance Card feature is an easy way to gain simple information and keep track of your search results. I really like all the new features that have been coming out of Google my business, make sure you have read last months blog (Link)<\/a> to keep up to date, and then log in to GMB and try some of these new features.<\/p>\n As we all know the use of the meta keyword tag as long been discounted by search engines due to the blackhat behaviour of some, who stuffed them full if irrelevant keywords. Google announced this week that even though they do not recognize the keyword meta tag in their search algorithm, they also confirmed if you still have old meta keyword tags you will not incur a penalty. This is something we have all been unclear about for some time so it is nice to have Google finally confirm this.<\/p>\n Google Search Console (previously Google Webmaster Tools) as we know is a service by Google, that allows you to check the indexing status and visibility of your website. In January Google announced they were looking to improve the API and offer new functionality. At the moment the new interface is available to try under the \u201ctry the new search console\u201d. But a lot of the old features and new are not set up yet! as all you will see is \u201ccoming soon\u2026\u201dBut finally this week we have seen the first new tool become available.<\/p>\n Page URL indexing is a tool which allows you to see the index & crawl details of just one individual web page instead of just the whole site. This will be a handy tool if you have a problem with a single page on your site to which you would like to optimise. I am sure over the coming months when Google starts to roll out more and more features we will be talking about the Search console quite a lot!<\/p>\n And finally, in January, Google kicked off their 10th year of Doodle 4 Google. Students across all the US states submitted their artwork under the theme \u201cWhat Inspires Me…” and the winner was!<\/p>\n First-grader Sarah Gomez-Lane, who drew dinosaurs to highlight her dream of becoming a Paleontologist. For winning the Google doodle competition Sarah was awarded $30,000 toward a college scholarship.<\/p>\n I like to leave you with a feel good story… So Well done Sarah! As always if you have any questions or have a topic you would like me to cover, contact Verve here<\/a> or call us on 01743 360 000<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
Google My Business<\/h2>\n
Returns policy<\/h4>\n
Performance Card<\/h4>\n
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The Meta Keywords Tag – Penalty<\/h2>\n
Google Search Console – New feature<\/h2>\n
Page URL indexing<\/h4>\n
Google\u2019s doodles – National Finalists<\/h2>\n
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