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In April of this year Google announced a new security feature in which all HTTP website pages will be labeled “not secure” in the newest Chrome browser (version 62) when a user begins to enter information into a form on that site. With implementation of this change scheduled to begin in October, Google sent out emails last week via Search Console accounts that notified site owners with applicable pages.

When we create a new website for a client, we always strongly suggest incorporating a blog. As we’ve stated before, regularly adding fresh, quality content to your site is the best way to help with SEO.

While it’s easy to get clients to understand the value of a blog, it’s much harder to get them to implement using it. Many times they don’t know how they should go about writing a post, or the ways in which to make it beneficial to them.

If you work with Google Analytics and regularly create reports for clients, you’ve likely struggled with how to best present the information. For many people this includes downloading the data, sorting through it to determine which portions they want to include, and then creating their own spreadsheets and graphics. Not only can this be time-consuming but it might also not produce the results you really want. In an effort to simplify this process, Google has created a new reporting tool called Data Studio.

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner so if you haven’t gotten that special someone a present yet now is the time! Here are some our favorite picks for your Valentine who loves technology.

People tend to get extremely worried when they see their site is producing a high bounce rate. In case you’re confused, bounce rate is the percentage of people who leave your site after only viewing one page.

The average bounce rate is 41-55% and anything over 70% is considered high and suggests that changes need to be made to the site. If your website’s bounce rate falls into the “high” category, here’s some tips that could help you improve it.

For SEO experts and web developers, 2017 is set to be the year of mobile. While the significance of mobile certainly isn’t new to the SEO game, this year there will be no more room for excuses as Google gives more ranking power to mobile-friendly sites than ever before.

Yesterday, Google announced on their AdWords blog that brands have begun testing of Promoted Places in Google Maps. The test is currently running in the Google Maps app on Android devices only, and major brands involved include Starbucks, Walgreens, and MAC Cosmetics.

If you’ve ever looked around a Google Analytics reporting dashboard, chances are you’ve seen data that left you a bit puzzled. Maybe one of your top 10 viewed pages is “/sharebutton.to” (aka NOT a page on your site) or you have a lot of referrals coming from “abc.xyz” (sounds legit, right?). Unfortunately this is all a result of spam. No, not the delicious disgusting canned meat, but rather fake traffic caused by sites trying to gain views and rankings.

Analytics is a very important tool in measuring the SEO success of your website but if the data is inaccurate due to spam, it won’t be as helpful as it should be. The best way to make sure you are using analytics to your full advantage is to get rid of all the spam that is affecting your data.