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Google added a "Recrawl Now" link to Search Console today. Go ahead, login to Google Search Console and click on it to see if it works for you. #SEO #Google #april1

404 Errors in Google Search Console (Webmaster Tools) - Should You Worry About Them? Do 404 errors hurt, do you need to fix them, can your rankings drop because of them, how do you handle links or traffic? Google's John Mueller explains https://youtu.be/FbjYkpdjorA

Chrome web browser now includes a default ad blocker for intrusive ads. If your marketing includes annoying popup ads and videos that play automatically, you should stop that. Google's Chrome browser now includes ad blocking for intrusive ads. It's a safe bet most of Chrome's users will not turn off the ad blocker. The number is estimated to be 56% of all web users. Get smarter with your online marketing - Ker Communications can help. #SmarterNotHarder... http://ker.fyi/2swTo3F

Time for a website redesign? What was once a perfectly good website that still looks good may not perform very well as a marketing tool today. It may be time to take a close look at your website and make sure it is doing what it is supposed to do http://ker.fyi/2EvURJV... #WebDesign

Pittsburgh forges a new future, remaking iconic steel town into a modern innovation factory GeekWire is putting its own HQ2 in Pittsburgh for the month of February 2018 reporting on the people, technologies and ideas transforming the industrial city into an innovation powerhouse. http://ker.fyi/2DCR0cO

Google announced a "Speed Update" for mobile searches Web page loading speed is already a relatively small ranking factor for searches done from the desktop. Starting in July 2018, Google will downgrade "pages that deliver the slowest experience to users" on mobile devices. Ker Communications has always made page loading speed a top priority when building or optimizing websites. Check out this old blog post from about 4 years ago: https://kercommunications.com/s/site-loading...-speed-matters/ If you feel the need for speed, get in touch with Ker Communications today! http://ker.fyi/2DYMN4h

Small Business Owners: If you think it sucks to have to pay for SEO and Google Ads to be found online now, it just got worse. Now, the big internet providers like Comcast, Verizon, etc can choose to show only websites owned by big corporations with deep enough pockets to pay-to-play. And they can charge your potential customers more for the "privilege" of seeing something other than whatever websites the ISP chooses. . And then there is the censorship issue http://ker.fyi/2CkkFqP #NetNeutrality

How some companies buy their way into Forbes, Fast Company, and Huffpo articles in an attempt to rank higher in Google search Did you ever see a link to a company's website from Forbes, etc that seemed undeserved and out of place? Money talks. Just about anyone can bribe a writer to get a link to their own site from one of those well known sites. Think about that when you see a business website saying "Featured in Forbes, Huffington, Fast Company"... The good news is that Google knows better and it doesn't work most of the time. http://ker.fyi/2jucCQI

Google will shut down Google+ for consumers following security lapse "Google is going to shut down the consumer version of Google+ over the next 10 months, the company writes in a blog post today. The decision follows the revelation of a previously undisclosed security flaw that exposed users’ profile data that was remedied in March 2018." https://ker.fyi/2pHz4bA

Complaining about Google search results that don't favor you - and even going so far as to call it "illegal"? A better understanding of how search works is needed. https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/ #SEO #Google #Trump

Technical SEO making a comeback? It never really went away If you've tried content marketing, guest blogging, adding a webpage to target every keyword you can think of and have seen little or no gain from it... when was the last time your website was thoroughly audited and optimized? https://ker.fyi/2LscYGo

Pay for Play Still Common at Some of The Biggest Online Publications Hey, if you don't mind being kind of dishonest and unethical, well, "you be you". This type of thing isn't really new. It's just another in a long list of shady trends that worked until they didn't - then they became a liability. Can we stop calling buying publicity SEO? It isn't optimizing anything when you are just buying an ad. It would be slightly less lame if people wouldn't put the publications' logos on their websites saying, "Featured in..." If you didn't earn it, you probably shouldn't brag about it. Smart people know those publications are just ad farms and that's not a good look. https://ker.fyi/2KIoydb