For over a year now, Google has been pushing sites to move to https/SSL and has rolled out waves of “penalties” for sites that hadn’t made the transition. The last wave happened January 2017 and penalized sites that collected certain types of sensitive information over an […]
Frequently Asked Questions about Search Engine Results
This blog post was written by the cj Search Team. In our post, “How Search Works,” we discuss search engine result pages (SERPs), how Google produces answers to user questions, and factors that determine where your website appears in the results. If you read that […]
Adwords Closes the Loop with Offline Conversion Tracking
This blog post was written by Lee Smith-Bryan, Manager SEO / SEM at cj Advertising. At cj, our Search team believes in closed-loop marketing. That means, we believe that every avenue of conversion should be tracked, and we should be able to report on it. […]
SEO Highlights: Issue 3
This blog post was written by Matthew Wilson, an SEO Specialist at cj Advertising. In this issue of “SEO Highlights”, our main focus will be on what the newest Penguin algorithm update means for search. The dust is still settling after the newest Penguin algorithm […]
SEO Highlights: Issue 2
This blog post was written by Matthew Wilson, SEO Specialist at cj Advertising. In this issue of “SEO Highlights”, we learn new tips and tools from some of the most influential figures in search. Change is a constant in SEO and it’s never too late […]
SEO Highlights – Issue 1
This blog post is written by Matthew Wilson, an SEO Specialist at cj Advertising. “SEO Highlights” is a bi-weekly roundup of relevant SEO-related articles from cj’s Interactive SEO team. With the recent Panda Update on March 15, SEO tactics and strategy are in the spotlight […]
Google Introduces Enhanced Campaigns
This post was written by Abby Woodcock, PPC Specialist at cj Advertising. On February 6, Google officially announced their latest and “greatest” update to AdWords: Enhanced Campaigns. What are Enhanced Campaigns?
Working Out the Google Quirks
This blog post was written by A. Chris Turner, an SEO Specialist at cj Advertising. In a post from earlier this year, Google+ Pages replace Google Local, we discussed the upgrade of the local business listing system that supports Google’s Map. In the Map system, […]
Exact-Match Domains – What’s the Value?
A couple of weeks ago, Google engineer Matt Cutts tweeted the following: Minor weather report; small upcoming Google algo change will reduce low-quality “exact-match” domains in search results.
Google+ Pages Has Replaced Google+ Local / Places
We have had a major, but positive, change occur in the search engine world.