by Jacob Bohall | Apr 30, 2018 | Analytics, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing
TLDR; GDPR should not have an impact on your SEO efforts for so long as you don’t do anything crazy (see bottom of post) Since we provide services for a number of businesses that provide their products internationally, we’ve been receiving quite a large...
by John Gibbings | Nov 8, 2017 | Content Marketing, Hive Digital, Link Removal, News, Online marketing, SEO
For months, I have been wracking my brain trying to find a workaround for a bug that I’ve found in Screaming Frog’s Memory Allocation settings. I have plenty of physical RAM (8GBs in one, and 12+ in my home machine). Regardless of having the physical memory, I have...
by John Gibbings | Jul 27, 2017 | Analytics, Google, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, SEO
Google is notorious for segmenting the Search Console data down into 90 day segments, and regardless of requests from Webmasters, they continue to restrict data accessibility down to individual accounts. Meaning that if you want to share Google Search Console (GSC)...
by Jacob Bohall | Apr 12, 2016 | Hive Digital, News
At Hive Digital we like to say that we take companies from “Zero to One Million.” It’s not just a tagline, it’s something that we actually do. We were founded in 2002 and, from our earliest days, have been focused on search engine optimization (SEO). We’ve earned a...
by Jacob Bohall | Mar 18, 2015 | News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO
Google Mobile Usability Algorithm Update – April 21st, 2015 from Jake Bohall Google doesn’t often provide advance notice to the world when they are going to make an algorithm update, so it is important we embrace the knowledge and ensure that we are...
by Tripp Hamilton | Jan 6, 2015 | Google, News, Online marketing
In late September, Yahoo reported that it would be shutting down one of the most well-known and respected directories on the web, the Yahoo business directory. A few days before the end of 2014, on December 26th, Yahoo did as it said and shut it down, or so many...
by mtraphagen | Dec 19, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO
December 2013: Authorship in Search Results Gets Restricted UPDATE 21 January 2013: I have now published results of my study detailing who lost Google Authorship and why. UPDATE: While composing this post, Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Land reported that Google...
by mtraphagen | Nov 12, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO
At Pubcon this October, John Rampton of Search Engine Journal interviewed Russ Jones, CTO of Virante, about how to Penguin-proof a website. The Google Penguin algorithm update, which has now had several updates and refreshings, primarily goes after sites that have...
by mtraphagen | Nov 6, 2013 | Google, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, YouTube & Video
By Mark Traphagen At Pubcon in Las Vegas last month, Search Engine Journal conducted a video interview with Jacob Bohall, Vice President for Marketing for Virante Inc, on the topics of negative seo and link removals for Penguin penalty recovery. Here’s the video...
by mtraphagen | Oct 29, 2013 | Google, Google+, News, Social Media, YouTube & Video
My live tweets from today’s Google Plus Update live event. Google’s Vic Gundotra announced 18 major upgrades to Google+, centerend around Hangouts, photos, and videos. (Go to bottom of page for a Pinterest pinnable image of these tweets!) Hungry for more...
by mtraphagen | Oct 24, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
After reading several live blog notes (here and even better here) on the keynote address by Google’s Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013 yesterday, I was seeing intriguing hints that he had spoken about some topics near and dear to me. But since these were live...
by mtraphagen | Oct 9, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Recently I posted on Google+ that we had discovered that the Google Plus Page Verification application page is now closed. In other words, they are no longer allowing Google+ Pages to apply for verification. Here’s how the page where you used to apply for Page...
