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Performing a Content Audit 101

A content migration is the prime opportunity to reorganize and restructure content from an old website, but it can be a daunting task. Before performing the actual migration, it is useful to conduct an audit of the site’s existing content....
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How to Help Google Crawl Your Site

Crawling a website is one of the first actions Google takes to analyze pages and present results. Crawling occurs when the Google bot scans a website, visiting each individual page and following each link. The results from a crawl are...
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Google Pledges $340 Million in Advertising Credits to Help Small Businesses

On March 27th, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that over $800 million will be donated to small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) as well as government organizations to help the response to COVID-19. Included in the $800 million is $340...
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Google Business Profile Features Taking a Timeout in Response to COVID-19

On March 20, Google notified the public that it would be disabling or limiting multiple Google Business Profile (GBP) features. Google made this decision so that it can put the health and wellbeing of its employees first. Many team members will...
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How the Google January 2020 Core Update May Impact Websites

Optimizing your website to rank in Google search results is important for any business. This is an ever-changing process. Google frequently updates its algorithms to provide more accurate and relevant information to searchers. In January, Google announced and released its...
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BluShark Digital Named a Top Growing Company by Inc.

BluShark Digital is happy to announce that we have been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the D.C. metro area by Inc. Among 5,000 companies evaluated across the country, BluShark ranked 17th overall in the Washington metro region....
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Local Service Ads Allowed for Immigration and Trust & Estate Lawyers in Houston and San Diego Areas

Local Service Ads (LSAs) on Google are now being integrated for Immigration and Trust & Estate Lawyers in the Houston and San Diego areas. They had been in the works for some time, but are now officially allowed for law...
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Google Makes Big Changes to Featured Snippet Search Results

Google announced last week that it will be making changes to the way we see snippets on the search engine results page (SERP). Prior to the update, it was possible for web pages in the featured snippet position to appear...
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New to Google: FAQ and How-to Structured Data

In May, Google announced that it will support Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) page schema and How-to structured data on Google Search and Google Assistant. FAQ page schema can be used on traditional FAQ pages on your site but can also...
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Understanding Google’s BERT and the Importance of User-Focused Optimization

Each day, Google sees billions of searches on a myriad of topics come through its engine. Users search with incomplete sentences, misspellings, and grammatical errors--Google is tasked with interpreting what information would be the most helpful for each query. With...
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