How Pictures Affect a Site’s Performance

If you are looking for one more way to move up in the search engine results pages, check out the pictures on your site. Site speed is one factor Google looks at when ranking your page, and pictures can sometimes … Continued

How Your Site Speed Impacts Everything

Most of us don’t like to wait: in lines at the grocery store, for our food to come at a restaurant, at the doctor’s office, to go online until after we stop driving — and we really don’t like to … Continued

Facebook Launches New Search Function

The little white search bar on the top of your Facebook page is finally getting an upgrade. Long dismissed as a feature with limited capabilities, the Facebook search bar just got a whole lot better and could be changing how … Continued

Privacy, Personalization and Duck Duck Go

Recently there’s been a lot of discussion about Google’s privacy standards and the personalization of search results. In a nutshell, whenever you search for something on Google, that information is stored on Google’s servers. Google uses this information to then … Continued

Google Thinks Like Us Through Knowledge Graph

If you have googled anything recently, you might have noticed a new feature called Knowledge Graph, which assists users by highlighting more relevant and informative search results for certain topics. When searching, Google now brings up the basics on your … Continued

How Google Places Can Help Your Local Business

Google Places is a local business directory paired up with Google Search. It gives a business a landing page where it can describe its services, additional contact information, highlight products through photos and video, and allows customers to leave reviews.  … Continued