Google Local Search Results Update: August 2015
You may or may not have noticed, but on August 6, 2015 Google started changing the way some of the local search results appeared on Google. By the morning of August 7, 2015 all of Google’s local …
How to Put Your Business on Google Maps – Free & Easy
*Updated November 28, 2018 As an Official City Partner of Google’s “Let’s Put Our Cities on the Map” program, St. Louis Digital Media wants to help every business get found on the web—starting with yours. People …
What You Need To Know About Fake Online Reviews
For the past month and a half or so ‘fake online reviews’ has been a real hot topic in the internet marketing industry. In late September BusinessWeek posted an article describing how the State of …
St. Louis Digital Media Is Now A Google Certified Partner
Credentials Verified By Google St. Louis Digital Media is proud to announce that we are now a Google Certified Partner! Google describes the Partner Certification as: … A globally recognized stamp of approval which showcases …
Google Searches Now Secure – What Does This Mean For My SEO Campaign?
Within the past week Google has decided to make all of their searches secure. As a result, the organic keyword data from Google searches in Google Analytics will no longer be provided. Below we will …
Google Penguin & Panda: A Simple Explanation
In the search engine optimization (SEO) industry there are a lot of ‘technical’ terms that seem to confuse local business owners. At St. Louis Digital Media, we spend a good amount of time figuring out …
What is NAP Consistency? And why is it good for SEO?
One of the more common questions I receive from local business owners is, “How do I rank higher on the ‘maps’ section of Google or other search engines?”. Well there are many different strategies that …
Google+ Local Listing Removed?!
It is important for local business owners to keep an eye on their Google+ Local listing (or your Google Places for business listing) because, unfortunately, your listing may all of a sudden disappear for no apparent …