Gregory Lee, Author at Blend SEO

Δ Freebase, Hummingbird’s Left Brain Becomes Wikidata

April 22, 2015 ♦

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You may have noticed more and more answer boxes in Google lately. Google's Hummingbird algorithm is its answer to semantic search -- to provide search results that are conversational. Freebase was first publicly available in March 2007 as a place…

📊 4 Line Long Descriptions in Google SERPs

April 17, 2015 ♦

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SEO Strategy Consulting

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Recently Google has been displaying longer descriptions in search result pages. The META Description most recent best practice has been to include keywords and limit the length so the entire description can appear in listings when Google chooses to display…

How are H1 Tags Used for SEO? Are Excessive H1’s Really Bad?

August 24, 2014 ♦

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Website Optimization

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A client who I am consulting on changing his domain name asked me an unrelated SEO question about H1 tags. He received an external website audit that recommended removing excessive H1 tags from his sites. The funny thing about SEO…

How to Setup Blog Tags for SEO Amidst Stricter Search Engine Rules

July 9, 2014 ♦

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Blog Marketing

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Update: This article was previously published on Yahoo Voices, but has been moved here to my blog because the Yahoo Contributor Network was closed as Yahoo re-organizes its business efforts. This SearchEngineLand article alludes to closure due to Google's Panda…

Why Google Local Listings Drop

June 4, 2014 ♦

Gregory Lee ♦

Local SEO

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SEO local listings fluctuated the last couple months and dropped across a few clients and our own site around the end of May. Listings often fluctuate, but this was a trend across a handful of clients at the same time.…

4 Step Schema.org SEO Strategy & ROI for Microdata, Rich Snippets & Semantic Search

February 2, 2014 ♦

Gregory Lee ♦

SEO Business, SEO Strategy Consulting

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Over the years business and SEO people have asked for my take on rich snippets, SEO schema.org tagging and structured data. These have been hot terms for advanced SEO and website optimization for several years. Now with mobile voice search…

2014 Prediction: Mobile SEO and Site Development

January 16, 2014 ♦

Gregory Lee ♦

SEO Web Design & Graphic Design Services

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By now you should have heard enough buzz about the increase of mobile device usage to give mobile SEO some attention in 2014. It is my prediction that during 2014 Google will begin algorithmically enforcing the mobile SEO guideline updates…