When you have a website, it needs to live somewhere on the web – this is what website hosting is. Website hosting can range anywhere from $3 a month to $99+. Not all website hosting is created equal. Budget hosting plans from places like Hostgator or Go Daddy get the job done … barely. You will find your website will perform worse in terms of load times vs. a premium hosting company. They will also lack features like staging servers, high-speed SSD, Free SSL, and more. Google is penalizing slow website in search rankings, so it is more important than ever that your site loads quickly. For that reason, we only use premium hosting for our clients.
Google Warning To Non-Mobile Friendly Web Sites
Today one of the sites we work with got a message in their Google Webmaster Tools. The message titled “Fix mobile usability issues found on yoursite.com” basically informs the site own that because “These pages will not be seen as mobile-friendly by Google Search, and will therefore be displayed and ranked appropriately for smartphone users.”…
Google losing market share
Recently posted in the Wall Street Journal, Market researcher Statcounter says Google’s share of U.S. search traffic, excluding mobile devices, declined to 75.3% in December from 77.5% in November, after the maker of the Firefox browser made Yahoo the default search engine. Yahoo YHOO -1.05%’s share of search traffic excluding mobile devices grew to 10%,…
Can good links solve Penguin Problems
In a recent video hangout with Google’s John Mueller, John said that even without using the disavow file or removing bad links, it is possible to recover from a Google Penguin Penalty. So instead of going through all the trouble of removing bad links and creating a disavow file, Google is saying adding good links…