Christian SEO Guys

This month has seen some significant changes in the search world.  Google+ Local made more changing to their guidelines which will help out a lot of organizations, especially churches and schools, and Facebook has now entered the fray. Watch the video below for the full update: Video Transcript: Hi, I’m Kurt Steinbrueck, Director of marketing […]

I thought I’d try something new with this post and deliver the update in video.  If you’re not in a place where you can watch a video, I’ve also included the transcript below.  Let me know what you think. Transcript: Hi, I’m Kurt Steinbrueck, Director of Marketing Services with OurChurch.Com.  I’m here with the monthly […]

It’s Christmas time.  A time for singing.  A time of joy.   A time of peace.  And that’s what we had in the last month, peace.  No major updates in the search engines.  There was one Panda update (they’re coming about once a month now), but it only affected about 1% of all US searches. […]

After last month’s craziness of Google releasing 3 major updates within days of each other, this month has been relatively calm.  Google did release a minor refresh of their Panda update and that’s pretty much it.  Well, technically, Google released about 50 updates, but they were very minor and most had no real effect on […]

In the past few weeks Google has been pretty busy.  They’ve released updates to Penguin and Panda (twice) and launched a new update related to Exact Match Domains (EMDs). Definition – Exact Match Domain (EMD): An exact match domain is a domain name that exactly matches a keyword.  For example, books.com exactly matches the keyword […]

The month of August was a pretty calm month for SEO. Google released a minor update to Panda and refreshed the Panda data.  This was a small update that only effected about 1% of searches.  Google also announced they are going to start penalizing websites which have multiple, legitimate copyright complaints against them.  In other […]

Bing has announced that they are revamping Bing search with, as they are claiming, the most significant change to Bing since they launched. Including Social In Search: As you are probably aware, a few years ago Bing teamed up with Facebook and started working on ways to include social signals into Bing.  Bing’s first few […]

You may notice a new feature in Bing’s search results, “Linked Pages”. In addition to searching for information and products, people often use the search engines to find people and information on people. This may be looking for information on an author or Pastor or just trying to see what an old classmate from grade […]

Bing’s Local Business Portals already had a lot of features.  In addition to the traditional contact info, map, reviews, etc, they offered a mobile website, offers, photos, social connections and more.  But now Bing is testing some new features. Some of the new features Bing is testing include: Deals with digital loyalty cards: This is […]

Bing has announced a new change to their search algorithm, namely Adaptive Search.  This new feature is an attempt to give more relevant results by trying to figure out the context of your search query based on your previous search history. What Exactly Is Adaptive Search? One of the biggest problems for search engines is ambiguity in search […]