How long does a site link take to show on Google?
In Google’s world, a “site link” is a specific term that refers to additional links that show up under main organic listings.
Eric Richmond is a (recovering) rock and roll roadie and President of Expert SEO Consulting, a Connecticut-based digital marketing consultancy he founded in 2006. With nearly two decades focused on organic search, Eric now specializes in AI search optimization — helping businesses get cited and recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and other generative platforms. He is also the creator of CiteMetrix, an AI citation tracking platform, and Chatly, an AI-powered chatbot for WordPress. Before Expert SEO Consulting, Eric held senior roles at Complex Media, TechMediaNetwork, 360i, and Grey Interactive, and has spoken on search optimization at SMX, SES, HSMAI, and MTMP. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Internet Oldtimers Foundation and is a founding Board Member of the US Internet Pioneers Foundation. A lifelong car enthusiast, Eric is the founder of Cars and Coffee Darien — held at the historic starting line of the 1979 Cannonball Run — and Cars and Coffee Events, the largest car and motorcycle event listing website in the US. He is an accredited member of the International Motor Press Association, and on weekends you can often find him and his Mazda Miata on the track at Lime Rock Park.
Hello. I’m Eric and I’m a Search Engine Optimization Professional. Nice to Meet You.
Over the last 15 years of being an SEO consultant, it’s been my experience that, after introducing yourself, you’re going to get one of four responses from the person you’ve just met. They’re either going to say: “I don’t know what that means. Can you explain it?” “We’re already working with someone.” “We hired an…
What’s in my SEO Toolbox for 2019b
Welcome to the 3rd annual What’s in my SEO Toolbox post. SEO is always interesting. It’s always changing. But 2019 has been a particularly interesting year with respect to SEO. How? Well besides the typical algorithmic changes by the search engines, Google switched from desktop indexing to mobile indexing. And then there’s voice search (Alexa,…
Google Expands Rich Results Widget with Question and Answer pages
As the world’s largest search engine, Google is used by people who are seeking information to all kinds of questions. Many of those questions are answered by Companies who publish answers to questions users have asked their customer service departments, but that’s not the only source of information. Often, the information users are looking for…
How to Upgrade Your Web Site to PHP 7.3
Most people think about a web site in terms of the creative design, or the content. That’s what you and your users see, but there’s much more going on behind the scenes. Your web site has to be hosted someplace and your hosting company uses a lot of hardware (web server, database server, media server,…
Search Engine Strategies Conference Shuts Down
It was reported earlier this week by Barry Schwartz (Rusty Brick Consulting and Search Engine Roundtable) and Bill Hartzer that Search Engine Strategies – the series of SEO conferences started by industry pioneer Danny Sullivan back in the late 1990s – and ClickZ Live Events are no more. While the ClickZLive site (https://www.clickzlive.com/events) is still online, the SES conference…
Windows 10 Redstone Update Causes Lenovo Laptops to Brick
On Tuesday evening, after a great presentation at WIX Lounge in NYC, my almost 2 year old Gen 3 Lenovo X1 Carbon running Windows 10 did an automatic update to Windows 10 Redstone. I didn’t ask for this. It just happened. And when I sat down at my desk on Wednesday morning the laptop was…
The Future of Search
How yesterday’s science fiction has become today’s reality. In his keynote address at SMX West this morning, Beshad Behzadi (Google’s Director of Conversational Search) opened with two video clips. The first – from a 1960’s episode of Star Trek – showed Captain Kirk (William Shatner) asking the ship’s computer for information on two different people. The second was a trailer from the…
Google Updates Webmaster Guidelines
Google Updates Their Webmaster Guidelines If you’re not an SEO professional, you’re probably asking yourself, “Why do Google’s Webmaster Guidelines matter to me?” The answer is quite simple: Following Google’s Webmaster Guidelines “…will help Google find, index, and rank your site.” And that’s a good thing. If there’s any doubt as to how important these changes…