Five Tips for Google Grant Management for Associations

Making the Most of Your Google Grants Account  Okay, so you’ve followed our advice and applied for a Google Ad Grant—and your organization was accepted! Now what?  Getting a free $10,000 to help promote your association sounds like a dream come true, but figuring out how to make the most of that money can be overwhelming. We’ve helped a number...

Has Your Site Been Impacted by Google’s Page Experience Update?

It’s here! After telling website owners it was coming for over a year, on June 15th Google started rolling out it’s Page Experience Update. Unlike most Google updates—which typically take a few days or weeks to roll out to all sites and all search results—the Page Experience update is going to be released slowly, completing by the end of August. ...

Schema Markup: How Structured Data Can Increase Your Google Traffic

One of the most impactful Google changes in recent years has been the increased usage of schema markup.  Schema what? If you’re an avid Willow blog reader, you might remember last year’s post on Expanded Google Listings, where we talked about ways you can get your brand or organization more exposure in Google results—including the use of schema. But if...

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Google Ad Grants and Your Non-Profit

The Easy-to-Get Grant Your Organization May Have Overlooked If you work at a non-profit, you may be overly familiar with the long, tedious grant-writing process. But many non-profit organizations are unaware of the great resources and perks Google offers 501(c)3 organizations — and of how simple it can be to take advantage! The Google for Nonprofits program offers a wide...

Google Search Update: E-A-T

Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness If you pay attention to your site's organic traffic and SEO (search engine optimization), you might have heard a new acronym being tossed around over the last year or so: E-A-T. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, but unfortunately, E-A-T has nothing to do with eating pumpkin pie (though I would argue that maybe we should...