Years ago, I tried to share a post on Facebook from one of my websites. Instead of seeing the title I expected, I saw an advertisement for an overseas pharmacy. I was able to catch and repair the issue before being penalized by the search engines. I
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Developing content for real estate agents and brokers is my new favorite niche, especially agents located near me in central North Carolina. Occasionally I see some agents hung up on trying to rank in Google search for neighborhood names. Does ranking for neighborhood names help sell houses?
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On the web, your website is your property. It is your real estate. The more traffic you have to your property, the more it is worth. If you have a website that gets traffic, it is just like having a commercial property at a busy intersection. Of
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Millions of small business owners have to make the tough decision of where to allocate time. Any small business owner knows there is just not enough time in the day. While many dream of being that entrepreneur that strikes it rich the harsh reality is it takes
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While doing a search on the Internet the other day I bumped into the New Homes & Ideas website. The first thing I noticed is that there is a ton of fresh, helpful content going onto the site on a consistent basis. Then I realized that the
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James Fell is an MBA grad and professional fitness speaker and an internationally syndicated fitness columnist whose work is read by millions each month. He writes for the Chicago Tribune, interviews celebrities for the Los Angeles Times about their fitness stories, is the head fitness writer for
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Whenever I visit an eye doctor’s website the first thing I usually notice is that there is a lack of content. When I discovered www.eyeporter.com I was thrilled to see not only a blog, but a YouTube video series! Holy content! Isaac Porter, MD, is an Ophthalmologist
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Update 11/19/2015: See this follow up article: Yahoo Small Business Listing Problems – YEXT or Aabaco or Luminate? Update 11/1/2015: It appears that the SMB dashboard is now missing, please see this article for more information: https://www.telapost.com/luminate-coming-soon/ This is one that always seems to slip through the
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It can be easy to lose sight of this, but don’t forget: people use search engines because they want answers. You can read about SEO until you are blue in the face. You can study how meta tags affect click through rates, measure bounce rates on your
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We have all seen it before. Some schmuck of a company ranks on page 1 of Google’s results for a term such as “Charlotte SEO” or “Raleigh SEO” or “Los Angeles SEO” etc. So how did they get there? Isn’t the best at SEO company at the top for “SEO”? In many
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Webmasters who are using Google Webmaster Tools (WMT) and have a website that doesn’t work good on a mobile device (like a cell phone) have been receiving a warning message from the Google Webmaster Tools Team telling them to fix “mobile usability issues”. There is a looming
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Every day I run into a website that needs content and yet has none, or just has a few pages up. Where is the content?! Did the web dry up and the words evaporate, leaving nothing behind but dry, cracked websites? A quick example: Wednesday I met
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On January 8, 2015 I had the opportunity to watch Matt Cutts give his speech “Lessons learned from the early days of Google”. This was given at UNC at the Nelson Mandela Auditorium in Chapel Hill, NC. Matt, Google’s head of web spam, joined Google as a
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Today someone hired me to start writing their content. They already rank very well for one term, but have woken up and discovered that they could rank well for hundreds of terms. I verified this by checking out their competition, and I was not surprised to see
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The writing has been on the wall quite a long time now. On the vast majority accounts that I manage, mobile traffic accounts for 45 – 55% of all web traffic. These are scattered around the USA & Australia in a variety of niches yet the data
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On February 23, 2015, Google released their first product built from the ground up for children: YouTube Kids. I though I’d give it a whirl and post a review online. Below are some of the questions that I had, and what I found out while reviewing this
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Many auto repair shops struggle with their business presence. Gear heads just want to fix cars, and when the business grows, they have plenty of other headaches to deal with. I know this for a fact as many of my friends own auto repair businesses and I
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As of February 2015, personal injury attorney law firms that rank well in Google Local results (aka Map Results) are correlated with the attorneys and firms who rank well in organic search. The people and firms in the local results get far more calls than the people
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Today we’re going travel in time back to circa 1993-1995. This, my friends, is when being online was pretty awesome. In 1992, for example, the Internet consisted of approximately 10 websites. That is not a misprint, TEN. People used the Internet, just not for web browsing. I’m
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The #1 SEO factor in ranking personal injury sites for important key phrases is website authority, and as of 2015, this still comes from backlinks. If you do not agree with this feel free to see my Los Angeles Personal Injury SEO analysis for proof. Building backlinks
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