I do not usually do this but today I am posting an article which I do not quite have the answer to. Howeveer, bear with me, I will absolutely have the solution posted here soon, even if it requires changing your telephone number. The story December 28,
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Recently I began playing with a website approved to be in Google News. One of the first questions I ran into was the ability to ditch the existing URL structure. Do I need dates in URLs for Google News? There was a time when 3 digits were
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Telapost broke the news of “Top Stories” in Google Search earlier in 2016. Since then, I have been paying closer attention to the “Top Stories” section and how it behaves. The previous “In The News” section of Hoogle has historically been limited to websites which were accepted
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Just after fruit went viral on Snapchat, people began posting animals, colors, and candy bars to signal their relationship status. Here is a complete list of the candy bars people are posting on Snapchat and what they mean. Twix = in a relationship Kit Kat = It’s
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Just after fruit went viral on Snapchat, people began posting animals, colors, and candy bars to signal their relationship status. Here is a complete list of the animals people are posting on Snapchat and what they mean, according to the image below and various forums online: Horse
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On December 28, 2016, Snapchat exploded with stories containing words or emojis of fruit. I asked the people of Snap what it meant and I was snapped the game heard around the world in approximately 35 seconds. Note: see the snapchat animal meanings here. What do the
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Recently someone shared their Google Analytics after reading my article about review markup and implementing it on their law firm’s website. Prior to installing it, they wondered if their click through rate (CTR) would improve. I told them it would, but how much, I was not sure
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While looking up New Year’s Eve celebrations taking place in the mountains of North Carolina today I came across a hacked site. That is nothing out of the ordinary, however, the site’s payload is a trojan deliverable via a JavaScript. The way this works, is, you visit
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I spoke to Google My Business earlier today, inquiring about a business which was missing a few reviews. I am very familiar with Google My Business and the quirks it can have and have heard about reviews going missing for one reason or another but never experienced
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Sometimes when creating content for clients I end up making big, fat, juicy, pages. Some people would call these pages “overwhelming walls of text”. Yes, I knew your little secret. To make things pretty and put them into smaller, easily digestible nuggets of content, content can be
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Redirecting a website is like moving to a new home. Instead of telling the post office where you have moved, you are telling the search engines.To do this the best option is to use a 301 redirect. But will the 301 hurt your SEO or your search
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Here’s one for the North Carolina category of my blog, which I have been neglecting too much lately. Koka Booth Amphitheater in Cary NC is home to many great presentations, festivals, concerts and performances. Named after former Mayor Koka Booth and located on Regency Parkway, Koka Booth
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This week North Carolina social media lit up with stories about the anti-Trump painting which was displayed at the art show at Roanoke Rapids High School. Since the news broke, the image has been disappearing from some news websites and has been rather difficult to track down.
Read more →We are currently investigating some businesses which are missing a handful of reviews from their Google My Business page. There are many reasons a Google My Business page, formerly called a Google Plus page, can be missing reviews. Most often, there is a glitch at Google, people
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The question has come up many times over the years. I can say with confidence, that I have personally tested this, and I have multiple witnesses. Now this is going to be a bit of a lame article, as I can’t show you the results. You’re going
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You’ve seen it. “Sponsored Content” “You might like” “Recommended from the web” “Popular Stories” What do you even call this stuff? I call it promoted content. Others call it content distribution. Some people would say they are crap spewing web plugins. There are a variety of “content
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Many law firms and businesses have discovered they can increase their exposure on the web by having lots of great content. After all, if your content is not on the web, people can’t find you when they are looking for you. This is more important for some
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Millions of people have been waiting for today, December 15, 2016, for Super Mario Run to be released. This is Nintendo’s first smartphone game and the first time we have seen the plumbers in quite some time. But, this much anticipated game is not without its fair
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Since I discovered the new “top stories” section on Google news last month I have been playing with the news feature quite a bit. Lately, I have noticed some spam in the search results quite often, from a website called Car Chat (car-chat.info). No, I have no
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North Carolina is home to many scenic mountains and beautiful coastlines. Unfortunately, it is also home to some of the worst SEO companies in the United States. This weekend I heard a story that one of them removes content that you paid for from your site if
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