In a previous life I owned an IT related business which had a brick and mortar location. Prior to selling this company I became well acquainted with local search when Google introduced it. These days I pay even more attention to it; thankfully, at this point in
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According to the CDC, the flu season picks up in October. Of course, this varies around the United States due to location, and of course the strain of the flu. In North Carolina, over the last 3 years, influenza has been most prevalent from October to May,
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News websites get lots of love from Google. If they are a Google News site, their articles show up in search for 72hrs or so. If they are a major publisher, they get the benefit of AMP (accelerated mobile pages). Many news websites rank very highly in
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Depending on which niche you are in there is a good chance that one or more of your local competitors are buying links. In some competitive niches, everyone on the front page is guilty of obtaining links in one way or another that Google would frown upon.
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Well there it is. If you Google “DUI checkpoints + your city” and you may see DUI checkpoints & recent alerts. Much of the data is taken from DUIBlock.com. I tried the search on Raleigh, Los Angeles, Chicago and a few other big cities and it worked
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Almost all of my clients have a previous SEO company who they parted ways with for one reason or another. Sometimes they goofed up a website so bad it has to be restarted from scratch. In other cases, I have to scrap the entire domain, simply because
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People looking to sell guns and ammo online often start by building an inadequate website and then try to advertise on Facebook or Google AdWords only to find out that these outlets do not allow pay per click advertising on such items. While I do not necessarily
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Over the years Google employees have hinted around that interstitials could become a negative SEO factor. Finally, as of January 2017, they will be, at least for mobile device users. Thank God. What the heck is an interstitial? When you do a search and then you click
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It’s late August which means that the Atlantic Ocean has warmed enough to fire up hurricane season. And sure enough, there are currently several tropical storms. From the Gulf of Mexico to North Carolina, the United States has not had a serious hurricane in a very long
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If you have a problem with your hreflang implementation you will receive an email about an error in Google Search Console that looks like this: It reads: Errors in hreflang tags on http://www.dav*******njury.com/ We found the hreflang tags on your site, but a few of them have
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Everyone has frustrating things in their life. If you are a roofer, it is getting stung by wasps. If you are a cop, it is the disrespectful, belligerent jerk who cusses you out when you’re trying to give them a ticket for going 55MPH through a school
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As soon as I published the article “What happened to Examiner.com?“, the comments, emails and phone calls began pouring in. Upset authors are wondering where their content went to and how they can get it back. NOTE: If you are looking for a new place to put
Read more →Do you want to be compensated for your writing? Make a name for yourself? Just have fun writing? We are considering starting a website similar to Examiner.com. We understand that this would be no easy task and will not even attempt the feat unless we are all
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If you are reading this and an “SEO expert” has told you that you need to remove content from your website, shorten up long pages, remove content, or do anything that has to do with content removal or content deletion contact me immediately and I’ll take a
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Written by a lawyer, for lawyers: Lawyers and clients think differently. A personal injury lawyer will tell you that the law is about proving certain elements to show negligence, medical bills and records to establish damages and insurance to pay the damages. Without liability, damages and insurance,
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No trip to China would be complete without visiting the Great Wall. In recent years, journeys to the country have also included a brush with the “Great Firewall,” one commonly used name for the Chinese government’s infamous Internet control. When I visited China earlier this year, I
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A client had a random forgotten about WordPress install get hacked this past week. I have personally worked with hacked sites 10 times so far this year. The hacks come from weak passwords or more often outdated WordPress installs or vulnerable plugins. WordPress is kind of like
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Before I left for my study abroad semester in Hong Kong, everyone told me that it was going to be the best experience of my life. This made me excited and very nervous. I’m only 21 years old and hopefully have many more years left to live.
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I get so many spam SEO emails, I don’t even know what to do with them. I usually delete them. After hitting [DEL] 6x a day for 20yrs I have finally decided to start adding them to this website. I will just paste them in the comments
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Living in the digital age means that, paradoxically, it’s both easier and more difficult to meet people you might want to date. It’s harder because life just rips along at breakneck speed, but it’s easier because the phone revolution means that dating – or more – is
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