Every day I receive requests for WordPress website design. I can never seem to find enough good WordPress designers. At the same time, there are many WordPress web designers out there looking for work. While I can have a functional site up very fast, I am not
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Recently a client asked me why their traffic was low. They were looking at a report in SEMrush. However, SEMrush does not measure traffic. Semrush is a great tool I use at least once a week to “spy” on other websites. It has its place, but more
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I work with a variety of high profile clients around the globe, some of which are attorneys. I have done consulting of some sort for personal injury, criminal defense, DUI and bankruptcy attorneys at one point or another. A common question / problem / misconception out there
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I can’t mention which site here but recently I wanted to archive a website. Unfortunately, it had 3 – 4 million pages of content. To be honest, I haven’t added it up yet, but there is well over 3. HTTRACK My normal site copier of choice is
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On July 12, 2016, I put the article up titled Epic Local SEO and Content Tip for Pokémon Go. The tip was to basically create relevant and local content around Pokemon GO. A few people followed through with this and were rewarded with sweet, juicy Internet love
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When changing websites the biggest mistake most people make is not redirecting their web pages. I have been seeing this for nearly 25 years now and I have no idea how such a novice mistake is made over and over and over again. In 2014 I saw
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There are situations when Google tries but just doesn’t do a great job. Or, a competitor has been manipulating the algorithm, or, a good company hired a crappy SEO guru, or, they have just neglected their online presence, either because they didn’t understand how important it was
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Bloggers and writers all across the internet use pictures as a means of catching the readers attention, and communicating to them an idea, whether it’s informative, humorous, or simply a piece of art to be appreciated. But adding a picture to a post is more complicated than
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Millions of people love Pokemon Go, and it’s giving many of them an excuse to go outside much more that they would otherwise. By most accounts it’s not only fun, but something of a revolution in how people play mobile games. But will it really change the
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People trying to go to examiner.com are now redirected to a site called AXS.com. Where did it go? My personal guess The site’s performance was lackluster and failing. Here is a screenshot/estimate of the site’s performance in 2016, courtesy of similarweb: The page had millions of pages
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If you follow social media and hate web censorship you will be interested to know that Twitter has been accused of censorship multiple times this week, yesterday regarding WikiLeaks DNC emails. On Friday, July 22, 2016, #DNCLeaks exploded on twitter. Over a quarter million tweets went up
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Overlooking the Atlantic is a great little restaurant called Daddy Mac’s. If you are ever on Topsail Island, NC, go there for lunch. The wait times at dinner are crazy but at lunch you can slip right in. I personally grab an IPA and a soft shell
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Where do old websites go when they die? Spammers have been recycling them. This became commonplace in the early 2000’s when every SEO guru / moron / spammer on the planet knew that links were a major ranking factor. And one easy way to get links is
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Believe it or not, it is July 2016, and every 6 months, your business listing with Bing will get screwed up and stop displaying the hours which your business is open. If you do not proactively update your business hours, you will receive an email from Bing
Read more →It’s all over the news, social media, and everywhere else people look to get information about what’s going on in the world. A new mobile game called Pokemon go was recently released, not for Nintendo handheld devices, like in the past, but for Android and Apple smartphones
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If you are one of the businesses to have been fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be located in a Pokestop, you can now add this information to Yelp. (Related: Can my Business be a Pokémon Go Pokéstop?) Will this even be a thing? I asked someone today
Read more →In the last week since Pokemon GO was released hundreds of business owners from all over the world have been asking me how they can become a Pokestop and deploy Pokelure to attract Pokemon, and of course, people. But, some people are busy enough, do not have
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If your business is a Pokémon Go Pokéstop you can deploy Pokélure, attracting boatloads of players to your location. You could also incentivize players to use Pokélure with discounts or free drinks, etc. (Related: “Can my Business be a Pokémon Go Pokéstop?“.) What is Pokélure? Pokélure is
Read more →Could you get SEO value from Pokémon Go? That is the questions I asked myself tonight, just after becoming level 5. 🙂 We’ll be rolling this out for one of our local clients in a smaller town as a little test as it will only take a
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As someone who owned a brick and mortar location for 13 years I understand why an entrepreneur my want more people coming in the door (or not coming in). If you’ve been under a rock for the last … few days … then you’ve missed out on
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