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A site that I established in 2001 has several popular pages. Over the years, many of the pages accrued hundreds of natural inbound links. I had absolutely nothing to do with these links, they were 100% natural. In fact, I didn’t learn of the source websites linking
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It never ceases to amaze me when people are willing to delete content. Today I discovered a California law firm which had recently deleted hundreds of articles from their blog. This was great content which is extremely valuable in the right hands. It just so happens I
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Backlinks are a funny thing in Google and they have definitely evolved over the years. They changed in 2016, how, nobody can completely pinpoint. I’d argue that Google engineers themselves can’t totally predict how a certain link will affect rankings. I do know that I have seen
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A publisher that I recently did some consulting for was losing traffic in Google organic search results. They had a half a dozen issues which I quickly spotted and resolved. One of the problems was that the content from their news articles was being stolen shortly after
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In the wake of numerous violent broadcasts on Facebook’s live stream platform, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that he is working hard to re-vamp his company’s video screening process. To do this, Zuckerberg said Facebook will hire and train 3,000 employees to monitor and censor video content going
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Yesterday, May 3, 2017, the news broke that Wicked Weed is selling to Anheuser-Busch. Lots of people congratulated Wicked Weed, and plenty of people had negative things to say. This is because Wicked Weed has a massive fan base who LOVE them. On Facebook, the announcement had
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Very few Americans trust the mainstream media nowadays. According to a Pew Research Center study, an abysmally low 18 percent of Americans have “a lot” of faith in national news agencies. That number is only expected to go further down as the years wane on. All news
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Google’s Answer Boxes, aka Featured Snippets, have been showing up in more and more search results lately, and I’ve been on a binge, obtaining as many of these as possible for clients, trying to steal existing answer boxes and positioning new content for future snippets. In April
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A good YouTube video can be posted onto YouTube. It will show up in video search results, can show up in Google search results, can be embedded in your articles on your website, and can also be shared on other platforms such as Facebook. Added in with
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InfoWars.com is a website operated by Alex Jones. While I am not a regular reader I am pretty sure that sometimes you will find satire there, a couple stories some people would disagree with, and news that the mainstream media outlets such as CNN simply do not
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For some search queries, Google displays a “Top Stories” section above search results, replacing what used to be “In The News”. What is The Google Top Stories News Algorithm? The Google Top Stories News Algorithm determines which articles are displayed in Google’s “Top Stories Carousel” in Google
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A Yelp”Active Cleanup Alert” is displayed by Yelp when Yelp’s user support team sees signs of controversial, media-fueled activity on a business page. The Active Cleanup Alert prevents users from leaving reviews and directs Yelp users to post any and all thoughts on “Yelp Talk”, Yelp’s open
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About a month ago I wrote about “Spammy Structured Markup” messages being sent out via Google Search Console. Since then I have now seen multiple sites with this “penalty”. It isn’t much of a penalty, sites affected simply have their review stars removed in search results. These
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Here’s an odd feature that is new to me that I’ve never seen in Google search results before- Categories. They act sort of like “Google breadcrumbs”, if you will. Here’s a screenshot, which you can (currently) duplicate by searching for German Shepherd Health Problems: The search does
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Below are my current thoughts, as of 2017, as to how Google interprets what I call “geographical relevance”. If you are looking for a highly technical whitepaper citing Google documents, this isn’t it. Move along, ’cause you will be disappointed. But, Google has no word on this,
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Adding city pages for your business’s products or services can bring in more search traffic and paying customers, but if they are “doorway pages” or not depends on a variety of factors. Are city pages doorway pages? In the past, doorway pages were easy to spot. Let’s
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A few people have asked me if there was a Google update in March of 2017. The answer is yes. Currently, there are 800-1200 updates to the Google algorithm annually, as far as I know. Some people are calling it an “unconfirmed” algorithm or something as well,
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To celebrate April Fool’s 2017, Google introduced Google Gnome and Amazon jumped in on the fun with Petlexa. Did Twitter partake? On Twitter, when you create a new account, until you enter your own pic you are given an egg. Makes sense, as the logo is a
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The Million Dollar Advocates Forum is a website with members who are personal injury lawyers and trial attorneys who have won million dollar or multi-million dollar verdicts. I have several clients who are members of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and I end up on the site
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I have been seeing more and more websites showing up in Google search results recently with HTTPS prefix. This would normally be a good thing, however, in many cases the website itself hasn’t been migrated to HTTPS! Many business owners and other website owners are shocked to
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