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I have been doing a lot of HTTPS migrations this year and clients have been asking me some common questions which include: Should I expect a loss in traffic? Will I get more traffic? Will my rankings change? What will happen in Google Analytics? There are a
Read more →As of February 9, 2017, over 1 million pages have recently shown up in Google search results with messages such as “Hacked By MuhmadEmad” or “hacked by NG689Skw”. Website owners will be happy to learn that the websites are more or less defaced and the fix is
Read more →Google doesn’t normally play WordPress Police, but WordPress 4.7.2 was just released. As I reported yesterday, outdated versions of WordPress are being hit hard due to multiple security vulnerabilities in the WordPress core which are now being exploited. Google is sending email to websites already updated I
Read more →WordPress Version 4.7.2 was released January 26, 2017 and it fixes multiple newly discovered security vulnerabilities. People who have not upgraded may soon discover: Hacked error messages in Google search results Hacked Error message in Google Search Console Hacked content errors in search console Or they may
Read more →The Squarespace “Calling John Malkovich” SuperBowl LI Ad shows John Malkovich calling someone who owns JohnMalkovich.com. He is yelling into the phone and trying to get the domain from someone else who owns it. In real life, the JohnMalkovich.com is not at risk. However, this happens all
Read more →Post updated 3/2/2020 with new auction house information. In late 2016 an expired domain came up that I wanted. So, I began my journey to purchasing my first expiring domain. I had bought many domains over the years that had previously expired months or years ago, but
Read more →There is some buzz in the SEO industry that there has been an algorithm update to Google in February 2017. Indeed, SERP tracking tools such as Mozcast and RankRanger do show some fluctuations in results. If your site dropped in the rankings this month, I would be
Read more →Since Telapost broke the news of “Top Stories” in desktop search I have received emails from journalists, publishers, and news organizations all over Russia, the Ukraine, Pakistan and Italy. Their complaint is always the same: their (Google News approved) website is not displaying in the Top Stories
Read more →The “Yandex.Webmaster” section of Yandex’s site is ironically webmaster.yandex.com. Why didn’t they just call it Webmaster.Yandex? Anyways, do you need it? Fiddling with Yandex Today I logged in and poked around a bit. I decided to register my site and upload a sitemap to it. I poked
Read more →If you are migrating, rebranding, forwarding an old domain to a new one permanently and want to pass all SEO juice along, you will want to do a 301 redirect. In the past, this was easy. A plane Jane 301 redirect could do anything from forwarding HTTP
Read more →I try not to watch the news much these days but this morning I was fiddling with my phone and brought up cnn.com. Much to my surprise, I saw ad ad box with a scam on it! A site pretending to be Fox News: I just wrote
Read more →There are lots of ways to convert WordPress from HTTP to HTTPS, and the ways it is accomplished have changed significantly over the years. I have now upgraded a few dozen WordPress websites to HTTPS and I will outline the basics below. Will Moving WordPress to HTTPS
Read more →A few months ago I slapped a random article up on this site about the Drudge Report infecting cell phones. It is not really the Drudge Report but people exploiting the advertisement delivery networks content curators and producers utilize to monetize their sites. In other words: ad
Read more →It has gotten to the point now that when I see promoted tweets in my timeline I click them JUST for my own entertainment. Twitter feels like it is mostly all bots at this point, but there is a user base on there that LOVES to bitch
Read more →If you search Google on your cell phone you have seen Google mobile search results. And if you have seen Google mobile search results you may have noticed that some websites get their brand name or website title instead of a URL. Google implemented this change in
Read more →Google has been testing a 4 pack for a while now (a local 3 pack with 1 ad) and I had a feeling the 4 packs may arrive in 2017. It looks like they could be here. The tests Google previously ran only lasted 30 minutes or
Read more →Here’s a weird one for you. Instead of a phone and “call” feature in the local 3 pack, I discovered a new one with business images. I was on mobile and accidentally used google.com instead of google.com.au. Searching from Google Australia (google.com.au) brings up a normal 3
Read more →Fiverr is a neat place to order services, starting at $5. People offer everything from pictures of their dog for $5 to professional video editing services that could cost $1000 or more. But is it a good place to buy backlinks? After all, backlinks are what help
Read more →I rarely put this kind of news on this blog but bear with me here, as I have some BREAKING NEWS. The boxed layout test has been affecting people all over the world randomly since June 2016. It picked up steam in January 2016 and I wrote
Read more →I am pleased to publish a short interview that I have recently conducted with Stuart Langridge, a British SEO Manager that works for an online casino firm, based in Malta. Stuart has worked in online marketing and SEO for more than a decade, for a media firm,
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