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When it comes to reaching potential customers online, aside from Google there’s no better site to use than YouTube. Recent estimates suggest at least one-third of all people on the Internet are official YouTube users. To help smaller businesses create engaging ads tailored to YouTube, Google (YouTube’s
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Do those long subscription forms discourage you from signing up for newspapers online? How about all the annoying pop-ups asking for you to renew your membership after you’ve already subscribed? If so, Google has the solution. In an article on Google’s blog, the tech giant unveiled its
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I am not sure if Google is throttling content or not but after many many years of me using Google Search Console’s “Fetch and Render” to index new content (aka “Fetch as Google”) or using Google’s “Mobile Friendly Test” to crawl and index pages, these tools are
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The “new” Google Search Console rolled out to webmasters in 2018. You may have received a message called “Introducing the new Search Console (beta)” when this occurred or read about it on Google’s blog here. Since then, a scary warning has gone out to thousands of websmasters.
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According to a recent blog post, Google employees say one of the biggest challenges in the Internet Age is the spread of “fake news.” To help the public get access to reliable online information, Google says it will work harder to filter out biased content and teach
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Anyone doing keyword research is bound to eventually discover a few keywords which people when searching for nearby businesses such as restaurants, coffee shops, gas stations, hotels, grocery stores and even law firms such as “Near Me”, “Nearby” and “Closest”. Armed with this knowledge many people set
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Today I opened up my web browser and headed on over to Google Finance (finance.google.com) and I was not happy and users are sure to be upset as well. Everything was in the red, but to make matter much, much worse, the Google Finance page has undergone
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As a website gets older and/or more popular it begins obtaining some very questionable looking links. Some are downright scary. These generally come in the form of low quality large quantity NoFollow Some of the websites I work with have millions of natural links. You should see
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Every day I get an email from someone trying to sell me a backlink from HuffPost.com and my clients do too. Should you purchase a backlink from HuffPost? No. History Lesson Up until 2017ish there was an easily accessible publisher network on Huffington Post. They got rid
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On March 8, 2018, we published that a major algorithm change was on the way (technically that went live March 9 at 12:25AM). The tremors had been felt for days and one of my sources felt it could be days (or months) away. Then on Saturday, March
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Business owners can now add a “women-led” attribute to their business in Google My Business. Google announced this new feature on International Women’s Day. This is what a business listing looks like with the new Women-led icon: How to get the “women-led” icon To add this feature
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One of my sources has shown me that as of March 2018, Google is indeed testing an algorithm change. This is a change which is not evident to most people in the SEO world as the algorithm is being tested outside of the United States. In fact,
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It’s tough being a news publisher. Even large, well known sites like Fox or CNN are forced to fight over small scraps of traffic and produce headlines which would literally make you think the sky is falling if you visit them. No expense is spared and I
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I was contacted by a new client in early March who had lost traffic in February 2018. They were wondering if they had been negatively impacted by an algorithm change such as a Penguin or Panda update. Indeed, there were many updates throughout the month of February,
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There are lots of great ways to back up WordPress websites – as long as you have just one. Once you have multiple websites, the options become significantly more complicated and expensive. Current problems backing up WordPress websites in 2018 Multiple sites on multiple servers. This is
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Adding a business to Apple Maps is a straightforward, easy process. Or is it? What happens when Apple won’t call your phone number to verify it? iOS and iPhone users who go to visit your business may use Apple Maps. To list your business on Apple Maps,
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Recently a client brought to my attention a business in their area who rapidly accumulated dozens of 5 star reviews. Interestingly, they already had half a dozen negative reviews. A lot of people are afraid to leave businesses a negative review, so if this many people stepped
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News organizations are allowing ad networks to display Fake News and fraudulent website scams on their sites via content delivery platforms and ad networks. Will the FTC take action against these publishers and advertising platforms, or continue to allow Americans to be scammed out of millions of
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People everywhere are being redirected to fake, lookalike websites from legitimate news websites. They click on a link which appears to be part of the news website and next thing you know, they’re on a fake site reading a fake story by companies and affiliate marketers trying
Read more →In August 2017 I noticed something new in Google’s search results. A poll! I had not seen one before. Just like Super Bowl LII, the poll was for a highly anticipated sporting event: Connor Vs McGregor. You can see the screenshots of the Connor Vs McGregor Google
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