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On May 16, 2019, Google released the latest Quality Rater Guidelines (QRG), more recently called the Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines. You can download the latest QRG here, or via our mirror here. Update: Get the September 2019 version here. What are the Quality Rater Guidelines? Google hires
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The Holy Grail of advertising for law firms used to be the back of the phone book. It was the coveted spot, and only one firm could make in for that phone book in that calling area. All others had to scramble for the inside of the
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Google has recently been suspending Google My Business pages belonging to personal injury lawyers. The new, aggressive suspensions began in 2019. Here’s why, and what to do about it. How we got here: I work with several personal injury law firms and it is no secret that
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“Billion Dollar Bully” is a movie produced by Prost Productions and released on May 21, 2019. I will be updating this post as soon as I’ve had a chance to watch the movie. The movie could be making false claims of extortion. How To Watch Billion Dollar
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Today I made my annual trip to Yahoo.com to see if it was shut down yet. The site is still up, it is just plastered with ads. The home page is plastered with ads which literally take you to fake news sites and sites which attempt to
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Google My Business recently rolled out a new feature recently which allows GMB pages to get a simple to use URL such as g.page/businessname. This custom URL is called a “short name”. Here’s how to get it. To get your custom URL (short name), follow these steps:
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I work with several law firms and one of the questions that always comes up is what street address to use for a law firm with a suite number in the street address. I personally use the # and it appears to be the best way. Here’s
Read more →If you’ve followed this blog for some time you may know that I used to host a Google My Business support forum online and have seen thousands of issues with Google My Business (GMB). If you’re reading this, you probably know that GMB problems are very frustrating.
Read more →A personal injury lawyer in Louisville Kentucky I am tracking recently lost all of their Google My Business pages. I’m not sure if they know it or not. The loss occurred in late April, 2019. Since then, I have heard of several other businesses who have had
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On Monday, April 8, 2019, AXS emailed some writers informing them that they were terminated from the AXS Contributor Program and that their accounts were blocked, effective immediately. At the time of this article, I’m not 100% certain if every contributor was axed, or if it was
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On March 18, 2019, users of Google+ received an email from “Google+ Team” titled “Save your Google+ content before March 31, 2019”. The email is legitimate and is not fraudulent or a scam. Here’s what the email says: You’ve received this email because you have content in
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Starting in October 2018, Google My Business got hit hard with spam in the personal injury attorney niche. I was made aware of this by one of the law firms that I work with. After they told me they had spam in the local pack, I began
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On March 12, 13, and 14, 2019, many webmasters began noticing a change to their rankings and traffic. That’s because Google rolled out an update to their algorithm. Google frequently rolls out updates, but this one was a significant “Broad Core algorithm update”. The update began rolling
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If you copy and paste content from Microsoft Word into a WordPress website, there’s a chance that you may discover that all of your links are set to NoFollow. That’s just one of the many disastrous features of the lovely Gutenberg (WordPress 5.0+). Why are my WordPress
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In December 2018, YouTube deleted subscribers from many channels on their platform. With all of the massive problems YouTube faces lately, apparently they thought this was a priority. 😛 Users can still fake review counts. One company I briefly tracked adds a lame video, then inflate the
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In November 2018, Yelp changed their algorithm, also known as their “recommendation software”. Millions of Yelp reviews were lost in what one Yelp representative called the “Yelp Purge of 2018”. Yelp filtering reviews is nothing new, but the way Yelp filters which reviews are prominently displayed as
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In December 2018 a wave of automated robocalls began hitting business owners across the USA. The Robocallers pretend to be Yelp. This is called an “Online Listing Scam”. The call: Click here to hear the audio of the call I received: The call I received came in
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The biggest change coming with WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg is the “Editor”, however, changes to the WordPress core, PHP and JavaScript will indeed crash some websites with incompatible themes or plugins which have yet to be updated to be compatible with WordPress 5.0. WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg will be
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Update 12/18/2018: I believe I have discovered why some reviews are being filtered in a new way. Please refer to this updated article: The Yelp Review Purge of 2018. A client of mine who checks his Yelp rankings monthly at the end of the month contacted me
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Below is a recap of some of my observations on Google algorithm updates throughout November 2018. November 1, 2018 On October 31, 2018, some webmasters saw fluctuations in search results. A few people wanted to name this the Halloween update, but I don’t think that came to
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