Welcome to the Telapost SEO and Content Marketing Blog. Our most popular categories have articles about Content Creation, Google My Business News, SEO News, Technical SEO and Case Studies. Sometimes there are random posts about business or North Carolina. Here’s our blog’s RSS feed, our blog’s Feedburner Feed and our a category specific SEO News Feed. Below you will find the entire blog’s most recent articles beginning with the newest articles first.
There are certain niches I find myself catering to. At least a few times each week, I have to turn away people who need SEO help. I can’t help everyone, and if you’re a jack of all trades, you’re a master of none. We currently work with
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Google released an update to their Quality Rater Guidelines on July 20, 2018.Here’s how they’ll help you. You can get them here: Download them from Google here. Download them from our mirror here. What are the Quality Rater Guidelines? Google hires “quality raters”, people who visit websites
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On August 1, 2018 and August 2, 2018, many webmasters around the globe felt the effects of Google’s latest “broad core” algorithm update. The update may have began rolling out on July 27th and is continuing throughout the first week of August. Page posted: 8/4/2018 Page last
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Sometime in July 2016, Examiner.com shut down, and the site was redirected over to AXS. I wrote about how some authors could get their content back from Examiner and have since spoken to hundreds of Examiners. Most told me they enjoy writing and have moved on to
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There were several significant changes in Google’s search engine results in July 2018, including a mid-sized algorithm update. Both the algorithm change and other tweaks to the Google algorithm positively impacted some sites and negatively impacted even more. Tweaks to the algorithm Almost every time someone contacts
Read more →Are the Fake Reviews in Google worse than Fake News? One law firm thinks so and believes that users are becoming innocent victims. Google is ignoring the spam reports and leaving fake reviews up for everyone to see. One of my clients has a competitor who has
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On July 27, 2018, I received a notification from Google that my Google Bulletin account was now live. I went on Twitter and found people in India and Denmark tweeting about the new Bulletin feature as well. Considering the small size of the town I am in,
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Perhaps the thing I admire the most about Amazon is that they are constantly trying new things. Of course, some of these things fail and others are massively successful. When something doesn’t work out, they learn from it. One of my favorite quotes is from Jeff Bezos
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Here is the screen that people are getting when they can’t check out: I have been waiting quite some time for PrimeDay to get here to pick up some deals on Amazon. 3PM Eastern, July 16, 2018 finally arrived. I went over to Amazon to find the
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On Wednesday, July 11, 2018, a flock of Bird electric scooters descended upon Raleigh. They were deployed in downtown, Cameron Village and Oberlin. I couldn’t wait to try them out, so I headed downtown, parked by the The Pit, loaded up the Bird app, tracked down a
Read more →On July 9, 2018, Google began rolling out the latest change to the way Google ranks websites. Google named this update the “Speed Update”. Over the years I’ve been asked many times about page speed and site speed and I’ve stated it here on this blog numerous
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On July 1, 2018, a new wave of messages went out from Google to webmasters who have Google Search Console configured, previously called Google Webmaster Tools. These messages have been going out to website owners for a while now, but this appears to have been a major
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You heard it here first: There is a new feature in Google’s mobile search results that came out a week or two ago. This feature highlights additional locations for multi-location businesses. I call it “Other Locations For” as the carousel feature shows, well, other locations for a
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Recently a client came to me with a site ranking poorly in Google’s search results after some quality algorithm updates. Within a minute of looking the site over the problem was clear: they had thin content. In this case, the website consisted of some pages about the
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I spent this week in Charlotte and wanted to test out Lime’s new Electric Scooters. Here’s what I discovered. Renting the scooter I downloaded the app and funded my account. The first step to go for a ride is to get the Lime app on your phone.
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On June 14, 2018, I noticed the new Video Carousel in desktop search results. This first rolled out to Mobile search results around the same time we discovered that Interesting Finds rolled out, in late May. Yes, videos have shown up in Google search results for a
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There have been a few developments since we last published an article on the fair use trial between YouTubers Carl Benjamin (better known as Sargon of Akkad) and Akilah Hughes. If you need a quick refresher in this case before reading on, please click this link to
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As an SEO professional, sometimes I need to speed up WordPress websites. I am not a speed freak but if a site takes over 3 seconds to load on mobile I then look in to performance modifications within reason. How fast do you need to be? In
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No. Subdomains do not inherit the SEO authority of the root domain. If you have an existing site and then add a blog to it as a subdomain, the subdomain is going to perform like a brand new website and initially perform poorly in the search engines.
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On Memorial Day, May 28, 2018, Google rolled out “interesting finds” in mobile search results. A second feature they are testing is “videos” in a carousel style format. There’s nothing new about videos being in organic search results, but the videos section is scrollable (left to right)
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