Every day businesses shut their doors. Businesses are merged and acquired. I have owned multiple businesses. At any given time I would consider the website to be the most valuable asset. Then again, these are powerful websites which rank in search. On some occasions, a website is
Read more →If you are a lawyer or a law firm who needs bad links disavowed after receiving a penalty please feel free to contact me today. I have multiple attorneys who I can use as a reference for my excellent work in the legal industry including bankruptcy, personal
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In 2013 a personal injury lawyer came to me needing assistance. Incidentally, practically every lawyer who gets screwed eventually sits down and takes the time to research and educate themselves about SEO finds me, or at least that is who emails me. After about 60 days of
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I am very fortunate in the SEO world as I personally own and have a couple of clients who have very old, aged domain names. These domains were registered in the 1995 – 2000 timeframe and have had great content added to them for a very long
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Over the years by working with personal injury websites I have seen every trick in the book. Nearly everyone who ranks for “car accident lawyer” in their city has entered into a grey area of SEO, sometimes intentionally, sometimes accidentally. Sites which break the rules come and
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If you are looking for the 2016 Bing Ranking Factor’s guide then I have a question for you: When is the last time you have looked at your site analytics? I monitor several high ranking sites and the traffic referred to them via Bing is just so
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It is hard to believe that it is 2015 and many are still running such poorly optimized websites. Content is served up on sites with bloated code with gigantic images from overcrowded, slow servers. Pop-ups try to capture your email address, ads are all over the place,
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In every niche there are many variables which affect the traffic to your website. Users turn to the web for answers to questions on tablets while they are watching TV. On Monday, many people search for services via their desktops while they are at work. Around 2PM,
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This week a client of mine inquired about guest posting. Of course, the point of writing this guest post was to obtain a link back to their own website. In some cases this is ok, especially if you have something of value to add to said website
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High traffic keywords such as “Personal Injury Lawyer” in your geographic area typically cost around $150 per click to be in the top 3 results. Of course, this varies drastically from city to city and even day to day depending on what your competition is bidding. In
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Google has been keeping a list of who’s been linking naughty or nice. The SEO world is buzzing and the next major update to Penguin is coming in the very near future, possibly in December of 2015. Typically I see 2 types of businesses affected by this
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The Internet is truly a world where the rich get richer. It is easy to see how discouraged a blogger or business owner could become after launching a new site. They probably spent way too much time on the look and feel of the site. That should
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Every day I run into companies that do not need SEO. If you know of a business that does not need SEO please feel free to comment at the bottom of this article. I will also be updating this list whenever I bump into a company that
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Alphabet, formerly known as Google, is an artificial intelligence (AI) company. I have informed my clients of this for many years. I also mention this in this article back in July 2015 regarding creating unique and valuable content: Can I cut and paste articles on my own
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Contextual links matter. Lots of people spend an awful lot of time worrying about links. Some are more concerned about the anchor text, some spend more time worrying about the number of links on a page, if the link is at the top or bottom, or the
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Released in 1985, Back To The Future is a movie where Marty McFly travels through time. I was 8 years old when I watched this “rad” movie but if I recall correctly the gist was Marty, played by Michael J Fox, went back in time 30 years
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August 29, 2015: Over the last several days I have noticed that in many of the niches that I track, Google Local results (the 3 pack of local listings) has now moved to the top of Google’s search engine results pages, pushing organic rankings down. Previously, there
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Often when people go to check their web rankings they fear that their searches are personalized. What is personalized search? Pioneered by Google in 2004, search engines “personalize” your search results. Pages you have previously visited, cookies, your network, current location all influence your search results. Also,
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A geo modifier, also known as a geographic modifier, or geo tag, is a location specific keyword, typically used in addition to a search query of a local business or service, which communicates local intent to a search engine. An example of a geo modifier would be
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Thursday, August 13, 2015 I noticed only what I could call “bundled” search results. The results were seen on desktop on Chrome in incognito. The results which were bundled were YouTube videos. The YouTube videos displayed directly above other page’s search results. Observations: The page, which would
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