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Everyone has frustrating things in their life. If you are a roofer, it is getting stung by wasps. If you are a cop, it is the disrespectful, belligerent jerk who cusses you out when you’re trying to give them a ticket for going 55MPH through a school

A client had a random forgotten about WordPress install get hacked this past week. I have personally worked with hacked sites 10 times so far this year. The hacks come from weak passwords or more often outdated WordPress installs or vulnerable plugins. WordPress is kind of like

Recently a client asked me why their traffic was low. They were looking at a report in SEMrush. However, SEMrush does not measure traffic. Semrush is a great tool I use at least once a week to “spy” on other websites. It has its place, but more

I work with a variety of high profile clients around the globe, some of which are attorneys. I have done consulting of some sort for personal injury, criminal defense, DUI and bankruptcy attorneys at one point or another. A common question / problem / misconception out there

When changing websites the biggest mistake most people make is not redirecting their web pages. I have been seeing this for nearly 25 years now and I have no idea how such a novice mistake is made over and over and over again. In 2014 I saw

There are situations when Google tries but just doesn’t do a great job. Or, a competitor has been manipulating the algorithm, or, a good company hired a crappy SEO guru, or, they have just neglected their online presence, either because they didn’t understand how important it was

Where do old websites go when they die? Spammers have been recycling them. This became commonplace in the early 2000’s when every SEO guru / moron / spammer on the planet knew that links were a major ranking factor. And one easy way to get links is

Well, here I am. 1AM and crawling, not home from a bar, but on my desktop PC in my office. I don’t usually stay up late, but I am drinking coffee and it would probably take an act of God to get me off of my PC

Today folks, I am going to let you in on a secret; one of which I have rarely shared, only with select friends and clients. Due to the title of this article, I bet very few people will even see this post. But, as of 2016, there

Today a client asked me how they could get a website recrawled. Unfortunately, it is June 2016 and it appears that there is no option which exists to have an entire site re-crawled. If you have a website with hundreds or over 1,000 pages you’ll just have

If you have ever wanted to log in to Google Search Console and easily view data for a domain and a subdomain or multiple domains you wish has come true. On May 23 2016 Google announced that you can now tie sites together using “property sets”. Creating

I am writing this On June 1, 2106, but I am sure there will be fluctuations in Google search again this month. In May we had an update to the mobile algorithm and there were definitely fluctuations affecting some niches around May 8 – 10, at least

SEO is a 4 letter word, and for good reason; well over 99% of people and firms offering the services are either incompetent or selling snake oil. Personal Injury is very competitive as well and results don’t come overnight. Internet marketing does indeed offer a great ROI

Once a page containing the link to your website is crawled, the link will generally appear in Google Search Console in 8 days. If memory serves me correctly, I’ve seen them show up much faster and in other cases they can take longer. The last several links

If you are trying to rank a website in a highly competitive niche or just genuinely trying to get the word out on a scholarship that you are offering you may have considered running and promoting a scholarship. Of course, this involves scouring the Internet for external

Too many times a journalist or a local news website has swiped ideas off of one of the websites I’ve been working on, mentioned a brand and not linked, or not linked to an article which would have made it better. What gives? Last week one of

The other day, one of my clients, who is very fortunate and get a LOT of business from Google search (with my help) told me that at a conference he recently heard a speaker talking about SEO and why it was so mysterious and difficult. He was

If you run a search engine such as Google, Bing or Baidu and would like assistance zeroing in on bad guys manipulating search results feel free to email me today. I see spam daily and have since the mid 1990s and would be happy to consult with

Every once in a while something prompts me to examine the rankings of a niche and put together my observations. This is something I do daily anyways, so sometimes I put the results here. Additionally, it is great content and people (usually) love reading them. Today I’m