The fastest way to get index crawled and indexed in Google Search is via Google Webmaster Tool’s Fetch / Render / Submit feature. I am commonly asked how to quickly get pages indexed, crawled, and ranked in Google Search. There are a lot of myths surrounding this,
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I see so many SEO FAILs I once almost created a website for them. However, the last thing I need is yet another site to collect dust. So, here we are folks, the SEO FAIL “page”. As I come across SEO FAILs I will add them to
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Years ago, I tried to share a post on Facebook from one of my websites. Instead of seeing the title I expected, I saw an advertisement for an overseas pharmacy. I was able to catch and repair the issue before being penalized by the search engines. I
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It can be easy to lose sight of this, but don’t forget: people use search engines because they want answers. You can read about SEO until you are blue in the face. You can study how meta tags affect click through rates, measure bounce rates on your
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We have all seen it before. Some schmuck of a company ranks on page 1 of Google’s results for a term such as “Charlotte SEO” or “Raleigh SEO” or “Los Angeles SEO” etc. So how did they get there? Isn’t the best at SEO company at the top for “SEO”? In many
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Webmasters who are using Google Webmaster Tools (WMT) and have a website that doesn’t work good on a mobile device (like a cell phone) have been receiving a warning message from the Google Webmaster Tools Team telling them to fix “mobile usability issues”. There is a looming
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Today someone hired me to start writing their content. They already rank very well for one term, but have woken up and discovered that they could rank well for hundreds of terms. I verified this by checking out their competition, and I was not surprised to see
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The writing has been on the wall quite a long time now. On the vast majority accounts that I manage, mobile traffic accounts for 45 – 55% of all web traffic. These are scattered around the USA & Australia in a variety of niches yet the data
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Many auto repair shops struggle with their business presence. Gear heads just want to fix cars, and when the business grows, they have plenty of other headaches to deal with. I know this for a fact as many of my friends own auto repair businesses and I
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As of February 2015, personal injury attorney law firms that rank well in Google Local results (aka Map Results) are correlated with the attorneys and firms who rank well in organic search. The people and firms in the local results get far more calls than the people
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Today we’re going travel in time back to circa 1993-1995. This, my friends, is when being online was pretty awesome. In 1992, for example, the Internet consisted of approximately 10 websites. That is not a misprint, TEN. People used the Internet, just not for web browsing. I’m
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The #1 SEO factor in ranking personal injury sites for important key phrases is website authority, and as of 2015, this still comes from backlinks. If you do not agree with this feel free to see my Los Angeles Personal Injury SEO analysis for proof. Building backlinks
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As a professional content creator I always sit up and pay close attention to great content when I see it. It is of no surprise to me that over the years some of the best content that I have seen comes directly from the business owner themselves;
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Today we’re going to take a look at the SEO status for Personal Injury attorneys in Los Angeles, California (January 2015 edition). This is part of an ongoing blog series: Local SEO Case Studies. If you follow this blog you know by now that I do SEO
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I recently bumped into a post which conveyed something I have failed to articulate on many occasions. The pots was “The Three Pillars of SEO“. In this article, the author breaks down his 3 pillars which are technology, relevance, and authority. I am creating this post in
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The new year is here and many people are wondering what the most important change to the Google algorithm was in 2014. If you ask business owners in the United States what the most important change to Google’s algorithm was they will tell you that it was
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Occasionally I have caught myself trying to minimize the number of outbound links on websites and web pages that I have worked on. It is tempting to keep the links for yourself. Many people believe that a page that ranks well should only link to a few
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If you own a property damage and restoration company, at some point you are going to wonder what kind of leads you can get off of the Internet. In this line of work, most of the leads are fielded by homeowner’s insurance companies. Let me assure you,
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Google Local search results have been changing in Australia. The change began towards the end of December 2014 as part of what most call the Google Pigeon update. I expect this change to keep rolling out throughout 2015. Some people really dislike the Pigeon The update is
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We have no SEO sales staff here. We do not need one. We have never had one. We will never have one. Upon the sale of my last company, which was made successful via great rankings and content, I started this venture, Telapost. Telapost is Latin for
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