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My Best Blog Posts of 2013

Bill Hartzer

2013 was a pretty exciting year, and there has been a lot of activity in the search engine optimization industry this past year. Here’s my wrap-up of my most memorable and best blog posts of 2013. I’m still on the fence, though, about hyphenated domains. Does Buying Facebook Likes Help Search Engine Rankings?

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Don’t Pay for Search Engine Submission

Bill Hartzer

You do NOT have to pay for search engine submission services. There are still companies out there that are selling scamming others with a search engine submission service. I just received one recently, and it is actually a notice that would appear that you might be paying for domain name registration.

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My Last Blog Post of 2013

Bill Hartzer

Well, here it is, December 31st, 2013, the evening is drawing to a close. Not that 2013 was a bad year, or that it was actually an odd (unlucky 13) year. And boy did I deal with it: My most memorable (at least for me) blog post of 2013 was one of those. So in 2013, I saw a big change. place where it all happens.

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Appalling: US Patent US8515941 B1: System for Generating Search Engine Spam

Bill Hartzer

US Patent US8515941 B1 granted Aug 20, 2013, is titled “System for unique automated website generation, hosting, and search engine optimization” And their websites still rank well in Google despite Google Panda 4.0. So blatant that they have been awarded a patent for creating web (search engine) spam.

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7Search, Others, Accused of Traffic Stealing in Domain Parking Research Paper

Bill Hartzer

7Search , a leading Pay Per Click Search Engine Advertising and Affiliate Network, along with a few other search and domain parking companies, have been accused of traffic stealing in eye-opening research paper titled Understanding the Dark Side of Domain Parking. 7Search isn’t the only company named in this paper.

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Fetching Friday – 20 Marketing Links & Sad Cat Diary

Kikolani

The Ultimate Resource for 2013 Inbound Marketing Stats and Charts – Looking for a compelling inbound marketing stat? Search Engines / SEO. Google Penguin 2013: How to Evolve Link Building into Real SEO – SEO used to be about tuning a website for optimal consumption by spiders. Here are 10 easy ways to do it.

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Google Showing Multiple Domains in SERPS for Site: Command

Bill Hartzer

Google is showing multiple domain names in its search results when the site: command is used if domains pointing to the main domain include the canonical tag. The screen capture above shows more than one domain for a site:billhartzer.com search. I wrote that blog post back in 2013. byrAO2qP5o0.

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