Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 23, 2013

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. Does Buying Facebook Likes Help Search Engine Rankings? But these are my best blog posts of the posts I wrote in 2013.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 2, 2013

More than 80% of small to midsized businesses (SMBs) plan to increase their use of social media in 2013. Blogging is generally seen as most valuable for SEO, YouTube for content marketing, and social networks like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn most helpful for branding and engagement. WordPress Hosting SEO ). eMarketer ).

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 30, 2013

I’m amazed by the number of “snake oil” Search Engine Optimization salesmen send out unsolicited email spam, really believing that someone will take their “bait” What type of SEO services do you expect to receive if you pay this company just $99? Date: August 30, 2013, 12:23:18 PM CDT. What a deal!

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Josh S Peters

JANUARY 15, 2013

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been around as long as search engines. Over the years it has changed dramatically and now we have social media activity influencing search results in all of the major search engines. Search engines still run on keywords. Keyword Research & Targeting.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 4, 2014

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. It’s pretty rare that I out another SEO firm or company (okay, well maybe not).

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Starting today, I am going to go out on a limb (well, not exactly) to offer Bitcoin as payment for search engine optimization services. By providing Bitcoin as an option for payment of search engine optimization services such as an SEO Audit, I believe I am the first one to accept Bitcoin for payment. Pay With Bitcoin.

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 31, 2013

I think the title of this post, “be careful when choosing an SEO” (search engine optimization) professional really says it all. Tactics for Dealing with the Latest Google Algorithm Updates – Pubcon New Orleans 2013 from Bill Hartzer. Date: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 7:23 AM. SEO is dead, long live SEO.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Search engine optimization has changed a lot over the years. I don’t think that’s the best approach in 2013. For starters, if you don’t see SEO as an intrinsic part of your overall marketing efforts, then there is a disconnect somewhere. That should also be why you have an SEO strategy.

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 13, 2013

My definition of a natural link is one that you did not obtain by asking someone for a link–and you did not obtain that link because you hired an SEO firm to build those links for you. Date: Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 7:18 AM. It’s not the same as what most SEO companies do: Top 20 Benefits of Our Service: 1. From: Shane.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 11, 2013

How to Build Your First Content Marketing Strategy by Search Engine Watch. Whereas if your goal is brand awareness, or perhaps link-building for SEO, going broad with your content can be an excellent strategy.” 2: 30 Remarkable Content Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2013 (and 2014).

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Writtent Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

SEO as we know it is actually gone forever. image credit: Search Engine Watch. image credit: Search Engine Watch. Consider the following factors that were recently highlighted in the Search Engine Journal: Keywords are Now “Not Provided”. Are you dubious, or worried that our position is extreme? Authorship and AuthorRank.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Prepare for a great year of search rankings with these SEO research tools. WP Engine. 27% off of their best-selling theme plus a free guide to SEO ($39 value), good until December 2 (time unspecified). It’s been the catalyst behind every success he has had to date professionally. This is the deep dive. Long Tail Pro. $50

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 29, 2013

Vizion Interactive , an SEO Agency, has launched a Google AdWords campaign where they are specifically targeting searches for a competitor’s brand name. Vizion Interactive is one of the companies rallying around Blueglass to hire their employees, as they were terminated from the company in mid-April 2013.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

It’s not easy maintaining SEO rankings when you redesign a website. One of those is search engine optimization. First, you could lose search engine rankings if you significantly change your content. However, you do want your website to look like it meets the design standards of 2013, not 2005. What are the dangers?

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 7, 2014

If we study how SEO has evolved in New Zealand, we can learn a lot about how the field of search engine optimization has changed in the last few years. SEO companies were forced to become quite a bit more educated and sophisticated in their approach to ranking websites. SEO tactics vary a great deal from one company to another.

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Proactive Report

AUGUST 14, 2013

Webinar August 28, 2013, Sally Falkow APR and Lisa Buyer discuss the new Google rules for writing a press release. Back in 2006 a few very smart PR folk recognized the need for PR content to be found online and that search engine optimization would become a necessary PR skill. Register here. See Tom Foremski’s take on links.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Nothing ever remains the same way for long in the world of SEO. To help you stay informed about the ever-changing inbound marketing landscape, here are 7 pieces of critically-important SEO news: 1. One of the most fascinating and little-known areas of SEO news is Google penalties. image credit: Search Engine Journal.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 22, 2014

I’m honored to have been asked to speak on two separate panels this time: 2014 SEO Basics – While many of the core rules of SEO still hold true, there are some tactics that were OK in early 2013 that are not OK in 2014. This session will cover the 101 basics of SEO today. Search Engine Marketing Events'

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Proactive Report

MAY 8, 2014

If you’re one of the smart PR pros who has learned how to optimize content for search engines you’ve been writing pithy headlines that are under 65 characters. Content Marketing Online PR content google online news online PR press releases SEO' Well, here’s a head’s up.

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The Social Media Incubator

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It was rolled out in late August, 2013. Either they’re getting better at rolling out updates or the SEO community is getting worse at detecting them. Local Search Search Engines SEO Google Hummingbird Algorithm Change Search algorithm changes Search engine optimization' No one noticed.

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Social Media Marketing

AUGUST 16, 2013

Android is better, big data in Asia, the merging of HR and marketing, Canadian women like to talk about brands, Fortune 500 CEOs are scared and ignorant of social media, Twitter use rises, the social networks that help search engine optimization and more, it''s This Week in Social Media. A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry.

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Webbiquity SMM

AUGUST 2, 2018

You already know that customers are most likely going to find you through search engines. Would you go on Twitter to try and find a supply chain management solution, or would you (insert preferred search engine here) it? According to Econsultancy, 61% of consumers turn to begin their decision-making journey with a search engine.

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Josh S Peters

JANUARY 9, 2013

When it comes to search this means that you can use blogger outreach, community out reach, videos, and other social platforms that can be used to give your content a “social bump” to show higher in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Page). This is a layer I expect to see grow a lot more in 2013. Build Community.

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Lucy Hall

APRIL 28, 2015

What are the SEO implications of republishing content to your blog from linkedIn? Is my SEO affected if I publish the same content on my blog and Linkedin? I often hear people ask: If i am publishing duplicate content from my blog to LinkedIn or vice versa could this cause negative Search engine ranking results for my website or blog?

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 13, 2013

If your website is banned in the Google search engine or if your website is penalized, then I don’t recommend writing and distributing a press release about it. When IGXE disappeared from the Google search engine, customers were left wondering why. Don’t blame the SEOs. link building Search Engine Optimization'

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

According to research from BuzzFeed , “Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months, with traffic from Google dropping more than 30%…While Google makes up the bulk of search traffic to publishers, traffic from all search engines has dropped by 20% in the same period.”

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Social Media Marketing

APRIL 26, 2013

Social media improvement is turning into progressively necessary for computer program improvement, as search engines square measure progressively utilizing the recommendations of users of social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ to rank pages within the computer program result pages. Get more info click to me.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 3, 2014

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. We show the breakdown of the crawlers’ traffic in Table 6. Methodology.

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Kikolani

MAY 24, 2013

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. The Ultimate Resource for 2013 Inbound Marketing Stats and Charts – Looking for a compelling inbound marketing stat? Search Engines / SEO. The Resources Mashup.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The case is by no means closed, and you should be aware that this is the way search engines will be ranking your web pages in the future – especially Google. If that happens, then you can bet that online content producers that haven’t switched from the SEO tactics of 2006 to the SEO tactics of 2013 will fall off the radar.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A new article at SiteProNews claims that 2012 was a volatile year and there are 4 new lessons you can pick up from it to make 2013 even better. They’ve each been key SEO principles since 2002. Black hat SEOs always get caught. But here’s the truth. These aren’t really new lessons. What are these 4 new lessons?

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

If you have a brick and mortar business with a physical street address that you publicize (you typically have customers visit you at your location), then you should be listed in the “local” listings of the major search engines. There's a form for that [link] #local #seo. Search Engine Marketing'

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 31, 2013

A while back I wrote about how many SEO companies and so-called SEO experts have been offering a Google Penguin Recovery Service. They are, in fact, going to do things that will change your website’s link profile which could do serious damage to your overall website search engine reputation. Google Search Engines'

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 15, 2013

Therefore, all links in press releases should have the nofollow attribute added to the links, so that the press release does not pass any SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) value to the website it’s linking to. Or are you just doing it for SEO value? Public Relations Search Engine Optimization' Is it news?

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 18, 2012

5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO. SEO Metrics for Publishers: How are You Tracking and Measuring Success? 5 Ways that Social Media Impacts SEO was the big winner in terms of social traction; 500+ tweets is a lot for me. Have a great 2013. Related posts: My Top Posts of 2011 on SEO, PR and Social Media for Publishers.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Just as low-level article directories (ezinearticles, articlesbase, and others) got hurt by Google’s Panda Update in 2013, I predict that Google will hurt sites abusing guest blogging in 2013. If I linked the words “Minneapolis SEO Company” to my homepage, that is unnatural. In 2013, that is my prediction.

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Danny WhatMough

AUGUST 12, 2013

Seen in this light, it’s perhaps understandable that he sees PR as “…a form of SEO; whether the PR industry understands this or not” Seen in this light, his argument that Google is out to kill PR is perhaps true. I don’t see any of that as a threat to PR, I see that as a threat to SEO and an opportunity for PR.

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