Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 18, 2014

Google Penguin Refresh this weekend, and a pricing bug found in GoDaddy’s domain registration. This weekend, there appears to finally be a Google Penguin refresh, which is affecting a lot of website traffic from Google organic search. Google Penguin Refresh, Google Penguin 3.0. Pubcon Las Vegas 2014.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Domain Name SEO Search Engine Registration scam, Google SERPs Instagram Date Mistake, 7Search Accused of Traffic Stealing. There are a few significant updates since then, including two Google Penguin updates, and a few other posts worth mentioning. Google Search Results (SERPs) say Post was in 1970.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Google’s CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA won’t stop spam bots, Best Buy Oops, ICANN hacked, Freebase is shutting down, and Apple’s mysterious domain names. This will be my last weekly update in 2014, so I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Google’s New CAPTCHA ReCAPTCHA Has Been Hacked.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 13, 2014

But, notably the TopSEOs website appears to have been banned in Google. TopSEOs, a website that “lists” the top SEOs in the industry, appears to have been banned in Google. Their TopSEOs.com domain has been banned in Google, and the TopPPCs.com domain also has been banned. Pubcon Las Vegas 2014.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 8, 2014

TopSEOs.com, a site that listed the “top SEO firms” in a list (for a fee) has been banned in Google. They were banned in Google. — Bill Hartzer (@bhartzer) October 8, 2014. No official word from Google yet why the site was banned. The post TopSEOs.com Banned In Google appeared first on Bill Hartzer.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 14, 2014

Jennifer wrote a book called Domain Names Rewired, and is a keynote speaker here at NamesCon 2014 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Google and Amazon has applied for a lot of new TLDs and it scares the brands. What domain names do they need to compete with the brands that have applied for a new TLD? domain name.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 4, 2014

While searching Google today for a random search query, I noticed that the first search result was kind of odd. I’m not surprised by Google showing off-topic results for certain search queries. What shocked me was that apparently Google says that the post was made on Jan 17, 1970. Google Search Engines'

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The Google cache date on most web sites have now been updated, after having not being updated for over a month. This is a rather significant update, I think, as normally the Google cache date is typically updated on a regular basis. The post Google Cache Dates Updated: After a Month appeared first on Bill Hartzer.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

It appears that Facebook has recently acquired the Messenger.com domain name. Checking the name servers and the whois data for Messenger.com, there was a recent change to the name servers: from lovellsnames.org to facebook.com, and the registrant is now Facebook. Mozilla Media: Answer to Google’s Chromecast Device?

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

owns a bunch of nonsensical domain names that use Apple’s own DNS, but are hosted on Amazon’s cloud server. These domains continue to be registered on a regular basis, some as late as last week. And they’ve been buying these nonsensical domain names and setting up web hosting for at least 6 months now.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I have run across some confusion recently about the Google Change of Address Tool , which I wrote about recently. While the Change of Address tool is still broken in my opinion, it’s important to note that the tool is only really meant for moving from one domain name to another.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 8, 2014

Did Microsoft just register a domain name that is a typo (a typo domain) of Verizon? I know this might be a stretch, but I am really curious about one of the domain names that was just registered, and was set up on Microsoft’s name servers: vericen.com. Registry Domain ID: 1853664725_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 10, 2014

CookieChoices.org , the search engine (a version of Google) that Google registered and then put live for a few days is now gone. Back in mid May, right after the European ruling came down related to the “right to remove” your details from Google, a mysterious domain name called CookieChoices.org was registered.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Google is hosting the very articles that contain links that Google is telling us that they want removed. That’s right, in what can only be a unique twist of irony, Google is playing web host to thousands of low quality spammy articles, the exact same type of articles that Google wants us to remove. Oh, the irony.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The fact is, there is absolutely no need to submit your website to the search engines; most likely they have already crawled your website (especially Google). It’s a shame that these scams exist after all these years, as they have morphed from a search engine submission to even a domain name registration scam.

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 16, 2014

There have been reports that Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, is working on a device similar to Google’s Chromecast, a media streaming stick. Mozilla Media domain names were just registered by Mozilla. Registry Domain ID: Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com. Name Server: ns5-65.akam.net.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 23, 2014

At least when it comes to domain names. Of the 19 domain names that Microsoft has failed to renew in the past 24 hours, there are three that apparently Microsoft doesn’t want anymore. They haven’t renewed these names, meaning that you soon can “play by the new rules”: playbythenewrules.com.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Wow, this is something that I found rather funny… Google just announced Inbox by Gmail, a new type of service that handles all of your appointments, calendar, and emails (and some other stuff) in one place. In the blog post , Google asked people to send an email to Inbox@Google.com. Date: Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 1:30 PM.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2014

There is nothing about Negative SEO in Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. After a review of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, from what I can tell, there are no actual references to the practice of Negative SEO. After all, it doesn’t violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. Are you surprised?

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 6, 2014

Back on May 16, 2014, I wrote about Google registering the domain name CookieChoices.org. Well, now I have discovered today that it looks like there is a version of Google’s search engine on CookieChoices.org. But, I can verify that the site is hosted on Google’s IP address 216.239.32.29

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 28, 2014

I expect this Reddit AMA to be no different, combining SEO and Domain Names, as well as the new research that I’ve just released yesterday regarding the New gTLD domains and how they’ve been doing in Google. Conde Nast Purchases 285 Reddit Domain Names As you may or may not know, I typically watch.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 31, 2013

This past year has been quite interesting, and personally I’m very happy to get on with 2014. In 2013, Google really turned Search Engine Optimization on its head and ‘shook really hard’ so to speak. 2014 is now the beginning of Link Earning. I suspect that at the end of 2014. And, as well, in 2015.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

While there are already several new gTLDs that are already available now for anyone to register, and they are getting indexed in Google’s search results already, Twitter has yet to recognize the new gTLDs. — Bill Hartzer (@bhartzer) February 13, 2014. If you go to Google, and search for: site: photography.

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The Social Media Hat

APRIL 13, 2017

Back in January of 2014, a solopreneur who was building up resources for primary and secondary educators reached out to me on Google+ for some assistance. since 2014. You can't get to their sitebuilder or any of the other tools until you have worked the process and developed a domain name that ticks all the boxes.

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Viper Chill

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Here is a breakdown of my expenses to date: Domain name : $11. A domain name is necessary and while a.info domain is a lot cheaper, I went with a.com since it just seems more reputable. The GSA indexer is necessary to get your verified links indexed by Google and others to get maximum effect as quickly as possible.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 28, 2014

Fame, Fortune and Helping People in 2014. Google pays out millions each month, so here’s a trick you can use to get $14 of those millions in your Adsense bank: ask politely for clicks. If you want to get started, do some Googling around at the current competition to see if hauling might be for you. Blogging for Dollars'

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 1, 2018

But in 2014, I realized it was time to monetize. I just did a Google search, Orlando has 2.3 Number three we’re going to help you to make some good decisions about what to call your blog, what domain name to get. To have the freedom to write about what I wanted, when I wanted was really exciting and rewarding for me.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Date: Wed, February 5, 2014 1:21 pm To: "REDACTED". -- Hello: You are receiving this email message from us because you have sent us an email requesting that we remove some domain name and/or URL of yours or your clients from our web directory(ies). There are penalties that Google assigns to that problem too.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

We all know that Google updates can be highly frustrating, especially when Google are never forthcoming about exactly what changed and what you can do about it if you feel you were unfairly penalised. For some though, Google changes can slice millions of dollars off the valuation of your company. When Panda 4.0 When Panda 4.0

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Here are the Google search results for the title of an IMGUR post that was released just 8 days ago : One image that went viral is now on millions of websites, not limited to those with names like SRSLulz, FunnyPictureQuotes.com, GagsArea, I Can Has Cheezburger, Funri, 4Chan and many more. Sold another in May 2008 for $175,000.

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SocialFish

OCTOBER 4, 2019

After many years of sporadic appearance and disappearances, Demonoid started to come back online in August 2019 under the Domain name dnoid.to. According to Alexa , the site was the most visited torrent directory on the World Wide Web from 2003 until November 2014, when KickassTorrents supplanted it. The New Demonoid.

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Viper Chill

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Probably the weirdest thing Dave lied about, was his name. He didn’t want his friends in college to Google his name, find ViperChill and think he was this strange ‘internet nerd’ He also didn’t want potential clients to know he was just a teenager. I earned a link from Google’s Matt Cutts at 17.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

At the top of my list of goals for 2013, 2014, 2015 was start a podcast. It’s not ranking number in Google but we’re starting to see some search traffic from it as well. This post has a few affiliate links in it, we link to some server providers, we link to some WordPress templates, we link to where you can get a domain name.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

At the top of my list of goals for 2013, 2014, 2015 was start a podcast. It’s not ranking number in Google but we’re starting to see some search traffic from it as well. This post has a few affiliate links in it, we link to some server providers, we link to some WordPress templates, we link to where you can get a domain name.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

At the top of my list of goals for 2013, 2014, 2015 was start a podcast. It’s not ranking number in Google but we’re starting to see some search traffic from it as well. This post has a few affiliate links in it, we link to some server providers, we link to some WordPress templates, we link to where you can get a domain name.

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Viper Chill

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

In the last 72 hours the SEO world has gone crazy about the news that PBN’s (Private Blog Networks) are being hit by Google. In fact the first person I saw talking about PBN’s being hit by Google was Greg over at No Hat Digital. It may break Google guidelines, but Google are not the law. Yes, I was.

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Viper Chill

JULY 21, 2014

I wouldn’t do anything to potentially risk my site being penalised by Google. In fact, after just one year of running this website I had the opportunity to get a link from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of web spam. Well, as my recent blog posts have shown, I don’t follow the Google guidelines like I used to.

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