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Google To Make Not Provided Keywords Exclusively Available to.Google Domain Names

Bill Hartzer

Google soon will revoke access to all websites’ Not Provided keyword data normally viewed via Google Webmaster Tools , Google Analytics , and Google AdWords , and offer 100 percent of the keyword data exclusively to site owners who move their websites to the new.Google gTLD and make their websites secure.

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How to Know if You Should Renew Your Domain Name?

Bill Hartzer

If you own domain names, then you are inevitably going to have answer the question: should I renew this domain name? Here are fourteen questions to ask yourself to help you decide on whether your should renew your domain name or not. What is the current status of the domain name?

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Search Engine Marketing Tool Review: SEM Rush

Bill Hartzer

From this you can tell for which keywords a site dominates the Google search engine results, and to what extent. Normally, even if you use the Google Adwords keyword external tool, you can get the other information that I’ve mentioned, but not a list of the domains that rank on the first page of Google organically for that keyword.

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Search Engine Optimization Horror Story Contest Launched

Bill Hartzer

Do we really need another Search Engine Optimization (SEO) contest ? This Search Engine Optimization is different. They’re looking for Search Engine Optimization Horror Stories, extreme examples of cases where Search Engine Optimization efforts have failed. Who are the judges? Barry Schwartz, SE Roundtable.

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About.Me: A Good Starting Place On The Web? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

I’ve always been a proponent of your own domain name. I wouldn’t expect a great deal of search engine traffic from About.Me.Me domain names don’t typically do well in the search engines. I still am. But I recently took a quick survey of About.Me

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Web Hosts Hijacking 404 Error Pages on Live Web Sites

Bill Hartzer

Let me explain, in more detail, what is happening and what is becoming an increasingly common practice in the web hosting industy: When you set up a website, you pay for two things: a domain name and web hosting. A domain name (like www.BillHartzer.com) must be registered at an official Registrar. Search Marketing.

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Is Google Quietly Embracing Paid Inclusion?

Bill Hartzer

Currently, we can submit our website to Google (which really isn’t necessary) because Google’s crawlers are so good at crawling the web and discovering new domain names, new web pages, and new URLs. — Google used to let ecommerce retailers submit their shopping feed for free traffic.

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