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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. Never Use a Hyphenated Domain Name for Your Website – If you asked me last year about domain names and hyphens, I would not have thought that I would make this post during 2013.

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Protecting Against Brand-Impersonating Phishing Messages

The Realtime Report

They’re just waiting on the one person willing to bite, and bank on the fact that this will be worth their while. Social Engineering Attacks. As with all cyberattacks, phishing attacks have gotten more sophisticated over the years as users have smartened up to some of the threats involving social engineering attacks.

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Moving Your.COM to a.BRAND Domain? Google Says…

Bill Hartzer

Brands that have purchased their own.BRAND TLD (Top Level Domain) shouldn’t worry about moving their websites. I recently asked Gary Illyes, the Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, about the effect on search when you move your website from a.COM domain name to a domain on your own.BRAND TLD.

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$1m Case Study: My $550 Domain

Viper Chill

This domain would become the home of my million dollar website so it had to be good. When you’re thinking about domain names for affiliate sites, its best to be as relevant as possible, but also choose something brandable. As with most domains these days, mine was of course already taken. Good stuff!

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Search Engine Optimization: Recovering Lost Traffic and Links on your Website

Bill Hartzer

Well, there is a way to do this without having to break the bank or even look at your Google Analytics. Recovering this old page from an older version of the website will ultimately help the website’s search engine rankings. Tags: Search Engine Optimization. Share this on Technorati. Tweet This!

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How to Find Content for Your Blog

Bill Hartzer

I am not going to get into the search engine optimization details and other info about the Google algorithm, I will save that for another post. Here are a few keywords that I personally use when I’m searching for content for my blog posts: – search engine. – domain names. – social media.

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SEO in the Fast Lane: Your Legit Shortcut to Readers, Sales, and Search Rank

ProBlogger

Search engine optimization, in its most basic form, is simply a matter of combining relevant content on a web page with back links to that content. . Good writers can bang out great content like nobody’s business and throw it up on a web page quickly for search engines to see.

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