Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 18, 2011

I am still amazed that search engine optimization firms like RankPay are still relying on what I would call shady marketing techniques like sending UCE Spam (UCE stands for Unsolicited Commercial Email), trying to get more search engine optimization business. We are a performance based Search Engine Optimization company that.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 1, 2012

What to do…It’s 2012 and you’ve been blogging for almost a year now with no success. To add insult to injury, your Google analytics show that you get about 25 visitors to your blog every day, and you’re pretty sure that you, your family, and the GoogleBot account for about half of those.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Perhaps in response to one of my recent blog posts about search engine ranking problems , I got an email today from James who owns a website called 4insure dot net. He asked me if I would take a look at his web site and see if I can figure out why he is having search engine ranking problems. getting penalized for incoming links.

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Blogging is often viewed as the core component of a B2B social media marketing strategy, and other than discussion forums, it’s the most mature component of social media. Facebook, Twitter and even newer tools like Quora may be sexier and get more attention, but blogs are the workhorses essential to making social media marketing work.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 12, 2011

When it comes to optimizing your web site for the search engines , search engine optimization, there are a lot of things that you can do that will hurt your search engine rankings. In fact, there are literally hundreds of different factors that come into play when it comes to search engine optimization. Duplicate Content.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I took a look at the top award winning web sites and the web sites of those who produced them: and am horrified to see a lack of basic search engine optimization techniques being applied. I am amazed at the lack of Search Engine Optimization associated with these award-winning web sites and the web sites of those who created them.

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 26, 2010

This is only one SEO tip out of many search engine optimization tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips, like this one , are meant to be specific, they should not take too much time to implement, and are meant to be directly to the point. Share it on StumbleUpon. Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you have every noticed a sudden loss of website traffic or if the traffic has gone down considerably then it’s time to start thinking about a search engine optimization audit. In this blog post, I’m going to give you several tips that can help you during an SEO Audit. Share it on StumbleUpon. Post this on Diigo.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

Bing , one of the newest search engines on the block powered by Microsoft, had a great opening with a strong marketing campaign, but lately has been declining on the number of new users to the search engine. Over 8% of search engine users and 6.7% Share it on StumbleUpon. Tags: Search Engines. Post on Google Buzz.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

A while back, I took a long hard look at Google’s first version of the Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide. Google has now updated their Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide, along with some interesting information: interesting if you read between the lines ,so to speak, in the document. quality content.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 8, 2010

That’s a whole other blog post in itself, and a debate that could go on and on. In fact, doing so is actually leaning towards search engine spam, and that simply copying someone else’s content was a no-no. My whole point of this blog post is actually to talk about what these MLMs tend to do: give out free websites.

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Saying It Social

AUGUST 26, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Auto-Post Your Blog Posts to Digg The new Digg lets you set it up so that your blog posts will auto post to Digg! How cool, right?! Thank you for posting this information.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Over time, the top source of traffic for most blogs is search. But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. So, having recently completed a submission campaign for a client, here is an updated list of blog directories and RSS syndication sites that remain active and free. Webbiquity B2B Marketing Blog).

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 15, 2010

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Blogging , Marketing > 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins 7 Deadly Blog Writing Sins by Tamar Weinberg on July 15, 2010 Share This is a guest post by Frank Lee. These days, many people have started a blog for hobby or business.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 3, 2010

This is very interesting, because as you might recall, a while back on the Vizion Interactive Search Engine Optimization blog I wrote about how Google issued a Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide , set up an example web site, and used a 302 Temporary Redirect. Share it on StumbleUpon. Share this on Reddit.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

As you may be aware, Facebook has, very publicly, said that they do not want search engines like Google and Bing to index your Facebook profile. Now you can fight back if you want: here is how to allow the search engines like Google to index your private Facebook profile. Share it on StumbleUpon. Add this to Mister Wong.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This is only one Search Engine Optimization tip out of several SEO tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips are supposed to be specific, they should not acquire a lot time to implement, and are supposed to be directly to the point. Maybe you wrote a lot of blog posts. Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 18, 2010

The Dallas / Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association, an organization that I founded a few years ago, will have a special panel presentation about local search marketing. Smith frequent speaks at industry conferences, and blogs at SEM Clubhouse, Natural Search Blog, and Nodal Bits. Share it on StumbleUpon.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 18, 2010

This is only one seo tip out of many search engine optimization tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips are meant to be specific , they should not take too much time to implement, and are meant to be directly to the point. you have entered a “noindex&# meta tag on the page.

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Harp Interactive

APRIL 6, 2010

Not only does it pull in your website traffic ranks and graphs from Compete.com, Alexa and Quantcast, Social Website Analyzer also categorizes your website’s social presence into buckets with hyperlinks for each including: Search engine results for social back links for Google, Bing and Yahoo. We have not tested this tool for accuracy.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 10, 2010

What’s interesting to me, as a search engine optimization expert and online marketer, is not the fact that Google has upgrade Google Reader. When it comes to search engine optimization , historically it always been about links. Search engine like Google, Bing, and Yahoo! Share it on StumbleUpon. Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 11, 2009

Search Engine Academy – DC , the first search engine optimization (SEO) training school in the Washington Metro area, has begun enrolling students in its upcoming certification courses. There are three search engine optimization certification choices: SEO 2-Day Essentials – $995.00.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 14, 2010

This is only one seo tip out of many search engine optimization tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips are meant to be specific, they should not take too much time to implement, and are meant to be directly to the point. That probably could be a whole other blog post.

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Social Media Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Corporate blogging has been with us for quite some time, with some major companies having forayed into the space in the early to mid 2000s. Or is it that there's a purpose that isn't served by blogs? "I But if you look at the growth over the last three years, the use of blogs has actually doubled (!). I was misinformed."

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

By the same token, despite the many benefits of a business blog , not everyone should rush into it. Like owning a pet, writing a blog isn’t rocket science but does require a certain level of care and attention, lest the effort end up among the millions of abandoned, forgotten and neglected blogs littering the online landscape.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 19, 2010

The Bay Area Search Engine Academy has officially opened their enrollment and registration for approaching Search Engine Optimization classes and internet marketing training for companies. The rest of the week is spent learning techniques that can get a business listed on the search engines many different ways. Tweet This!

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 18, 2009

Cranberry , a company led by led by Internet visionary David McInnis (formerly of PRWeb ), has launched PeoplePond , an Internet service that provides search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification services for individuals. Share it on StumbleUpon. Stumble upon something good? Share this on Technorati.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 3, 2010

Private email addresses of individuals who have Facebook accounts are getting indexed by the search engines, including Google , Yahoo! , There are certain web pages on Facebook, mainly the Facebook Email Opt Out web page, that are getting indexed by the search engines. Share it on StumbleUpon. and Microsoft’s Bing.com.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

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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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 3, 2010

Recently, there has been a lot of debate in the search engine marketing community about some of the more simple or basic elements of search engine optimization, a web page's meta tags. The search engines did not look at the content of the entire web page. Let me explain. But now, in 2010, we are way past that.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 1, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS The StumbleUpon effect Getting traffic to your website can be a daunting task. Blog for yourself. I was no longer just blogging for myself, I was writing to keep in contact with the rest of the internet. StumbleUpon is off the hook!

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

They added real-time into the search results like this: I would compare this move to Google Universal, where they algorithmically add news, images, blog results, music (if it’s related to music), and video into the natural search results. Share it on StumbleUpon. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on Technorati.

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Twist Image

JANUARY 12, 2012

In the beginning God created the Blogs and the RSS. Last week, Mathew Ingram over at GigaOm published a Blog post titled, Yes, blog comments are still worth the effort. It seems like there's a movement for more and more Blogs to not bother having the comments enabled. Blog comments are becoming increasingly valuable.

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SocMed Sean

JANUARY 8, 2012

2011 was a great year for my blog and I appreciate everyone who stopped by to check it out. Some readers have asked for permission to use them in blog posts and presentations and the answer is “Yes” as long as you keep the attribution and the URL to my blog. Share it on StumbleUpon. What’s The Point?

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Kikolani

JUNE 21, 2016

Title suggestions: Content Marketing Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic. Why is blog traffic important? Because most buyers these days make up their minds on whether to purchase a product or contract a service by reading your blog, finding out new information on which they base their new, researched purchase. Over 1 milion posts!

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 28, 2010

To keep up with changes on the SEO landscape and make sure I’m consistently utilizing the most effective techniques on behalf of clients, I read a lot of articles and blog posts about SEO. Blogs are a source of fresh content, which search engines love. Blogs are a source of fresh content, which search engines love.

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS StumbleUpon – The force is strong with this one StumbleUpon is one of my top traffic generators. Besides the visitors that come directly to your domain, most traffic is generated by search engine results or some other type of search. Hence the StumbleUpon effect.

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