Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We just got word that Google’s AMP ( Accelerated Mobile Pages ) project is live. That means that if your website can serve up Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) versions of your content then you will probably see more traffic from mobile. Google will be encouraged to show your site more often in the mobile search results.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The key, though, is to consider the pros and cons and determine whether the effort of translating content will deliver the results you’re looking for. If you are a blogger looking to expand your audience, translation of your existing content might have crossed your mind. …and who doesn’t love more traffic?

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Kikolani

JANUARY 24, 2012

As many of you know, I love writing about Google Analytics. One of the best ways to get actionable data out of your Google Analytics is to set up goals. Setting up a goal in Google Analytics tells it that someone has completed something important on your website, such as buying product, signing up to your email list, or similar.

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Firebelly

APRIL 15, 2011

WordPress is one of the best website content management systems out there – and not just for blogs. Just browsing through the WordPress Extend database, you’ll find lots and lots of plugins out there that each change the functionality of your website in their own way. Also check out: HeadSpace , Google XML Sitemaps.

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Buffer Social

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The types of workflows you could set up using Zapier include things like sending tagged articles from Feedly to your queue, sending new WordPress posts to your queue, copying posts from your queue to a Google Sheet, and sending posts from your queue to Slack. Notion : Organize your life or content in Notion? Congratulations!

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 14, 2012

If you have a conversation with any WordPress developer, they’ll likely tell you that less is more when it comes to plugins. And with the thousands of plugins out there in the WordPress repository, finding the right ones for your site can be a ridiculously time-consuming (and headache-inducing) feat. All in One SEO Pack.

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Kikolani

MAY 28, 2013

In this post, I’m going to share my research into popup opt-in forms: who’s using them, case studies, WordPress plugins, and the alternatives for building your mailing list. Content Marketing Institute. Popup Opt-In Forms for WordPress. Pippity is becoming a popular WordPress popup opt-in form plugin.

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Idaconcpts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Committing to a content management system (CMS) for your blog is a big decision. Given that WordPress hosts 59,914,568 as of 09/25/2011 and that over 301 million people view more than 2.5 Here is an analysis of key details that will guide your WordPress hosting decision. Being at the top of the list: Google AdSense.

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Razor Social

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Creating really good quality content on a consistent basis is hard work. And…creating content that is going to perform well for you in the search engines is even harder. The amount of content produced is growing all the time. Why am I writing about content optimization? Optimize content for sharing.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Google has started displaying new mobile friendly tag in the search results to show which sites are mobile-friendly and which sites are not. For example, Google shows that my site is only in text via the testing tool. One of the reasons why my site is mobile friendly is that I’m using WordPress and Genesis.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Naturally, being the statistics geek that I am, I wondered if I could match up the stats that Triberr gives you for visits from everyone’s unique Triberr URL of your post to the number of visits you see in Google Analytics. The Problem with Google Analytics. Triberr Visits vs. Google Analytics.

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Razor Social

JANUARY 10, 2018

Your content marketing takes too much time…. As someone who relies on content marketing for our business I know from experience how powerful it can be. But…content marketing is also hard and it takes a well-thought-out strategy and a focus on performance measurement and continuous improvement to make it successful.

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Razor Social

MAY 18, 2017

Google Analytics is without a doubt one of the most useful tools available to help you gain insight into your online marketing performance. So go ahead, log into your Google Analytics account and click the Admin tab at the bottom of the menu on the left. ISP domains), as well as URLs that you don’t want to influence your analytics.

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BeingOptimist

DECEMBER 19, 2019

So lets us start with one of the most popular Google Adsense alternatives that is PopAds which you can use to monetize your blog. Let me tell you that whatever type of content do you have in your blog, it gets approval easily by PopAds. I hope you have understood how you can monetize your blog by using this Google Adsense alternative.

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Kikolani

APRIL 17, 2010

It seems there are a lot of WordPress hacks happening recently. Some WordPress blogs hosted by Network Solutions experienced a hack that made their websites redirect to a malware site. It specifically attacked the database by changing the site URL filed in the wp_options table. Google Cloacking Hack. Network Solutions.

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Firebelly

OCTOBER 23, 2009

. | Main | Stop tweeting about the # of followers you have » October 23, 2009 Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress WordPress was originally made as a blog publishing application but has now evolved into a huge content management system (CMS). As of September 2009, Wordpress is used by 62.8 Do you love WordPress ?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. This is data driven and not an “arbitrary decision.”

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Adam Sherk

MAY 15, 2009

The SEO team has been involved in the project since the beginning and recommended the implementation of one-to-one 301 redirects of all IHT content to its new location at the NYT.com. This, of course, conforms to best SEO practices when moving any content and was accepted and built into the timeline.

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Razor Social

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Like most marketers today, you probably spend a lot of time producing quality content for your website and your blog. After all, content is at the heart of inbound and it’s what attracts people to your website and your business. But what happens when someone shares your content on social media sites? Twitter Cards.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 13, 2013

But that is not enough because then I had to analyze what Google is focusing on now. If you have been involved with SEO at all you know that duplicate content is a bad thing. But how can you identify the duplicate content on your site? Identifying Internal Duplicate Content! Ok, let’s get started with that. Weird, isn’t?

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Razor Social

OCTOBER 11, 2017

There’s no better way to drive massive traffic to your website than consistently creating amazing content. Everybody is producing content to gain targeted traffic and get their brand known! So how do you stay ahead of your competition in the content marketing game? Content plus tools equals higher ROI!

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Bare Feet Studios

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

The latest Google search algorithm update (nicknamed Penguin) has moved strongly towards the long held principles of “organic seo.” In general, each of these major updates is to help Google answer real questions from its users. Page Rank is a logarithmic scale used by Google to rank the quality and validity of websites.

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Kikolani

JULY 20, 2016

Let’s get this out of the way first: there is no time guarantee of when your new website is going to be added to the Google index. Google says, “ Crawling and indexing are processes which can take some time and which rely on many factors. Google indexing factors. If the content is crawl-able. The website structure.

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Kikolani

JULY 20, 2016

Let’s get this out of the way first: there is no time guarantee of when your new website is going to be added to the Google index. Google says, “ Crawling and indexing are processes which can take some time and which rely on many factors. Google indexing factors. If the content is crawl-able. The website structure.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 20, 2013

Purchasing Google or Facebook advertising to drive awareness. If you have a few hours to invest, here are 3 ways to transform your WordPress blog (or website) into a search-friendly traffic generator. My favorite free SEO solution is WordPress SEO by Yoast , which makes it easy as red light, yellow light, green light.

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Razor Social

AUGUST 22, 2018

You create a piece of content. Which signals do you look at to understand if your content is actually engaging? In this article, we’ll share some valuable tips on how you can figure out if your content is doing a good job at engaging your audience. What do I mean by engaging content? What do I mean by engaging content?

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag by Adam Sherk on April 30, 2009 Really you shouldn’t need it. What you should be doing is avoiding duplicate content altogether. xid=rss (or ?xid=topstories

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

While WordPress is a relatively secure platform, it can still be hacked. In fact, out of the 11,000 hacked websites Securi analyzed in 2016 , 75 percent of them were running WordPress. If your WordPress site has been hacked, fear not. Tip #2: Add Your WordPress Site to Google Search Console.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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Firebelly

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « social media marketings good news | Main | Courtney Love gets sued over tweets » November 18, 2009 Too much flash turns google off Search Engine Optimization: Flash doesn't entice google Google is like a hippy girl.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

So “borrowing” content isn’t a Web-only phenomenon, it’s just a lot easier to spot now. Shifting from poaching content to paying for it, it really is no wonder that the AP seems so threatened by Google. A wire service’s whole business model is built around selling the same content to as many news outlets as possible.

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 18, 2012

I find posts with no Alt tags on the images, meta tags that just weren’t well thought-out, and content and data that, while correct at the time, is now a bit outdated. The data provided to you by Google can be a goldmine in finding and fixing 404 errors. So why not go back and create links between similar articles.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 20, 2009

Google employee “Inbal” later provided a more specific time window, indicating “the rate at which we recrawl may vary, but we try to go back and check for changes in article content within the first 12 hours after we first find it.” I went looking for an updated story in Google News today and was able to find an example.

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 7, 2014

Due to Google’s recent official announcement that an https site is a search engine ranking factor, I’ve decided to move my site, BillHartzer.com, to https from http. Data integrity: only by serving securely can you guarantee that someone is not altering how your content is received by your users.

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Kikolani

APRIL 27, 2010

It can therefore be surprising that many professionals have online sites where the website content is stale and in desperate need of a refresh. Just as a department store changes its window displays on a regular basis so as to keep their customers’ interest engaged, so should an online site regularly update its look and content.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 1, 2012

WordPressers are always looking for helpful plugins for their blogs, and if you’ve been following today’s posts on ProBlogger, especially Install Your First WordPress Plugin , you’re probably in the same boat. WordPress SEO : If there’s one plugin from this list that you should get, this is the one.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article.

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