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Search Engine Submission Now Officially a Scam

Bill Hartzer

I can finally officially declare that all search engine submission services are now scams. If you receive an email from [b]anyone[/b] claiming to offer search engine submission services or a similar submission service–it is spam and also a scam. Yes, search engine submission is officially dead–and officially a scam.

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5 Quick Tips To Help You Start Your Blog

The Realtime Report

Join Facebook groups, forums, Reddit, Quora, wherever they are, then look and listen for the most common issues. Pick A Domain Name. It’s unnecessary to use a domain name that has an obvious connection to your niche. Most bloggers use their name, but if you can add relevancy after your name, all the better.

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Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Ranking Problem Solved for a Reader

Bill Hartzer

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. Tags: Search Engine Optimization.

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Are Web-Based Free Hosts Good For Business?

Small Business Mavericks

Some of these web-based hosts provide services like analytics, a blog platform, forum add-ons, and their sites even show up in the search engine rankings so the SEO is good. It costs less than $20 per year for a domain name and less than $15 per month for good hosting. Not all of them. Is it more work?

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How to Block Semalt.com from Accessing Your Website Using.htaccess

Bill Hartzer

According to the Google Product forums, Semalt’s CEO, Yuriy Yakovenko , asked why Google was blocking (or removed) their website, soundfrost.org, from Google. There is a form on that page that allows you to enter your domain name and they apparently will stop crawling your website. information/. https://twitter.com/search?

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A Step by Step Guide to Fixing Any Google Penalty

Kikolani

Every web portal has to abide by Google’s webmaster guidelines to reach amongst the top ranking in search engine results. Two of the most common Google penalties are Google Panda and Google Penguin and few others which de-index your web portal and in some cases removes the website from the search engine results.

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My Last Blog Post of 2013

Bill Hartzer

It blew up in a private forum so to speak, a place where the general public (and the search engine crawlers) didn’t have access to: Facebook. But it was in a private venue, a private forum, where only a select few (a few hundred?) we will see a lot of SEO-related domain names suddenly become available.