Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 30, 2012

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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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. So, what can you do to combat issues like this?

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 26, 2011

In fact, it appears that all of this is because of organic search engine listings in the Google search engine. “Like most internet search engines, Google uses a large index of keywords and where those words can be found online. . Since when are “manipulative search engine optimization techniques&# a crime?

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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. Tags: Search Engine Optimization.

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The Realtime Report

JUNE 26, 2020

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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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. I have written before about how Facebook has had email privacy issues and all sorts of other privacy issues when it comes to the data that we put on our Facebook profiles.

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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. Tags: Search Engine Optimization. Post on Google Buzz.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 8, 2014

At the Pubcon Conference today in Las Vegas, here’s the TopSEOs.com booth: A search in Google reveals that TopSEOs.com has been banned in Google: TopSEOs has been around or a long time, the domain name originally registered in 2002. Search Engine Marketing Firms' Penalized or Banned in Google?

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Domain Name SEO Search Engine Registration scam, Google SERPs Instagram Date Mistake, 7Search Accused of Traffic Stealing. Domain SEO Service Registration Scam. Recently I’ve received a few notices from a Chinese company saying that my domain name won’t have as much visibility unless I pay them $64.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Google’s CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA won’t stop spam bots, Best Buy Oops, ICANN hacked, Freebase is shutting down, and Apple’s mysterious domain names. ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers organization that oversees internet domain names, has been hacked. ICANN Hacked.

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 24, 2012

It looks like Sedo.com and Sedo.co.uk , the search engine for domain names, has been hacked, and apparently is hosting malware on their web site. Typically, when users begin seeing messages about a domain name hosting malware notices, it’s from Google. A hat tip goes out Domain News for posting about this.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 18, 2014

There are plenty of sites now reporting that they are seeing increases in search engine rankings, some as high as 30 of 40 places from where their site was previously ranking. I also was shown an interesting price bug at GoDaddy, where they were offering a domain name for $5,000. That’s it for this week.

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BeingOptimist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

It may also include legal and PR issues and identity theft, leading to reluctance to acquire products or services from the impacted business. Social Engineering and Phishing Attacks In social engineering, threat actors use emails, fake websites, and similar modes to infiltrate a network or compromise a personal account.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

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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ProBlogger

OCTOBER 4, 2023

You also need to ensure that yourname.com domains are not already taken, and you might also want to buy common misspellings of your name. When using your name, you also need to keep in mind that potential employers, family, and friends can easily find your blog. The post 5 Blog Naming Basics appeared first on ProBlogger.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 27, 2015

In only what I can call an “April Fools prank posted days before April Fools”, Search Engine Watch posted this article that says that Google is expanding the Not Provided keywords to Google Webmaster Tools, taking away even more keyword data from site owners. Google Search Engines'

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Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 24, 2012

Whether this is a serious issue or just smoke and mirrors, website owners do need to be careful when it comes to optimizing their web pages. We all want to have our pages listed above the fold on page one of the search results, however, search engines do want to see natural movement towards that aim, not a sudden overnight leap.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 8, 2015

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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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

While the Change of Address tool is still broken in my opinion, it’s important to note that the tool is only really meant for moving from one domain name to another. In fact, technically speaking, you’re not moving (to another domain). It’s still the same website, the same domain name.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 23, 2016

For example, in the screen shot above I’m redirecting one domain name to a new gTLD domain name, and that site uses MediaWiki as its CMS. All sites that use MediaWiki will have these same issues if they choose to move to a.WIKI domain. But yes, it’s still broken.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2014

The guidelines all point to issues related to your website–but there are no references about doing something to your competitor’s websites that would cause their website to lose search engine rankings or get penalized. Search Engine Optimization' Then, Company TWO builds 10 more microsites like this.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 7, 2014

If we study how SEO has evolved in New Zealand, we can learn a lot about how the field of search engine optimization has changed in the last few years. Several years ago, the search engine optimization industry in New Zealand was commonly employing many tactics that are known as black hat. EMDs, however, have many other uses as well.

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SocialFish

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Back in 2017, the original Nyaa torrent site named for cat’s meow in Japanese shut down. In the wake of the shutdown, various forks of the site popped up, all using the Nyaa domain name. Recently, the site’s team has created the torrent cache iTorrents, which is used by multiple search engines. and Nyaa.cat.

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Socialmedia.biz

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

You can quickly find out by taking the Welcome Original Thinkers Quiz (WOTQuiz) —I’m an Adaptor: “You enjoy exploring every side of an issue and like a wicked great maestro you tease out the positive in each approach. A re you an original thinker? ” What did you get?

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

If you don’t use Gmail, and you’re using email using your own domain name, check your email settings to see if you’re using encryption or not. If you use 301 Permanent Redirects, and you redirect from HTTP to HTTPs, then you won’t suffer any search engine ranking losses.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 31, 2013

What you “found” and what you felt was a really big issue that had to be dealt with. 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. we will see a lot of SEO-related domain names suddenly become available.

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Idaconcpts

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As such, private name servers are absolutely essential when reselling hosting. A private name server is one which displays your domain name after the sub-domain as opposed to the domain name of the web host you are renting the private server from. Email this to a friend? Share this on Facebook.

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Idaconcpts

AUGUST 26, 2010

That means that there isn’t much opportunity anymore to rank for both, your main site and the subdomain site so you should choose the separate domain approach. Links Farms Issue. If your niche is not that competitive that shouldn’t be much of an issue. Slow growth. The Key Questions.

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Idaconcpts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Are there any duplicate content issues if all sites are going to be written in the same language (e.g No advantage from keywords in the domain name. – Other Issues To Consider: Web Master Tools. Hosting location is only a suggestion to the search engines, a CCTLD is more powerful and will override this suggestion.

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Kikolani

JULY 20, 2016

Now that that’s out the way, for those who don’t know what indexing in SEO means: it’s a record that search engines keep of all your web pages. How search engines work. The best way to avoid issues is to make sure that your website has been designed to be SEO friendly. How search engine spiders work. Conclusion.

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Kikolani

JULY 20, 2016

Now that that’s out the way, for those who don’t know what indexing in SEO means: it’s a record that search engines keep of all your web pages. How search engines work. The best way to avoid issues is to make sure that your website has been designed to be SEO friendly. How search engine spiders work. Conclusion.

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OnlineRockersHub Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

If you’re attempting to rank your page for a specific topic and your site has a duplicate content penalty, you need to correct the issue before you will see any real results. If your site is taking at least 12 seconds to load each page, you obviously have a technical issue that needs to be addressed.

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ProBlogger

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

You discover an issue with your site, or one of your community members emails you to tell you about it, and soon you start to see tweets about it too. You’re not a programmer, a software engineer or a seasoned professional systems administrator who’s responsible for the U.S. Can you replicate the issue? Google Data centers.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 8, 2016

As you probably know, I’m a Brand Ambassador for Majestic.com , and as such I deal with a lot of link issues on a daily basis. where domain.com is your website’s domain name. I recently had a conversation with someone who consistently uses Google’s link: search operator to look at the links to their website.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 2, 2014

The rest of these instructions assuming you’re using WordPress.org; if you using WordPress.com or a site like Blogger, you won’t need hosting, and you can choose not to buy a domain name. (If If you don’t buy your own domain name, you’ll have one like yourname.wordpress.com.). Day 3: Decide on Your Domain Name.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

4 Things to Consider When Choosing a Domain Name for Your Blog. Today I’m talking about what to consider when naming your blog and choosing a domain name for it. I’ll share four things to consider when choosing a domain name. sends the right message to Google and the search engine bots.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2015

I’ve helped plenty of businesses moved from a.COM domain to a New gTLD domain name with no issues. In fact, I’ve even used to migrate this website from HTTP to HTTPs with no real problems. But here’s how Google’s Change of Address tool is broken.

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