BeingOptimist

AUGUST 9, 2023

Have you added your website to Google Search Console? If not, this guide is for you where you would learn about how to add your website to Google search console step by step. See What’s Popular : With Google Search Console, you can see which parts of your website are the most popular. Isn’t that pretty cool?

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 12, 2010

I recently received an email from Duane Long asking a question about redirecting a domain name that he had recently purchased. He is trying to redirect the domain name so that he can get the proper link credit; so that the links from the domain name he bought is credited to his current, live website.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 7, 2011

They should also be found in your URLs. Here is what Matt Cutts says about Keywords in URLs: Your domain name is a big place to start. If you aren’t at that point yet, you want to make sure you get a domain name that has powerful keywords in it. Do you have any of your effective keywords in it?

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 28, 2010

Technically speaking, Whois is is a query/response protocol which is widely used for querying an official database in order to determine the owner of a domain name, an IP address, or an autonomous system number on the Internet. There are several things that you need to take a look at on the domain name’s whois record.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The Google cache date on most web sites have now been updated, after having not being updated for over a month. This is a rather significant update, I think, as normally the Google cache date is typically updated on a regular basis. The post Google Cache Dates Updated: After a Month appeared first on Bill Hartzer.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 3, 2013

There is actually a way to make sure that the links you post in Google+ are considered to be “do follow” links. You’ll notice in the screen capture above that the link to Ruud Hein’s profile and the slate.com URL is highlighted in red. Now, take a look at the link I posted on Google Plus below.

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Social Media Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

But after Google first updated on 23 Feb 2011, all website owners and SEO experts are very strict to create back-links for a website. Because these kind of website penalized by Google any time. If you can''t do that due to any reason, then Google also provide us a better solution, which named as Disavow backlinks.

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Navolutions

AUGUST 18, 2015

Spend five minutes on the internet and there’s a good chance you’ll run into Google’s new local search result module, which Mike Blumenthal dubbed the “Local Stack” Google Local Stack showing results for “roofer in Livermore” If you have any issues with the new stack, you’re in good company.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

I was curious to see whether or not Google Plus actually recognizes the new gTLDs as links in posts. If you were to include the URL of a new website that you just put up on a new gTLD, then would Google Plus include that URL in the post and change it so it’s a clickable link? Domain Names Social Media'

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

It appears that Facebook has recently acquired the Messenger.com domain name. Checking the name servers and the whois data for Messenger.com, there was a recent change to the name servers: from lovellsnames.org to facebook.com, and the registrant is now Facebook. Mozilla Media: Answer to Google’s Chromecast Device?

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Idaconcpts

JANUARY 13, 2011

The Google Analytics Traffic Overview is a report that provides an overview of the different kinds of sources that send traffic to your site. “Direct Traffic&# is visits from people who clicked a bookmark to come to your site or who typed your site URL directly into their browser. Step 3: Test and name your segment.

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 23, 2016

A while back I wrote about my utter frustration with Google and their Change of Address Tool. If you look at the screen capture above, you can see that when you use their Change of Address Tool, Google doesn’t allow you to redirect to an internal page on your site when you move your site. Google isn’t perfect.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 5, 2016

In the Google search results, I’m still seeing some alternative characters show up at the beginning of the title tags in some results. – turning off the Google cache. – usage of https and a long URL to hide the URL in the SERPs. – usage of new gTLD domain names for search engine spam.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

If you were to include the URL of a new website that you just put up on a new gTLD, then would Facebook include that URL in the post and change it so it’s a clickable link? On Google Plus , they are doing the same thing: posts that include URLs of the new gTLDs are made into clickable links. Well, good news!

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Google is hosting the very articles that contain links that Google is telling us that they want removed. That’s right, in what can only be a unique twist of irony, Google is playing web host to thousands of low quality spammy articles, the exact same type of articles that Google wants us to remove. Oh, the irony.

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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. The Basic settings include your account ID and name. Property settings.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 8, 2014

Did Microsoft just register a domain name that is a typo (a typo domain) of Verizon? I know this might be a stretch, but I am really curious about one of the domain names that was just registered, and was set up on Microsoft’s name servers: vericen.com. Registry Domain ID: 1853664725_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Whenever you make a post on the Google+ social network, or you share something, it is always helpful to see how your post did or how it is doing. You want to see if the post you made was useful to others in your Google+ circles. There are, though, currently a few different ways to see how well your Google+ post performed, though.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Let’s think about Google’s current product offerings, what services they are offer us as business owners, online merchants, and website owners. Over the years, Google says that it’s free to get listed. It seems as though that Google just won’t send you a lot of traffic to your website unless you pay for it.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

owns a bunch of nonsensical domain names that use Apple’s own DNS, but are hosted on Amazon’s cloud server. These domains continue to be registered on a regular basis, some as late as last week. And they’ve been buying these nonsensical domain names and setting up web hosting for at least 6 months now.

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 8, 2015

If your website is receiving reduced web traffic or the present strategy in place is not working as efficiently as it once did then you probably have been penalized by Google. Every web portal has to abide by Google’s webmaster guidelines to reach amongst the top ranking in search engine results. Why did we get the Penalty?

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 23, 2015

Especially at a time when Google is pushing the mobile version of websites, wanting all of us to make sure that our websites are mobile friendly by April 21st. A recent search this morning revealed that the mobile version of Google.com is ranking well in Google’s own search results. Title Tag: Google+.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

I just received one recently, and it is actually a notice that would appear that you might be paying for domain name registration. The search engines crawl the web, trying to find all sorts of URLs that they can find. Google says that it is free. For more information, visit Google Content Central.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The fact is, there is absolutely no need to submit your website to the search engines; most likely they have already crawled your website (especially Google). It’s a shame that these scams exist after all these years, as they have morphed from a search engine submission to even a domain name registration scam.

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ProBlogger

MAY 12, 2015

When there’s more than 284 million registered domain names online, you’re going to want yours to stand out. But you also want to be easily remembered, have a URL that accurately describes your business, and it would help if it ranks well in Google. It also helps if it’s easy to type. Readability.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 6, 2014

Back on May 16, 2014, I wrote about Google registering the domain name CookieChoices.org. Well, now I have discovered today that it looks like there is a version of Google’s search engine on CookieChoices.org. But, I can verify that the site is hosted on Google’s IP address 216.239.32.29

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Bill Hartzer

MARCH 3, 2010

Google has issued what they are calling an SEO Report Card , an effort to provide Google’s product teams with ideas on how they can improve their products’ pages using simple and accepted optimizations. Matt Cutts from Google explained that Google had done this “on purpose&#. Appealing Google sitelinks.

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 16, 2014

There have been reports that Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox web browser, is working on a device similar to Google’s Chromecast, a media streaming stick. Mozilla Media domain names were just registered by Mozilla. Registry Domain ID: Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com. Registrar URL: [link].

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 7, 2010

Google has quietly made a change recently in Google Webmaster Tools. In Google Webmaster Tools, Google has traditionally allowed website owners to view a list of all of the links to their web sites. The only problem is that previously Google gave us a list of the page, the link, and the date. Post on Google Buzz.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

While there are already several new gTLDs that are already available now for anyone to register, and they are getting indexed in Google’s search results already, Twitter has yet to recognize the new gTLDs. The first one was obviously mine, and Twitter is NOT converting those perfectly legitimate URLs into links. site: guru.

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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. Actually, Google only cares about you once others care about you.

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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. Actually, Google only cares about you once others care about you.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

And the sender, Nick Grey, even says that Matt Cutts from Google said so. Note that my domain name, LinkEarning.com , even though it has a small one-page website, has not really been developed. I want to help you improve your link popularity on Facebook and as a result, increase its ranking in Google searches!

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 18, 2015

As you may already know, I am an advocate of the New gTLD domain names. Jim’s pizza, who not only have MrJims.Pizza up and running, but they are advertising that URL on local television here in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. They just put up a “copy” of their main site on the same URL.

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Mindjumpers

JUNE 28, 2010

There are pros and cons for all of them, but it depends a lot on whether you want to spend any money, want to have your own domain name, what kind of options and functionalities you want and what kind of skills you have in doing the design and maybe programming.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 6, 2016

One of the things that I monitor on a regular basis is the Alexa What’s Hot (on the web), formerly called the Alexa Hot URLs. So, when I looked at the list of top 20 URLs on the web in terms of traffic, I was surprised to see two new gTLD domain names there on the list. It’s just fake traffic.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 30, 2012

In a recent Google Webmaster Forum thread , a Google representative officially stated: these services are not needed and can even be counter-productive. Furthermore, I have actually proven that within minutes of registering a new domain name, Google will visit your web site, in an attempt to crawl its pages and index the content.

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