Proactive Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Google’s number one position in search results has long been a coveted position, but, when it comes to SEO, zero is the new number one. Google has a specific set of content guidelines that change regularly. The top trends to focus on for 2023 when it comes to your SEO strategy are “position zero” and “featured snippets.”.

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Engineering Features SEO FAQ 59

Bill Hartzer

JUNE 4, 2014

US Patent US8515941 B1 granted Aug 20, 2013, is titled “System for unique automated website generation, hosting, and search engine optimization” And their websites still rank well in Google despite Google Panda 4.0. It’s pretty rare that I out another SEO firm or company (okay, well maybe not).

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BeingOptimist

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In the ever-evolving world of digital marketing, the fear of Google penalty, mainly due to ‘Bad backlinks,’ looms large. These penalties can severely impact your site’s observability and rankings on the SERPs or search engine results pages. Use tools and services to set up alerts for suspicious or toxic links.

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Google Collaboration How To Reputation 40

Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Gone are the easy Internet marketing days when you could just pound your website full of garbage information utilizing key wording in order to meet search engine optimization requirements. Google and other search engines have finally smartened up with regard to these old school practices. Photo courtesy Ben Angel on Flickr.

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Engineering Google Types Flickr 143

Social Media Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

With the increase in the demand for SEO, the industry is rapidly growing with an enormous quantity of digital marketing agency. But to make this wish a reality, you need to make sure that your website is full to search engine optimized. How does SEO work? They try to prove that they are the “best” in the market.

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SEO Marketing Policies Skills 94

Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Performing a search engine optimization audit of your website on a regular basis, perhaps at least once every six months, is key to maintaining your web presence and maintaining your organic search engine rankings. It has been a while since I personally performed a highly technical SEO Audit of my own website, which I just completed.

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SEO Engineering Review Issues 162

The Realtime Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Move on from Google ads: Google ads are a thing of the past! Maximum users like to read reviews on Google My Business listing profiles besides the other reputed review websites like Indeed, Yelp, Glassdoor, etc. All review websites have guidelines to remove the fake review. So, it’s the right time to focus on it.

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Strategy Marketing Guidelines Review 172

Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This year, though, I thought that I would come up with a new list, the Top 10 Search Engine Optimization Blunders of 2011. This year was especially good for search engine optimization mistakes and blunders–and I had to narrow down the list quite a bit. Google does not like it when a website sells text links.

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Engineering Yahoo SEO Discount 137

The Realtime Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Obsolete SEO Techniques It’s Time To Forget. Due to constant changes to policies, search engine giants like Google are constantly forcing SEO experts to adapt to new realities. SEO methods that were efficient not too long ago are now not only completely useless, but can actually affect your search results negatively.

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SEO Directory Foursquare Engineering 70

The Realtime Report

JULY 31, 2016

Questions To Ask When Trying To Hire The Right SEO Company. Hiring one of the best seo companies in Canada to help with the search engine optimization on your website is important. When trying to find the right SEO company, here are some of the items that you need to ask them. Do You Follow Webmaster Guidelines?

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SEO Company Questions Guidelines 70

Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 6, 2014

Dear Shady SEO Firm: Would you please stop, immediately, from spreading false and untrue rumors about the Google Disavow Tool? By spreading false rumors, you’re hurting the SEO industry as a whole and making it even more difficult for us honest, Google-Webmaster-Acceptable-Guideline-Abiding SEOs to get our jobs done properly.

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SEO Google NoFollow Guidelines 97

Bill Hartzer

MAY 13, 2013

If your website is banned in the Google search engine or if your website is penalized, then I don’t recommend writing and distributing a press release about it. They bought links, which is against Google’s acceptable Webmaster Guidelines. Google caught them, and penalized their website as a result.

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Press Release Issues Google Guidelines 138

Bill Hartzer

MARCH 27, 2013

The first-ever online marketplace for buying and selling links in articles and blog posts based on Google Authorship and Klout score has been launched. Buying and selling links based on Google’s PageRank has long been a controversial topic, as well as a violation of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.

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Writtent Blog

AUGUST 8, 2014

Is quality content the backbone of your SEO strategy? It doesnt attract search engines, generate leads, or convert sales. So do search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo  Google in particular. SEO Strategy: What Is High-Quality Content? Image source. Shabby content doesnt engage readers.

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SEO Strategy Content Engineering 109

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

While a photo may not help a search engine, it probably would help a searcher decide if your link was worth the click. Matt Southern of Search Engine Journal took a look at a recent development: Google Gives Business Owners More Control Over Photos Displayed In Search Results. Optimize Photos According to Publishing Guidelines.

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SEO Guidelines Delicious Small Business 70

Writtent Blog

MAY 7, 2014

To the dismay of businesses and marketers, SEO copywriting best practices do not guarantee high SERP rankings. While there are guidelines, and legitimate hints are dropped from time to time, nobody knows exactly what will rank web pages and appeal to prospects. All of them adhere to SEO and content creation guidelines.

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SEO Engineering Guidelines Industry 110

Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

When it comes to search engine rankings, we all know that one of the major search engine ranking factors is how many links you have to your website. Especially if those paid links are helping your website’s organic, or natural search engine rankings? Search Engine Ranking Problems. It ruins their online business.

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Engineering How To Widget URL 144

Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 31, 2013

A while back I wrote about how many SEO companies and so-called SEO experts have been offering a Google Penguin Recovery Service. They are, in fact, going to do things that will change your website’s link profile which could do serious damage to your overall website search engine reputation.

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Google Domain Name Engineering SEO 110

Buffer Social

JULY 28, 2022

A Google Business Profile is a hidden gem that many small business owners can use to their advantage. Just as search engine optimization can fuel your growth in the Google rankings, Google Business Profiles are another way to direct eyes from organic searches to your business.

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Google Insurance How To Types 82

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 27, 2011

This last year Google brought a large number of algorithm changes to the table. According to Search Engine Land , some domains saw a 94% loss in visibility, and others were left picking up the pieces after they lost 80% of their keyword positions. queries according to Search Engine Land. The launch initially impacted 12% of U.S.

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Google Small Business Engineering Guidelines 176

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Search Engine Optimization is strongly influenced by the quality of your site’s backlinks and will continue to be for the coming years. Even so, not all backlinks are good for SEO. To maintain your organic traffic growth and assure that your site is safe from any Google penalty, it’s wise to perform an in-depth backlinks analysis.

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Metrics Analysis SEO NoFollow 60

Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Search Engine Optimization is strongly influenced by the quality of your site’s backlinks and will continue to be for the coming years. Even so, not all backlinks are good for SEO. To maintain your organic traffic growth and assure that your site is safe from any Google penalty, it’s wise to perform an in-depth backlinks analysis.

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Metrics Analysis SEO NoFollow 60

Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

AuthorLinks , the first-ever marketplace to buy and sell Google Authorship, has rebranded as AuthPost. As you might recall, I wrote about AuthorLinks and how the site was the first to buy and sell Google Authorship. With this new branding, the site is focusing on posts first, and not links. Marketing'

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Klout Google Guidelines Buy 115

Idaconcpts

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

The study pointed out that 90% of them used search engines and 48% used the online Yellow Pages. Local SEO Companies Have the Edge. In the race towards meeting this demand of hyper-local data, local business are quick to fall for SEO businesses that offer them “to become the #1 hit on Google” for just $99.

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SEO Company GPS Guidelines 129

The Social Media Incubator

DECEMBER 3, 2013

If you’ve done any reading on search engines or heard much news about them, then you’ve likely heard something about the Panda update, Penguin update, or most recently, the Hummingbird update. All of these updates are search engine algorithm updates. You might be wondering what that means, exactly.

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Engineering SEO Guidelines ROI 125

The Realtime Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Other methods include running a spam link campaign to bring on/cause a google penalty, or even hacking a website. Individuals who have strong SEO knowledge may be more able to utilize negative SEO tactics. How Can We Define Negative SEO? My competitor is doing ‘black hat’ SEO to get ahead – 15%. The Survey.

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Study Reputation Survey SEO 184

Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The search engine optimization industry has changed. Did you know that half of the search engine optimization techniques that were used only 5 years ago (maybe even 3 years ago) are now considered to be spam? Most of those SEO techniques are now listed in Google’s Webmaster Guidelines as being unacceptable.

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SEO Press Release Directory Engineering 60

Razor Social

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Because… they will help with your search engine rankings or cause damage, depending on what is done. … I’m going to give you all the details you’ll ever need to know about the H1s, including the SEO requirements which will help your onsite SEO. What’s the difference between H1 and SEO Title?

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Google How To SEO Analysis 105

Convince & Convert

JANUARY 11, 2016

The SEO world, too, is preparing to combat unexpected threats, especially from various Google penalties. Whether you like it or not, websites in variety of niches depend on Google for a high percentage of their traffic. Many other sites are being penalized by Google algorithmic updates—especially the big boys, Penguin and Panda.

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Google Guidelines SEO Mobile 60

Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Either that, or the person reviewing the suggested changes I had to a spammy listing on Google Maps isn’t doing their job. I recently made a suggestion to what I consider a VERY spammy listing in Google Maps, which appears to violate a several of their guidelines. First, a little background.

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Review Google Domain Name Guidelines 60

Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Nothing ever remains the same way for long in the world of SEO. The experts at Moz report that Google typically updates their algorithm between 500-600 times each year ! To help you stay informed about the ever-changing inbound marketing landscape, here are 7 pieces of critically-important SEO news: 1.

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SEO News Real Estate Engineering 87

Small Business Mavericks

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Unless you have been ignoring the world of SEO, you have an idea about semantic search. In the article Ian Harris wrote for Search Engine Journal, he suggests 12 things you should be doing right now for semantic search. Understand the Graph — Google’s Knowledge Graph is changing the way search happens.

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Engineering SEO Journal Guidelines 114

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.

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Google Domain Name Directory Engineering 82

Josh S Peters

MARCH 25, 2009

There are two ways you can pay a search engine to display your site. One is a touch controversial and the other is a billion dollar industry that was pretty much started by Google. is the only search engine that still does paid inclusion for their search engine. They are paid inclusion and PPC (pay per click).

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Engineering Sites Yahoo Microsoft 100

Kikolani

OCTOBER 13, 2010

This year, I have had the fortune of being a regular contributor and guest blogger on a lot of awesome sites, including Social Media Examiner , Search Engine Journal , Search Engine Watch , Stay on Search , Vertical Measures , Famous Bloggers , and many others. Best of #SMAZ – Blogging Tips, Social Media ROI, & SEO.

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SEO Social Media Postrank Blogosphere 147

Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 16, 2013

As you know, I have helped numerous businesses and site owners respond to Google’s manual link penalties. And get those manual link penalties removed or revoked by Google. And not all sites have received manual link penalty messages from Google. Documented everything in a Google spreadsheet. www.linkdelete.com.

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Google URL Guidelines Compete 127

Convince & Convert

APRIL 4, 2016

When it comes to bettering your website’s search engine ranking, the importance of following good SEO practices cannot be emphasized enough. He is the Co-Founder of Online Marketing Gurus , an award-winning global SEO agency that has collaborated with giants such as Salesforce and Coca Cola.

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SEO How To Campaign ROI 60