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. So blatant that they have been awarded a patent for creating web (search engine) spam.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 23, 2013

Given that more than 90% of both business-to-business and local consumer purchases now begin with online search, search engine optimization (SEO) has become essential for business success. Virtually all businesses can benefit from providing their company and contact details to the local versions of Google, Bing and Yahoo!,

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 19, 2013

Google’s search results keep getting better and better, no matter what type of algorithm changes they make. Google’s organic, natural search results are so good now they’re actually indexing and ranking Bing search results in the Google search results. Really, Google? Yes, I’m joking.

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Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Bing keeps trying to convince, by one way or another, that its search results are better than Google’s. This is probably the best idea that Bing could come up — a blind search engine test. However, I do expect Google to retaliate. Google still gets more traffic. Well, there is. It’s called Bing It On.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Google Instant is an enhancement to Google’s search engine that shows you, and changes, the search results as you type, in real time. By implementing Google Instant, Google is trying to enhance our overall search experience by delivering the search results to us, faster.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Google has removed the Google Carousel from the search results. A search for keyword phrases such as Dallas Hotels, Chicago Hotels, and New York Hotels, popular searches that previously showed the Google Carousel, now shows a different type of search result, which is similar to the traditional map pack. Let me explain.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

First it was Google Panda , and then we had Google Penguin. But now, we’re dealing with a whole entirely new animal: the Google Hummingbird algorithm update. So, in a nutshell, what exactly is the Google Hummingbird algorithm? The Google Knowledge Graph is showing up more and more as results to search queries.

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 17, 2013

During a recent comment thread on Facebook by my buddy Steve Floyd , the subject of SEOs (Search Engine Optimization pros or “search engine optimizers”) and SEMs (Search Engine Marketers or “Pay Per Click professionals”) came up. It’s the way SEOs and Search Engine Marketers work.

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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. I wrote earlier about https secure websites and search engine rankings, and my recommendation that you consider switching your website from http to https.

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Buffer Social

JULY 5, 2023

My content and keyword research was limited to what I saw on search engine results pages (SERPs) for a long time, especially at the beginning of my content writing journey. Google Alerts Best for: Finding the latest reports, trends, or industry news. But, as I progressed, I realized a pattern.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. So far, early research indicates little difference in the length of searches since Google Instant.)

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Sprout Social

APRIL 26, 2018

She has a knack for taking complicated data ideas and translating them in a way that her audience can understand, whether that is another engineer or a less tech-savvy person, such as myself. Name: Shweta Kapur Department: Engineering Started at Sprout: February 2017. I’m a Senior Software Engineer on the Data Ingest squad.

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 17, 2014

But apparently back in 1999, that type of content was “da bomb” and so good that it ranked so well on LookSmart. Now search results are served through algoclicks.com, and I see “michigan.org” as the number one search result for “shopping”, above amazon.com, QVC, Google shopping, and Overstock.com.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It also helps you determine which social media platforms you need, the kind of content to create, and the type of marketing language that appeals to them. This document should outline how often you plan to publish on each social media platform and the types of content to post. Return to Google for competitive analysis.

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Webbiquity SMM

JUNE 21, 2022

Use their work desktop PC to search for more information about a product on Google. Use their smartwatch to make a payment via Google Pay. They must get their branding right while addressing their target market on the different platforms where they hang out, and with the exact type of messaging they expect to hear.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 9, 2013

So, with all of these new TLDs, will these new domain names carry any extra weight when it comes to search engine rankings? It’s in his best interest to spread rumors like this: if people think that they’ll get a boost in search engine rankings, people will buy more of the new TLDs. Say you typed ‘tax rates’ into Google.

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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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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Google Panda was designed to go after sites with a high volume of thin or low-quality content (among other things) in an effort to improve the overall strength of the search results. The types of sites vary but most are trusted, authoritative brands with large audiences that have produced quality, popular content for years.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 21, 2011

SEMRush.com , from the makers of SEOQuake , is a website that can give you some amazing website analytic information in regards to the top keywords on Google, and how they relate to a website. This website gives information, and statistics about the most sought after keywords on Google.

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Navolutions

MARCH 9, 2016

Another day, another weird experiment from Google. Google’s latest oddball comes in the form of a “Google Home Services Concierge.” The Google Home Services Concierge Shows Very Little Faith in Their Search Results. In case it disappears, here is the page captured in its entirety: No, really.

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Atom Thought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

GAP- Google certified advertising professional has been a buzz word in India for about 5 years now. As a person who has worked in Google, cleared GAP certification, and who heads a business unit now outside of Google, I have a specific take on it’s importance for a Marketing Manager in an enterprise.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The new Inbox by Gmail , launched just recently , does not work with email accounts set up through Google Apps. But, when I got the invite from Google, I downloaded the app, and got the following after installing it: It’s not that we haven’t set up our company’s email to work with Inbox by Gmail yet.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Back in December 2009 , Google began showing the integration of the real-time web in the Google organic search results. Somehow, algorithmically, Google adds these features into the natural search results. As a search engine optimization pro, I have been intrigued by this part of the search engine algorithm.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It appears that a small Twitter account, one without a lot of followers, has hijacked the Google search result listing for Twitter. See the screen capture below that I just made: When you search Google for Twitter, you normally should see the Twitter home page. I’d think that this is not good and not expected behavior.

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

No website owner wants to log into Google Webmaster Tools and see an unnatural link warning from Google. From what I am seeing, many of these unnatural link warnings and manual penalties from Google are a result of having participated in advertorials. I’m using Search Engine Land in the example above.

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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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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Google News has been in the news itself lately, from European efforts to impose taxes to questions about its value and even suggestions for giving it a full redesign. The figures include traffic directly from Google News and well as traffic from embedded news oneboxes in the regular Web search results. Jan-Nov 2014) Percentage of.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Google Trends has announced some new innovations in its research tool. These improvements could also affect other types of searches such as geographical searches and other name-type searches (e.g. The new Google Trends will. search engines content marketing google trends keyword research'

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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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Ignite Social Media

JUNE 14, 2023

Hootsuite did a small experiment afterwards and found that posts with good captions generated 30% more reach than posts with hashtags. TikTok is also becoming a search engine. Even Google acknowledged that almost 40% of young users used social media to look for a place for lunch instead of Google Maps.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Content is very important if you want your website to be attractive to users and you want to rank high in the search engines, like Google. Studies indicate that the top ranking sites on the search engines out there are those that have regular updates to their web pages. You may decide to write it on your own.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 4, 2014

While searching Google today for a random search query, I noticed that the first search result was kind of odd. I’m not surprised by Google showing off-topic results for certain search queries. What shocked me was that apparently Google says that the post was made on Jan 17, 1970. Google Search Engines'

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Bill Hartzer

AUGUST 31, 2011

Today, I performed a really simple test to see if Likes from social media type websites could contribute to a top search engine ranking in the search engines. So, what did I do to set up and prove my theory that social media likes contributes to search engine rankings? The results? The Experiment. Nothing else.

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 6, 2011

As you probably know by now, Google , Bing , and Yahoo! got together recently and formed Schema.Org , that will help you, as a webmaster, web designer, or search engine marketer , standardize your html code. You may be infringing on the patents that are owned by particular search engines. Post on Google Buzz.

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Bill Hartzer

JULY 11, 2011

Google+ (also referred to as Google Plus), is the new social network by Google that is very similar to Facebook in its functionality. As you probably know by now, I am certainly a tough critic at times when it comes to search engine optimization. Overall, I give it a thumbs up. Post contains little content.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 3, 2011

Everyone’s all abuzz and atwitter about Plus, the new social network from a search engine company with which you might be familiar. My initial, abbreviated take is that Google’s new social toy is essentially a Facebook Twitter hybrid with outstanding ease-of-use and eye-popping potential. But enough about that.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

How can you tell whether or not your website has suffered a traffic loss or some sort of penalty as a result of the Google Penguin updates? And if your website actually did suffer a traffic loss, you actually might not know it: especially if you are looking at your Google Analytics. Again, the same thing.

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