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What Is Off-Page SEO?

The Realtime Report

Standing for search engine optimization, there are two broad categories of SEO. The other type of SEO is called off-page SEO. What are the most effective types of off-page SEO and how can you take advantage of this digital marketing tactic to build a stronger online presence? Image by Diego Velázquez from Pixabay.

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Search Engine Optimization:A Guide To Understanding the Types of Google Penalties

Bill Hartzer

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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Appalling: US Patent US8515941 B1: System for Generating Search Engine Spam

Bill Hartzer

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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Moving to HTTPS for Better Search Engine Rankings

Bill Hartzer

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. My web host, Hostdime , offers secure certificates at a very reasonable rate, which is $30 per year for a basic certificate. Google can trust the site more.

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10 Great Examples of User-Generated Content in Higher Education

Social Media Strategies Summit

Common UGC content types include images, videos, and reviews. Harvey Mudd College enlisted one of its sophomore engineering students to create this video, which the institution shared on Instagram and TikTok: @hmcadmission A day in the life of an HMC sophomore! Again, user-generated content is the perfect format for this content type.

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Google Hosts Low Quality Article Directory with Links They Want Us to Remove

Bill Hartzer

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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How to Host Your Domain Name with Bing.com For Free

Bill Hartzer

Tired of having to pay for web hosting and don’t want to park your domain name with a domain name parking company ? Well, you can (temporarily) host your domain name with Bing.com for free. How to host your domain with Bing. Host: www.mrotgage.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Connecting to host. msft.net and ns2.msft.net.