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14 Steps to Hosting a Successful Webinar

Convince & Convert

Following is a step-by-step list of how to host a memorable, interesting, and useful webinar. Using the URL of the landing page (not the URL of the webinar software registration), create a different link for each of the tactics using the Google URL Builder. Image via BigStockPhoto.com. Ask your team to do the same.

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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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Why This Blog is Hosted with Tubu

Ari Herzog

Every website must be hosted for you to see it. After migrating this blog from Google’s free platform to a self-hosted WordPress platform in the fall of 2008, I followed Chris Brogan’s blogging advice and contacted Tubu Internet Solutions (affiliate link) to host my blog for $10 a year. Pro Powers My Short URL.

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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. Oh, the irony!

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Search Engine Optimization Firms Like RankPay Still Hurting SEO Industry

Bill Hartzer

I am still amazed that search engine optimization firms like RankPay are still relying on what I would call shady marketing techniques like sending UCE Spam (UCE stands for Unsolicited Commercial Email), trying to get more search engine optimization business. We are a performance based Search Engine Optimization company that.

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[Tech Tip] 10 Steps To Improve The Speed, Security, and Functionality Of Your WordPress Blog

SocMed Sean

If my WordPress site is slow, is it my host, my plugins, or my theme? If you’re ready to start minifying your site, here are the steps I recommend: Backup your site – I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but either use the backup tool that your host provides or use a plugin like Updraft to backup the site.

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Search Engine Optimization Tip: Check Your 404 Errors

Bill Hartzer

This is only one seo tip out of many search engine optimization tips I have been providing over the years. All of my search engine optimization tips are meant to be specific, they should not take too much time to implement, and are meant to be directly to the point. The bottom line. What s the bottom line? Then, see what happens.