Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 7, 2012

You can enter the URL of any page on any of your verified domains and Bing will analyze that page to see how you are doing with SEO. URL Removal Tool – Don’t want a particular page listed in the Bing SERPs? SEO Analyzer. Fetch as Bingbot - See how your web pages look to the Bing searchbot.

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Tools URL SEO Research 161

Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Here goes: Use short URLs. There are plenty of services you can use for your short URLs. One of the biggest questions that many people have about Twitter is, how can I build value in 140 characters or less? Well, I’ve discovered 15 ways you can build value with every Twitter message. Are you ready?

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Tweetdeck Tips URL Hashtag 173

Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Get a brand page URL – After you’ve acquired 25 likes you can get a branded page URL. Again, choose an URL with your brand name or keyword in it. Give it a name, preferably one that coincides with your brand and/or that uses your primary keyword. That branded page name will also serve as your keyword title.

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Brands Facebook URL SEO 101

Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 23, 2013

You simple take a collection of URLs and group them into a content grouping category so that you can view aggregated metrics and analyze them. By being able to follow the metrics for the entire content group, you can see how your readers engage with that content across all of those URLs. Google Analytics is rolling out a new feature.

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Groups Groups Content Aggregator 101

Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2012

A page’s slug is its url. Newly found urls are then visited and indexed by the search engines. The contents of this tag appear when the user places their mouse on the image. Use keywords carefully – these tags are for users and search engines now look at them from a user’s perspective. For example, [link].

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Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 6, 2015

You would think that sophisticated search engine algorithms would be able to differentiate between similar URLs like. You can do this with the rel="canonical" link element, 301 redirects, or the URL parameter tool. “ [link] . and [link] . and [link].” ” You’d be wrong.

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Content URL Small Business Sites 70

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 4, 2012

URL issues - following on from duplicate content is the perception of duplicate content. This is caused by having more than one url for the same document, this is very common with product descriptions. Keep a watch on url issues, especially if you point to your product descriptions from several places on your website.

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SEO URL Issues Price 98

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 9, 2012

Server side SEO looks at issues such as your web sites URL – do you include the www, or have you dropped it, and if so, have you set up your.htaccess file to redirect all traffic to the non www URL? If you have a low cost web hosting company, then the issue can be even more important.

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SEO Hosting URL Software 110

Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Not properly citing your sources — she suggests putting the complete URL at the bottom of the infographic and making sure you list sources for each data point. Here’s her list: Not using reputable data sources — you want legitimate research & numbers that stand up to further research.

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Small Business Reputation URL Applications 125

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 29, 2011

Full links are 300% more likely to get read than short URLs (which is the total opposite of Twitter, by the way). All Facebook shares these tips for effective marketing and public relations through Facebook: Post your best content on Thursday because that is the day it is most likely to get read.

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Tips Facebook Marketing URL 168

Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 16, 2014

You want a URL/filename that makes sense and is SEO-rich. Scanned documents are pictures of words and not the same thing to a search engine, but they are getting better at processing images. Set the title in the document properties using keywords in that title. Link your PDF to other pages where appropriate.

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SEO Engineering URL Sites 111

Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The one on on-page content lists these factors as essential: include the subject in the title tag, URL, and image alt text. Probably one of the best resources you can use to look up SEO stuff is Moz and their Learn pages. have unique content about the subject. link to the category page, subcategory page, and homepage.

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Content SEO Small Business URL 102

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You need to make sure that each page has a unique URL that is search engine friendly. But if you paginate your content and add the rel-”next” tag to each of the pages, you’ll get better search engine optimization as each page can stand on its own. There are a few caveats to that, however.

Engineering 101

Engineering SEO URL Activities 101

Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 28, 2012

URL and IP blocking. Features include: Full ownership of your data. Ability to generate e-mail reports in HTML and PDF formats. Unlimited users, unlimited websites. Custom login panel. Delete old data you don’t use. First party and third party cookies available.

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Analytics Google Open Source Forums 121

Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Give it a SEO-friendly URL and solid links to related content on your site. Some of the details might be how to categorize your content; should it have its own page or be grouped with other stuff? If there is enough for a page, you have a great reason to give it a page because search engines index pages. You can make sure the dots connect.

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GPS Engineering Sites URL 122

Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Keep it short, but at the end you can include the URL to your website. Use your blog and guest blog posts to promote your book. Create a slideshow presentation on video and submit it to YouTube. Create a string of memes and share them on social media. E-mail your friends and ask them to invite their friends to read your blog.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 21, 2014

” The article takes a look at how to isolate information by using a tool like Screaming Frog to look at things like the URL, Title Tags, Meta Descriptions, and the like on a rival site.

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Small Business Engineering URL Communities 98

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 22, 2014

Your site url should be clearly seen in the video so that when it is shared, people can find you. Don’t make it automatic – many people browse with the mute buttons activated - so folks can choose to watch it instead of turning it off. If your website is responsive and works on mobile devices, your videos should, too.

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Video Library URL SEO 102

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 31, 2011

However, if you use short URLs, you shouldn’t expect them to pass link juice. Here are a few based on my own observations: Be aware of your text – Just like anchor text, the search engines likely use the text within your tweets to determine what a link is about.

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SEO Twitter Social Graph Reputation 168

Small Business Mavericks

JULY 14, 2011

Seriously, if you add your website address to the URL field of the comment form, you’ll get your link. Address something that I wrote about in my blog post. Otherwise, your comment will be treated like spam. Your comment is full of links. That’s obvious spam.

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Domain Name Policies URL Comments 161

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 20, 2012

People do still read newspapers, they still look at billboards, and if your URL is easy to follow, they’ll look it up. However, there are some businesses that are finding that a combination of traditional offline marketing and online marketing still works.

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Marketing Discount Newsletter Sports 156

Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 9, 2014

When you move stuff around on your site without paying attention to the underlying URLs, sometimes the dots disconnect because you changed the human stuff without thinking of the logic the robot uses to crawl through all the underlying data on your site. Connect The Dots For The Robot.

Content 87

Content Engineering Sites URL 87

Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 11, 2013

Non-search-friendly URLs – You’ve seen them. Outlinking refers to linking to other bloggers, third party sources, and even your own older blog posts, which can drive traffic back to those posts and keep visitors on your blog longer. They include long strings of crazy characters and indecipherable letters and words.

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URL Blogger SEO Social Media 98

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 28, 2014

It should include a checkup of page titles, urls, descriptions, keywords, alt tags, and internal links. A content audit lets you see what’s working and what needs tweaking, and it gives you the chance to fix small problems before they cost you too much.

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Sites Content Journal URL 87

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Create keyword-specific URLs. Neil Patel at Search Engine Journal just gave us 7 Under-the-hood Optimization Techniques That Will Rock Your SEO and act like that tune up to get your site as powerful as possible: Make your site secure. Add above-the-fold images or videos with full optimization. Create an image sitemap. Add schema everywhere.

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SEO Engineering Journal Small Business 70

Small Business Mavericks

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Each individual page on a website has an URL, which is the Web address of that specific page, but the domain name is where the home page of a website sits, the main part of the website address between HTTP and.com. If you look in your Web browser, at the top of the browser where the website address is, that’s the domain name.

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Domain Name Marketing Small Business URL 70

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 27, 2012

The general gist of that conversation was that Google’s interpretation of a ‘natural link’ was one in which the business name, the site name, or the website URL where the actual anchor text. In recent weeks, there have been references from Google related to inbound links using anchor text that was not keyword specific.

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Strategy Engineering URL SEO 98

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 9, 2011

It’s free and all you have to do is copy the URL, click on the “ditto&# button, and copy/paste the content you want to embed. But I have yet to see a really good tool that allows you to embed Facebook content. Just take a look at the page.

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Small Business Content Facebook Case Study 87

Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Many e-commerce sites use dynamic URLs to make this happen. If that’s the case, each product page may have multiple URLs, in which case your website will have duplicate content issues. What you want is a single navigable URL for each product and category on your website. item=automatic-widget&sid=123.

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Widget URL Patterns Price 101

Small Business Mavericks

MARCH 15, 2012

The post discusses Bing’s preference for a single URL no matter what device a visitor is using to access your website. Those points include: Mobile specific URLs rarely rank in search results since there are insufficient indicators to give the URL any value. Single URLs are easier to manage.

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Mobile Small Business URL Engineering 107

Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Therefore your HTML markup, redirects or 404 pages, URLs, page content, etc. HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 are like two different languages. As long as browser and server speak both languages, there’s no problem. are still good.

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Sites URL SEO Types 115

Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 11, 2013

This includes website URLs, business hours, phone numbers, etc. According to Googler Pavni Diwanji , the Google+ Dashboard performs the following four functions. Allows you to update all business information from a single Overview tab on your page. When you update your information, Google+ will make the changes at Maps, Search, and Google+.

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Analytics Tools Adwords Small Business 107

Small Business Mavericks

JANUARY 13, 2015

This page, a specific point in your event, is a natural long tail keyword just waiting to be given the appropriate URL. Prioritize the topics people have clicked on and see what happens. Label Each Page Correctly For SEO. Headers, title tags, etc. all are important parts of every page and should be optimized for this purpose.

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SEO Eventful Content How To 70

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 22, 2012

That’s means that 70% traffic is flowing around the web from social media, bookmarks, advertising, links and because users directly type urls into browsers. Across the web, search engines deliver around 30% of all traffic. With that in mind, should you be targeting that 70% rather than the 30%?

SEO 101

SEO Communities Reputation Forums 101

Small Business Mavericks

MAY 20, 2015

Here’s where your nuts and bolts of keywords, URLs, responsive design and the rest of it will matter. All this great, unique content is good for search engine optimization — if you have it presented the way the search engines operate.

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