SocMed Sean

JANUARY 22, 2013

To get you started on the right track, here are 3 simple ways to make the management of your website/blog backend much simpler: URL Rewriting The Apache server has a mode rewrite module which will give you the opportunity to effectively redirect one URL to another. By default, WordPress has a terrible URL structure.

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Small Business Mavericks

APRIL 21, 2012

Search engine optimization is not all about gaining inbound links. The first is linking to an external site, and while the argument has often flowed regarding the leaking of ‘link juice’, if you link to authority pages, you won’t harm your rankings at all. A page’s slug is its url. For example, [link].

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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. That misses out two immediate benefits you get as a site owner: 1. Imagine you’re a content site that gives financial or medical advice.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 22, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Create a Custom URL for Your Facebook Business/Fan Page I often get the question, “AK, I thought I created a username/custom URL for my business page but when I type in the address it takes me to my personal profile… what happened?&#

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The whole idea of this study was to figure out whether or not Google +1s actually help search engine rankings. So, in other words, Google+ social shares and +1s on a URL alone are not trusted. But they only count when they’re combined with other search engine ranking factors. Let me explain. So, what’s my conclusion?

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Bill Hartzer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

According to this unsolicited commercial email (spam), getting more Facebook Likes will increase your search engine rankings. Googles software engineer, Matt Cutts, has confirmed reports that Google uses social signals, such as links from Facebook and Twitter, as a ranking factor. Here is the email I received.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 1, 2013

Search engines love on-site SEO , especially if leads to better relationships with your site visitors. Here are 4 uncanny ways to increase your on-site SEO. Permalinks – Your URL structure is very important. It allows the search engines a way to crawl your website and find every page you want indexed.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 21, 2011

This information is VERY useful if you are working to find websites with high page rank where you can put comments in order to develop strong backlinks for your money sites. The plugin also gives you lots of information regarding the sites of your competition as well. The interface for this site is very simple to use.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Sites have been using the rel=canonical link element for a while now to help offset duplicate content issues that cannot be eliminated through URL consolidation. While not a perfect solution it is often the best option available in cases like duplicate content caused by appending tracking codes to URLs (e.g. ?source=rss,

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

I often talk to people who claim that they are suffering from poor search engine rankings. No matter what you do, you just cannot find your web site in Google–and sometimes it’s not just the keywords the sites is targeting, the site cannot be found for the company’s name. Lack of links. Too many 301s.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 12, 2011

When it comes to optimizing your web site for the search engines , search engine optimization, there are a lot of things that you can do that will hurt your search engine rankings. In fact, there are literally hundreds of different factors that come into play when it comes to search engine optimization.

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Social Media Marketing

MAY 5, 2022

Through this method, one can work with Search Engines cottoned-directly to websites that had been seeking to hack the SERPS. It can help you to get a good rank on the search engine results page. Meta Tag: The meta tag is too crucial for a site. Consider the URL paths you create and the way they could affect your site.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 30, 2018

–Sean As more and more new sites hit the Web on a daily basis, the adoption of WordPress as a content management system seems to keep on growing. Do good plugins really slow down my site? If my WordPress site is slow, is it my host, my plugins, or my theme? In the meantime, go grab a cup of coffee or tea and settle in.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 24, 2011

You probably have heard me preach it before: if at all possible, for search engine optimization purposes, your web site should include a blog or other section of your web site that includes articles. To rank well in the search engines, your web site needs new, fresh, topical content added on a regular basis.

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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. It helps so much that many site owners have bought text links to their website. Search Engine Ranking Problems. So, why would you want to remove paid links to your website?

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SocMed Sean

MARCH 18, 2012

Remember, the more you clean up those old posts the more they will pay you back with increased search engine traffic or organic traffic from social networks like Twitter and Facebook. you need a good tool to redirect user from an out-of-date URL to a new one, check out the Redirection plugin for WordPress.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Google has always been adamant about the fact that paying for Google AdWords ads will not boost your site’s organic search engine rankings. So, I do believe Google when they say that paying for Google AdWords ads won’t boost your organic search engine rankings. Will that boost your organic search engine rankings?

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you have every noticed a sudden loss of website traffic or if the traffic has gone down considerably then it’s time to start thinking about a search engine optimization audit. The first step in your Search Engine Optimization Plan should include an SEO Audit. Here are the top 5 SEO Audit Quick Tips: 1.

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Saying It Social

JULY 13, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How To Promote You Facebook Page URL on Your Personal Profile Facebook doesn’t make this easy. When you are finished adding all of the sites you’d like to display, click Save Changes. Now you are set.

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Firebelly

JULY 13, 2010

» July 13, 2010 Coleman Campsite: The Original Social Networking Site "We're not saying that  Facebook and Myspace got their idea from us, but we're not saying they didn't either." Video URL: [link] ] Chad Richards is the Social Program Manager at Firebelly Marketing. They may be right.

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Webbiquity SMM

OCTOBER 25, 2010

social networking profiles, social bookmarking sites, other bloggers). But two great sources are blog directories and RSS syndication sites. So, having recently completed a submission campaign for a client, here is an updated list of blog directories and RSS syndication sites that remain active and free. Blog URL (e.g.,

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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Social Media Network Marketing

MAY 7, 2015

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 18, 2011

We are seeking an SEO guru who will translate overall business goals into successful search engine optimization strategies and tactical plans. – Conduct periodic site audits. – Monitor site performance day to day, and drive assignment of proper URLs, title tags and meta data; troubleshoot where needed.

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Saying It Social

JULY 12, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Musings on Joining New Social Media Sites, Site Recommendations and On-Going Participation A while back I set up accounts on Amplify and Clipmarks. One day, four new sites. What are your experiences with trying out new sites?

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 28, 2014

Search Engine Journal just put out an excellent guide for site owners called How To Conduct A Content Audit On Your Site. Content is pretty much everything you have on your site. That sounds like a completely overwhelming thing – to carefully look over everything on your site, right?

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Bill Hartzer

JUNE 18, 2010

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. Then, log into Google Webmaster Tools and “add your site&#.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

With Blekko officially launching this week the new search engine is getting a lot of attention particularly in the search marketing community because of SEO data it provides. There is a good overview of Blekko’s SEO Tools on Search Engine Land so I won’t go into detail on that here. Hostrank Inbound links Site pages.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 9, 2011

We all have issues with our web sites at one time or another. Certainly when designing, programming, developing, and optimizing our web sites we try to make sure that we follow the industry’s best practices. you move from apache to Windows), you will be left with a bunch of URLs that you will have to redirect.

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Bill Hartzer

DECEMBER 2, 2011

You want the search engines to know that your home page is the core foundation of your website. When I refer to your “real home page” on your web site, I am referring to something like this: [link]. But those files are NOT what you should be linking to internally on your web site. So How Do you Fix This?

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Bill Hartzer

APRIL 29, 2010

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. Why Checking your 404 Errors is Important.

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

As someone who has been actively creating and optimizing web pages for the search engines since 1996, I have always been curious when it comes to everything related to Search Engine Optimization. Back in the 1990s, when I was doing search engine optimization for web sites, the search engines ( Altavista , Excite , etc.)

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Bill Hartzer

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

From time to time I post various job openings and employment opportunities in the Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization industries. Today, I have a job opening for a Search Engine Optimization Manager here in the Dallas Texas area. Client ROI will also be considered as a performance indicator.

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SocMed Sean

DECEMBER 26, 2018

The Quick Overview: Translating your blog posts into other languages can have positive impacts on your search engine traffic. The effort, cost, and potential negative impacts to your search engine rankings will probably not justify the minimal traffic increase. Yes…negative SEO impacts because of translating your content.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 18, 2011

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. Optimization clients and came across your site. URL:* www.RankPay.com.

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Bill Hartzer

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Perhaps in response to one of my recent blog posts about search engine ranking problems , I got an email today from James who owns a website called 4insure dot net. He asked me if I would take a look at his web site and see if I can figure out why he is having search engine ranking problems. getting penalized for incoming links.

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