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What is Bill Hartzer Disease?

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Bill Hartzer disease

What exactly is Bill Hartzer disease, and how do you get it? Is it a real disease? That’s a good question, I’ve been asking myself this for well over 5 years now. Maybe longer than that. Several years ago, when I started searching for my own name, this keyword phrase (my name with the word ‘disease’ attached to it) showed up in the auto suggest. Auto Suggest is when you start typing in a search query and the search engine suggests other related keywords, or words that include the characters you are typing. [Continue reading]

Web Host Agents Sending Fake Invoices for Website Hosting

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Web Host Agents

A company called Web Host Agents continues to send businesses an invoice for web hosting services. The problem is that the invoice is fake, and Web Host Agents doesn’t currently host the company’s website. It’s a fake invoice, a sales tactic that’s being disguised. One of my clients received such an invoice recently in the mail. They asked me if it’s a scam or not–to which I promptly replied, telling them that it is. Let’s take a look at the invoice, which does look convincing.

I first reported this back in April 2019, and more than a year later they are still sending these fake invoices. [Continue reading]

Google Loses Blogspot.In Domain Name

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Google has lost ownership to one of their Blogspot domain names. Blogspot is the former name of the blogging service that allowed bloggers to create and post their own blog for free. Blogspot.com redirects to Blogger.com, where you can continue to … [Continue reading]

Digital Marketing with Bill Hartzer Podcast

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Digital Marketing with Bill Hartzer

In the last Quarter of 2019, I've launched the Digital Marketing with Bill Hartzer Podcast. It can be found on most of the popular podcasting platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Deezer, Podcast Addict, … [Continue reading]

Google Loses Appeal in Google, LLC vs Netlist, Inc.

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google vs netlist

Google has lost an appeal to a patent infringement lawsuit that has been ongoing for several years now. The case, Google, LLC vs. Netlist, Inc., is a case where Google argued that a patent owned by Netlist, Inc. was invalid. Google claimed that part … [Continue reading]

Adobe to Remove Flash Player

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Viewing this content requires Adobe Flash Player

Adobe will remove the Adobe Flash Player from its website after December 2020. This means that we are essentially seeing the EOL End of Life of the Flash Player. If your website was originally build in Flash and it requires the Flash Player in order … [Continue reading]

Google Continues Its Attack on the URL

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Google continues it's attack on the URL so to speak, showing URLs less than they have been in the past. In this latest attack on the URL, Google seems to be "pressing on with new plans to hide all parts of web addresses except the domain name." … [Continue reading]

Jumpshot Keyword Data Update: Ahrefs

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As you might be aware, Avast shut down Jumpshot, and its shutdown affected several keyword research tools that relied on that data. I uncovered some interesting information regarding keyword search volume data while looking at data from some of the … [Continue reading]

GoDaddy Sent Erroneous Credit Notices via Email

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GoDaddy credit error email

The domain name registrar GoDaddy sent emails to some current customers. The email, which was a legitimate email and not a phishing attempt, told the customer that they had a credit on their account. However, what is alarming is that the email being … [Continue reading]

Schema.org is Down

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schema.org down

The website Schema.org is down, currently showing a "500 Server Error". A 500 Server Error could be the result of several different things, such as too much traffic for the server to handle, a Denial of Service Attack, or a misconfiguration on the … [Continue reading]

Bing Places Adds New Features

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Bing Announcements

Bing Places for business has added some new features that help local businesses update their Bing Places listings if they were impacted by COVID-19. Bing Places has added Bing Announcements, GoFundMe Campaigns, Special Hours, and Temporarily Closed … [Continue reading]