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Using Cloudflare or Other CDNs Won’t Help You Hide Your Link Network

Posted By Bill Hartzer on April 13, 2016at 2:49 pm

Robert Fisher recently asked a question over at Moz regarding the use of CDNs to potentially hide a link network. In the past, there has been (and currently is still) an issue regarding linking websites together that are hosted on the same Class C Blocks of IPs. Essentially, if you own several websites, they’re hosted on the same server, then they will be on the same Class C Block of IP addresses. So, the search engines can easily see that you most likely own all those sites linked together by looking at the sites’ IP addresses. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Link Building, Search Engine Optimization

Google Organic Search Listings Can Now Look Like Ads

Posted By Bill Hartzer on May 26, 2019at 9:57 am

Ad favicon - Bill Hartzer

Google’s organic search engine listings can looks like Ads, but they are not actually Google Ads. Instead, the site owner has updated the favicon on their website to display an Ad logo. That Ad logo image similar to the black and white Ad symbol Google currently displays to designate that a search engine result listing is a sponsored Ad. As an experiment, I updated the favicon on this website to display a graphic that I personally created–which looks similar to Google’s Ad graphic they display next to Google Ads. An example of my site appearing in the Google organic search results on a mobile phone is shown below: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google

Does Google Prefer Domain Names Registered For a Long Time?

Posted By Bill Hartzer on November 1, 2018at 7:49 pm

Does Domain Name Registration Length Affect Search Engine Rankings?

This has been discussed time and time again, but since Epik is now offering Forever Registrations of domain names, I thought that I would ask Google’s John Mueller if domain registration length is a search engine ranking factor. Or, whether or not Google prefers domain names that have been registered for a longer period of time. I asked John on Twitter, and here’s what he said: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Domain Names

Does Google Have a Date Problem?

Posted By Bill Hartzer on September 12, 2018at 6:05 pm

google dates

That’s a really good question. Does Google have a date problem? Well, Garry Illyes (@methode on Twitter) tweeted, kind of admitting that he doesn’t like dates. That was back on September 5th, and looking at that tweet, and knowing what he’s really referring to, yes, it appears that Google still has a date problem. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google

Is It OK to Use Website Cloaking?

Posted By Bill Hartzer on August 27, 2018at 3:30 pm

Note: Don’t always believe everything is posted on Twitter, or any other social media website. In this case, DejanSEO and John Mueller from Google were joking about rogue bots and cloaking. Parts of this post have been edited.

There was a recent Tweet from DejanSEO to John Mueller from Google about technical SEO. Apparently DejanSEO has rogue crawlers that disobey his robots.txt file. They crawl the website even though the robots.txt file says that they can’t crawl the website. Dan Petrovic asked John how to deal with rogue crawlers. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google

Google Removes View Image Button in Image Search Results: What You Should Do Now

Posted By Bill Hartzer on February 16, 2018at 9:32 am

Google has announced that they have removed the view image button from the Google image search results. That means that in order to view the images in Google’s image search results, searchers need to click through to the website in order to view a larger version of the image. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google

Google Must Fix their Timestamp Issue

Posted By Bill Hartzer on February 15, 2018at 10:33 am

google timestamp issue
Photo courtesy @kr4ydnb on Twitter.

Google has a big issue with the timestamps on articles, posts, and news items, and it absolutely needs to be fixed. This week, the timestamp issue has been more visible to the public in light of recent news events. People have pointed out to Google that their timestamps were horribly wrong on news article posts. Despite ongoing breaking news, Google timestamped article as being posted 2 days prior. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google

Splitting a Website Into Two Websites: Part Two

Posted By Bill Hartzer on January 29, 2018at 9:42 am

splitting website into two websites

As you might recall, I decided to split my website into two separate websites. I moved content (mainly my services pages) over to Hartzer.com, leaving my 1000+ blog posts here on this blog. I’ll continue to blog and write news articles here on BillHartzer.com. The goal is to make BillHartzer.com more of a blog and news site–while moving my SEO Consulting business over to Hartzer.com and Hartzer Consulting. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Marketing

Moved To HTTPs? Get on the HSTS Preload List for Chrome

Posted By Bill Hartzer on September 27, 2017at 7:31 pm

HSTS preload list

As you are well aware by now, I moved this site to HTTPs (a secure SSL site) back a few years ago when Google announced that HTTPs is, in fact, a search engine ranking factor. Google has announced that they’re making HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security) the default on all of the Google-owned TLDs, starting with .dev and .foo. This is really good news, as any domain name on those TLDs (Top Level Domains) will be secure and using HTTPs URLs. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google

Denied SSL Certificates Because of Their Domain Names

Posted By Bill Hartzer on September 8, 2017at 6:44 pm

For the second time in a row, one of my domain names has been denied an SSL certificate because of it’s domain name. But, this second time, the website went down without warning, despite being on CloudFlare. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Domain Names

Chrome Will Show Security Warnings on HTTP Websites

Posted By Bill Hartzer on August 18, 2017at 8:48 am

Starting October 2017, Google Chrome (version 62) will show a “NOT SECURE” warning when users enter text in a form on an HTTP page, and for all HTTP pages in Incognito mode. If your website is not HTTPs, and you have not moved your website to HTTPs from HTTP, then your website’s visitors will start to see this warning. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google

SEO Agencies Receiving Emails Threatening Negative SEO, DDoS Attacks

Posted By Bill Hartzer on April 4, 2017at 9:23 am

negative seo

A group calling itself the Lizard Squad is sending SEO Agencies and Digital Marketing Agencies threatening emails, which sound very much like blackmail. The emails, being sent to SEO and Digital marketing agencies’ public email addresses, claim that a negative SEO campaign has been started against their website and their clients’ sites. If a certain amount of Bitcoin is not sent, they will continue the negative SEO campaign, as well as DDoS attacks on the agency website and their client websites. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Internet Marketing

Using Google AdSense Hurts Mobile User Experience, Violates Google’s Own Guidelines

Posted By Bill Hartzer on March 7, 2016at 9:00 am

Google Pagespeed Insights

Adding Google AdSense to your website hurts the mobile user experience on your website and violates Google’s own suggested guidelines.

I have been working on my own site, this site, to optimize it for page load speed. Using Google’s own Pagespeed Insights tool, I found that there is one particular section of the results, under User Experience, that gave me a score of 99 out of 100. That problem is Google AdSense. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engines

One Year after Moving to HTTPs

Posted By Bill Hartzer on August 14, 2015at 5:59 pm

About one year ago, last August 2014, I moved this site from HTTP to HTTPs, and several weeks afterwards I updated the status of traffic, page views, and time on site. Several weeks after moving I some pretty good results, which I believe was a result of my moving from HTTP to HTTPs. A year later, let’s look at what I’ve accomplished over the past year, and if we can tell if it was worth it to move. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Search Engine Optimization

Cutting Your Page Load Time in Half with WordFence Performance

Posted By Bill Hartzer on September 10, 2014at 10:24 am

Ever since I’ve started using Wordfence here on my site, which has been at least for a year or so now, I have been a big fan. I use the paid option, and am very happy with it. But since I’ve been making major enhancements on the site lately, like upgrading the site from HTTP to HTTPS, and starting to use Cloudflare, I’ve seen improvements all around.

Today, though, I decided to test out the Wordfence Performance Setup option, called the Wordfence Falcon Engine, which apparently is supposed to increase the performance (load time) of your pages by 30 to 50 percent. Seriously? Up to 50 percent faster load times with this enabled? Even for an HTTPS site? I thought I’d give it a try. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Search Engine Optimization

Google Search Query Impressions Going Down Drastically?

Posted By Bill Hartzer on August 18, 2014at 10:48 am

In Google Webmaster Tools, there is a useful report called the Search Queries report. This report shows your website’s impressions in Google organic search, the clicks to your website, and the average position (of your ranking). Typically, I review this repor from time to time, but I don’t necessarily look at it as often as I look at Google Analytics. What should you do if your impressions and clicks go down drastically? Perhaps like this:

google impressions going down [Read more…]

Filed Under: Google, Search Engine Optimization

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