Do you often wonder what Google knows about you? I mean, how much are they tracking, do they know whether or not you visit certain websites, when you visited them, how long you visited them? If you add in Android and you have a smart phone that uses … [Continue reading]
This is a sponsored post from the Sunbrite Veranda Series TVs at Best Buy. Yesterday was the unofficial start of Summer, Memorial Day. It's already hot here in Texas. In Texas, though it tends to be summer 365 days a year. That means plenty of … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
If you weren't aware, Google tracks all of the purchases that you have made online if the purchase receipts land in your Gmail account. If you're logged into your Google Account, then you can go to the purchases page and see everything Google knows … [Continue reading]
A website's home page is ranking very well for a competitive keyword despite the fact that the website is blocking the search engine crawlers from indexing the site. A search for the keyword "backpack" in Google shows a website's home page, … [Continue reading]
A recent Google News audit shows that the top 3 news outlets, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, is favored by Google in their results a lot of the time. According to the audit, the top 20 percent (136 of 678 news sites) accounted for … [Continue reading]
Looking for a new web host for your website? Or you're going to move your website to another web host? Well, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has a list of four questions to ask when hiring a web host provider. The effort here is applauded. … [Continue reading]
From time to time, people come across various exploits, holes, or problems with sites or services. Google's not immune to such occurrences, just like a lot of other sites out there. Certainly Google's had its issues in the past, and I've pointed out … [Continue reading]
Can links from a social media website, such as Reddit, cause a website to get a manual action penalty from Google? Well, according to the example links provided to a site owner recently, they can. Links from the website Reddit.com were provided as … [Continue reading]
Sponsored post and review, Posted May 1, 2019 Here in the online world, and as website owners and Search Marketers, we're always looking to go fast. I mean, we want our sites and our clients' sites to load really fast. The faster the better. It's … [Continue reading]
There are times when Google's search results are wrong. Really wrong. So wrong that you start to question whether or not you should even rely on Google's search results for information. Case in point: When you ask Google how many legs a horse has, it … [Continue reading]
The latest version of the Firefox web browser blocks Google Analytics, as well as other trackers, such as Google Tag Manager, Google Ads (such as Google AdSense), and email trackers such as MailChimp. This blocking is done when a Firefox user has the … [Continue reading]
Update: ClixSense has been sold to a company called Prodege, and re-launched as Ysense.com on August 1, 2019. ClixSense, an online rewards website, and i-Dressup.com, a dress-up games websites, have agreed to settle with the United States … [Continue reading]
Back in March 2019 (just last month), Yelp announced a new initiative called Verified Licenses, which is supposed to bring peace of mind to booking a professional that's listed on Yelp.com. I did some checking of my own on a few local businesses. I … [Continue reading]
Chitika, the online advertising network that, at one time, was an alternative to Google Adsense for publishers such as myself, has shut down, effective immediately. In an email sent to publishers late last night (April 17, 2019), Chitika informed all … [Continue reading]
KPMG has moved to their own .BRAND TLD (Top Level Domain), the first of the big accounting firms to make the move. Previously they were using the domain name KPMG.com as their home page, and now if you go to KMPG.com in your web browser it will … [Continue reading]
Today I learned that Google will index a domain name that has not been registered. Ever. As in no one has ever registered the domain name, the domain name is available for registration by anyone, and someone could register it if they met the … [Continue reading]
A while back I uncovered a new type of undetectable negative SEO, which involved the canonical tag. Search Engine Journal covered it in a post here. I thought that as a result of bringing it out in the open that Google would somehow fix the problem. … [Continue reading]
A company called Web Host Agents is sending 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 … [Continue reading]
We knew this was coming, and we even were told via popup messages in Google Search Console. I knew the end was coming. March 28, 2019 was the date that Google's Fetch as Google tool would be removed from Google Search Console. Now I can confirm that … [Continue reading]