Apparently it doesn't matter, whatsoever, how many links to your site you have. Even if you have 8 links pointing to your website, if those links are inorganic or violate Google's Webmaster Guidelines, the site can still receive a manual penalty from … [Continue reading]
Starting yesterday, Google started showing Knowledge Graph results from Freebase in the search results for my name, Bill Hartzer. What's interesting to note is that this is the first time that I've seen a direct example of Google using Freebase data. … [Continue reading]
New gTLD market share courtesy ntldstats.com As you may be aware, if you read my blog regularly, you probably know by now that I've been a fan of the new gTLD domain names, especially keyword rich ones, since they were first introduced. It seems … [Continue reading]
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 … [Continue reading]
A while back, I wrote about Apple's mysterious non-sensical domain names that were hosted on Amazon's Cloud servers. That post was picked up by Gizmodo. Well, I noticed today, a day before the big Apple event, that may or may not include news about … [Continue reading]
This past week, I really have only two updates: an update on moving to HTTPS from HTTP, and some info on viewing links in Google Webmaster Tools. This week marks 4 weeks after I moved the site from HTTP to HTTPS. There have been a lot of talk in … [Continue reading]