For all of the major search conferences, whether I'm speaking or not, you may be familiar with my list. I hand pick the best of the best speakers to meet and see speak at the conference. PubCon Pro Las Vegas 2018 is no different. I've hand picked the … [Continue reading]
Is Your Small Business Prepared For a Crisis?
From natural disasters, to hacked websites, banned websites, and unexpected life events, a crisis can certainly cripple your small business overnight. Google's PDF titled Digital Tools and Resources to Help Your Business Prepare for a Crisis is a … [Continue reading]
Zoho CRM Down: Domain Registrar Takes Action After Spam Email
Zoho Corporation, also known as Zoho CRM, had their entire domain name taken down by their registrar Tierranet (aka DomainDiscover). According to a Tweet by Zoho CRM's CEO Sridhar Vembu, they were trying to understand why the domain was taken down … [Continue reading]
Research Reveals The Sad State of Google My Business Listings
According to recent research, only about 1.4 percent of local businesses, with a verified Google My Business listing, respond to reviews left about their business. Even less liked a Google review but ultimately didn't even respond to the review. This … [Continue reading]
Compare the Market on Google: Server Error
It's not that often that you see a server error on Google's search results. For the past hour or so, if you search Google for the keyword phrase "compare the market", you'll see a server error. … [Continue reading]
Does Google Have a Date Problem?
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 … [Continue reading]
Facebook Requires Identity Confirmation When Running Political Ads
Facebook requires that you confirm your identity as a United States Citizen when running ads related to politics or national issues. I just went through this process to confirm my identity as a US Citizen with Facebook, and here's what I learned, … [Continue reading]
Work in Peace with Sony’s Wireless New Noise Canceling WH-1000XM3 Headphones
It's the beginning of Fall, Labor Day is over, and that can only really mean one thing for the Search community: Fall conference season is here! There are literally at least one or two search industry conferences going on ever single week for the … [Continue reading]
Is It OK to Use Website Cloaking?
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 … [Continue reading]
Google Local Guides Can Upload Videos on iPhone
As you might be aware, I'm a Google Local Guide. Whenever I'm out and about I tend to post reviews and take photos of just about every single establishment, local business, and tourist attraction that I go to. Google Local Guides get points for every … [Continue reading]
Expired Domain Names Don’t Give You Legal Rights to Other Accounts
When you buy an expired domain name, owning that domain name does not give you the legal right to any other accounts that are associated with that domain name. For example, if you buy a domain name that has an email address that was set up by the … [Continue reading]
Sellers Playbook and Exposure Marketing Charged by FTC for Amazon Scheme
Sellers Playbook and Exposure Marketing Company, along with its owners, have been charged by the US Federal Trade Commission and the State of Minnesota with running a large business opportunity scheme. … [Continue reading]
Large Portfolio of Home Inspection Domain Names For Sale
Hartzer Consulting has chosen to exclusively broker a large domain name portfolio of 500 domain names. About 400 of the domain names are in the Home Inspection niche, with the majority of them including a city name along with keywords such as home … [Continue reading]
Google Redirects AdWords Traffic to Ads with 302 Redirect
Google recently renamed Google AdWords to Google Ads recently. Today, when you go to the former Google AdWords page, which was https://adwords.google.com, it redirects you to the new Google Ads page, which is https://ads.google.com/home/. This makes … [Continue reading]
Google Suggests HTTP URLs over HTTPs URLs in the SERPs
For certain search queries, Google is suggesting HTTP URLs over the preferred HTTPs URLs in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Certain search queries, such as when an HTTPs URL is put in the search box, will prompt Google to ask if the searcher … [Continue reading]
Ads and Data Privacy Promote Customer Dissatisfaction in Social Media, Search
Want a sure-fire way to dissatisfy users on social media? Show them ads and mess with their private data. According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI®) 2018 E-Business Report, customer satisfaction with social media as a whole fell … [Continue reading]
Don’t Think New gTLD Domain Names Can Rank Well? Think Again
I continue to hear it over and over again: people saying that they should always use a .COM domain name for your website. I questioned someone just the other day about their statement. The answer they had was "have you ever seen a non .COM website … [Continue reading]
Is Submitting a False Malware Report a New Negative SEO Technique?
I don't take negative SEO lightly--it's something that is certainly something that can be difficult to deal with and identify if your website is the victim of a negative SEO attack. In the past week, I've had several different people I know tell me … [Continue reading]
Top 10 Speakers to See at Rocks Digital 2018
Whenever there is a great upcoming major digital marketing conference or search engine marketing (search marketing) conference, I review all of the speakers. Then, I hand pick the best of the speakers, based on my personal past observations, and come … [Continue reading]
According to Google, Tweets with Animated GIFs are Videos
According to Google, this Tweet above is a video. According to Google, tweets that contain animated GIFs (very short videos, usually a few seconds long) are considered to be videos. In the search results, Google is showing a Tweet from someone. … [Continue reading]