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The Truth About Backlinks
This coming Thursday March 29th, I’m giving an advanced internet marketing presentation to a Meetup Group at the Portland Convention Center Red lion Inn. The program starts at 5:30 and goes until...
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New Google Fairness Algorithm
In a stunning move, even as the dust settles from their deindexing of some blog networks last week, Google is announcing a brand new ranking algorithm designed to level the playing field for domains in...
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Service Business – Bad SEO Advice
I’ve been advising others about their search presence since 2002, and this is the first time I recall ever telling someone to do something that could ultimately hurt them. Please consider this a...
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Visibility Cut in Half Locally by Obeying Googles Rules
This is just quick update to show that my Google Places impressions over the past 30 days are less than half of what they were the previous month. This was the result of following the new Google...
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Google ‘Plusaces’ is Here
This Wednesday, May 30th in the ever changing world of local search, Google officially announced the “end” of “Google Places” and they are merging it with Google Plus (Google+). This has been written...
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Android Bug – Edit Google+ Places Reviews by Others
There’s a bug in the Google Places app on my Android phone that is allowing me to edit the last review for any local business. Instead of saying “Leave a Review” the only option for me is to “Edit Your...
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Pubcon 2012 at a Discount
Pubcon is the oldest internet marketing conference in the world, and this year it’s taking place almost a full month earlier than usual in Las Vegas. The session grid is huge with up to 9 concurrent...
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BuddyPress & WP SEO Plugins
What is it about BuddyPress that makes the best WordPress SEO plugins in the world, almost universally fail to function as the author intended? The issue at hand was that the East Portland Chamber of...
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WordPress Plugins That Don’t Exist – Yet
*Last updated Sept 2012* – This post has been several years in the making, because since 2007, as fast as I’ve written things down in the notes, new WordPress plugins keep getting built and I’d have to...
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Google, Please Free Willy – Site Not Compromised
I work with a company that produced a documentary about Keiko the whale, who was the star of the 1993 sensation, Free Willy. (Wow, has it really been 19 years?) Over a week ago, we found out that their...
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Buying Links in 2013
Sometimes, paid links may be totally alright with Google, and in fact in many cases are EXACTLY WHAT THEY’RE LOOKING FOR. Let me explain… If I search Google for “CNN author on Google plus” then I get...
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Why is My Post Not Indexed?
Okay, I’m calling BS here, Google – What’s going on?!? Can someone explain to me how a post I wrote three days ago is still not found by searching it’s exact title? Any time I’ve ever looked, my posts...
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Scamazon Alert
At this time of year, a lot of people might fall for this Amazon phishing scam, and it could lead to disastrous consequences. I buy a lot of stuff at Amazon, especially at this time of year. This email...
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Link Diversity Revisited for 2013
I got to thinking about things that I’ve said in the past about linkbuilding, especially where I’ve been dead wrong. Then I wondered if I’d ever written what I (and a lot of SEOs) had believed for a...
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Local Search Presentation Friday
I’m going to be speaking to about 150 local businesses, most of whom are in the travel and hospitality industry, this Friday, February 8th at the Social Media & Web Marketing Conference. The...
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One Code Verifies Google+ / Local Pages
I have a high school friend whom I’ve helped with his website intermittently over the years, and I claimed his Google Local page for him quite a few years ago. Last summer, I created a Google+ page...
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Pubcon New Orleans 2013
I am honored and excited to be appearing in FOUR separate sessions at PubCon in New Orleans this spring, even if it’s going to be a lot of work. (Really, it IS work, I swear)! I never give the same...
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Kickstarter – Facebook Event Promotion
I learned a lot about Kickstarter over the past two weeks, and I thought this might interest some of you, plus, I need your help too. With Kickstarter crowd funding, people don’t actually “invest” in a...
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Easily Compare Analytics to Last Year
In Google Analytics, a small improvement was made a couple of months ago to the interface for comparing your stats to a previous period in time, and I think it was long overdue. As a manager for Ross...
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Report Fake Google Review Profiles
I’m writing this because Google needs your help to weed out fake reviewers, and this is how I reported one. I just reported this user, Heather C-H, where I suspect that it’s a fake profile for a number...
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