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Google & RankBrain: A Simple Example of How to “Time Manage” The SERPs in 2018

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Did you know that if you don’t update your web content, you may be penalized by Google’s new algorithm, RankBrain? Let’s examine how this can happen and what you can do to prevent it! Have you ever modified your Google search to only show web content created in the past year, past month, or past week? Of course you have, and …

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Web Page Title Not Showing on Bing/Yahoo or Says “Official Site”

Richard CummingsSEO, The SEO System Blog, Web Content Marketing Leave a Comment

Several clients have asked me about their web page titles not showing up properly on Bing and Yahoo. Frequently, instead of the web page title, Bing and Yahoo will say “Company Name – Official Site“ as you see depicted in the image to the right. These images are taken from a Yahoo and Bing search for the company Intel.  However, …

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How To Track the Facebook “Call Now” Button

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The Facebook “Call Now” button introduced a great way for customers to immediately contact your business when they are using Facebook on their cell phone. But, after implementing the “Call Now” feature in your Facebook local awareness ads, you will have one obvious question that Facebook is less willing to answer:  Are people clicking your Facebook “Call Now button?

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Google Branding Websites as “Not Secure” – Live Examples – August 2018 Update

Richard CummingsThe SEO System Blog, Web Content Administration Leave a Comment

Since my article long ago exposing the 10 Facts & Myths of Secure (HTTPS) websites and my more recent Definitive HTTPS/SSL WordPress Upgrade Guide, Google has now provided increased incentive for those of you who have not yet upgraded your website to HTTPS — they will brand you as “Not Secure”! The Google official announcement states that:  “Beginning in January …

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The 10-Step HTTPS/SSL WordPress Upgrade [2020 Edition]

Richard CummingsThe SEO System Blog, top-10, Web Content Administration, WordPress Leave a Comment

I am going to give you the exact instructions on how to upgrade your WordPress website to SSL in under 3 hours AND in just 10 easy steps. It’s 2020 and you are falling behind the competition if your WordPress website is not HTTPS/SSL! If you’re still not convinced, here are 5 great reasons your site should be HTTPS. “But …

Google Unnatural Links Penalty Strikes Again!

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On Saturday, many webmasters received a stinging letter from Google that begins:  “Google has detected a pattern of links from your site to other sites that is either unnatural or irrelevant.” It’s as if it’s 2010 again when many webmasters were receiving Google Webspam penalties and having their websites completed decimated. 6 years later…should this still be happening?  I just …

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How To Easily Repurpose Blog Posts for Video

Richard CummingsWeb Content Marketing Leave a Comment

Video accounted for 64% of all Internet traffic this past year.  By 2019, experts estimate this number to escalate to 80%.  How will you tap into this market? One great way to do this is to repurpose your current and future web content — especially your blogs post — into educational and entertaining videos. What’s in it for you?  The …

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The “Passing” of PageRank: A Round Up of the Top 10 Posts

Richard CummingsThe SEO System Blog, Web Content Analysis Leave a Comment

The tool that many SEO’s have used for several years, Google PageRank, is officially dead…or dying.  Sources say that PageRank data will be unavailable within a couple of weeks. I still see the PageRank data in my Chrome Open SEO browser and stats toolbar  as you see below: But, presumably, this data will disappear in short order. So, what is the reaction …