Statistics tell a story and the latest mobile marketing statistics tell this story: You have to optimize everything you do online for mobile! “Whatever, I’m gettin’ by just fine without it. Can people just stop shouting about mobile this and mobile that?”“. Not until you listen — sometimes you just need cold hard facts to spur you to action. So …
The question that we are going to look at today is this: Is inbound anchor text still relevant when it comes to SEO best practices? We know that it used to be. As you’ll see below, the volume of inbound links using specific anchor text was such an influencer, and yet so easily manipulated, that it threatened Google’s entire business.
Do you want to dominate your Google local places search results in 2018? Then follow the 8 SEO steps listed below and you will beat your local competition! Many businesses, especially small businesses, think that achieving first-page organic search results (as opposed to paid-for AdWords type results) is a near impossibility. But the truth is, for local businesses, success in …
Small businesses consistently fail at social media. True or False? If you answered “true”, you are correct. Small businesses setup social media accounts and are then victims of their own great expectations. The bottom line is this: [bctt tweet=”Social media won’t work for your small business if you don’t know how to work it!”]
If you intend to create a virtual office to include in your Google My Business profile to maximize your Google Places SEO positioning, you may want to reconsider. A client of The SEO System in St. Louis recently asked me if he could succeed in Google local places in other cities by establishing virtual offices in those cities. The question …
Let’s not mince words: Small business SEO got a lot harder in the last few years. Google updated their algorithms to favor authoritative brands and you have very little immediate chance of competing in any competitive niche. Want a prime example of this? Simply do a Google search for “Small business SEO”. Ideally, who should compete for this term? A …
Who buys products online in 2018? This is a question that is too infrequently asked by people who try to sell online. If you have a product that you are trying to sell online, it makes sense to first determine if your targeted audience is one who actually buys products online. First, you absolutely need to find out if your …
Lifestyle marketing has become one of the hot new terms: Are you projecting success and can you embrace this as a lifestyle marketing tactic?
A security vulnerable has been discovered in the extremely popular WordPress SEO plugin, WordPress SEO by Yoast. This vulnerability potentially opens your WordPress site to a blind SQL injection attack. To remove any potential threats, you should upgrade the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin to version 1.7.4 or higher immediately.
Question: I have noticed of late a “Get Shortlink” feature appearing in WordPress that provides a WP.me address for my WordPress posts. Could you please explain to me what this is and why I would use it? Thanks, Lisa, Tuscson, Az
Many content creators want to have their web content indexed immediately in Google. This is possible…if you know how to do it. And, today, I’m going to tell you exactly how to get your new and updated web content immediately indexed (including new 2020 updates where I teach you How to Use Fetch As Google in the New Google Search Console).
Sulia, a business that had raised $10 million dollars in funding and sought to be another type of social media content curation service, officially shut down in October of 2014. It wasn’t but two years ago that Mashable called Sulia “The Hottest Social Network You’ve Never Heard Of” and Forbes hailed Sulia as the fast-growing subject-based social network. With all …
When social media and big data analytics merge, the ability to predict behaviors can be downright eerie .
Are you fretting that your website does not pass HTML and CSS Validation with flying colors? Never fear…take some solace in these HTML & CSS validation scores of the 10 most popular websites in the world. As you will see in the chart below, none of the top 10 websites in the world passed both the HTML and the CSS …
Question: Hi there. I just tried to create a sub-domain of my domain and I received a message that said: “There was a problem creating the sub-domain: You do not have permission to create subdomains of the server’s hostname.“. I have pasted the exact error message below: