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Internet consultant Scott Hendison writes about technology, primarily search related.
Scott gets sites found on the internet, and he helps businesses with POS point of sale software & support, webhosting, website design, and HIPAA compliance. Sear
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Link Wheels – Authority Hubs
Simply put, a Link Wheel is a group of pages on different hosts, that are about a specific product, subject or service, which all link to each other, and also link to a particular URL, or “money site”. Some call them “link wheels...
SEO Review on an Iphone
This week marks our release of the SEO Review Iphone version of SEO Automatic, and it provided unlimited access to run as many urls as you wish. If you’ve never used my instant SEO review before, then you should probably check that out first. ...
Local Search Ranking Nuggets
Last night my kids had football practice, and I had an 8pm commitment too, but I wanted to attend last nights monthly SEMpdx event, which was David Mihm’s presentation on local search. Recently, I’ve found myself working with some very sm...
Asking Google For Reinclusion
While browsing through the stats of some (very poorly maintained) sites of our own, I found one that had zero traffic for quite a few weeks. Visiting the site, I saw no site, and just a “Cannot connect to database” error. A glance at ...
When is SEO a Trademark Violation?
Aflac is trying to get someone to make changes on their website, claiming that they’re guilty of Federal Trademark violation merely by using the letters a-f-l-c-a-c as part of a file name. Even more ridiculous, this is being requested of one of...
Wordpress 2.82 May Hurt Rankings
I’ll bet you $1000 that if we took an existing and well established default site installation today, and first upgraded it to WP 2.82, then we set WP up correctly with our chosen SEO plug-ins, correct permalinks, etc. that we would LOSE ranking...
Taking Nofollow to the Next Level
Almost two years ago at SMX Advanced 2007 I had a short talk with Matt Cutts about the nofollow tag being “okay to use”, and my last statement was something like this: “So there’s really no “over optimization” pen...
What would You Ask at Elite Retreat 2009?
I’m leaving this moring for Elite Retreat, and I’m writing this in the airport because my flight is delayed. It occurs to me that I may not be able to productively fill all of my “one on one” time. Have you looked at who’...
SEO Automatic Site Reviews - Official Launch
Over the past couple of years, I’ve put out a few SEO tools, but none have been as well received as my latest addition, SEO Automatic, which gives instant SEO feedback on any given URL. The concept was simple - we needed to be able to review a...
Why Does Your Website Suck?
Next Tuesday night, you’ll have an opportunity to hear two usability experts talk about real-life examples and case studies, and perhaps even some live reviews, (if you’d like to submit your own site) in the February SEMpdx event. Inste...
SearchFest 2009 - The Best Ever
Believe it or not, the board of SEMpdx has been getting a number of emails asking us where to register for SearchFest 2009, coming up in March. So, I figured I would take a minute to point out the SearchFest registration, as well as the entire Sea...
WordPress Checklist Now a Plug-In
I can’t even begin to count the number of WordPress blogs that I’ve set up personally, much less count how many have been done by various members of our team. Literally dozens of hours have been spent doing the same repetitive and mundan...
My Secret WordPress H1 Hack
We use WordPress to build a lot of websites, not only because it’s so easy, but because it’s great for search engine optimization. However, when I began using it to build full sites as opposed to just supplementing existing sites with blo...
Fast & Frequent Spider Indexing
At the 2008 SMX advanced show in Seattle, one catchy phrase that I heard which stuck in my head was “cache dates are the new PageRank”. Whomever said it in their presentation was spot on, and subsequent research tells me that Aaron Wall (...
Peak Studios - Boulder, Colorado - Actually Harming Clients
Peak Studios is a “search marketing firm” in Colorado that deserves special recognition for being incredibly stupid. Apparently, they’ve decided to leave fake negative reviews on my local business profile in Google, and they’...
