Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

What we learn doing SEO for real clients. 1,311 posts since 2007.

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DanBlog

Don't Ever Trust Google With Your Life

So for those of you don't know, I have a 3-year-old daughter (her name is Harper). Here is her hand: When she was an even littler girl then she is now, she got pink eye. Bekah and I spent a bunch…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Is "Near Me" SEO Moving Farther Away?

Local SEO Twitter was slightly a flutter yesterday after my bud John Mueller apparently mentioned you should avoid placing "Near Me" in titles if you want to rank for "Near Me" searches: Want to…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Google Duplex

At college, after getting demolished in squash against, Mike, a hyper-competitive pre-med, he asked me what I planned to do for a career. I told him I wanted to get into television. He sneeringly…

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DanBlog

GMB? More Like DGAF!

Since local spam is a hot topic around the Local SEO Sphere these days, I figured it would be fun to look at brands that are violating the Google My Business guidelines for representing your…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Best Top Sample Basic Local SEO Presentation 2018

The people at The BDX Summit were nice enough to invite me to Austin to speak to a group of homebuilders about SEO. While I gave my presentation, Graphic Recorder & Illustrator Katherine Torrini…

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DanBlog

Google, SEO's and 'Quality Content'

Whoa, Dan! How did you get a time machine back to the late 90's to show us this rockin' GeoCities site (personally, I was an AngelFire guy)? Well, easily surprised reader you are wrong! This is…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Google My Business Reviews From The Web Rate 0 ⭐

And speaking of reputation management for small business, I was checking out LSG's GMB description after Colan Nielsen had posted about them showing up in GMB Knowledge Panels the other day…

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DanBlog

Google's Love/Hate Relationship With Being Human

So I do Google Opinion Rewards to earn Google Play Credits to play Final Fantasy Record Keeper. If you grew up gaming in the late 80's early 90's I highly recommend checking it out. Anyway, I was…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Hacked Site Manual Action Report from Google? Try Bing To Find It

While procrastinating last Friday afternoon, I noticed a distress call show up in my Twitter feed: Hmm... I might talk to @AlanBleiweiss and @Marie_Haynes. They've got loads of experience in this…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Peace Out To You, Sugar Rae!

When I got into this biz in the previous decade, there weren't as many of you goofballs out there sharing all of your amazing SEO insights as there are now. As an SEO newbie, I was always on the…

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