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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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Who Is Next In Local Listings Management?

For those that missed the news this morning, I couldn’t be more excited to see @SIMPartners join the @Reputation_Com family! https://t.co/c1pqdtD9uy — Adam Dorfman (@phixed) February 28, 2018…

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Mike MitchellBlog

A NodeJS Script for Accessing the Google Search Console API

One of the biggest challenges for SEOs is Google itself. The black box of Google, as Dan described it to me early on at my time at LSG, limits its displayed metrics in Google Search Console to…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Why SEOs Will Always Have Jobs...

The chatter amongst the SEOratti is that Voice Search, AI, Machine Learning and SkyNet are a-coming and you better either get ready or prepare for extinction. If it pleases Twitter, in rebuttal,…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Are Local Businesses Ready For GÖÖber?

I recall a presentation by Ted Paff, Founder of Customer Lobby, where he asked an audience of HVAC business owners, "How many of you love Uber?" Pretty much every hand went up. Then he asked "How…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

2018 Tax Planning for SEO Agencies & Consultants

How to take advantage of the new 20% pass through U.S. tax deduction

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AshleyBlog

Google Top Contributor Summit 2017

Running Amok at the Google Plex In November I met up with Google Top Contributors from North and South America for Google’s TC Summit. Here’s ⅗ of my face with some really fantastic humans who…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Moz Local Review - Does It Work?

Is Moz Local the right Local SEO tool for you? Based on a 3-month test in Aug 2017. BTW G2 Crowd pays people to write reviews.

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Why Googlebot May Be Hitting Bot Blocker URLs

Many sites use bot blockers like Distil Networks to stop scrapers from stealing their data. The challenge for SEOs is that sometimes these bot blockers are not set correctly and can prevent good…

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DanBlog

One More Link for Dixon Jones

Woke up this morning to see that Dixon Jones, who runs marketing for Majestic, will be transitioning out of his role and into retirement. Majestic has long proven itself to be a top shelf (maybe…

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DanBlog

Ranking in Organic Search is the #1 Local Ranking Factor

Do I have your attention now? Sweet! I'm happy to announce that we just updated our Local SEO Ranking Factors! This year we really expanded the data set of the study. We looked at the 150 largest…

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