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

Twitter Is Dying. <del>#Period.</del>

Source: History's Dumpster UPDATE: I AM AN IDIOT. APPARENTLY TWITTER FIXED THE PERIOD PROBLEM LAST YEAR AND I DID NOT GET THE MEMO. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GROW UP WITH UHF. Wherever you see…

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When SEO Invades Your Privacy...Policy URL

via GIPHY I just discovered this morning that an e-commerce client had changed its privacy policy URL (thanks SEORadar!) but had not bothered to redirect their old privacy policy URL to the new…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

In-House SEOs & Outside SEO Consultants Have A Lot In Common

Last night I attended a gathering of mostly in-house SEOs in San Francisco, many from brands we all know. One of the goals of the event was to provide an open forum to share some of our current…

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How Is Locadium Different From Yext & Other Citation Monitoring Services?

One of the more common questions we have received since launching Locadium, our new GMB monitoring service, is how it differs from Yext and similar services that monitor NAP consistency. The…

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DanBlog

Doesn’t Everyone Hate it When Service Companies Get Involved in Software?

Local SEO Guide is happy to announce Locadium, a Google My Business reporting system built from the ground up for multi-location brands and agencies. According to a recent poll of Local SEO…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

The SEO Monopoly Hangover

Source: Threadheads Ben Thompson's post this week on Microsoft's Monopoly Hangover touched a nerve. Thompson's thesis is that companies that are monopolies tend to face considerable problems once…

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DanBlog

@Dr_Pete, let’s make a bet on HTTPs sites on Page 1

I would easily take this bet. Today, tomorrow and twice on Sunday. Now, I wasn't at MozCon, and I didn't see Dr. Pete's preso. Just the Twitter stream. So even knowing how Twitter and games of…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

SEO Radar Is The Prozac of SEO Tools

It's a bit awkward to write about a company we have an investment in without sounding like a total salesman, but I am going to give it a try. Even if we had no interest in SEO Radar (full…

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Please Google Do NOT Rank Us For This Keyword or This Keyword or This Keyword...

We are working with a mattress retailer who would like to show up higher for mattress brand queries like "Tempurpedic mattress". So I thought it might be helpful to see what types of pages…

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Hey #MozCon - Local SEO Guide Welcomes Ashley Berman Hale & Jessica Baker To The Team!

Couldn't resist a little hashtag-jacking... This is one of those posts where I #humblebrag about having been too busy to post much this year. The demand for our services and the complexity of some…

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