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SEO App for Android

by | Aug 26, 2010 | SEO, Technology News

The SEO Automatic URL Review for Android is finally available, and it covers all the same ranking factors that the web version does. Just like the iPhone app, the only difference between the free version and the paid version is that you can e-mail reports from the...

Skewed Search Counts?

by | Aug 25, 2010 | Pay Per Click, SEO

Last week users began reporting that Google’s search results (and the PPC ads) began changing right before their eyes. I just saw it for the first time, but then it stopped immediately and hasn’t done it again. As users type, Google and Binghoo both offer...

Removing a YouTube Strike

by | Aug 23, 2010 | Google

I just found out that a YouTube Strike is is on my video channel, and that certainly can’t be good! Over the past few months I’ve been using a simple embed code from YouTube to share the videos over at SEO Automatic, and it’s been easy enough. Today...

Fetch As Googlebot Shows Something Wrong

by | Jul 8, 2010 | Google, SEO

Inside of Google Webmaster Tools, there is an option called “Fetch As Googlebot” that is supposed to go crawl that page and return what it sees. Until this moment, I’ve never had much use for this, but that’s not the case now! I discovered a...

Subdomain or Move Entire Domain?

by | Jun 29, 2010 | SEO

We have a client that has been using OS commerce forever, and we have a good number of links established to the various sections of their e-commerce store. For various reasons, they are looking for a new e-commerce system, and appear to have settled on what I’ll...

Devastating Viruses Wiped Us Out

by | Jun 17, 2010 | Viruses and Scams

This has been the most technologically devastating week of my life, and I consider myself extremely fortunate. Why “fortunate”?  Because I had good backups and only lost two days of my life, instead of suffering permanent damage. After two days of...

PCI Compliant Web Hosting

by | May 21, 2010 | Web Hosting

There’s a set of “requirements” called Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) that was developed by the PCISSC  Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. I first heard of these “requirements” in the bar on the...

Mail Server Changes

by | May 7, 2010 | Web Hosting

I need to officially announce some recent changes to the e-mail configuration of our servers that may have caused some distress for our hosting clients, and I’d like to clear that up right now. As of mid April 2010, any email address (whether we are hosting them...

Google Looking Bingish

by | May 6, 2010 | Google

Yesterday Google released a more Bingish looking version of its homepage (what comes next, daily photos?) that has a new font, brighter colors, more earning potential for them, and probably more earning potential for you too. After hitting the now more visible...

PCC Search Marketing Classes in Portland

by | Apr 28, 2010 | SEO-101

The last class that I taught  at Portland Community College was: Saturday, March 5th, and Saturday March 12th 2011 See the current Portland presentation schedule for this year This class is *not* an advanced search marketing class, and in fact, if you are already...

No Notice and No Verizon at OCCA

by | Apr 27, 2010 | Cell Phones & PDA's

Verizon Wireless just missed a golden opportunity to speak to a group of 25+ computer consultants about why their network, and why their handheld devices were the best choice for clients. They also managed to tick off and alienate that same influential group, by...