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Correcting Info at Factual Just Got Harder

by | Aug 7, 2014 | Local Factors

In March of 2015 factual reversed themselves – You can update or add your business here which makes this post obsolete:     Some time over the past few days, there was a change in the policy at Factual so that business owners are no longer able to...

WP is Broken – Image Title Tags

by | Jan 12, 2014 | SEO

You may be diligent about putting ALT and title attributes into the images you use in posts, but WordPress is not cooperating. At some point in the past (and I’m not quite sure when), the title attribute stopped carrying over after inserting the image. When you...

Buying Authorship in 2013

by | Nov 30, 2012 | Google, SEO

Sometimes, paid links may be totally alright with Google, and in fact in many cases are EXACTLY WHAT THEY’RE LOOKING FOR. Let me explain… If I search Google for “CNN author on Google plus” then I get over  22 million results, with John D Sutter...

The Truth About Backlinks

by | Mar 26, 2012 | Public Speaking, SEO

This coming Thursday March 29th, I’m giving an advanced internet marketing presentation to a Meetup Group at the Portland Convention Center Red lion Inn.  The program starts at 5:30 and goes until 7:30, and preregistration is required here. The tile of the...

Google’s Local Policy is Stupid

by | Mar 12, 2012 | Google, Local Factors, SEO

Last night I did a search on Google because my wife had her car window smashed by some Portlandia hooligans  while she was watching the Central Catholic High School play. The first result for “emergency auto glass repair” was Glass Doctor, and it was a...