Recent content by seotophat

Whoa, I forgot, it's not just about bing.com. Bing powers a lot of other engines. This graph gives me pause. 60% vs 27%, not 7.8%. This is actually more in line with my gut feeling which is why I wound up here looking for Bing discussions. Bing powers DuckDuck, Yahoo, and any Microsoft site...

This is an intersting thread. I've been doing SEO 17+ years. Since Bing was such a small share of search traffic I never did any optimization specific to Bing and in most cases if I ranked well on Google I also ranked well on Bing for a variety of client websites. I never set up rank tracking...

This sort of sums it up. These services are preying on people desperate for a "quick fix" to their ranking woes and their comic-book like advertisements reveals the type of customer they are targeting. Could you imagine a corporate marketing department employee asking for some budget and...

I've moved a few hundred miles away from my previous home where my GMB address is listed at but I still do work in the City and rent out my previous home in that city. I am always in the 3-pack results for all related search queries that generate the 3-pack. The tenant is not happy with the junk...

I'm going to resurrect this discusssion as this (and my last paragraph about PPC) have been on my mind heavily the last month or two. I was doing SEO for about 15 years up until about 5 years ago. This goes back to the "good 'ole days" where things like "Doorway Sites" worked amazing. But of...

Bare with me, this is a pretty detailed background... Have a franchise business in several cities. The GMB name is the same for the GMP Listings "{Company} {Something} {Else} Inspection & Repair" This was setup 4 years ago along with using some self-service tools to submit NAP to all 1st and...

Ordered again after long time. Transaction ID: 4G33703441547853P

Have a Wordpress site that has decent security software and uses a few major plugins that are automatically updated. Was hacked so that site was redirecting to various sites. Believe it happened about 5-10 days ago. Noticed a significant drop in search rankings about 5 days ago. Logged into...

Sort of a false alarm. It turns out it IS due to Local Pack Results and not having entered the business name into SEMrush, just the domain name. All is good.

I know a lot of people use SEMrush (including myself). I'm been a bit disappointed lately as it appears the accuracy of their positon tracking is pretty unreliable compared to other position tracking services I've used (such as Whitespark). I tested rankings for many keywords and campaigns and...

Example website is a photography business in multiple cities, the prime keywords are: Wedding Photography Service Event Photography Service Product Photography Service And close behind these (or possibly of equal importance are): City A Photography Service City B Photography Service City C...

What about using the canonical tag?

I have a site with multiple locations. I have four types of pages for my locations. - A STATE page (like California) that has unique content related to services California and then links to all my city location landing pages for California - A STATE SUPPLEMENTAL INFO page that has additional...

From what I understand, Googles no longer has a "Duplicate Content Penalty" instead duplicate content simply isn't show in the search results. Does that mean that any links in the duplicate content are completely ignored, or devalued as far as the backlink profile of the site they are linking...

Ahref intersect report is showing many of my competitors on multiple .pw domains. They have little domain authority. But interesting to find many of them on there. It's a directory backlink service. Is there any potential upside or just potential downside? Is the only value in that it just...