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In episode 46 of the Digital Marketing with Bill Hartzer podcast, I talked about Email Deliverability. If you send or receive email from your domain name, it’s important to make sure you have DMARC, DKIM, and SPF records set up in your DNS. This will help make sure that your emails are delivered when sent, […]
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Posted By Bill Hartzer on November 11, 2020at 1:06 pm Google Webmaster Tools, now called Google Search Console (for several years), has moved their Twitter account from @googlewmc to @googlesearchc. This is in line with their launch of the Google Search Central, where they’re changing their name, consolidating documentation, and refreshing how we look–including a
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Posted By Bill Hartzer on December 1, 2020at 3:29 pm Two different repeating three-letter, .COM domain names, FFF.com and HHH.com, have been put up for sale by the domain name brokers Brannans.com. There are over 148,000,000 registered .COM domain names. But, of those 148 million domain names, only 26 are repeating, three-letter combinations like AAA,
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Posted By Bill Hartzer on December 2, 2020at 10:50 am Example of a 3d Snowman on Google Poly. Google Poly is being shut down. Google Poly, the website created by Google for users to browse, distribute, and download 3D objects, is shutting down on June 30, 2021. Google Poly is intended to allow creators to
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GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he concludes 2020 Year in Review week with Searchmetrics’ Director of Services Tyson Stockton and SEO Strategist Jordan Koene to review Google’s legal woes with the Federal Government this year. Eleven state attorney generals filed a lawsuit against Google this year claiming the company leveraged monopoly
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Posted By Bill Hartzer on December 7, 2020at 10:06 am SearchBlox, a company that provides enterprise search server tools, has launched SearchAI SmartSuggest, SearchAI Answers and SearchAI Personalization. SearchAI Answers uses natural language processing to provide a more intuitive search experience similar to Google’s Featured Snippets. Websites with a lot of data to search through
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Here is an ordinary parking sign, in green, but for bikes, but not any type of bike – GBikes. This was posted years and years ago on Instagram at the GooglePlex, the Google offices in Mountain View, California. Yes, this is an oldie but the only bike parking I posted about from Google was in
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Google announced a new augmented reality feature that is now supported in search – trying on make up. Since people really don’t want to try it on in a store, Google Search lets you try it on virtually in the search results. Google said “more than 73 percent of U.S. shoppers are planning to buy
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You all know I hate writing about legal topics in search but I need to at least document these big ones here. And there is a lot going on. A lot of it is around alleged anti-competitive practices, with Facebook, hurting the advertisers on their platforms. 10 States Accuse Google of Abusing Monopoly in Online
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There seems to be significant SEO community chatter along with most of the tracking tools showing big volatility in the Google search results in the past 24-hours. This comes just a day or so after Google confirmed the December 2020 core update is done rolling out and on the 8th day of Chanukah. I figure
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