Archive for the ‘seo’ Category

Top Tips to De-Google your life

Jan 22, 2023 articles, seo

Over the years I have been implementing more and more ways to De-Google myself. Recently had a Google experience that has pushed me to finally completely De-Google. After getting a new ISP, Google decided to lock me out of an email account that I have had and used with no problems for over 10 years! […]

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Push Button SEO

Feb 18, 2022 articles, seo
push button seo reports

You have all seen them, push button SEO reports. Even if it comes in as a bunch of spreadsheets, it’s more than likely a push button report. I get them from spam emails as well as clients who receive them from marketing companies. It’s generally the same thing, you have tons of errors that need […]

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Wix Misinformed

Feb 03, 2022 articles, seo
Wix SEO No Good

In light of the buzz word misinformation. This post touches a little on what misinformation is and how it’s been running rampant on the internet for a very, very long time. TL;DR Wix.com is not a good platform for a business website. It’s horrible at search engine visibility and 95% of the information online is […]

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2020 the real Google mobilegeddon

Jan 25, 2020 articles, responsive design, seo
Google Official Mobilegeddon

Back in 2015 the internet was in a panic! Google had announced that it was going to factor in whether your site was mobile friendly as a ranking factor. This left website owners struggling to try and meet the deadline and get a mobile friendly version of their website up. It was a big cash […]

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Favicon is now a SEO factor

Jan 18, 2020 articles, seo
Favicon is now a SEO factor

*Update: After much criticism from the community Google has removed the favicon from their search results for now. But in an ever evolving SEO world Google can make really bad decisions that affect your website’s SEO and the below is a case that almost played out!! Google has finally rolled out their experimental layout of […]

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How to remove favicon in Google Search

Dec 09, 2019 articles, code, seo
Remove Favicon from Google Search

====Update 2023==== Google favicons are back. Yuck! Use this selector in Adblocker Plus to hide favicons from Google. (follow the guide below but switch out with the selector below) ================= Annoying little Google! I just noticed when using Google to search it shows all these annoying and mostly ugly favicons next to the url in […]

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How to rank your Wix website

Dec 05, 2019 articles, seo
How to rank Wix with SEO

Ranking your Wix website aka Wix SEO. How do you do it? Simple, ditch the Wix! Wix is not SEO friendly, it never has been and probably never will be. It would have to completely redevelop how the platform works. There is a lot of hype around Wix SEO, I have even seen companies offering […]

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How I survived Mobilegeddon

Jun 23, 2016 articles, seo

It’s been 1 year 2 months and 2 days since Google announced it was going to rank websites that were responsive better than websites that weren’t responsive in their mobile search index. Tons of people were freaking out about this and coined the term Mobilegeddon. There was so much hype and I even got scare […]

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2016 Wix.com Review

Nov 15, 2015 articles, code, seo

On October 14, 2015 Search Engine Land wrote an article that Google had dropped Wix.com pages out of their index. Google officially confirmed that they were working on getting Wix sites back into their search engine. This is no surprise, I have been saying this back in May 2012 blog post about how Wix sucks for a […]

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Why you need to be Mr. know it all

Feb 19, 2015 articles, seo, wordpress

Running a web design business is much more than just being a web designer. So many companies out there learn a little bit about WordPress backend and market themselves as a web design company. But they are lacking in so many other areas. Reasons why you need to be a Mr. know it all A […]

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