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One client saw more traffic growth over a year working with us than they’d had in the past eight. Another’s relevant traffic increased 1000% in just over a month, thats not typical but we’ve done it.
I’m Matthew Leffler, in 20 years of experience in technical fields and as an big data tech trainer at Hewlett Packard my background sets Ultimate SEO apart.
This skill set made me an Information Governance Software Trainer at Hewlett-Packard and I’ve worked at Gateway and Accenture. I started Ultimate SEO in 2017 and through Upwork I’ve built a solid reputation. I’ve never not been Top Rated there.
I founded Ultimate SEO LLC to build on the brand of SEO my clients have seen in action. Our actions include improving DA by doubling referring domains to 800, improving traffic by 1200% or earning 1300 new keywords in 2 months. However you define success we can reach it.
And success is not always about money. Sometimes its about beginning a new journey and doing good. Ultimate SEO LLC believes everyone needs a chance to learn and work with technology. We’re founding corporate sponsors of a tech nonprofit called LFI that aims to improve the opportunities others have in using and learning technology. Check out the Leffler Foundation Inc site for more info.
From our original Political SEO experience USEO has proven results and built on our local SEO skills in Chicago, New York City and Louisville SEO markets. We have a strong focus Off Page SEO, Technical SEO and Page Speed Optimization. This has made us innovators in site structure, data visualization with Google Data Studio and Cloud Computing infrastructure designed to rank.
These insights and backgrounds translate into rank-worthy content and an optimization experience beyond the average SEO…even beyond a Good SEO. Review the site and hopefully you find use in the work spent here. Feel free to contact us to learn what Ultimate SEO can do for you or visit our SEO store.
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301 Redirects Of Expired Domains – What SEOs Don’t Tell Ya
Wouldn’t it be so much easier to just buy a site thats similar to yours and redirect all their backlinks to yourself … you might try pointing them to relevant content or simply to your homepage. I do that. One such domains is SEOGurl.com, no I’m not a gurl but I support more women in tech and I do SEO. I also have SEOBoys.net. Both domains were active for someone else who has since let them go, but they still had a wealth of backlinks. I’ve lead clients to try it with great results. But it seems black ops and the more prolific SEO channels out there generally ignore redirecting old domains, sometimes called “drop domains” or they discourage it. Consider Yoast … they are the SEO plugin, hands down number one in page optimization on a WordPress site. Their blog then largely is widely accepted and they have said relatively nothing on the matter … but would it surprise you to learn they actually do it themselves? Something they do but they’ve never made a blog post about it. Heres a video I made where I show others redirecting backlinks from now functionally defunct sites to their homepage. Now …
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Building A Custom CDN With DigitalOcean – UltimateCDN.com
Ultimate SEO is all for trying things and testing out options. While we’ve used JetPack we’ve settled on Cloudflare over a year ago as our preferred CDN provider. Ultimate SEO is a Cloudflare Certified Partner and we offer SEO Hosting packages through our Ultimate SEO Network which uses https://ultimateseo.net for all infrastructure. Building a custom CDN though we registered UltimateCDN.com which we’ll use in this experiment. Speed And Mobile Search Results In previous articles we’ve discussed the importance of speed. Two client articles addressed this: Sex, Speed And The SEO Migration of Romantic Depot to WordPress and Optimizing For Site Speed: Page Load To SEO Cloud Server Infrastructure. We have also shown how less established, less well known, less trusted sites can out rank household brands by just being faster in Can Page Speed Alone Make A Difference In Google Ranking? Yes, it even beats Domain Authority. With mobile searches number now over 50% of all searches speed is a premium means to rank up among content. Every time this site loads in the 2 second range we gain momentum and every time I find myself dropping in the rankings I realize I forgot to turn on our CDN. Content Delivery Networks Deliver …
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CTR, Impressions And Search Position Improves Web Traffic – Google Search Console Video
Gain More Traffic With Existing Content: GSC provides existing sites a handy list of pages that need new, better titles ands descriptions. This video walks you through identifying pages that need new titles in order to rank better on Google …
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Google Search Console Intro Video – How To Add A Site
Google Search Console Intro: It isn’t Google Analytics but it is essential to your SEO efforts and you should use this powerful free tool. In this video we briefly look at Google Search Console and I walk you through adding a site and verifying it using DNS records. Part 1 of our Search Console Videos …
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Political SEO Case Study: Louisville Metro Council Website
Highlands Campaign Site A site that I was lucky to work on during this 2020 election was that of Shawn Reilly, a candidate for Louisville Metro Council District 8. The site is aesthetically pleasing, the candidate picked out a good template for that. The template does incorporate some oddities in its coding and utilizes a page builder that was new to me. Elementor remains my go to favorite page builder and is widely used, this template uses Bold Builder which reminds me a little bit of King or WP Page Bakery. The page builder can be unintuitive and clunky at times requiring creative fixes and CSS hacks. Ultimately though I’d say the page builder is neither an asset or a liability for this theme. Reillyforcouncil.com wasn’t my preferred domain name, I prefer the candidate’s name but I joined the effort after the initial decisions were made, including the web host. Coronavirus and 2020 Election The COVID-19 pandemic has had an effect on the election. The way it is carried out and the date have had to adapt. The candidate created a smart section to the site about this new factor in the election. A Coronavirus resource page for Louisville …
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Passing Time In A Coronavirus Pandemic – Minecraft Is Back
A quick tour of some parts of this massive map open to anyone. Minecraft Map That Added A Year To Matt’s MBA Studies Seriously, Id have graduated a year sooner if I hadn’t been building this Minecraft city. That was back in 2012 and several others helped in creating the avenues, channels, subways, skyscrapers, government buildings, hospitals, houses, forts and more. Finding Coronavirus Boring? If you are bored from the Coronavirus news and staying home has you searching for an avenue to get out and maybe meet others then this might be for you. We’ve brought this classic Minecraft server map back and are hosting it free with anyone welcome to check out and play on. Minecraft Map Features The map includes a to scale Titanic in the harbor, the Sears Tower soars over the Great Pyramid of Giza along side a giant Statue of Liberty size statue of a Minecraft citizen. The Empire State Building can be climbed to the top and the skyline reviewed from the many tall buildings you may recognize from the Chicago skyline or another city. Walk freely among the villagers and add too or found a village of your own in the distant lands …
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Yahoo FinanceArticle: Top 25 SEO Agencies Named
I don’t necessarily pay much attention to top whatever lists but in SEO they can show some level of relevance regarding visibility. After all its the goal of SEO to make a site get noticed and I think it looks good for any SEO agency to get noticed. That’s why I’m happy with the ranking attained in this article on Yahoo Finance. No money was exchanged for this ranking. The Top SEO Marketing Companies of 2020, According to Digital Marketing Agency Rating Platform PR Newswire February 27, 2020 75% of searchers never scroll past the first page of search engine results. TopMarketingCompanies.com identified the best digital marketing companies worldwide that can boost businesses’ search engine rankings to the coveted positions. NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — 75% of users never scroll past the first page of search results which leaves most websites in the dark. Namely, Google uses more than 200 factors to rank pages, making websites’ path to the top 10 positions difficult. An increasing number of businesses are turning to SEO experts to increase visibility and outperform their competition in search. TopMarketingCompanies.com, a B2B marketplace connecting brands with digital marketing experts, identified the top SEO marketing …
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SEO Search Engine UltimateSEO.center
Anyone can do SEO…and have a blog. SEO Information Accuracy If you Google something you always get back 1,000,000 results of varying quality. SEOs aren’t tested and credentialed … one of my competing SEO Agencies in Local Search rankings has no formal education and spent time in a prison for meth distribution. (So many you’ll never know and I wont tell, you have to research folks on your own.) I know that sounds petty for me to say, but I’m just highlighting that anyone can say they do SEO. With so many competing voices its no wonder that yesterday I ran across a blog post by an SEO who’s mildly known from 2017 where he stated speed was not a factor and was not on the way to becoming a factor in mobile first. He’s corrected by a commenter and then he declares its not happening now. 2018 Google made it a factor. What happens when we let anyone say anything as an authority? Alternative facts. Search Engine Dedicated To SEO Topics So I’m testing an SEO Search Engine. It includes several established and often right SEO voices as well as Google’s forums and posts for people to ask their …
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Page Speed Optimization On WordPress – SEO Technical Audit Part 1
Part 1 of a new series Completing A SEO Technical Audit begins with a popular topic Page Speed WordPress Optimization. Its popular for good reason, in an article I note an example where a site ranks higher on mobile search than its bigger, higher DA competitor because of page speed. The video walks through using GTMetrix.com to speed up a client site. In the video we also use Think With Google and put a plugin called JetPack into place to serve as our free CDN option.I don’t usually use Jetpack and prefer Cloudflare for the CDN but in this site’s case I lacked access to the domain DNS servers which hamper Cloudflare installation. Jetpack is a plugin of last resort, and I honestly don’t recommend it. Its broken more sites than helped in my experience. https://youtu.be/7iy8OCRYxkc This video is primarily focused on page speed optimization but it also serves as a good start for any SEO Technical Audit.Page Speed is a ranking factor. In mobile searches its even more important. WordPress Optimization is essential to meet the quick load times expected by visitors. An SEO Technical Audit usually begins with setting a baseline and then outlining the goal and why it’s being missed. Sites for assessing …
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Can Page Speed Alone Make A Difference In Google Ranking? Yes, it even beats Domain Authority.
Before ya flip your lid on a DA93 site losing to a DA63 site dont forget…DA doesn’t mean anything to Google. It is a made up number. You can read more about Domain Authority in several articles we have posted.A Case Study of SEO Speed, Domain Authority And Keyword RankThis is from a recently added FAQ to the Ultimate SEO FAQ section. Check it out for more SEO 411. Let me show you how important speed is….below you see the search results for a keyword. The one on the left is for desktop, the one on the right shows mobile. They are close but one site out ranks another in mobile where it doesn’t in desktop.Why is realtor.com not higher than zumper.com in mobile search on the right? It is higher on desktop. Right off this tells us 1. Mobile search results are not just the desktop results in mobile format. 2. Mobile results are displayed more often than desktop, so you really should stop Googling yourself on a desktop if you want to see the results people most often see. Consider these metrics:Realtor.com = Domain Authority: 89 Domain Score: 55 Trust Score 58 Alexa Rank 763 Registered 1996 Ads 3,900 Backlinks 57,000,000 …
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Google Disavow Tool Video – DIY SEO
A quick walk through of using Google’s Disavow Tool to remove bad, spammy backlinks from your site’s ranking. The video includes a look at creating the disavow text file and offers suggested domains to disavow. B Check out a template, starter disavow file below the videothat you can edit to your needs. Download Template Disavow Text File Take extra caution when disavowing backlinks and domains. Visit the page and review the quality yourself before including a domain in the disavow tool. When in doubt, don’t add a backlink here. If you need help or are interested in a Backlink Article check our SEO Store for our solutions. More Disavow Articles Disavowing theglobe.net bad backlinks from Sweden theglobe.net What’s worse? The crappy website they have with no content and just super spammy links or the fact that you nor I ever asked for that bad backlink? The fact that the charge to delete a link to you at $35 a link shows how they crash your backlink party. But hey, Google knows this right, they wouldn’t hurt your site still…wrong! Monetized Bad Backlink Site With Spam Links I wish we could collect money like a nonprofit from SEOs everywhere and raise …
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SEO Link Building With Expired Domains Video
The following are existing videos provided by Ultimate SEO on our youtube channel. After viewing these videos you should be able to
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- Search and Find Relevant Expired Domains For Free.
- Pull SEO Metrics On Candidate Domains For Next to Nothing.
- Search domain backlinks and find relevant links for 301 redirection.
- Redirect a backlink using a cPanel account.
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Optimizing For Page Speed: The High Price Of Drift In SEO
Drift AI Bot Aims To Improve Conversions, But Its Performance Kills Speed And Sinks Your SEO RankingThis an updated discussion on the use of Drift as an AI bot. We go through the reason why this is important, we look at why its a problem and I’ll show you the results of recommendations offered by Drift. It’s also important to note that Drift essentially admits there is a problem and they claim to be working to address it. At least that’s inferred from this discussion providing a possible fix Tips For Optimizing Page Speed When Using Drift. Before you follow those instructions, I’ll save you time … don’t until you read the results after I followed them.These chat applications allow web visitors to talk with web staffers. It depends on how you implement this tool but Drift has clearly focused on the sales and conversion niche. Drift claims that it helps sites discover potential customers and provides an avenue to lead visitors into customers. It all makes sense certainly, but Drift is executed in a very sloppy way that pays little regard to SEO and drives your site’s traffic into the ground.Weighing The Conversions Vs The Page SpeedA plugin that …
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SBA’s EIDL Loan Modification Processing Time Warp
With the PPP wrapped up, some would say too soon, I included … the SBA recently expanded the EIDL loan program by redoing the loan limits math. SBA Loan Limits Increased … But Not Funded Originally the loan was to provide revenue replacement for 6 months but as COVID19 has dragged on longer than that, SBA extended the loan limits to two years of revenue. This limit has a cap of $500,000 compared to the original cap of $150,000. The EIDL is a program run directly by SBA, unlike the PPP which had small businesses seeking grants through third party banks. The processing demands of EIDL therefore have to be much greater and it seems to show on the processing times. Ultimate SEO LLC was a recipient of an EIDL loan in 2020 and applied for the increase when it was first announced, three months ago. The process has been frustrating to say the least. Originally applicants had to respond to an email for the increase. Some three or so months later, I logged into the EIDL loan portal and noticed a button there that allowed me to select a new limit using a slider. I wasn’t directed …
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GTMetrix.com Alternatives – Web Page Speed Test Sites
I received no request to review and no reward for endorsing …this is an honest opinion of my own. You may ask…why would I want an alternative to GTMetrix.com? They are referenced everywhere including in this site for their benchmarks. Well….a funny thing happened over the year … a competitor that was less popular bought GTMetrix or did something … and is now the engine of GTMetrix. Its the same thing as Lighthouse … sadly no one thought to ask why if Lighthouse was so great … why weren’t they number one? So the GTMetrix tests I referenced in previous articles are no longer the tests that you can get from GTMetrix. Lighthouse isn’t horrible … but it kinda is. It gives an extremely limited glimpse at only a select group of submetrics. https://www.webpagetest.org/ – A great alternative that gives a user a rich wealth of data is webpagetest.org As an example you can see just how much and how portable the data is with their csv raw data download.210520_AiDcDE_8c8dff88f5b9d6f9b8e9a78592443c31_summary Another site that focuses heavily on images and their cost to the load time experience is https://webspeedtest.cloudinary.com/ …
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2021 Best WordPress Plugins For SEO
I think I did one of these articles in 2019 so its time to update the Best WordPress Plugins list for 2021. As an SEO minded person these will tend to lean towards that end of the spectrum but as we continue to see speed and mobile optimization has brought some highly technical requirements into the SEO realm. That expansion of SEO lends itself to an expansion of SEO plugins. 2021 Top WordPress Plugins
- Asset Cleanup: Page Speed Booster – The most damning thing to your site’s speed performance is typically the number of requests it makes to render your page. All those plugins you use likely come with js and css files each, many come with more than one set. So if you have 20 or 40 plugins you easily will have over a hundred files required to load a page and its mostly just needless bloat. For instance, if you have Contact 7 for forms …. you don’t need that plugins support files loading on pages that dont have a form on them. But … they are there and wasting your SEO time. This plugin allows you to offload what isn’t needed and then combine what is …
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The SEO Value Of SSL
This site’s keyword value has died. I mean it, total flatline. And it can be traced back to a site hack that rendered the site virtual useless. On top of that I moved hosts, from Ultimate SEO on Digital Ocean using cPanel to Ultimate SEO in our data center using Virtualmin. Theres a lot to discuss in this seemingly simple change but lets focus on our SSL certificate. It was adequate but lacked a few items which I felt was hurting the site. So I’ve gone from the free Lets Encrypt It certificate to a paid Comodo certificate. Additionally the level of certificate has changed from DV to OV. Lets see how this affects keywords …
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Expanding Ultimate SEO Services
Ultimate SEO has been a technical digital marketing agency since 2018 and we’ve set ourselves apart by being the technical minded SEOs.
This tech background has led us to redesign businesses infrastructure to better position a site in Google ranks. We’ve worked in AWS, Google Cloud and Digital Ocean all while testing these environments with our own sites. Its a natural fit then that we officially should offer our own SEO optimized hosting solutions and cloud environments. We’ve pointed clients to other great vendors for these needs but now we’re working to deliver the custom cloud environments ourselves. This began by first moving from a home based business to a dedicated office There we’ve connected using dedicated fiber optic network resources ensuring fast download and upload speeds. With in our data center we’ve installed battery backup fail over power supplies and invested in a secure data center that uses biometric and man trap security. Our servers are top grade and boast 12 core servers running 32 gb of ram using cPanel or Virtualmin for web hosting. Out cloud computing servers utilize 18 cores and 192 gb of ram all managed through Virtualizor. Integrating these varied services is a seemless native …
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This tech background has led us to redesign businesses infrastructure to better position a site in Google ranks. We’ve worked in AWS, Google Cloud and Digital Ocean all while testing these environments with our own sites. Its a natural fit then that we officially should offer our own SEO optimized hosting solutions and cloud environments. We’ve pointed clients to other great vendors for these needs but now we’re working to deliver the custom cloud environments ourselves. This began by first moving from a home based business to a dedicated office There we’ve connected using dedicated fiber optic network resources ensuring fast download and upload speeds. With in our data center we’ve installed battery backup fail over power supplies and invested in a secure data center that uses biometric and man trap security. Our servers are top grade and boast 12 core servers running 32 gb of ram using cPanel or Virtualmin for web hosting. Out cloud computing servers utilize 18 cores and 192 gb of ram all managed through Virtualizor. Integrating these varied services is a seemless native …
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Ultimate SEO And A Louisville Forward Grant – Coronavirus Update
Note: An update to this is available at the bottom Just a flash update on Ultimate SEO LLC. In July we were awarded a grant for redesigning our site and using local contractors by the Metro Louisville Covid Relief Grant administered by Louisville Forward. Another 800+ businesses were awarded these grants that were meant to serve as a lifeline to local businesses. The grant though is yet to be useful now 6 months later as only a third of it was ever funded, despite the grant period requiring all funds to be spent by Dec. 30 2020. Ultimate SEO is unlikely the only organization left hanging by the Louisville Forward grant. The reporting requirements seem to be impossible for the city to actually review. I submitted an initial report on Sept 5 2020 and only the last week of December did they request about 60 additional pages to the already 30 page report. If we consider the average report being 90 pages and 800 businesses must report twice that amounts to 144,000 pages of documents. If a team of auditors is able to work through 10 companies a week it may take another year and a half before these “vital” …
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Ultimate SEO LLC becomes NGLCC Certified Business, Joins NGLCC and Louisville Civitas
From Matthew Leffler, Managing Director We’re proud of Ultimate SEO LLC and the diverse experience our business was founded from, which is why we joined the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce and became a certified LGBTBE. To become a certified NGLCC business visit Get-Certified. Our local chapter Civitas, which we are a member provides local networking and support in Louisville, KY. Why bring sexuality up when we’re talking business? Because it is already at the forefront, it could be family photos on desks, invites to bring your spouse to the company party and even dealing with prejudice. Its 2020 and even just this year a client told me not to mention my partner because she said he would fire me if he knew I was gay. He is the CEO of a large company and while I didnt bring up my life I also can’t hide in a closet after years of fighting for equality. As a NGLCC clients may receive certain benefits from governements and other organizations that seek to build a diverse connection of vendors …
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Is A Site Low Level? DA vs CF vs TF … DR, DS, AS, TS and more!
This article speaks in terms of whether you should scrap a site and just 301 backlinks to another if it is performing poorly. But it speaks to what IS performing poorly. There is also another article more recently written all about SEO Metrics that might serve as a good read after you consider this article’s points. Whats A Good DA TF CF DS DR? Alright so I’m going to attempt to answer this the way you want. A number…but before I do lets say its a subjective question. Its literally like asking a friend who is the hottest actor or actress alive today. How many sites are on the internet? 1.5 billion. I cant look up all their DAs. So lets form a couple groups that we don’t pick who is in it. First off we can use Moz’s numbers but thats not scientific. Moz Claims The Average DA By Industry Is: 86.2 Media & Publishing 78.6 Higher Education 75.5 Sports And Entertainment 71.2 Accommodation And Food Service 67.5 Software and Applications 67.5 Healthcare 67.0 Business Services 64.6 Retail 64.0 Consumer Goods 63.1 Construction Products 61.5 Real Estate 60.0 Finance And Insurance 58.3 Wellness Thats bull shit. First, …
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The Top Digital Agencies Of 2020
The Top Digital Agencies Of 2020, According to DesignRush Reposted From Yahoo Finance DesignRush ranked the top digital agencies of 2020 that help brands to achieve growth online using expertise in branding, design, technology, marketing and global industries. NEW YORK, June 4, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The best full-service digital agencies combine a group of experts from all areas of branding, design, technology, marketing and global industries. DesignRush, a B2B marketplace connecting brands with agencies, identified the leading agencies in 2020 that provide an array of digital services to help brands grow and succeed through online channels. The top digital agencies of 2020 are: 1. Appetite Creative Appetite Creative Solutions is a creative technology agency that aims to create tech agnostic and unique solutions for clients. They have worked with global clients and have a global vision. Appetite Creative’s team has diverse experience and a shared drive for quality and creativity. https://www.appetitecreative.com/ 2. Athena Media Singapore Athena Media Singapore is a digital marketing agency focused on building unique design and marketing strategies. They help clients enter the digital world with a brand identity which draws attention and establishes an online presence that maximizes success. 3. Comrade Web Agency Comrade Web Agency …
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Value Of SEO Backlinks From A Press Release – Experiment
SEO Experiments Vs HearsayOne thing I hope folks appreciate about the articles and topics I cover is the experimentation. This article is not any different from our previous discussions based on real world observations. Some of these original articles based on experiments include:
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- Technical SEO: DigitalOcean Vs Google Cloud Vs AWS
- Can Page Speed Alone Make A Difference In Google Ranking
- Optimizing For Page Speed: The High Price Of Drift In SEO
- Sex, Speed And The SEO Migration Of Romantic Depot To WordPress
- Is A Site Low Level? DA vs CF vs TF … DR, DS, AS, TS and more!
- What are the other SEO Metrics? Domain Authority Alternatives
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Technical SEO: Digital Ocean vs Google Cloud vs AWS
This post originally only focused on cost and user experience when we reviewed DigitalOcean vs AWS vs Google Cloud. After a real world case study and experiment we have some performance data and it is actually surprising.Digital Ocean vs AWSBefore testing servers I recall stating in a conference call “We all know AWS is gonna win, but ya we can test it.” As a client’s IT team wanted to move our project team’s DigitalOcean web server on to one platform.Teaser here … in a head to head test between Digital Ocean vs AWS one of these two out performed the other in:
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- rate of requests handled
- number of requests processed
- time it took to process each request.
- The same winner of those also won 10 / 10 page speed tests and the results were not close.
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Multi-Domain Strategy In SEO … Risky But Lets Have Some Risk
Another Article On This Topic Check out our discussion of reducing the domains of one client and why it was great to do it. Multidomain Strategy Client Story Multi-Domain Strategy In SEO So I feel like its everyone’s dream to be a media conglomerate, why buy one newspaper when you can buy 100s? Well, SEO and the internet are one big community…so in the analogy … why build multiple newspapers in the same city? No one would do that and it’s about the same with the internet or at least it should be…but everyone wants to have multiple top ranking domains. Real Life Examples Of Multiple Domains There is only two ways this could work out…
- Your brand is merging with another equally powerful and recognized brand and dissolving either brand will leave a huge gap that competitors will fill fast than you can with your one brand. Example … Zillow bought Trulia for 3.5 billion they represent the number one and number two home listings sites. They have continued to operate two sites in the same niche because anything other than what they have now is less than optimal. SO … you can do the same when your …
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52 Mostly Free SEO Tools I Actually Use
Free SEO Tools I Actually Use This is a list of resources available through external sites and YES I actually use 98% of them. I have not received anything from any of these sites and these site links are not affiliate links …. this is simply a list of SEO Tools mostly free that do something really well. No one tool does everything perfectly, if there was one I’d still want a second opinion. In the future as I post blog articles I’ll likely reference this post which will provide a more detailed explanation of each entry. SEO Tools List Ultimate Free SEO Tool – This is a newer tool we’ve added to our site and while it does a lot of stuff that other paid site do we are offering it totally free. You simply have to register an account so that it can help you track changes to your site, its rankings, backlinks and more. 1 SEO Tools On Other Sites Backlinks
A WordPress Design, SEO and Adwords Project Completed
WordPress, Bootstrap, CSS, HTML, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, SEO, SQL, Adwords by Matthew Leffler Technology I have a solid record of identifying a problem and making a solution that yields measurable results. I was recently the technology manager for a political campaign where I built a WHM/cPanel server on CentOS using Amazon Web Services to host about 14 WordPress websites. The server also provides mailing lists, a team management site, RSS feeds augmentation and its own name servers. I was able to get the server and sites built in a couple months. I’ve managed the SEO and Adwords for these sites and have data that helps demonstrate the value I added to the organization. Some of these sites include (all WordPress): https://www.ackerson2018.com https://www.votelouisville.com https://www.jeffersoncountyattorney.net https://www.countyattorney.info https://www.forbrent.com https://www.brentackerson.info https://mikeoconnell.info https://women.forbrent.com https://labor.forbrent.com https://40216.forbrent.com https://lgbtq.forbrent.com I created the following sites for myself: http://www.mattleffler.me (Bootstrap) https://www.matthewleffler.com https://www.data502.com (HTML/CSS) https://www.cloud502.com I currently host all of these sites on an Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 server running CentOS and WHM. I also built an SQL server with large tables of voter records, city crimes, city financial payments, jail population censuses, web traffic data. This web server is integrated with …
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Adding A User To Bing Ads
Adding A User To An Existing Bing Account You can add an Admin to your account in Bing by clicking on the green gear next to your email address in the upper right-hand corner of the screen after you’re logged in. Notice on the left-hand side of the main menu the second option is Users. Select Users Click the green button “Invite user” You’ll be asked to enter First and Last Name as well as Email address. Choose a role. My Information
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- Advertiser Campaign Manager. This role has permissions to view selected accounts and add, edit, or delete campaigns within the selected accounts.
- Standard User. This role has permissions to manage campaigns, perform some billing activities on selected accounts, and manage users (except Super Admins).
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Adding a User to Google Adwords as an Admin
The easiest way to allow someone else to administer your Google Adwords campaigns is likely to add them as an Admin to your existing account. This allows you to own the campaigns and keep the records long after the user has ended their work on your project. It also leaves you still in charge of the budget and keeps you in an oversight role of your campaign. Google has made it easy to add an Admin to Adwords. Step One. In Adwords click the wrench, labeled “TOOLS” you’ll be able to then select “Account Access” From the Account Access screen click the blue circle with the plus in it on the left-hand side of the page. A lightbox opens with four options. To add an Admin who will be able to manage the accounts campaign you will likely need to select “Standard” This gives them access to the make changes to the campaigns but doesn’t allow them to manage who has access to the account, that stays with you. After selecting “Standard” you can enter their email address. If you’ve hired me, you can add me using the following email address: Once you have completed this all you need to do is set back and keep up …
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Adobe Flash Ends A Decade Late
Adobe Will No Longer Support Flash After 2020, 10 Years After Steve Jobs Argued Why It Should End In 2010. Google Announced in September 2019 that it was phasing out support for Flash from its Chrome browser following Adobe;s announcement that they would end support in 2020. Apple users wont likely hear much about the end of Flash, in 2010, Steve Jobs wrote a scathing review of Flash and in it explained why Apple products wouldn’t support it. Google’s Flash Announcement: For 20 years, Flash has helped shape the way that you play games, watch videos and run applications on the web. But over the last few years, Flash has become less common. Three years ago, 80 percent of desktop Chrome users visited a site with Flash each day. Today usage is only 17 percent and continues to decline. This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash. They’re also more secure, so you can be safer while shopping, banking, or reading sensitive documents. They also work on both mobile and desktop, so you can visit your favorite site anywhere. These open web technologies became the default experience for Chrome late last year when …
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Adwords And Google Data Studio: Wordstream Alternative
I’ve been managing Google Adwords campaigns for political campaigns mostly but recently I stepped out into managing the Adwords campaigns for an IT consulting company. It’s a little bit of a challenge I’m not going to lie. More than just matching the search with the keyword I need to attract only business customer and cut out residential. So as you can image someone Googles “IT Help Desks” and they might be looking for a specific help desk, a personal help desk or a help desk to contract business services too. Wordstream Free Alternative In Ultimate SEO‘s struggle to compete in this expensive market I tried Wordstream out for a week and a half of so and thats really not enough time to get much actionable help. I was pulled into a sales demo consultation and sure it seemed like it could offer insights but WOW … the expense associated with that out paced any other SEO tool I use. I felt the main task Wordstream was completing was organizing and presenting the data in a way that I could see the areas of need. Google Data Studio has been doing that for me in SEO for over a year now …
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Adwords Template With Search Console, Google Analytics In Data Studio
SEO & PPC Data Studio Report Using Adwords, Google Analytics and Google Search Console All-In-One Template Google Data Studio Reports are some fun things. Here at Ultimate SEO you love visualizations and thats partially why we like Data Studio. Beyond the looks its also integrated easily with Google Sheets, Google Analytics and Search Console to name a few. These few though create a powerful free SEO PPC tool. You can check out the report directly by clicking the link above, here is an embedded look at the nine pages of live data thats basically always right. It’s nice to be able to pull in data from two very different Google tools. Lots of people know of Google Analytics and think it covers Google Search Console but it doesn’t and I’ll discuss that more in another post but the unique data from these sources can all mix to form one handy live report. You can check out all the information pulled here in this report and change the dates as needed using the drop down. To personalize the report to your own site simply copy it and set the data sources to your own Google Analytics and Search Console sources. Word of …
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Bad Backlinks: 100 Sites You Don’t Want A Backlink From.
UPDATE: 2020 – So the bad backlinks list hasn’t gotten shorter but my advice on the Disavow Tool is different than in 2019. Originally I took the official Google answer and repeated it: “Don’t use the disavow tool unless you know of manual action taken against your domain” but … I’ve never been one to just say okay and believe it. I need to test things and see it for myself. Prior to this experiment, I’d say that I was under the impression that using the disavow tool was dangerous. It still is so proceed with caution. The statement in “” above is only a good one if we can trust that Google is smart enough to realize that you didn’t pay 350 sites in Sweden to link to you on a page with 10,000 other site’s links. That would be dumb to do, so I assumed Google knew I didn’t do it. That they wouldn’t penalize a site on theglobe.net or its hundreds of other crap domains. I was wrong, I think. I disavowed theglobe.net’s 350 sites and overall I saw a steady improvement across the board in keyword performance. So should you disavow bad backlinks? We’ll my answer …
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Building A Custom CDN With DigitalOcean – UltimateCDN.com
Ultimate SEO is all for trying things and testing out options. While we’ve used JetPack we’ve settled on Cloudflare over a year ago as our preferred CDN provider. Ultimate SEO is a Cloudflare Certified Partner and we offer SEO Hosting packages through our Ultimate SEO Network which uses https://ultimateseo.net for all infrastructure. Building a custom CDN though we registered UltimateCDN.com which we’ll use in this experiment. Speed And Mobile Search Results In previous articles we’ve discussed the importance of speed. Two client articles addressed this: Sex, Speed And The SEO Migration of Romantic Depot to WordPress and Optimizing For Site Speed: Page Load To SEO Cloud Server Infrastructure. We have also shown how less established, less well known, less trusted sites can out rank household brands by just being faster in Can Page Speed Alone Make A Difference In Google Ranking? Yes, it even beats Domain Authority. With mobile searches number now over 50% of all searches speed is a premium means to rank up among content. Every time this site loads in the 2 second range we gain momentum and every time I find myself dropping in the rankings I realize I forgot to turn on our CDN. Content Delivery Networks Deliver …
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Can Page Speed Alone Make A Difference In Google Ranking? Yes, it even beats Domain Authority.
Before ya flip your lid on a DA93 site losing to a DA63 site dont forget…DA doesn’t mean anything to Google. It is a made up number. You can read more about Domain Authority in several articles we have posted.A Case Study of SEO Speed, Domain Authority And Keyword RankThis is from a recently added FAQ to the Ultimate SEO FAQ section. Check it out for more SEO 411. Let me show you how important speed is….below you see the search results for a keyword. The one on the left is for desktop, the one on the right shows mobile. They are close but one site out ranks another in mobile where it doesn’t in desktop.Why is realtor.com not higher than zumper.com in mobile search on the right? It is higher on desktop. Right off this tells us 1. Mobile search results are not just the desktop results in mobile format. 2. Mobile results are displayed more often than desktop, so you really should stop Googling yourself on a desktop if you want to see the results people most often see. Consider these metrics:Realtor.com = Domain Authority: 89 Domain Score: 55 Trust Score 58 Alexa Rank 763 Registered 1996 Ads 3,900 Backlinks 57,000,000 …
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