01Feb

By Matthew Leffler Case Studies, Client Sites, Featured, My Opinion, Ranking, SEO, SEO Trends, Technical SEO, WordPress

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 Ranking This 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 […]

25Jan

Featured By Matthew Leffler Audits, Case Studies, Client Sites, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud502, Cloudflare And SEO, Digital Ocean, Featured, Hosting, Keyword Ranking, Louisville SEO, Matthew Leffler, Offsite, SEO, SEO Guide, Seo Strategy, Strategy, Technical SEO, WordPress

Optimizing For Site Speed: Page Load To SEO Cloud Server Infrastructure

TrueInfluence.com has been an Ultimate SEO client for several months now. During that time a central project has been to deliver the companies web pages in three seconds or less. TrueInfluence is a data intelligence marketing organization. IntentBase is a product of theirs and they are focused heavily in lead generation and demand generation. The […]

10Jan

By Matthew Leffler Client Sites, Domain Rank, Featured, Good SEO Practices, Google Search Console, Keyword Ranking, Keywords, Local SEO, Louisville SEO, Offsite, Organic search, Uncategorized

Picking The Best Keywords For Your Site

What is the best burger in town? Thats your keyword, not your burger brand. Keywords For Google Ranking SEO efforts always start out with the simplest goal. Every web site wants to rank for their name. UltimateSEO.org for instance, most people would say how does it rank for Ultimate SEO? But thats honestly not of any value, […]

02Jan

By Matthew Leffler Analytics, Audits, Case Studies, Client Sites, Data, Domain, Featured, General, Good SEO Practices, Local SEO, Security, SEM, SEO, Site Updates, Strategy, Technical SEO, Ultimate SEO, Web Design, WordPress

CCPA, GDPR, 2020 And What They Mean To Your Site

CCPA AND GDPR Shoulda Made It On Your Radar by now, but I bet it hasn’t. At least based on the random 24 sites I visited today. Nearly three in four sites have no CCPA or GDPR mandated announcements. WHAT ARE COOKIES From the early days of the internet you’ve received cookies. Cookies are a […]

25Dec

By Matthew Leffler Analytics, Client Sites, Data, Data Studio, Featured, Google Ads, Google Data Studio, PPC - Adwords, SEM, SEO

Google Analytics And Adwords In Data Studio

Previously we’ve discussed Google Data Studio as a possible Wordstream Alternative and in Google Data Studio Knows Everything SEO, Or It Can we’ve noted to ability to combine different data sets from Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Google Ads and more. These combined data sources allow us to produce rich graphs that are easy to […]

14Dec

By Matthew Leffler Anchor Text, Audits, Backlinks, Case Studies, Client Sites, Domain Authority, Domain Rank, Google Search Console, Louisville SEO, Organic search, Ranking, Ransomlinks, Referring Domains, SEO, SEO Audit, Seo Strategy, SEO Trends, Strategy, Technical SEO

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 […]

03Dec

By Matthew Leffler Analytics, Client Sites, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Data, Data Studio, Good SEO Practices, Google Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Google Data Studio, Google Search Console, Organic search, Security, SEO, SEO Services, Seo Strategy, SEO Tools, SEO Trends, SEO Visualization, Technical SEO

Google Data Studio Knows Everything SEO, Or It Can

SEO Integration With Google Data Studio This is a big project that has been in the works for a year unbeknownst to anyone until it was … A client implemented a new inventory and POS solution and during a meeting he’d asked about Reporting and I then laid the desire out to utilize Google Data […]

Digital Ocean, AWS and Google Cloud logos

07Nov

Featured By Matthew Leffler Audits, Case Studies, Client Sites, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud502, Data, Digital Ocean, Featured, Good SEO Practices, Google Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Hosting, Louisville SEO, Matthew Leffler, Migration, My Opinion, News, Offsite, PBN 2019, PBNS, Private Blog Networks, Ranking, SEO, SEO Services, Seo Strategy, SEO Trends, Strategy, Technical SEO, Ultimate SEO, Web Development, WHM - cPanel, WordPress

Technical SEO: Digital Ocean vs Google Cloud vs AWS

This may seem off topic but its on topic, technical SEO is imperative … you’re not going to rank number one on Google using Shopify or Wix. It just isnt going to happen. Its also apparently difficult to get solid advice on SEO Hosting from “experts” Best Blog Hosting for SEO is junk … reciting features doesnt make a hosting plan the best…one quote notes that WordPress is already installed with InMotionHosting.com … so what! Our web servers are preconfigured to install WordPress in every new account as well…it only saves maybe 5 minutes per user but for

01Nov

By Matthew Leffler Client Sites, Election 2018, Featured, Good SEO Practices, Keyword Ranking, Louisville SEO, Organic search, Political SEO, Ranking, SEO, SEO Guide, SEO Services, Seo Strategy, Strategy, Technical SEO, Web Design, Web Development, WordPress

More Than Keywords – How Local SEO Is Done

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24Oct

By Matthew Leffler Case Studies, Client Sites, Domain, Good SEO Practices, Guest Posts, SEO, SEO Porn, SEO Trends, Syndicated News, Web Development

Adult Site SEO Tips And Directory

Adult Sites Need SEO As Well. Porn Made The Internet A Success And Today At Least 1/5 Of Traffic Is Related To Adult Content.

22Oct

By Matthew Leffler Client Sites, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Digital Ocean, General, Hosting, Migration, Security, SEO, Technical SEO, Ultimate SEO

How To Setup Digital Ocean Account – Client Video

Want a $50 credit towards Digital Ocean? Digital Ocean $50 Credit For New Accounts Disclosure: Using this link provides Ultimate SEO a $25 credit towards our Digital Ocean bill. × Dismiss alert Setting Up Digital Ocean Account You as a client have likely been lead to this page after being introduced to Digital Ocean and […]

13Sep

By Matthew Leffler Backlinks, Case Studies, Client Sites, Domain Rank, Featured, Good SEO Practices, Link building, Migration, Offsite, Organic search, Ranking, Redirect, Referring Domains, Seo Strategy, Strategy, Technical SEO, Ultimate SEO, WordPress

Sex, Speed And The SEO Migration of Romantic Depot to WordPress

Romantic Depot operates six, soon to be seven adult stores offering sex toys and lingerie, in the New York City area. Their flagship stores are in Manhattan and the Bronx. Ultimate SEO was proud to work with them on their initial migration to WordPress, an additional migration of a second store site combined with the main site and content expansion. They’ve […]

04Sep

By Matthew Leffler Client Sites, General, News, Security, SEO, Technical SEO, Web Design, Web Development

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 […]

25Aug

By Matthew Leffler Audits, Client Sites, Domain Rank, Featured, General, Good SEO Practices, My Opinion, Organic search, SEO, Strategy, Technical SEO, Uncategorized, Upwork, WordPress

Custom SEO Site Audit

Example Audit Considerations This post includes a demo client audit recently completed with the client’s name largely removed. Some reports are linked too from within the report and since those reports are still of use to the client they remain largely intact. This has prevented redaction of these external reports. Graphics may include the […]

18Jul

By Matthew Leffler Client Sites, Domain Authority, Domain Rank, Featured, Good SEO Practices, Google Search Console, Guest Posts, Keyword Ranking, My Opinion, Organic search, Political SEO, Ranking, SEO, SEO Audit, Seo Strategy, Strategy, Syndicated News

Duplicate Content Kills Your SEO

Duplicate content is a threat to your SEO rankings but not in the way you think. It is distracting you from stuff that actually matters. Google has no penalty and notes much of the web is duplicate content, the question is whether your use of the content ads value. Google noted over ten years ago […]

02Jul

By Matthew Leffler Client Sites, Cloud, Cloud Computing, Cloud502, Digital Ocean, Technical SEO, Web Design, Web Development, WHM - cPanel

Digital Ocean Credit – Be Your Own Cloud Web Host – AWS Alternative

AWS Alternative If you use AWS and are annoyed at your rising costs and cant figure out their pricing schemes you arent alone. Ultimate SEO has moved most of it’s servers to Digital Ocean and they are about 50% of the cost of AWS. Check them out and see what you can do with a […]

25Jun

By Matthew Leffler Anchor Text, Audits, Backlinks, Case Studies, Client Sites, Domain Authority, Featured, Keyword Ranking, Offsite, Organic search, Ranking, SEO, Technical SEO, Ultimate SEO

SEO Vs PPC: Backlink Project Increases Traffic 1200%

After placing backlinks 15/15 new domains I had linked to the site we’re registered and added to the site’s formula. Traffic responded better than I expected… Increasing Organic SEO Traffic The site’s organic traffic had been previously in the single digits, now at 1,600 a month later I could claim a 1235% increase in organic […]

09Jun

By Matthew Leffler Affiliate Programs, Client Sites, Cloud Computing, Domain, Featured, Guest Posts, Hosting, My Opinion, News, Offsite, PBN 2019, PBNS, Private Blog Networks, Security, SEO, Strategy, Technical SEO, Ultimate SEO, Ultimateseo.net, WHM - cPanel

Ultimate SEO And Cloudflare Partners

Ultimate SEO is proud to announce our partnership program with Cloudflare. As a defacto web host serving hundreds of sites this strategic alliance brings the best hosting security solutions together and integrates one of the most popular internet companies with our hosting solutions. In the coming days we’ll be relaunching UltimateSEO.net as our hosting and […]

24May

By Matthew Leffler Audits, Backlinks, Client Sites, Domain Authority, Domain Rank, Featured, General, Good SEO Practices, Keyword Ranking, Keywords, Matthew Leffler, News, Offsite, Organic search, Ranking, SEO, Strategy

Hiring An SEO? Hear From Google What SEOs Do

This Google video “How to hire an SEO” isn’t new but it’s to the point and vital to setting expectations. I encourage both SEOs and clients to watch this video and learn what Google says you should look for in an SEO. How to hire an SEO [embedded content] Transcript hi I’m Maile Ohye and I work with Google search I like to share advice to help you hire a useful SEO and prevent hiring a bad SEO one who you might pay a lot of money without positive results or even worse one who implements shady practices

11Apr

By Daniel Scott Audits, Backlinks, Case Studies, Client Sites, Domain Authority, Featured, Google Search Console, Guest Posts, Link building, My Opinion, Organic search, Ranking, SEO, Uncategorized, Upwork

Quiet Please SEO Experiement In Progress

Passing Time In A Coronavirus Pandemic – Minecraft Is Back
March 22, 2020
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 …
Yahoo FinanceArticle: Top 25 SEO Agencies Named
March 7, 2020
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 …
SEO Search Engine UltimateSEO.center
February 28, 2020
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 …
Page Speed Optimization On WordPress – SEO Technical Audit Part 1
February 24, 2020
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. …
Can Page Speed Alone Make A Difference In Google Ranking? Yes, it even beats Domain Authority.
February 20, 2020
A Case Study of SEO Metrics And Rank Here is a recently added FAQ to the Ultimate SEO FAQ section. Let me show you how important it is…. Why is realtor.com not higher than zumper.com in the mobile search on the left? Consider these metrics Realtor.com = Domain Score: 55 Trust …
Google Disavow Tool Video – DIY SEO
February 18, 2020
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 …
Ultimate SEO LLC Named In Top 27 Digital Marketing Agencies
February 17, 2020
This is a repost of content found on Benzinga.com. While I’ve written before on my opinion of top # lists I figured it’s still nice to be mentioned in one. The Top 27 Digital Agencies to Improve a Company’s Online Presence, According to Branding Agency Rating Platform February 12, 2020 …
SEO Link Building With Expired Domains Video
February 15, 2020
The following are existing videos provided by Ultimate SEO on our youtube channel. After viewing these videos you should be able to 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. …
Optimizing For Page Speed: The High Price Of Drift In SEO
February 1, 2020
Drift AI Bot Aims To Improve Conversions, But Its Performance Kills Speed And Sinks Your SEO Ranking This 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 …
Data Security Note: Its Okay To Snitch.
January 31, 2020
Someone asked me if calling out a “hacker” makes you a snitch? I smiled and told them, being a snitch is decent. People who don’t like snitches are doing things they are ashamed of and know it. In IT we need to be snitches a lot more and loudly. Its …
Look For New Clients When You’re At Your Best – Ultimate Upwork Freelance Advice
January 28, 2020
Longevity isn’t long for freelancers who work fast and know what they are doing. Conversely if clients are likely to remove you once they are doing well, what value does pay for performance bring? This is the first entry of a series on being a freelancer. It seems like, and …
Optimizing For Site Speed: Page Load To SEO Cloud Server Infrastructure
January 25, 2020
TrueInfluence.com has been an Ultimate SEO client for several months now. During that time a central project has been to deliver the companies web pages in three seconds or less. TrueInfluence is a data intelligence marketing organization. IntentBase is a product of theirs and they are focused heavily in lead …
Guest Posts To Ultimate SEO Sites
January 23, 2020
Just today I received a long email complimenting me on the site (which one I dont know) but they always conclude with a suggested mention of site xyz.com and its article on the matter. And I appreciate those and do feel that the value of this site increases with the …
GMB
January 20, 2020
Google My Business SEO Evaluation Promotion Please complete the form below to request a free SEO evaluation. Once submitted the evaluation may take 24 to 72 hours to complete. Evaluations will be emailed to the address submitted in this form. Evaluations are completed in a first come first serve …
Picking The Best Keywords For Your Site
January 10, 2020
What is the best burger in town? Thats your keyword, not your burger brand. Keywords For Google Ranking SEO efforts always start out with the simplest goal. Every web site wants to rank for their name. UltimateSEO.org for instance, most people would say how does it rank for Ultimate SEO? But thats …
CCPA and GDPR Solutions
January 7, 2020
CCPA and GDPR are both in effect now. If you aren’t familiar check out our article CCPA and GDPR 2020: What They Mean To Your Site We now offer compliance packages in the SEO Store, as well as CCPAGDPR.org There’s no time to wait, as compliance has already become required. …
CCPA, GDPR, 2020 And What They Mean To Your Site
January 2, 2020
CCPA AND GDPR Shoulda Made It On Your Radar by now, but I bet it hasn’t. At least based on the random 24 sites I visited today. Nearly three in four sites have no CCPA or GDPR mandated announcements. WHAT ARE COOKIES From the early days of the internet you’ve …
Google Analytics And Adwords In Data Studio
December 25, 2019
Previously we’ve discussed Google Data Studio as a possible Wordstream Alternative and in Google Data Studio Knows Everything SEO, Or It Can we’ve noted to ability to combine different data sets from Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Google Ads and more. These combined data sources allow us to produce rich …
What is SEO? SEM SMM and even SMO
December 24, 2019
Each of these four domains of knowledge are collectively Digital Marketing. Digital Marketing is the promotion of online content to targeted audiences. Search Engine Optimization or SEO SEO is the oldest domain of Digital Marketing. Don’t be fooled though by the length of time this has been around. SEO is …
Directory Site Backlinks
December 21, 2019
Directory sites are a valid and important source of backlinks. Is your site listed in the Yellowpages? Isit registered with the BBB? The BBB is actually an excellent backlink source. Local SEO also relies heavily on directory sites. Often noted as “Citations” for you to out rank in local …

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