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 Studio.The use of Google Data studio was so attractive because it integrates into so many data repositories.  The more data the more we miss but the more integrated data that's unstoppable insights. SEO Is Big Data.Lets consider the implications of integrating our data into one visual tool. Google Search ConsoleGoogle AnalyticsGoogle My BusinessAdwordsMail ChimpAll easily already integrate into Google Data Studio..  The value add of these 5 tools in itself is impressive.  Data Studio Demo Report The brilliance though is this integration of the POS ... the system uses a Ms SQL database so we actually don't have to even care about the POS.  Connected directly to the Ms SQL we utilize a service called Stitch tointegrate with Ms SQL then to transfer that data in regular intervals too a data Warehouse.  In our case Google Big Query is a natively supported product.  Big Query is then ...
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SEO Metrics: DA DS DR DT CF TF DP AS and domain authority ranking. If the title confuses you don’t worry. Id expect even intermediate SEOs are not familiar with all of those letters. Domain Authority or DA is a well established SEO metric by Moz.com that many often confuse with Google's ranking of keywords.  Lets just remind everyone interested in their DA ...that it has NOTHING to do with Google's search results.  It MAY be based on some of the same similar metrics as Google uses but its just a number someone other than Google guessed. What are the other SEO Metrics? Domain Authority Alternatives DS – Domain Score by SEMRush DR – Domain Rank DP – Domain Pop DT – Domain Trust by SEMRush AS – Authority Score by SEMRush TF – Trust Flow by Majestic CF – Citation Flow by Majestic Moz Spam – Is Another Moz Metric For a more in depth look at each ranking we’ve included the SEO Metrics category from our FAQ section. Continuing into metric land theres seemingly easy scores that you’d be wrong to expect to be equal. Backlinks are reported by Moz, SEMRush, AHREFs and Majestic. Usually these numbers are ...
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This post originally only focused on cost and user experience but after a real world case study and experiment I have some performance data and it is actually surprising. Teaser here ... in a head to head test between AWS and Digital Ocean one of these  two out performed the other inrate of requests handlednumber of requests processedtime it took to process each request. The same winner of those won 10 / 10 speed tests and the results were not close.The results of these tests convinced a previously skeptical client's IT team into switching cloud providers.Scroll down to the section "VPS Performance" to see more about that specific use case scenario.  Ultimate SEO has accounts on all but Azure and has powered its servers from AWS, Google Cloud and Digital Ocean at some point.  We've consolidated to one provider and its the same one who performs best in these tests.Want to see a spoiler (the answer)?  Here is a summary sentence of our tests, or read on and learn why and how they win. Testing Sites Used Spoiler Testing Sites Used Server Load Testing: Loadimpact.comPage Speed Testing: GTMetrix.com Spoiler SummaryThe AWS server costs twice as much and delivers one tenth of the ...
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I've penned a lot of articles over the last couple years and it never crossed my mind to really attempt at ranking for the keyword Louisville SEO.  I searched it tonight and found the top result was an SEO firm or agency that pretty much uses 1999 (same year they were founded) tactics on their ranking page.  Keyword stuffing is supposed to have gone the way of the doodoo and I push clients away from over using a phrase.  This page uses the target keyword 46 times.   There 1000 word article is 5% of the time Louisville SEO.  I thought well, this just has to be done.  As a native Louisvillian who works full time in SEO I can't sit aside and allow the leader of this keyword to be everything I claim is dead in modern day search algorithms.   Louisville SEO appears 5 times in this paragraph, reading it does it seem they're forcing it? This challenge I've decided to accept should serve as a testament to Louisville businesses seeking an expert in SEO strategy both Local SEO and National/Global SEO.  I hope to jump up in the top 10 by 2020, depending upon backlinks it could ...
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Branded And Unbranded Keywords: Not Equal SEO ValueThis is a short discussion on keywords.  If you have read previous articles here you already know that I consider On Page SEO one of the least important factors in ranking yet one of the most obsessed over among the masses.In On Page SEO Just Doesn't Rank Keywords like Backlinks and How To Rank Your Site On Google…Forget the Keywords I give my rationale on the most popular way to rank a site in 1995...keywords.Of course though it's popular and people search it, and that's what this article is all about, seeking keywords that people actually search.  There are two main divisions of keywords:Branded And Unbranded KeywordsIts every new clients dream realized when they see they are ranking number one for their brand name.  Almost immediately after that face of joy, I’ve learned to prepare, for the face of shock, followed by determination and then by reason.  I am quick to burst that bubble of happiness and tell them ... who cares?  Of course you should rank high for your own name or brand, guess who should rank highest for any name?  The one who uses it.  But what about the unbranded keywords?In Political SEO terms it ...
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Originally A Guest Post at Stream SEO Make $1,000 per month with sexy Adult Blogs in 2019 Updated on SEPTEMBER 30, 2019 by SERVANDO SILVA Intro (Servando): This is a guest post by Andrew. While we usually don’t cover anything adult related at Stream SEO, I can’t deny a lot of SEOs focus in this industry because it’s huge and there’s a lot of money to be made of. People have asked me in the past if I work with adult sites, and while I don’t, I have friends working in that niche. If you’re interested, here’s a great guide to get started! We’re in 2019 and the adult industry has grown a lot since the beginning of the internet. In 2010, 12% of the website on the internet were pornographic, 35% of all the downloads contained pornographic material and 25% of all search engine requests were pornography related. This was 9 years ago and the industry doesn’t sleep –it evolves. Day by day, new adult websites are launched and the industry is growing more and more. Does that make it saturated? Absolutely not. Actually, there’s plenty of space left until this industry can be called saturated. And who knows if it will become ...
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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 the SEO advantages a VPS (Virtual Private Server) can offer your user experience in terms of page load times.  Site speed is a strong indicator of a site's ability to rank on Google, especially in mobile search results. This has been tested and proven to out perform AWS and Google Cloud Platform in previous articles such as Digital Ocean Vs AWS Vs GCP another similar article is Cloud Computing: Digital Ocean Vs AWS. Why Can't We Do It? Each client should setup their account and enter their own billing method on their own.  This ensures your security and removes any question about who has your payment info. We will take it from there.  Once you have setup your account billing you can easily add Utimate SEO as an admin. Digital Ocean: Create A Team Once you have created your account you can add us as ...
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Backlink BuildingWe can spend all day optimizing our pages for keywords that we researched for days and never rank content on Google Search.  Its just the cold hard fact that in SEO onpage optimization is the easiest thing and it used to work in the 1990s ... heck back then you could keyword stuff and just repeat the same phrase enough in the background and you'd get some traction.  Yes, SEO is dead ... if thats the SEO you are using.Backlinks moved in and added some credence to the claims that our content should rank for this or that keyword.  It made sense, each site that links to you with the anchor text including your keyword was that site basically vouching for your content.  If thats all you think backlinks are then ... Yes, SEO is dead ... simply having a ton of links to your site isn't a sure fire way to demonstrate that your content is rank worthy anymore.Backlinks created a storm of opportunity in SEO for gaming the system and stacking the deck.  I love telling people about the Google Bomb Miserable Failure and how it defined George Bush in 2004.  Or the story of the downfall ...
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Two things are important for you to take away from this post about backlinks and they are listed right below.  We've then included Google content explaining these two changes in backlinks.  If the text is italic and navy blue, its quoted from Google. User Generated Content or Sponsored Backlinks Added Are two additional rel="" tag options introduced by Google.  UGC Sponsored can be used together or separately in an attempt to show a difference between the two backlinks.  Nofollow remains a link option but if the link isn't a paid advertisement or User Generated Content yet you want to ensure if is not seen as an endorsement you may still use No Follow as an attribute. Every Link Counts Now. Rel+"NoFollow" used to mean don't follow this link and give the target any credit for this backlink.  Thats changing, all links will now be rewarded potentially...some links have been described as "hints" with "signals" still in the rankings.  It's not clear if they are one in the same or separate. Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links Tuesday, September 10, 2019 Nearly 15 years ago, the nofollow attribute was introduced as a means to help fight comment spam. It also ...
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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.  They’ve been around for sometime and over the years their website aged along with other businesses seeking to help drive local foot traffic.They've been around for some time and over the years their website aged along with other businesses sites. The goal of their site was to help drive local foot traffic, but a growing mobile population made their desktop site seem antiquated.With the move to mobile devices in full demonstration the old RomanticDepot.com site was not responsive. It was an HTML static site that required manual editing and didn't display well on a mobile phone.This lead the owner of the chain to build a new site that was mobile friendly and it lead to my involvement overseeing the process of migrating to this new mobile site without hurting the site's strong local SEO presence.Keywords: Branded And UnbrandedRomantic Depot does have an impressive keyword positioning presence in the New York City area. Even nationally they are on page 2 of results for "sex shop".The goal was to ensure a smooth transition to the mobile site while ...
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