Google is constantly changing, which makes it challenging to give your customers a “Review Us” link that actually works on a mobile phone and desktop computer.This tool uses our own Google Maps API key, to generate a perfectly formatted “Review...
I’m honored to be appearing in two sessions this year at Pubcon Las Vegas, the oldest internet marketing conference on the planet. I will be speaking primarily on AMP – Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages… Tuesday October 11 2016 Time 10:10a...
Referral Spam in Analytics, a.k.a. “Fake Traffic” has been annoying us for a while now, and this month showed no improvement. After reviewing about a dozen client accounts for August of 2016, I’ve found nearly 20 suspicious domains, and I’ve...
For years now, I’ve offered a free Excel add-in I call “Links Live” that lets you make columns of hyperlinks live, or “clickable”. This summer, there was a Windows security update that caused the add-in to become disabled each time you...
Today I got an email from someone telling me that their BBB seal was disappearing when someone hovers over it. I then looked at their site, where I saw that yes, sure enough, it the logo completely disappears when the mouse is hovered over it. I decided to get the...
I am unable to associate any Google Analytics property with any Google Search Console accounts. I simply get an error message reading “You don’t have Edit permissions to this Google Analytics property” for all domains in all accounts, and it’s...
After reviewing the June statistics for 13 clients, there were only six more suspicious domains to add to the segment this month. The domains that have been added are: site-auditor.online law-enforcement-dd.xyz slow-website.xyz fix-website-errors.com...
The tool below answers the nagging question, “Which phrase get more searches, ‘accident lawyer’ or ‘accident attorney’?” and it will do it for multiple phrases at a time. Google used to offer the ability to get search volume for a...
In March I speculated on Twitter that the Google analytics referral spam referral spam problem might be solved. At the time, lots of people agreed with me, and things stayed pretty clean through the first part of April. Did @googleanalytics fix the referral spam...
As of now, it looks like this may be the last update needed. Last month I only needed to add six domains to my referral spam blocking segment, and this month there were even less. Going through the referral stats for nearly 40 client websites, I only found two...
