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Is Your BBB Profile Badge Broken? Thousands Are!

Is Your BBB Profile Badge Broken? Thousands Are!

Update: As of 2pm PST November 18, 2021 the BBB has fixed the errors, and member profile pages have been correctly redirected. Hooray! Can you guess what Afternic, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and A2 Web Hosting all have in common? All three are members of the...
Farwest Presentation –  August 2021

Farwest Presentation – August 2021

The annual Farwest show is all about landscaping, and attended by gardening and landscaping industry consumers. My presentation is for the vendors and service providers in attendance, as beginner and intermediate marketers. It was not intended for search industry...
Stop Showing Related Videos of Your Competitors

Stop Showing Related Videos of Your Competitors

With the addition of the rel=0 code, embedded videos will show additional videos from the creators own Google Channel instead of random Google “related” videos. Watch to the end of my video below, and you’ll see all you get are more of my own from my...
CSV to Excel Workbook Consolidator

CSV to Excel Workbook Consolidator

We built this free Excel add-on to combine multiple CSV files exported from Screaming Frog into one Excel Workbook, with a table of contents and live hyperlinks throughout the workbook. It saves a LOT of time, compared to manually creating a report from multiple CSV...
Google Fight Tool

Google Fight Tool

After nearly 5 years of not functioning, (maybe even longer?) they’ve fixed the original the original Google Fight tool… https://t.co/cf2JzOSt9w— Scott Hendison (@shendison) February 8, 2022 We’ve recreated a fun free tool called GoogleFight that...
Google Offers  a “Leave Us a Review” link in GMB

Google Offers a “Leave Us a Review” link in GMB

I’m not suggesting this is a good time to be asking your customers for reviews, especially since Google announced they won’t be publishing any new ones during the pandemic. However, it’s still worth pointing out that Google now offers business owners...
Where’s Your COVID-19 Website Statement?

Where’s Your COVID-19 Website Statement?

Over the past few days, we’ve put up a few Covid-19 statements on client websites. No two of them are exactly the same, but they all do have some things in common. I’ve also received countless COVID-19 emails from vendors, customers, clients, newsletters,...
An Email Hacker Almost Stole Someones Paycheck

An Email Hacker Almost Stole Someones Paycheck

I got a call from a client today that really shook me. Apparently, one of their employees sent an email to their bookkeeper, asking if they could change their direct deposit to their new bank. The bookkeeper replied to the employee, sending a form to be filled...
Fraudulent Invoices Via Paypal from Godaddy

Fraudulent Invoices Via Paypal from Godaddy

This morning I received two Paypal invoices that were sent to me directly.  At first and even second glance they appear to be legitimate, but they’re not. The invoices looked like real invoices via email, and they contained the GoDaddy logo, but the $64 amount...
New Google Bug – Adding a GMB Listing

New Google Bug – Adding a GMB Listing

I have a client that’s opened a second office, and I’m unable to add their GMB listing. After adding the address, I’m unable to proceed because there’s an error reading “Enter an address and marker that’s specify at the same...