Scott Hendison’s Blog

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 opened up Excel. In order to get...

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 been going on for over...

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 specific set of phrases in the...

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...

One of the most useful tools I ever had built was a "keyword multiplier." It lets you enter some keywords, along with some variables, and it multiplies those variations into a long and complete list of phrases. Up until yesterday, the tool would return your combined...

On February 12th, Google announced that they would *not* be certifying for Search Engine Optimization, a decision that I disagree with completely. I recently wrote about "Trusted Google Partners" giving the industry a bad name and it really shouldn't be too hard...

Not a week goes by where I don't learn something in this business, and last week blew me away. What I had always considered a hard cold SEO fact turned out to be not true, despite there being claims to the contrary all over the web. Last Friday, February 5, 2016, I...

I'm letting this poll run for a few days... What do you think, and why do you think it? Cast your vote here on Twitter, and feel free to leave any comments below. I'll update this page after the poll is done... After URLs change, for #SEO purposes, which type of...

Google does not always send malware discovery notifications to site owners when they notify the public. I know, because it happened to me again today. Today I got an email from my friend David Portney, showing me that Google was displaying a security warning when...

Each month I update an Analytics segment with more Google Analytics referral spam domains, and Decembers additions are as follows: ranksonic adf.ly snip.to copyrightclaims - (clever) traffic2cash black-friday hosting-tracker cyber-monday alibestsale...

I'll be showing both presentations that I've put together for Pubcon Las Vegas, coming up the first week of October.  They're primarily for advanced audiences, but anyone is welcome to come and I'll be happy to answer questions. The two presentations are... #1 Google...

I just ran across a Google Adwords client with a new toolbar I've not seen before under the keywords tab, that gave me instant access to the negative keywords, and to the keywords that drove the clicks. I'm pretty sure this is brand new, not only because I hadn't...

Maybe I complain a lot, but I'm REALLY disgusted with the video quality on the Motorola Droid Turbo phone when the zoom is used. Really, it's crazy bad, but Verizon Wireless says I'm stuck with it because I'm a month past the 14 day grace period. for the last couple...

I sent a link to a video proposal the other day to a potential new client,  and he replied back that he got a security warning trying to watch it on his phone. He didn't say much about the warning at the time, but when we spoke he brought it up again, reading the...

You've probably got a Majestic account, but when's the last time you logged in? Have you seen both of the new visualization features that they released last month? Their hubs of authority graphic helped me spot a Google partner link scheme in mid July, and this...

Sometimes you need to get multiple URLs out of the Google search results, either because you're cleaning up old content, or perhaps you got hacked, or for whatever reason, you want them gone.  Google Search Console lets you remove them, but only one at a time, which...

I've been a huge fan of the  Yoast SEO WordPress Plug-in for quite a while now, and I even make my own settings preferences file available for download as a free resource. However, in recent months, a couple of time saving features have been removed that I really...

Pubcon is the longest running internet marketing conference in the world, and I first attended the conference in 2004.  Over the years, I've spoken at the annual Las Vegas conference every single year, as well as at a regional conference in Austin (where they're now...

If you link a group of websites together with each other, intending to improve their rankings, would you call that SEO in 2015? While doing some competitive analysis with one of my favorite tools, "Clique Hunter" by Majestic, I ran across what seems to be some...

Yesterday I thought it was a Google glitch, but today I still have no way to post from the Google search pages. I made this quick video yesterday and was going to post it, but thought for sure it must be a mistake, so I didn't. Now though, I'm just not sure. The share...