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Engagement Bait is Alive and Well on LinkedIn

Nearly 3 years ago in December of 2017 Facebook announced a quality update for the News Feed algorithm in a post titled “Fighting Engagement Bait on Facebook”. The post explains […]

Facebook Ads is Suspending Ad Accounts During the 2020 Election Aftermath

Update January 9th-10th, 2021: I have gotten 3 separate, credible reports now that this issue is happening again. This time however there has been no word from Facebook about it. […]

How To Get the Old Facebook Design Back (at least temporarily)

Update 12/02/2020: Today Facebook appears to have removed the ability for page and group owners to switch to the old desktop design somewhere around 3pm Central time. Tweet: https://twitter.com/YoungbloodJoe/status/1334245086624960520 We’re […]

How Each 2020 Presidential Candidate Uses Their 404 Page

WARNING: This article contains a discussion about U.S. Presidential Candidates in the 2020 election. It is not meant to endorse any candidate or their issues. It is also not meant […]

Find Spam Listings on Google Maps With This Chrome / FireFox Extension

Spam is a plague on Google Maps. There are various kinds of spam listings that haunt the platform, with the two worst offenders being keyword stuffed business names and businesses […]

GTmetrix Scores and Data For the Homepages of Top Websites

This is the first in a series of posts that will examine the data outputs from tools that we rely on for performance optimization on the web. The goal is […]

How to Avoid Making the NFL’s SEO Mistake When Launching a New Website

Update 3 (6/01/2020 at 3:03pm): It took just under 3 weeks (roughly 21 total days) and Google is now ranking the new “Player Stats” page from NFL.com as the number […]

How to Add a Description to Your Shopify Collection Pages

Adding a description to Shopify Collection pages can have a positive impact on your the SEO for your Shopify website helping those pages rank better in search engines for shorter, […]

How This One Man Gained Over 2 Million Twitter Followers and Nearly 3 Million Instagram Followers in Just A Few Months

We’ve written at length here about how scammers use fake contests and promises of cash to help build large audiences on social media. Those audiences are then used for all […]