Category: Ask Mike!
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I want to pull news from different websites on my website. Is that legal?
It is perfectly legal as long as it comes from a copyright-free website. Just look for the copyright info on that particular site to meet their conditions. For example, Wikipedia allows you to use their content as long as you include the sources and links that are associated with it. Also, if the website has…
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How do I get unlimited organic traffic for my website? I want to drive real traffic or organic visitors.
Unlimited traffic would be a dream for everyone. The closest thing to unlimited traffic that I can think of is creating what I call ‘self-replicating’ links. Self-replicating links are links that keep building and creating more links by themselves with little to no intervention from you. A way to do this is to create a…
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My subdomain (Weebly) website has been verified by Google and I put in meta keywords, so why is it still not showing up in site:
Site: is a Google Search Operator that is used to see if Google indexed your website. It returns the pages for that website only. Using shared economic web hosting without your own domain is a big no-no is you want to rank. It also shows a lack of professionalism as well. I used another Google…
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How can one use web analytics to measure traffic from links when one does not control the destination website?
What you are asking is ‘Referrals’ to your website. Traffic analytics software will show you referrals. From there look at the referrals that are from other websites and there you will find your answer. Any analytics program can help you with that. Your web hosting provider should give you access to monitor traffic to your website,…
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What are the best ways to make a website seem bigger and more active or established?
To make your website ‘bigger’ and ‘more active’ tells me right away to start writing articles or blog posts to your website. By providing content you gain a sense of ‘authority’ that Google considers in its ranking algorithm. It also gives your website a sense of authority to make it look ‘bigger’. Adding a FAQ…
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What are some local SEO tips for a cake shop/bakery?
Michael Rock, Owner at The Internet Presence, LLC (2003-present) Answered Mon If you are a local shop/bakery then you probably are not shipping out cakes out-of-state so then I would claim my Google My Business page first. This will add images of your product, display your shop hours, add sales to the post section, and help with…
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What’s the best way to create a steady stream of traffic to your website (it’s not a blog so the content hardly changes) without much financial trouble?
Michael Rock, Owner at The Internet Presence, LLC (2003-present) Answered Mon Michael Rock’s answer to How can I get more traffic for my site? Michael Rock’s answer to What are the best ways of getting traffic to my new SaaS website for free? Michael Rock’s answer to What surprisingly simple changes have significantly increased a website’s traffic?…
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What is SEO? What are the important types of SEO methods?
Michael Rock, Owner at The Internet Presence, LLC (2003-present) Answered Mon SEO is search engine optimization. Making your website structure and content great for the search engines and website visitors. SEM is search engine marketing. This is geared more toward converting website visitors into customers using A/B testing, analyzing results, etc. SMM is social media marketing. Social…
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What are the latest SEO strategies that can increase sales this 2020?
Michael Rock, Owner at The Internet Presence, LLC (2003-present) Answered Apr 16 Content has been proven to help with this for 2020. Even more so than backlinks this year! So providing content on the details, reviews, how-to’s, FAQs of your products will help increase sales tremendously. I have also found past techniques for sales that seem to…
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How do you find core keywords for effective online marketing?
Michael Rock, Owner at The Internet Presence, LLC (2003-present) Answered Apr 10 It would to too lengthy to do into the details here. I wrote an in-depth three-part article here for that. Keyword Research in SEO: Part 1 · Answer requested by Jeet Rathi