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Google via it’s spokesperson John Mueller is saying, “we’ve made the difficult decision to stop showing authorship in search results.“ The post went on to say. I’ve been involved since we first started testing authorship markup and displaying it in search results. We’ve gotten lots of useful feedback from all kinds of webmasters and users, and we’ve tweaked, updated, and honed recognition and displaying of authorship information. Unfortunately, we’ve also observed that this information isn’t as useful to our users…
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If your websites search results lost it’s Google authorship profile photo and circles here’s why According to this Google Plus post by John Mueller “We’ve been doing lots of work to clean up the visual design of our search results, in particular creating a better mobile experience and a more consistent design across devices. As a part of this, we’re simplifying the way authorship is shown in mobile and desktop search results, removing the profile photo and circle count. (Our…
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There is a lot of well meaning but wrong information on the net regarding Google Authorship, so i decided to lay it out for fellow WordPress authors. In a nutshell – authorship should only be displayed on your WordPress posts. Lets start out with what you shouldn’t do. Then i will explain how I do it. The first no-no is adding authorship into your header manually. While this will pass the Google structured data testing tool, it puts it everywhere…
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I have been seeing quite a bit of IPv6 entries in my stats lately Gotta admit i was not up on it, and when i noticed this entry 2a03:2880:11:1ff1:: i was saying to myself what the heck is that? (not exactly in those words.) That’s an IPv6 address. Really weird looking i must say. I did a little digging and came up with this website test-ipv6.com where you can test your ISP and browser for IPv6 compatibility. Check out the…
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For better than a year i have experienced annoying adobe flash player crashes in Firefox web browser I kept waiting on a Firefox update that would fix it. Gawd knows how many reports i filed with Adobe when their flash player crashed. Firefox updates came and went with flash crashing as usual. Before we go any further i should point out this flash player crash fix is for 64 bit Windows Seven users with Mozilla’s Firefox web browser only. I…
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In the car business it’s common to change website providers. But most everyone in the business has a different permalink structure. So your probably thinking, what’s a permalink and why should i be concerned about it? It all has to do with a little thing called “Back Links.” These are links that lead to your dealership from indexed search links, different publications your vehicles are shared with, social media shares, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Etc. If you change your website…
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Do you know how to properly set up your car dealer website to be search engine friendly? And especially how to target your local area properly? The old saying “The grass is always greener on the other side of the street is often true” and that’s also often said about car dealer website providers. So lets assume you have a car dealer website but are not happy with it for one reason or another and want to contract with another…
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If your a webmaster you have most likely seen Baidu crawling your website using China and Hong Kong IP’s. I block all of China as a country because there is little my sites offer, if absolutely anything at all that Chinese web surfers would be interested in. This has worked well for a couple of years. But recently i noticed a large number of hits coming from EU (Europe) IP’s. A quick whois lookup shows it’s Baidu circumventing my blocking…
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If your trying to figure out how to remove a “Property” in the latest Google Analytic’s for 2014 here is how to do it. First sign into your Google Analytic’s Account. Next click on the Admin Tab in the header. From here select the property you want to delete from the Property Tab. Next on your right click the View Settings Link. Go to the bottom of the View Settings page and click the Delete Property link in the lower…
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Budget Car Dealer Internet And Social Media Marketing Help! It makes common sense to have an internet geek with experience in the car business, optimize or consult on your car dealer website’s nuts and bolts. Many so called pros do not know the car business. And while most car dealer websites look the same, it’s how they digitally present your car lot to search engines and social media that scores the most leads! Having 40 years in the car business…
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Chances are if your an Internet Merchant you are selling on a WebStore. If so here is a FREE trick to automate sharing all your store inventory on the social web. Most everyone is familiar with Twitter Facebook and Google Plus social networks. But have you heard of RSS before? If not RSS can be used to connect your WebStore to the social web. From WikiPedia: RSS (Rich Site Summary); originally RDF Site Summary; often dubbed Really Simple Syndication, uses…
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I’m running several WordPress blogs with Authorship setup on them and are stumped on why Google Webmaster Tools is loaded up with structured data errors. I am using Artisteer 4.2.0 Standard Edition to generate my WordPress themes. Artisteer support did come up with a fix for there themes and using a static home landing page. Please try changing the following files: 1. in libraries/wrappers.php echo ‘<‘.$heading.’>’.$title.'</’.$heading.’>’; 2. The “author” class, as well as the “vcard” element with a “url fn…
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Lets face it, there are a lot of Auto Dealer Website and Inventory Management solutions available. Everyone claims their company provides the best dealer website and inventory management services, but lots of them simply can’t produce what they promised their client. And just because a sites web pages might look good to the dealer that just signed up for service, that don’t necessarily mean they look good to Google and Bing web search crawlers which is most important! If you…
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Times have changed drastically for Auto Dealers in the past decade. Car business is quickly changing and smart dealers are embracing Internet tech to score more leads. Are you keeping up with changing technology that effects your bottom line? Auto dealers are notoriously late adopters of new tech. In our current state of rapid technological advancement more and more dealerships are closing their doors forever. Don’t let that happen to your dealership! Are you are a small independent auto dealer…
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