“When you’re using WordPress, Drupal, or any other open-source platform, you have the ability to do literally anything you want with your website.”

These page builders are everywhere – Don’t be lured in by the ease of use. Learn WordPress, it’s free, it’s not that hard, and you do not have to use the WordPress HTML code editor option to build a website. Even though these website builders claim the incorporate SEO – They really do not – It’s a smoke screen.

Google Loves WordPress

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/website-builders-bad-seo/349178/

Google Posts for Celebrities and Businesses

New Google Posts (AKA Podium). Allows businesses or celebrities to post directly on Google – will it stick?
http://fortune.com/2016/03/05/google-posts/

Google Posts Example of Hillary Clinton Search

Internet Sales Already up 8.5% Over Last Year 

By Petr Kratochvil [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Read more about the increases in Holiday intent sales here

Clear Your Browser Cache First or You will Get False Positives When You Check Your Own Google Ranking

In order to check your Google ranking, you must Clear Your Browser’s Cache to get an accurate reading of your rank – or use a different browser that you are not logged into – still clear your cache.

Google and other browsers save your search history and preferences in a “cache”. Their goal is to display websites that they think you will like. Of course if you have visited your own website often on the browser you are logged into, it’s going to show your website high in the rankings – probably #1.

We use Google Chrome for our personal web browsing.

When we want to check our ranking, we hop over to Internet Explorer to search. Even then, you’l want to clear your cache between searches to clear out any history.

On the Internet Explorer browser, click the three dot icon on the top right click:
Settings –> Clear Browsing Data –>Internet –> Choose What to Clear and check them all.

Partial screen shots below – showing only the top right corner of the Internet Explorer web page

Then Click “Clear Browsing Data”

We’re a fan of all Google’s products. Although, all we talk about in our books are the free products from Google and other internet platforms, Google offers discounts for Nonprofits to use their paid products. That’s pretty cool!

Google for Nonprofits “We offer highly discounted or free tools such as Google AdWords, Google Apps, Google Earth and Google Maps to nonprofit groups to help them find new donors, work more efficiently, and encourage their supporters to take action.”

Sneak Preview of the new book cover.  Image credit NASA. All else © Greg Bright – All rights Reserved.