SCDIT Blog

We just dealt with a Google My Business (GMB) listing not being publicly viewable. We wrote Google to appeal and they said it might be the “opening date”. We had September 2000, which was correct. The customer told me the opened the 29th, so we changed it to September 29, 2000 and they were re-instated.

Your Google My Business listing is such a helpful tool for getting customers connected to businesses which is why it is important to keep it publicly visible. SCDIT addresses these issues quickly and cautiously. Google doesn’t give you many chances to get it right, so it has to be appealed properly.

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We received an invoice from U.S. Safety Standards for a bunch of nitrile gloves, but we didn’t order these. The cost on each 200 pack was $129.95. They typically cost less than 20 bucks. They were asking for $1,299.50 for 10 boxes of gloves.

Their website is a one-pager that doesn’t have any function.

https://ussafetystandard.com

This is a total scam.

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We had a customer almost get scammed by a browser window attack, so we are posting this warning. The customer has security training and questions everything, so the fact they almost got tricked it could happen to anyone. Here is how they almost got scammed.

• User followed a link from Google’s search results for a manual on their new monitor.
• They clicked on the “Table of Contents” of this webpage and got the sudden, alarm sounding popup window.
• The customer has seen these before; however, this one really looked official. They called the number on the screen.
• The person on the other end answered as Agent so-n-so a Microsoft Security Officer.
• After sometime the person convinced our user to connect to their machine.
• They used the “Run” command an ran a script that they said showed where the malware was installed. He said he was sending him to the FTC.
• Another person answered the phone and took down the information.
• They sent our customer a Nondisclosure Agreement, but the customer wouldn’t sign it. It was also on “Department of Justice” letterhead.
• The attackers were insisting on protecting our customer’s money and was asking for the customer to cash some bonds.
• The customer was smart and agreed to meet them in person, but only at a police station. I believe this is where the conversation ended. This was a smart move.

We are wiping the machine and reinstalling the operating system. Moral of the story is stay vigilant. The attacks are getting complex and convincing.

One of the best ways to overcome the initial browser attack it to hit “ctrl + alt + delete“, choose the “Task Manager“, and then select the browser and hit “End task“.

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We hit this issue often and it can be frustrating. You have a bunch of technical challenges:

• Website Form Builder not working correctly
• DNS Settings
• Spam Filter / Firewall Settings

Our issue was the “auto-responder” wasn’t getting sent. We would get the first email; however, the second notification email the “auto-responder” wasn’t allowed to send. We would get an email saying:

“Message Dellivery Failure – Mail Delivery System” as the title, “mailer-daemon@secureserver.net“, and the “Reason: There was an error while attempting to deliver your message….”

In this particular instance the DNS was with Godaddy, the hosting was with Godaddy, but the email was O365. We added “include:secureserver.net” to our existing SPF record in the DNS. We got this setting from the following page.

https://www.godaddy.com/help/send-form-mail-using-an-smtp-relay-server-953

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We noticed a huge drop in Impressions in the Google Search Console in mid-September 2025 that caused us concern. We have been seeing a steady rise in impressions throughout the year as well as clicks. We looked at the console, saw a huge drop in impressions, and our stomachs sank. Well this may not be all bad.

First of all the “clicks” hadn’t gone down. That is really what we are after. Things can’t be all bad, but what is really going on. Well there are a bunch of posts regarding this change. The following article we came across explains the details well

https://www.getpassionfruit.com/blog/google-s-september-shake-up-why-your-blog-rankings-dropped-and-how-to-recover

They claim that bots pulling Google results by the amount of 100 results versus the 10 at a time it normally does. This was skewing the impressions but not killing the clicks. Google Overview is taking from some of the clicks; however, the article claims AI scraping your websites content to generate the Overview counts as impression! Not a total loss.

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One of our customers received a letter from Domain Name Services letting them know their domain was going to expire in a few months and they can “Transfer” and “Renew” for them.

This means they basically want to steal their domain. They probably want to sell it back to us at a high price.

Please be aware of this this scam and protect your domain. Your domain name is critical. It not only controls your website, but your company email address. It is essential for a company to have their domain in their email addressed because it is another way to verify a communication is valid. Sending business emails with an “@gmail” account raises flags.

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We have been trying to keep up with Google’s AI Overview and how SEO is changing how users use “search”, and making sure your websites information is ready for it. A few years ago we added Google Structured Data plug in by Tassos to some Joomla websites, and Yoast on WordPress websites. We didn’t notice a difference; however, our rankings on each of the sites was going up.

Now as Google’s AI Overview is making it’s way across the Internet having your webpages “AI” ready increases your rankings. The schema makes it quick and easy for Google’s AI to understand the content and index it better.

We started caring about Structured Data when Google was pushing AMP or Accelerated Mobile Pages. This was so mobile devices can load pages faster with just the basic content. We had seen that AMP was going away, but we were glad we still left our pages setup for AMP.

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We discovered our website isn’t ranking as high in Bing search engine results like they are in Google, and we had recently synced Bing with our Google Search Console properties. We jumped into Bing Webmaster Tools were we saw that we should set up our pages to support “IndexNow“. Here is their webpage explaining the software and it potential usefulness.

How to add IndexNow to your website | Bing Webmaster Tools

There was a couple of suggestions for a Joomla! website and JSiteMap being one of them. This plugin is the most popular for sitemaps in Joomla!. There isn’t a free option, so we bucked up and paid for the plugin. There was a version for Joomla 3 as well as 4 and 5. Once installed we went through the gazillion options. In the end we were pleased with the plugin. This plugin also gives you AMP or Accelarated Mobile Pages which looks like this is being sun setted.

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