Google Archives - SCD Information Technology We fix IT and you benefit... Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:37:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Ampersand in SEO character count http://blog.scdit.com/ampersand-in-seo-character-count/ http://blog.scdit.com/ampersand-in-seo-character-count/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2021 17:04:04 +0000 http://blog.scdit.com/?p=14662 Writing for Search Engines limits you to a certain character count, so we wondered if was better to use the Ampersand versus the word ” and “? Part of the reason is the ampersand gets converted to HTML entities and is listed as ” amp& “ which equals 6 characters. Using “and” would be ” […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/ampersand-in-seo-character-count/feed/ 1 AMP Ping Up Joomla Website http://blog.scdit.com/amp-ping-up-joomla-website/ http://blog.scdit.com/amp-ping-up-joomla-website/#respond Fri, 21 May 2021 19:04:43 +0000 http://blog.scdit.com/?p=14353 Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) make your website more digestible for Google and has been adopted over the past 5 years by the other search engines. Google currently being the most utilized search engine, and the focus of this article. The goal for AMP is to make the content delivered more quickly for mobile users by […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/amp-ping-up-joomla-website/feed/ 0 3 Dots After Google Search Listing http://blog.scdit.com/3-dots-after-google-search-listing/ http://blog.scdit.com/3-dots-after-google-search-listing/#respond Wed, 24 Feb 2021 18:15:13 +0000 http://blog.scdit.com/?p=13757 While doing a review of our site for SEO we were thrown by seeing out page URL’s shortened and three vertical dots at the end of the title. An example is our shows one of our services as just our site name, the category “services”, and then the three dots. We were expecting the specific […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/3-dots-after-google-search-listing/feed/ 0 Site Not Ranked in Google, But No. 1 in Bing http://blog.scdit.com/site-not-ranked-in-google-but-no-1-in-bing/ http://blog.scdit.com/site-not-ranked-in-google-but-no-1-in-bing/#respond Tue, 28 Jan 2020 18:17:14 +0000 http://blog.scdit.com/?p=5223 After finishing a new WordPress site we watched Google to see where the site was going to rank, but didn’t get the results we were looking for. We had the Yoast SEO plug-in installed and followed their recommendations in setting it up. The site was showing up on page 4 yet Google highlighted several matching […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/site-not-ranked-in-google-but-no-1-in-bing/feed/ 0 SCAM – Phone Call Regarding Google Listing http://blog.scdit.com/scam-phone-call-regarding-google-listing/ http://blog.scdit.com/scam-phone-call-regarding-google-listing/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:38:14 +0000 http://blog.scdit.com/?p=2893 We have been getting phone calls from (240) 514-0971 and (352) 453-5733 which turn out to be a robo calls for fixing our Google listing. You are suppose to push a button to speak to a representative. When I push the button I got a person who tries to scam you to pay them to […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/using-redirects-in-joomla/feed/ 0 Scheduling Google Analytics Reports http://blog.scdit.com/scheduling-google-analytics-reports/ http://blog.scdit.com/scheduling-google-analytics-reports/#respond Tue, 08 Jan 2019 19:54:58 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=587 In January we set up Google Analytics to send reports to some customers automatically. This year when we were setting this up the Analytics Dashboard has changed and it took us a minute to locate what we were looking for. Here are the steps. Log into your account and go to the account you need […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/scheduling-google-analytics-reports/feed/ 0 Browser Not Going To Site – Search Encrypt http://blog.scdit.com/browser-not-going-to-site-search-encrypt/ http://blog.scdit.com/browser-not-going-to-site-search-encrypt/#respond Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:53:33 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=461 We got a call from a customer who couldn’t get to a website she uses everyday. The issue was in Chrome. I went to the extensions to see if anything strange was installed. I saw “Search Encrypt“. A quick search lead me to an article at Malwarebytes. https://forums.malwarebytes.com/topic/226686-removal-instructions-for-search-encrypt/ This article was on removing Search Encrypt […]

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]]> http://blog.scdit.com/function-keys-not-working-on-keyboard/feed/ 0 Google Maps API Setting Up Billing Payments http://blog.scdit.com/google-maps-api-setting-up-billing-payments/ http://blog.scdit.com/google-maps-api-setting-up-billing-payments/#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2018 20:32:23 +0000 http://blog.scdeval.com/?p=402 After June 11, 2018 Google now charges for accessing the Maps API. This API is used often with website plug-ins. Here are the steps I have taken to get this resolved.  This is what the broken API looks like. Log into Google. Go to “https://console.cloud.google.com/google/maps-apis“ Click on “Billing” I was asked to “Link Billing Account” […]

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