Matt in Chicago

Ultimate SEO – Focus On Strategy, Tools And Community Builds

Ultimate SEO A Month Into An Experiment

Over the last month I’ve poured a bit of time … (everything that my clients didn’t get) into UltimateSEO.org and by chance UltimateSEO.net which was unregistered.  UltimateSEO.org was the focus because previous to my use someone else used it and built it up to a domain authority of 36.  Its taken me over six months to engineer this domain to a 29 so I…

Moving My Ramblings To UltimateSEO.org

Awhile back I picked up a domain name that had expired called UltimateSEO.org its Domain Authority is a respectable 36.  Some companies work years to build up to that level and its branding isn’t that bad either.  SEO is in the name afterall.  MatthewLeffler.com could just as easily belong to the other Matthew Leffler’s that I constantly fight against to rank highest on Google.  Be it the lawyer,…

WordPress 5 Upgrade: Why I Broke My Site With It

Gutenberg sounds like the place that a hard fought battle took place in Europe maybe during the “Great Wars” or during the Middle Ages but Gutenberg is not connected to history its the name given to the new WordPress editor that WordPress 5 brings to the blogosphere. 

I fully expected and was prepared to backup before upgrading, I have multiple sites so I had tested the upgrade on other sites.…

Should You Go After That Keyword

Determining When You Have A Chance At A Keyword

So as I was reading for fun I stunbled across an often cited and well referenced Neil Patel article.  So this isn’t my work but I wanted to share the excerpt from his much bigger article on how long it takes to rank.

  6. Decide which keywords you should win before building out content based on those keywords.

Some content marketers set out to win…

Adding A User To Bing Ads

Adding A User To An Existing Bing Account

  You can add an Admin to your account in Bing by clicking on the green gear next to your email address in the upper right-hand corner of the screen after you’re logged in.

  Notice on the left-hand side of the main menu the second option is Users.

Select Users

Click the green button “Invite user”

  You’ll be asked to enter First and Last Name as well…

Adding an User to Google Adwords as an Admin

  The easiest way to allow someone else to administer your Google Adwords campaigns is likely to add them as an Admin to your existing account. This allows you to own the campaigns and keep the records long after the user has ended their work on your project. It also leaves you still in charge of the budget and keeps you in an oversight role of your campaign.

Google has made it easy

to add an…

Why is AWS beating Google, Microsoft, Oracle and IBM?

Matt Leffler, Freelance Cloud Computing, SEO and Data Analysis at Upwork (2017-present) Answered just now

I believe Google Cloud was launched after AWS so a head start helps for one.

AWS also has a free tier, it’s like giving the first hit of ecstasy to someone free. Why not use this free server. Then that server needs to expand and you make plans and youre…

Global Point – IT Managed Services

IT Managed Services

Happy to work with a business to business organization in Chicago Global Point LLC.  They currently offer IT Managed Services, AWS Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery and more.

From their website, Global Point was launched by corporate IT consultants who wanted to bring their skills and experience to companies that need them, helping businesses grow and avoid growing IT…

What To Do With Your Political Site After The Election

What To Do With Your Political Site After The Election September 28, 2018 This is a reposting on election day of a previous article lost during unplanned server refreshes.

Its something farthest from your mind, I’m sure.  If you’re working for a political campaign you’re pushing forward and the next 5 weeks are all out war ahead.  What to do with your campaign site after the election?  Heck I…

Series of posts over the next few months to say what I’ve found works and what doesn’t in SEO.  So this is installment 1 in Top SEO Tools I Use.

So this is somewhat of a product endorsement piece but its also worth sharing with others what you’ve found useful and hopefully they’ll let you know what they have found useful. So Tools I use and even a few I don’t and why.

MonitorBacklinks.com

No the…

What To Do With Your Political Site After The Election

Don’t Take Down Your Site After The Election

  Its something farthest from your mind, I’m sure.  If you’re working for a political campaign you’re pushing forward and the next 5 weeks are all out war ahead.  What to do with your campaign site after the election?  Heck I suspect some of you are just now getting around to your website, or many feel it hasn’t helped in the past so no need to worry. …

An Article Worth A Second Read

So I was cleaning up some posts on Sean Delahanty’s site and making them fresh for folks when I ran across this often missed and misunderstood posting of a WDRD story.  Sean Delahanty and the controversy with jailing everyone for everything.

The issue can kinda be boiled down to this …

If you are arrested you are innocent until proven guilty.Thats our rule of law. Now LMPD and prosecutors feel…

Cloudflare DNS and CDN With WordPress High Availability On Google Cloud

Long Title But This Is About Search Rankings

Lets start off skipping the title and saying what this is actually about. Ranking on Google search for a clients site.  First off the site itself is just 2 months old, studies suggest it should take about 3 to 6 months to rank well.  The site languished in the 30s … or page 3 for the first month but now its presenting a commanding ranking.  Of the…

Study Reviews Success Of Website Technology And Congressional Wins

Think A Facebook Page Is All You Need For Your Campaign? You’d have lost in 2016.

  Hindsight is 20/20 and given the findings of the report below every campaign in 2016’s house races in the study, who relied solely on Facebook pages to represent their campaign’s online presence, would likely build a WordPress site now.  No one who had just a Facebook presence won in 2016.

There are a lot of…

Election Day Is Coming

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Mr Morkel is Our Candidate!

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Grow your awesome Idea

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