This Reverse-Proxy Negative SEO Attack That Can Wipe You Out Overnight www.billhartzer.com/seo/reverse-...

Per John Berryhill (a trusted domain name attorney): If you are using a domain name for personal email, a hobby, or some kind of other personal or family use, you NEED to move it out of GoDaddy immediately:

Interesting AI Overview search result. If you're doing SEO right, you can literally dominate the AI Overviews. Apparently 'domain diversity' doesn't really exist in AI Overviews. In organic SERPs, domain diversity used to be a thing, not wanting to show too many results with the same domain name.

How many for you? All 20 for me.

Evaluating expired domain names for quicker Google indexing: Expired domain names don’t get indexed quickly because they have “authority.” More details in my latest post: www.hartzer.com/blog/valuate...

New Post: What a Recent Test Reveals About Expired Domain Names and Google Indexing www.billhartzer.com/domain-names...

What was your favorite Super Bowl ad?

I'm speaking at the SEOST Digital Marketing Conference 2026 April 29 – May 3, 2026. Use my promo code 'Bhartzer26' for 15 percent off all ticket levels: seospringtraining.com/purchase-202...

Bill Hartzer (@billhartzer.com) wants you to focus on structuring content with clear headings, lists, and formatting because classic SEO tactics remain the most effective strategy, even for AI-driven search. maj.to/4pQ7t3I

Bill Hartzer (@billhartzer.com) recommends analysing the top results for your target keywords, identifying the key topics they cover, and creating a more comprehensive and in-depth piece of content. maj.to/4pQ7t3I

Google's discover update is live. www.billhartzer.com/google/googl...

I think this one is much more accurate than the one before. (And yes, I was in a Skittles commercial a while back.)

Squarespace has a "big game" commercial this year and it's about domain names. www.billhartzer.com/domain-names...

What ChatGPT thinks of me.

Did I get a click from a celebrity? LOL Search query was "why is my name on Google Trends". I'm assuming that if they're on Google Trends then they're famous?

What a Colorado Manslaughter Charge Reveals About a Broken Patient Safety System www.vanweylaw.com/insights/dea...

G2 says B2B buyers are changing how they search. G2 says B2B buyers now turn to AI tools like ChatGPT more often than Google when researching products and solutions. That changes the top of the funnel. Discovery is happening inside AI answers, not just search results.

@johnmu.com are you aware of any changes to the reconsideration request process/system? seeing some chatter x.com/Charles_SEO/...

Now this is real Spam protection!

Have you ever registered a domain name just to redirect it to an affiliate link?

It's been 10 years now that I've been running Newgle.xyz, the "non-dot com" search engine. It's essentially Google results but WITHOUT any dot com domain names in the results. Here's the SERPs for "SEO". Notice that there's no AI Overviews in the results.

Behind the Privacy Shield: How I Expose Hidden Website Owners in Minutes www.billhartzer.com/domain-names...

Google Ads is now integrated with Webflow www.billhartzer.com/search-engin...

Follow up GSC question @johnmu.com. (cc @not-a-robot.com) If URL appears in AIO and 10 blue links, does this affect Avg. Pos in GSC? Or is only 'ten blue links' used to calculate?

New podcast drop: Marketing Speak I joined to talk about KPIs for AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), what matters in the AI-search layer, and how to measure visibility when clicks don’t show up. Listen here: www.marketingspeak.com/kpis-for-aeo...

🌟My new article is out on @searchengineland.bsky.social 📢 🌎🌍🌏 International SEO in 2026: What still works, what no longer does, and why searchengineland.com/internationa...

eBay is banning "buy for me" AI agents from its platform. eBay has made its position unmistakably clear, and it did it in contract language that leaves very little wiggle room. www.billhartzer.com/ai/ebay-bans...

Get an email like this? It's a trademark scam: www.billhartzer.com/marketing/ur...

Hey @johnmu.com! Is Google aware that a lot of sites are having trouble with favicons in the SERPs? I keep seeing reports all over the place about sites having trouble with favicons. I know sites that are having issues, even after having replaced the file completely. Google shows an old favicon.

This "show me your site" thread on H/N right now: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4661... Pssst... the amount of real traffic it's sending to sites is unreal.

Apparently there's a nationwide Verizon outage. I don't use them, anyone experiencing this?

Is AI Worth It? Learn how to focus on what hasn't changed to build a sustainable and effective SEO strategy. with @nikkihalliwell.com, @olgazarr.bsky.social, Gordon Meagher, @billhartzer.com, Simon Cox, Nitin Manchanda, Anthony Barone, Greg Heilers and Tin Đudajek

GET YOUR NAME OUT THERE IN 2026! Sitebulb is now accepting article pitches 👉https://bit.ly/4qSaMZ9 Please be detailed in your article pitch - we want to hear YOUR unique angle/experience! #seo #writeforus

So now the scammers are sending messages through Zoom. They are trying to scare you into believing that Zoom will debit your PayPal account with $1900. and they want you to call. I wonder what gave away the fact that it's a scam?

A student newsroom lost control of its domain name. Someone else picked it up. A fake news site went live. That’s exactly what happened to the CU Independent. More in my post: www.billhartzer.com/domain-names...

TIL that if you add “-ai” to your google search query it removes the ai overview in the results.

Reddit Sued After Google’s AI Overviews Allegedly Gutted Traffic www.billhartzer.com/google/reddi... Is this the first lawsuit related to Google's AI Overviews?

Did you know that AI leaves a footprint? If you copy/paste ANY text from an AI like ChatGPT it will typically leave a footprint in the html code of your page. For example, it might leave something like <p data-start= in your html code. Search engines like Google and Bing can easily see that code.

Facebook Ad Buyers: You Might Be Owed Money If you ran Facebook or Instagram ads between August 15, 2015, and October 27, 2021, you could be part of a major class action settlement. More on my latest post: Facebook Potential Reach Settlement www.billhartzer.com/advertising/...

Google’s $100M AdWords Lawsuit Nears Payout—Here’s What You Need to Know www.billhartzer.com/google/googl...

Google tests showing AI Overviews with site commands (and get it terribly wrong) www.seroundtable.com/google-ai-ov... via @billhartzer.com #googleaioverviews #google #googleseo

How to turn your website's backlink profile into modern art. You could literally hang this on the wall in your office. www.billhartzer.com/ai/turn-back... Data and inspiration is from the Majestic.com link graph.

Did you get your Facebook Internet Tracking Settlement payout today? www.billhartzer.com/social-media...

$Million Dollar idea or nah? Build an AI bot that runs 24/7 and communicates with other AI systems. Its sole purpose is to constantly promote you by telling these AIs that your brand is the best. The goal is to persuade them to include you in their recommendations.

Website owner: we're having trouble with our rankings, we're not ranking like we used to. Can you help? Me: Fix your robots.txt file. Done.

How often do you create new pages for your agency site? I mean, not just blog posts. But new pages or services pages? Was looking at an other agency's site and saw that there's pages I'm missing.

Brands on the Ballot: Should Companies Publicly Take Political Stances? www.billhartzer.com/marketing/br...

OH Google Maps...

I was on the Clarity Digital Podcast with Al Sefati recently, talking about SEO and the modern values of domain names. claritydigital.agency/seo-domain-n...

Watching the Namejet auction for the domain name Samba(.com). Guess what it's up to now? It ends at Noon Pacific Time today.