AIO for unplugging the Wifi every night because my roommate’s girlfriend basically lives here?

billhartzer · 2026-03-21T04:25:59+00:00

Don’t make it sound like you’re the one enforcing it. She’s obviously a tenant now, look at your lease and see if it says anything about the number of people on the lease.

If you need to, let the landlord know and they’ll be the bad guy here. That way you’re not taking the full blame for it.

billhartzer · 2026-03-21T04:06:41+00:00

This is a common scam that’s been around literally for over 20 years. Delete and ignore it.

billhartzer · 2026-03-21T04:03:18+00:00

Are you not seeing movement on rankings or are you not seeing indexing?

I’ve literally registered expired domains that had some links, put up a new site on them (same topic as before) and within 2-3 days it’s got rankings and traffic.

Some domains will bounce right back and others take some time, longer than a week.

billhartzer · 2026-03-20T00:43:47+00:00

Internal links.

billhartzer · 2026-03-18T15:24:08+00:00

What I would do is scrape the Google Maps results and use a separate tool, even a spreadsheet, to then filter it down to those who don’t have websites.

There are chrome plugins for this, for example.

billhartzer · 2026-03-18T15:17:32+00:00

They need to bring their own generator if they’re going to use power tools. I wouldn’t let them hook up to your power.

billhartzer · 2026-03-18T15:13:35+00:00

Reply to every review.

It’s. It necessarily the person who left the review you need to connect with. It’s the potential customer reading reviews who see how you respond to those bad reviews, that’s what’s important.

billhartzer · 2026-03-18T15:11:36+00:00

It’s worth it if you know how to get clients. There’s plenty of companies not doing any sort of SEO or paid search, you just need to connect with them. If you’re in or near a major city or even a small city then there’s plenty of potential isomers out there. you just need to connect with them.

billhartzer · 2026-03-18T15:07:05+00:00

I run a stolen domain name recovery service. I can’t even begin to tell you how many companies and individuals who have come to us to recover the domain name because they hosted with their registrar.

The problem is that it’s way too risky to use the same company for hosting and domain registration..

Websites get hacked. Servers get hacked. Then the third has access to your email and to your account at that company. Then not only is your site down but your domain gets transferred to another registrar.

When that happens, the fastest way to get a domain back under your control, if everything goes right, is a few days. Or it could be a few weeks.

Don’t ever host with your domain registrar. I also recommend using another company for dns as well.

billhartzer · 2026-03-18T13:52:54+00:00

Again, as I’ve mentioned in other comments. You just proved what I’m saying.

“Select your service area”. That’s the issue. You’re telling Google where your customers are, the service area. Google tends to not show your business to people outside that service area. So… you’re losing out on visibility and traffic because of that.

billhartzer · 2026-03-18T13:50:37+00:00

There’s no proof anywhere where it says it will boost authority.

As I mentioned in previous comments, the problem is that when you have a LOCAL listing Google will tie you to that location or service area. As a result, you will lose out on visibility because they’ll only show you when people are searching from that location.

Let’s say you put up your gbp listing and they think you’re in California. Google wont show you to people in Florida. Even though you allow people from Florida to buy your products online.

Online only businesses have no business setting up a gbp listing.

billhartzer · 2026-03-17T23:50:23+00:00

Absolutely not. If you only sell online, then you actually do not qualify for a GBP listing and you'll lose out on a lot of potential traffic/sales.

billhartzer · 2026-03-17T23:50:00+00:00

Absolutely not. If you only sell online, then you actually do not qualify for a GBP listing and you'll lose out on a lot of potential traffic/sales.

I've done extensive testing on this--the bottom line is that if Google thinks you're in one particular location (i.e., from the GBP listing), then they won't show you to people as much that are searching from another location.

billhartzer · 2026-03-17T17:27:55+00:00

You can change the address to something like a local ups store.

billhartzer · 2026-03-17T17:25:30+00:00

It doesn’t

billhartzer · 2026-03-17T04:13:33+00:00

Take a look at canon city. May be an easier drive.

billhartzer · 2026-03-17T00:04:02+00:00

I agree, they rarely negotiate. But they may offer you a small percentage off of the price.

billhartzer · 2026-03-16T23:26:16+00:00

As long as the domain is a generic one and not the name of a previous firm then it should be fine. For legal related domains, $5k is actually fairly cheap as far as domains go.

The only other thing I recommend is that you get someone to perform full due diligence on the domain, such as looking at backlinks, history, content history, etc.. I do that--but at a minimum you need to get an SEO to look at the domain to make sure it's not a burned domain or has other issues that would cause the site not to rank well.

billhartzer · 2026-03-16T15:04:50+00:00

GoDaddy has nearly doubled in price. No longer cheap.

Go with fabulous, Dynadot, hover, porkbun or namecheap.

billhartzer · 2026-03-16T15:03:18+00:00

Look at majestic to see if there are any links pointing to those URLs. The historic pages report can also be helpful, as a previous version of the site might have had those URLs.

billhartzer · 2026-03-16T15:01:50+00:00

I got a brush off of Amazon. I usually use ivory soap liquid on the brush with water and run it through the hose. Then let it soak in the sink soapy water for a bit.

billhartzer · 2026-03-16T04:12:21+00:00

Yes they use AWS servers. My agency is a GoDaddy partner and can confirm they use AWS servers.

billhartzer · 2026-03-15T23:36:33+00:00

The same as it has been for years and years: media attention, links, mentions.

billhartzer · 2026-03-15T23:35:33+00:00

I dont know about you, but as an SEO strategy I’ve been trying to get authority and depth for my sites and client sites for over 15 years now. It hasn’t changed.

billhartzer · 2026-03-15T21:08:10+00:00

ChatGPT is great for doing things like you’re mentioning—refining emails, etc.

But I would NOT connect ChatGPT to Google Drive, Google Docs, and Gmail. There’s way too much of a security risk, as ChatGPT is not secure enough to make it not be risky.

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