As a SEO Hero, for years, I've told my SEO clients that posting as their business on Google+ was a great way to get Google's attention, despite the fact that actual people rarely used or engaged with it. Google+ has never gotten anywhere near as popular with actual users compared to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and other social media networks. But, as it was Google's service, I always thought that by posting on their Google+ network would help your page links get noticed and indexed faster by Google. But, due to some security glitches and lack of use, Google is shutting down their own Google+ network. Or, so they say. Maybe this is just a plot to get everyone to start talking abou
I just had this Wix website design customer write me this question: QUESTION: "After hackers took over my Wordpress-based website, I put together a Wix website but have a problem remaining that I cannot solve. If you do google my website, you will still find URLs that have Japanese characters that lead to 404 errors. These were apparently the pages created by the hackers on the old site and old server, but it has been two or three months and I am not able to get rid of them! I used Google's "Remove URLs" which was supposed to temporarily remove them for 90 days, but it lasted 5 days! Can you help?" SEO HERO ANSWER: Sorry to hear about your hacked Wordpress website! Unfortunately, Wordpress
