Last night Jade Wang from Google announced that there were new updates to editing your Google+ local listing. The general changes include a status bar that informs you if your edits were accepted or rejected and informs you if you have completely filled our all of your business information. I also noticed that you are …
We are all well aware of the latest Smartphone App obsession with Instagram, which was recently bought by Facebook thus further expanding its online empire, but Twitter has recently rolled out an App of its own that although differs in the fact that it features videos instead of pictures, is something that the social media …
It’s beginning to seem like anything that Google touches becomes Internet gold. Google+ has now become the 2nd most popular Social Media Network in terms of share of users. While Google+ currently ranks 2nd at 25%, it has now surpassed Twitter and YouTube, who both came in tied in 3rd at 21%. Google still has …
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Well, we’re not too far into the new year and Google has already sprung another Panda refresh on us. This one went live on January 22 and was the 24th Panda release to date. This refresh affects about 1.2% of all English search queries and proves that Google plans to keep these updates coming on …
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Let’s first recap the “Not Provided” statistic. Google secure search is designed to product your search criteria from programs that want to capture this data for marketing purposes. This allows marketers to better understand your search habits and better market themselves to fit your search criteria. When secure search was launched, those using the system …
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As a business owner, how are you going to get your business found on Facebook? We will discuss some of the prerequisites Facebook requires in order for your business to be found, and some of the strategies you can use after you succeeded with the prerequisites. Let’s go over the prerequisites first: 1.) Facebook Graph …
The war of words in the search industry in 2013 has started with a bang. There is little love lost between the giants of the technology, internet, and search industries. Billion dollar lawsuits are thrown around just as quickly as harsh words, and there are a lot of harsh words. There are several intriguing plots …
Looking back over the last few decades, it is incredible to see just how fast technology has advanced and evolved. There was a time not too long ago when people didn’t have Google, and had to use the yellow pages to find a business or number, and not yellowpages.com, the huge yellow book that weighed …
Facebook does it again. The team has announced they will be installing a search bar within Facebook for users to find results based on the information provided by Facebook users. After hearing this, my first reaction was “isn’t that the internet?” After looking into it more, it began to sound pretty interesting. The search …
We’ve heard time and time again that blogging has the ability to aid in boosting your online exposure as well as your business, but what happens when you’re at a loss for what to post about next? It can be easier for some brands or companies to churn out daily blog posts depending on the …
First released on the IPhone and IPad, Facebook now offers an app for managing your facebook pages on Android Phones. This app allows businesses to edit their Facebook Page on the go and can be especially useful for anyone who is not regularly in the office. Additionally, Business owners and page managers can see view …
There are many things that people will tell you are the most important things to do for your Website and SEO campaign. Ranging from an onsite blog and Social Media pages, to better content and meta data. No doubt these are very important things for any SEO campaign to have, but I feel like there …
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Adaption is essential for survival in the real world, and in the world of SEO. In professional football, the team that adapts and alters their game plan each week has a better chance of winning than the team who makes no changes in strategy. SEO is no different than this. If you want to figure …
Google was able to win its recent antitrust victory behind the argument that its search competition was “always a click away”. The decision affirms what the majority of search users have already decided—Google offers reliable search results. By choosing to drop its case against Google, the FTC accepts Google’s claim that its competition, Bing, Blekko, …
I’m sure many of you have been following or at least hearing about the dispute between Google and its competitors brought before the Federal Trade Commission, which sparked an investigation into Google’s tactics and search algorithms to decide whether or not they had been violating antitrust and anticompetition laws. Microsoft whose search engine Bing, is …
RSS Graffiti is a free Facebook app developed in 2009 that takes posts from online media platforms such as blogs, video channels, and news sources, and publishes them to a users Facebook profile, page, group, or wall. This tool will automatically check the URL inserted for new posts and publish the post to Facebook: either …
Many know that claiming your Google Local Listings is one of the most important steps in beginning SEO for your site. Completely filling out all of the information in your profile will help take full advantage of your listing. Here a few facts that many business fail to take advantage of: Doctors, Dentists, Physicians If …
Link building is one of the most important things a business owner or SEO could do for their website. The more quality backlinks you can have pointing to your website, the better Google will look upon your site and the better your search results will be. The problem is, like with most things in life, …
