Looking to set up a basic website or blog for your business? Look no further than WordPress. WordPress offers all of the essentials that you will need for your website and it is very user friendly. WordPress is trusted and used by CNN Reporters to top musical acts like Jay-Z and Katy Perry. With the …
Advertorials, an advertisement made to look like an editorial, are being scrutinized by Google and major UK newspapers have already fell victim to PageRank penalties. Matt Cutts, the head of webspam at Google released the official statement,” Please be wary if someone approaches you and wants to pay you for links or “advertorial” pages on …
Receiving a negative review online can seem like the end of the world to small business owners, especially if your company is in the early stages of building an online presence. Although reading a bad comment can be a harrowing and even emotional experience, the steps you take when responding to the issue can make …
Facebook’s mobile application offers the option of searching for places ‘nearby’ when somebody is looking for a local business. The nearby search function will return businesses that friends have either liked, recommended, or checked-into. Since Facebook is a social network, the tool works best with those users who are most actively social about sharing their …
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Earlier this month, Google stopped providing the statistic “not selected” from their advanced section of “Index Status”. As a webmaster and SEO specialist, this tool was very helpful to see which pages were being filtered out. The “not selected” window was pretty broad. Google can choose not to select a page based on a number …
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There is a lot of speculation about Google pushing Penguin updates without announcing them. But not to worry people, at least right now, a representative from Google says this is not true. On record the last time Google announced an update on the anti-spam filter, Penguin Update 3, was in early October, over four months …
Smartphone and tablet users are using their mobile devices for search more often than ever before, and mobile users are becoming more acquainted with the search options on their devices. Search engines have been competing to be featured on both browsers and devices for years. This has lead the formation of deals that have caused …
YouTube is constantly being updated with new videos, comments, and content making it index on Google extremely well. Having a channel and uploading videos is easy to do and great to build SEO rankings for your website, but optimizing your videos is where people get lazy or don’t know how to. Here is a checklist …
While Facebook is no stranger to the smartphone side of social media, a recent article suggested that this network plans to morph itself from a company that is “mobile fist” to “mobile best.” So what will this mean and will this social network dominate in the mobile realm as well? As of now, the main …
If you are noticing a high bounce rate for your business’s website, not only are you losing out on potential sales, but the overall message should be that your website is not good enough. It’s time to take a step back, dissect the issue and make some improvements. A bounce rate is when someone clicks …
In a recent poll of more than 350 small businesses, Constant Contact was able to confirm that more than half do not bother to update their online business listings. The survey uncovered some interesting information from these small businesses including the fact that most don’t feel they have the time to deal with the work …
Over the last couple of years, business owners have come to realize that more people are using smartphones and tablets to search for businesses online. People are always on the go, with their ever so reliable smartphone glued to their hand. In order to capitalize on this increasingly growing development, businesses have to conduct research …
Facebook will be launching a new app that will track its user’s location and “connect” with other users nearby who share interests or attending the same events, according to Bloomberg News. Facebook’s goal is to build a mobile Facebook experience that helps people connect both over their social network and in real life. The new …
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Social media management tools are a great way to save time and stream line your social media marketing campaigns. If you find the right one it can make your life much easier by allowing you to share updates across all your social media accounts, from one platform. One such social media management tool is called …
