Recently, a creator of Twitter released a new app called “Jelly.” But what is Jelly? Jelly is a question and answer application which allows users to take pictures and ask questions to their network of friends and followers. Rather than text or image search Google, this app crowd-sources searching to your friends. The user is …
How Do I Recover ‘Not Recommended’ Yelp Reviews? Many of our clients are facing problems with their yelp profiles with Yelp’s new step-ups in their ‘Recommended Review’ filter. Yelp has taken to filtering both good and bad reviews on business profiles in order to promote authentic and helpful reviews and weed out fake ones. What …
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Beware of this email scam that is making its way around to local business owners. A website called businessrecognition.org is sending local business owners an email saying that they have won the “2013 Best of (random city) Award” selected by the (random city) Awards Program. The award will include a link where you have to …
Continuing with animal names, Google’s newest search update has been named Crows. But unlike its animal counterparts, Crows is not an algorithm; instead it helps calculate the distance between two places faster easier, and more accessible. Check out the example below: The OneBox as they are calling it, shows answers to search queries right away, …
Just a few months after Facebook began using hashtags in posts and comment, the social media platform started testing a second popular twitter feature: trending topics. The initial trial run was only released to a small number of users in the US on the Facebook Mobile app. Recently, after a successful trial run on the …
What are header tags? Header tags are used to separate different sections of content on a webpage. To webmasters these headers are known at HTML header tags, head tags, heading tags and SEO header tags. The header tags range from h1 to h6, with the h1 tag being the most important and h6 being the …
As you already know, LinkedIn is an important and beneficial network for you as a business or brand to contribute to. A LinkedIn Company Page is a successful way to connect with an audience that may be different from those on other social networks, and it allows members to learn about your business, products, services …
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Many people wonder how Google ranks each search result; is there a different algorithm for results 1-3, and another algorithm for results 4-6, and yet another algorithm for results 7-10? The short answer to this question is that Google does not use different algorithms for each individual search result. Google uses the same algorithm to …
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Content rules the roost these days when it comes to ranking well in search results. If you want to create material for your site that should help you rank better than others, there are some tips you can use. 1) Remember that when most people initiate a search, they are asking a question – regardless …
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About a year and a half ago Yelp announced that they were going to provide consumer alerts for those companies that violated Yelp’s review policy. In October of 2012, Yelp announced that they had issued consumer alerts for 8 businesses that were soliciting or purchasing fake reviews. Then in August of last year Yelp announced …
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Facebook allows page administrators to allow other people to post to the page and offers many different levels and restrictions. Here we will explain how to add an admin and explain the different roles. To start, we navigate to the page you want to add the admin to and click on “Edit Page” and then …
In a push to reduce copyright infringements on images, Google is now offering a new solution to filter image searches by “usage rights”. This search tool has been available since 2009, but it has only recently been moved out of the ‘advanced settings’ to the main menu of search filters and tools. This is not …
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Adding new users on a WordPress site can be very helpful when you have multiple people that need access to the website. It helps to keep things organized and determine who did what. It is also useful if you have multiple authors blogging. Adding a User First, you must be an administrator to add another …
Pinterest, much like Facebook, is looking to improve their search tool; to make this a possibility, Pinterest has beefed up their VisualGraph tool. They have teamed up with the company, VisualGraph, to improve their search query and discovery on its website and mobile apps. Representatives from the social media titan, said that this new acquisition …
In order to ensure that your website is properly optimized for all the major search engines, you will need to install Bing webmaster tools onto your website. This will allow you to submit your xml sitemap to be read by Bing and Yahoo search engines. To install Bing webmaster tools go to bing.com/webmaster. If you do …
Google webmasters tools has made a huge change to how we view search results. Users are now able to find the keywords visitors are using to find the website. You can now see the top keywords that lead to impressions and clicks to that page. In addition, you can now expand your searched pages to …
Similar to YouTube, Vimeo is an online video platform that allows uploading of user generated video content. If you have great video content uploaded to Vimeo why not share it on your website? Here are the instructions on how to embed a video on your website from Vimeo. Open the video inside Vimeo you want …
The holidays have passed and the New Year has officially arrived. While many of us may have spent some time reflecting on 2013 and what we resolve to do personally in the year 2014, it is also important to consider this for your business or brand. Successes, failures, goals to reach; these are all factors …
In case there was any doubt that social media remains a powerful marketing tool, here are some numbers that may inspire you to get your business more active online. According to the Pew Research Center, 72% of adults online are on social networks. Even more interesting is the fact that 42% of those folks use …
Last week I covered the 15% decrease in Google authorship display in SERPs and this week we are going to briefly cover how to improve your Google Authorship. Matt Cutts, head of Spam at Google, said that the decrease in authorship display in SERPs was to eliminate lower quality sites and reward those with a …
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