Google Launches New Menu Feature Google launched a new feature recently that displays full restaurant menus right on the search result pages. The project was initially launched as an experiment, but the new change has been made live and accessible to users, though only available in the US so far. The feature comes up at …
Google Adds Full Restaurant Menus to Search Result Pages Read More »
Due to the recent updates, marketers and businesses alike, have felt that Facebook has taken away some of that value they earned from building an audience. However, these updates have done just the opposite; they have improved the newsfeed content, making more engagement and fresher content more readily available for users! On Facebook, there are …
Go to superpages.com In the top bar, search for your business by name and location. If your business is not listed in the results, click “add your FREE listing” in the top right. When you create the new listing it will need to be approved before it is added to the super pages database. If …
Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt, announced that he will be giving $1 million to help aid global problems when it comes to technology. After traveling all over the world, Schmidt saw that countries continue to have strong censorship on the internet to the public. Like China for example, block website content and monitor individuals Internet access. During …
February 25 2014 marks the 3 year anniversary of the Google Panda Algorithm. The Panda algorithm is the most widely spread algorithm update that Google has ever announced. The algorithm was designed to penalize websites that have low quality content and many websites still have not recovered. Since it’s initial launch date Google has announced that …
Yesterday, the Ow.ly URL shortening service crashed leaving thousands of broken URLs across the internet. Used by many to shorten URLS for social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+, the crash caused numerous postings to have links that lead nowhere. Ow.ly is most notably used by Hootsuite, a social media deck used to …
Klout is a online influence measurement website formed back in 2008. The name is derived from the word “clout” meaning “influence” specifically in business or politics. Klout uses a score from 1 to 100 with 100 being the highest social influence. Every Twitter user has an already established Klout score. When you attach other social …
What is Klout? Should I care about my Klout Score? Read More »
A couple of weeks ago, Google dropped a cool $500 million on an Artificial Intelligence start-up company called Deep Mind. Deep Mind has been very successful in its first 3 years and has a promising future. It has been known to compete for employee talent with the Silicon Valley powerhouses like Google and Facebook. Not …
Future of Search Moves to AI & Personal Virtual Assistants Read More »
Today, having a mobile website or a responsive website is important for both your SEO and the overall functionality of your site. With the growth in smart phone users over the past years, it has become a necessity to have a mobile/responsive website. So now you have to choose, a responsive design or a mobile …
Infinite scroll is a trending feature on websites offering non-stop scrolling and viewing without having to click onto the next page. This kind of ease of access is a great user experience design element that keeps viewers browsing longer. It is not a new idea, but it is becoming a huge trend, sites like Facebook, …
Search Engine Optimization for Websites with Infinite Scroll Read More »
Even experienced computers users who spend time online everyday can have trouble telling the difference between a browser and a search engine. It can get extremely confusing when the search engine and browser have the same “name” like Google and Google Chrome. Knowing the fundamental differences between the two will not only impress your friends, …
What’s the difference between search engines and browsers? Read More »
Business owners and Webmasters alike take this warning from Google seriously: “Action required: You have 3 weeks to save your Google Places Listing” (email sent out by Google). In summary the email from Google is given business owners and webmasters until February 21, 2014 to review and update their business information on their Google Places …
Scheduling Facebook posts are easy and efficient for businesses that want to push their news updates using their Facebook page. Scheduling is also great if a post is time sensitive information, for example a deadline at midnight or a contest starting at 3 am. Here is how to schedule a post: 1. Choose the type …
Rich snippets and structured data markups can be an effective way of helping Google to understand the content on your website, and give your overall SEO a boost. However, if you use rich snippets on your website, you should be aware that Google is now penalizing websites for using these structured data markups incorrectly, or …
Part 1 Go to https://google.com/webmasters/tools Click “Add a site” in the top right corner Enter your site name such as: example.wordpress.com Choose the HTML Tag option for verifying ownership of you site Copy the string of digits in quotations after the word content Example If your html tag is: <meta name=”google-site-verification” content=”MzA898RHENzQD198HGbitpf-DbGRTEom_a3uFSEZ5Dk” /> You would only …
How to add your wordpress.com to Google Webmasters Tools Read More »
Today, Twitter will announce its first earnings report since the social media network went public in November of last year. Many are interested to see what the numbers will be, and everyone hopes for a better result than that of Facebook after it its own first earnings after becoming public. The main area of focus …
The featured image feature on WordPress blog posts can be a very nice feature to help make you site look more aesthetically pleasing, especially when you are using the “recent posts” widget. Sometimes, however, some WordPress themes will include that featured image in the content of the blog post itself. In some themes, you may …
How to Remove Featured Image from Appearing in Blog Post in WordPress Read More »
Another day, another new set of social media statistics. According to Shareaholic, a content discovery and sharing platform used by 200,000+ websites around the world, 20% of all visitors to sites across the web in December came through Facebook and Pinterest. Those are pretty big numbers and considering that Pinterest is still a fairly new kid on …
Facebook and Pinterest: Strong Referral Traffic Sources Read More »
