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The buzz about Google + continues with it being the fastest growing social network in history. It reached 25 million users in weeks compared to Facebook which took years.
One of the major components of the Google + network is the Google +1 votes (the Google equivalent of Facebook “Likes”)
Even though Google + is growing at an unprecedented rate,…
Web speed continues to be a hot topic in 2011…especially in the Google camp.
We’ve already seen Google launch the Page Speed browser extension (2 years ago), the mod_pagespeed Apache module (last year) and the Page Speed Online tool and API earlier this year.
Well Google’s back with a new service. Google’s new Page Speed Service promises to…
Getting your homepage indexed in Google is only the 1st step to your SEO success. It’s important that all your key web pages are indexed and appearing for relevant searches.
For new websites (or poorly promoted websites), they often suffer from poor indexing which means you’re getting limited value from your Google exposure.
Below are 5 tips to help improve…
Social media is probably already a key part of your marketing strategy (if it’s not…crawl out from under that rock).
But as many of you will attest, doing social media marketing effectively is a rather time consuming process. And when time’s a commodity that many small business owners lack, it helps to have tools to streamline the process.
Now before…
How do you measure the success of your online campaigns?
Profit, Revenue, Sales Numbers….
Ultimately all businesses measure their campaign success based on dollars and cents, but sometimes focusing purely on immediate ROI means you’ll miss valuable acquisition opportunities.
Remember, not everyone is going to feel comfortable buying from you straight away…so why not use a less confronting…
After giving us a sneak peak of the +1 button back in March this year, Google has now finally launched their social widget Google +1.
Google explains the new launch…
“+1 is the digital shorthand for ‘this is pretty cool.’ To recommend something, all you have to do is click +1 on a webpage or ad you find useful. These
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When was the last time you remembered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo agreeing on something? Well don’t think too hard because it just happened! In a rare display of mutual consensus, the three search giants got together to announce the launch of schema.org a website created in support of a common language for structured data markup on web pages.
As told…
Just after a week of launching Google Wallet Google has launched it’s much anticipated Google Offers in Portland with selected local businesses offering customers some great deals to avail.
Google Offers, touted as a potential Groupon killer, came into existence after Google’s ambitious attempt to buy out Groupon failed last year. Soon after, Google announced that it was…
With many businesses having both an offline, as well as an online presence, much of the time the two operate as 2 separate entities. Having the two elements work hand in hand can really give your business a boost, as what the customer sees in one area will be reinforced in full on the other.
I’ve outlined 7 handy tips…
When you do a search for your business name, how many pages appearing in the Top 10 of Google do you directly control?
Effectively controlling the Top 10 listing in Google can help convert more customers, as many people use search engines to learn more about your company. The more pages that you control means that you can direct the…