Google Posts: Growing under the radar
Google have now rolled out their Posts function for small businesses with a Google My Business account. But how do Posts affect click-through, ranking, mobile and social presence? We look at the facts.
Interview: Why marketers shouldn’t waste their time with Google Posts
Michael Bertini, Online Marketing Consultant and Search Strategist at iQuanti, told Search Engine Watch why he thinks that Google has gone off half-cocked with Posts, and why marketers would be better off expending their energies elsewhere.
Google Posts: GIFs and Videos published directly to SERPs
Since the tentative launch of Google Posts last year, users have remained in the dark about whether a fully-fledged roll-out might be on the horizon, and nothing much has happened in the space to justify the tag ‘experimental new podium’. However, that could be set to change.
Navigating the new ‘Google My Business’ Places Dashboard
Navigating the new ‘Google My Business’ Places Dashboard When Google My Business hit our computer screens mid-June it was an overnight change for many accounts. Minds were understandably boggled. For those who manage Google Places and Google Plus accounts, the new dashboard we saw come into play last year was bittersweet for many due to […]
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Navigating the new ‘Google My Business’ Places Dashboard
The Impending Demise of Google+?
With the news of Vic Gundotra’s departure from Google, the fate of his social network Google+ is unclear. Will it disappear or evolve in to something else?
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The Impending Demise of Google+?
Is Chasing AuthorRank A Waste Of Time For SEOs?
On June 7, 2011, Google announced support for a new type of markup called the Authorship Tag. This was the rel=”author” tag. It did not take long before the speculation started — when would Google start using data from this new tag to impact rankings? The industry took to…
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Google+ in 2014
Google+ has a slow start, and social sharing remains pretty slow but what’s in store for 2014?
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Google+ in 2014
Best of 2013: No 13 – Search in the Knowledge Graph era #bestof2013stod
Knowledge Graph seems fairly new and ‘not SEO-able’ but Gianluca Fiorelli shows that there is a lot you can do.
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Best of 2013: No 13 – Search in the Knowledge Graph era #bestof2013stod
3 Useful Google things you may have missed
Are you, like us, too busy to keep up with Google’s latest improvements and new features? Here are 3 things you may have missed!
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3 Useful Google things you may have missed
5 Ways To Unlock The Benefits Of Semantic Search
Search is changing. It is now more personal, more engaging, more interactive and more predictive. SERPs no longer display just 10 blue links — they have become more useful and more visually appealing across all device types. Semantic search is at the forefront of these changes, as evidenced…
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How To Leave Anonymous Business Reviews In Google+
For a long time, I’ve had some doctor friends complaining to me that once Google Places changed over to the new Google+ format, all their patients lost the ability to leave anonymous reviews (thus hurting their business and their rankings). They asked me what to do; and I, in turn, asked my…
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Study Shows No Clear Evidence That Google Plus Drives Ranking
At SMX Advanced, I presented results from a study we had done that convinced me that links in shares from Google Plus and Facebook behave like traditional web-based links. My statements at SMX Advanced were later disputed by Matt Cutts during his keyno…
Is This The Future of Local Directory SEO?
Nick Rink of Smart Local , a UK Local SEO firm, posted a screenshot of this new Google Local SERP this morning on Google+: I can’t find another example of this, or a full SERP screenshot, but I think there is one of two things going on here: 1) Google is doing this to […]
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No Reviews? The New Google+ Local Reviews Pop-Up Doesn’t Pop
Based on the comments I am seeing on yesterday’s post, it appears that the new Google+ Local Reviews Pop-Up has gone global. Since it seems like this is a real thing and not a test, I started looking at it a bit more to figure out the implications. One question that popped up: @localseoguide What […]
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Google+ Local Reviews Now Showing as SERP Pop-Ups – Goodbye Google+ Local Pages?
Not sure if I am seeing a test or if this is rolling out everywhere but now when I click on the “[#] Google reviews” link for a business from the SERPs, I am seeing a lightbox type of pop up display instead of being sent to the Google Plus Page for the business. Check […]
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Research Shows Only 2% of Social Shares Occur on Google+
New research shows Google+ lags behind Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and LinkedIn in terms of social sharing, accounting for only 2% of content shares.
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Research Shows Only 2% of Social Shares Occur on Google+
Google Rewards App Developers Using Google+ Sign-In With Better Visibility On Google Search
What are the most popular activities done or content consumed by apps? Google’s now bringing that information to its search results, assuming the app developer makes use Google+ Sign-In, that is. Google+ Sign-in was launched in February as an easy way to let anyone sign into a site or app…
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