The Web Guy, Online Insights for Business
Last week I uncovered a study that showed links from a Google+ Page have a significant effective on your search rankings. Well it seems that Google isn’t just taking notice of links on it’s own platform when it comes to Social Media signals. Links In Tweets Count Too Branded3.com used their award-winning petition website, Twitition, [...]
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What makes for good SEO? With Google maturing and adapting its algorithm on a regular basis it can be difficult to be sure what really does have an impact when it comes to search engine optimisation. There are some factors we know for certain. Content is a critical component of effective SEO, and not just [...]
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This is a guest post by Dan Cristo Following in Facebook’s footsteps, Google is poised to release a new commenting system for websites called, Google Comments. I’m not going to explain the differences between Google Commenting System, Facebook Commenting System, Disqus, LiveFyre or even Triberr Commenting System, although there are some noteworthy differences. What I would like [...]
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Since launching in in early 2011 Google+ is still seen by many as the “Geeks Social Network”. There’s no doubt that the Tech Savvy are in the majority on the platform, but underneath the discussion lies a potential that is just starting to surface. It almost goes without saying that Google’s search domination was going [...]
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It’s official the summer holiday season has now finished, for me at least. Leading up to the summer break I had been hitting the blog and social media quite hard. My daily blogging experiment finally gave way part way through July. Even though I had all good intentions to blog whilst on vacation, it never [...]
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This post is dedicated to Huw Sayer, Gary Dickenson & Sally Ormond, following an involved Twitter discussion between us, over my recent post ROI in Social Media: Taking the Numbers Out of the Equation. And a subject Gary had covered in a post some 2 years previously: Why you can’t base twitter success and expertise on stats. [...]
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Today was one of those days when you are really busy but enjoying so much, everything you’re doing you hardly notice time disappear. To many Adnams is seen as a company with lots of resource and funding but in reality things are no different to many medium sized companies. One thing that makes Adnams stand [...]
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Small businesses are always asking me, “How do I get to number 1 in Google?”, invariably my reply is, “How much are you willing to spend?”, with a wry smile of course. I do have to remind myself that even now in today’s switched on world there are lots of businesses that still don’t understand [...]
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Forget the excuses there just aren’t any! As a business owner you need to blog, you need to be displaying to your prospective customer base you know what you are talking about. You need credibility. You need the SEO benefits blogging brings to your web site. You need the customer interaction it facilitates. Anyway what [...]
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Google do things at times that really change the game. Not only can the competition not keep up but they find it hard to know in what direction to go. In a further bid to dominate search, and at the benefit of the end user as well, Google has launched it’s new search functionality “Instant”. [...]
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