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4 Go-Tos To Make Online Reviews Work For Your Business
By now, everyone knows that online reviews can have a tremendous impact on consumers’ purchasing decisions. Ultimately, a single review...
How Google Plus Profiles & Pages Gain Search Authority
At SMX East this past October, I gave a presentation titled, “Putting the SEO Power of Google+ to Work.” The centerpiece of that...
What Everybody Missed About Hummingbird: Social Signals
Danny Sullivan joined me for a live broadcast event via a Hangout on Air (HOA) this past Halloween, and this included a major revelation about...
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...
Study Shows No Clear Evidence That Google+ 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...
3 Predictions For The Future Of Google+ Profiles In Autosuggest
Google+ profiles have been showing up in the autosuggest listings in Google search results for some time. Now that we know this feature appears...
Official: Google “Share” Experiment Sends Pages From Search To Google+
A Tweet this morning from @BerianReed, head of search marketing of AutoTrader UK, uncovered some potentially deeper integration between...
Google Meets Miss Manners, Encourages Searchers To Thank Those Who +1’d Content
DEAR MISS GOOGLE: When I searched for something using your service, I found a friend had +1’d one of the of listings. What should one do...
Google +1 Button Hides In Search Results
Google Operating System blog reports Google has changed the behavior of the Google +1 button as seen in the Google search results. Instead of...
Cadbury’s Brin & Page Google +1 Chocolate Bars
Cadbury posted on their Google + page a picture of their latest milk chocolate bars named “Dairy Milk+ Bars.” The Milk+ bars come in...
Google News Spotlight Now Spotlights Your Friends & Stories They +1
The Google News Blog announced that the Spotlight section on Google News may contain stories that your Google + friends and Gmail contacts have...
Google+ Badge Tool Now Makes Facepile-Style Badges, +1 Counts To Be Consolidated
Want to show off the people who follow your shiny new Google+ Page, right on your own website? Now you can, with a Google+ badge that shows the...
Google+ Pages For Businesses: The AdWords Impact
Google’s introduction yesterday of Google+ Pages for businesses will likely have a dramatic impact on +1s in AdWords. When businesses...
Google Webmaster Live Help Via Google + Hangouts Tomorrow
Google has been quietly hosting Google + Hangouts for webmasters to ask Google Webmaster analysts and engineers questions. The next Google...
Google’s +1 Button Now Works With Google +, Go Figure!
Google has announced that the Google +1 button now works with Google’s social network, Google +. +1 Button Sharing on Google + Now when...
How Being “Friends” On Google+ Leads To Better Rankings
Want to rank better on Google? Get people to add you to their Google+ Circles, and that seems to be a potentially huge boost, based on a search...
Google Plus One Button Now 3X Faster
Google announced they have now speed up the Google +1 button for websites. The button is now automatically up to 3 times faster and best of all,...
Just A Matter Of Time: Google +1’s Being Sold By The Thousands
A report by the Atlantic shined a light on a new “social media service” which allows users to purchase Google +1’s in bulk....
The Bassackwardness Of Being Verified On Twitter, Facebook & Google+
As we await for Google+ to figure out however it wants to handle verified accounts, it’s worth reflecting how Google already has a...
Google, Twitter Flaunt Social Stats … It’s Like 2003 All Over Again
Whether on purpose or not, Google and Twitter are having a little back-and-forth this week about the size of their social networks — or,...
