Topic: Hootsuite

Social Media Scheduler Recommendation: StatusBrew

StatusBrew is the best value social media scheduler out there bar-none. It comes with bulk uploading and a suite of reporting tools that tell you what you need about your social media efforts quickly and easily. They also have outstanding customer service (which always helps sell things to me). In short, they are great. So […]

How Switching To HTTPS Helps Your SEO

Why are some sites HTTP and some sites HTTPS? If that’s a question you’ve ever asked yourself, then there are some fundamental things you need to know about the internet. Simply put, the S in HTTPS stands for secure and means that a site has a security certificate (more on that below). Back in 2017 […]

Off-Page SEO

Off-Page SEO is the other main type of SEO. It means anything you do off of a page to improve your page ranking. It mainly means inbound links. An inbound link is simply a link from another website to yours. It now (kinda) includes social media, which is why social media is useful for SEO. Google looks […]

When To Post On Social Media (And How Often)

If you’re running social media activity on a professional basis you need to be posting all the time. You also likely should be posting across multiple social networks. These two things combined can be exhausting, especially if you have other things to do too. To make your life easier, you should use a scheduling tool […]

Top Tips For Social Media Marketing

It can take a while to gain traction for most people / sites / brands on social media. A whole year isn’t an unlikely time frame before you start seeing any results at all, and it can be quite disheartening until you do start seeing results. Therefore, you should use that first year to hone […]

SearchCap: Bing chatbot, PageRank sculpting & RankBrain

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Why the future is all about PASO — personal assistant search optimizationApr 5, 2017 by John E Lincoln Have you started considering voice search in your SEO strategy? Columnist John Lincoln […]

SearchCap: Google penalty, the KKK & Gboard

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Natural News was not banned from Google over fake newsFeb 23, 2017 by Barry Schwartz A Google webmaster violation is the reason this web site was penalized by Google, not because […]

SearchCap: Google AdWords connects with Data Studio, Searchmetrics ranking factors & mobile popup study

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Data Studio beefs up AdWords MCC integrationFeb 10, 2017 by Ginny Marvin A new “Manager Accounts” option lets MCC account holders select individual sub-accounts for reporting. Here’s how Google’s own […]

SearchCap: Google green ad label, HTTPS migration & more

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: HTTP to HTTPS: An SEO’s guide to securing a websiteApr 14, 2016 by Patrick Stox Despite the numerous benefits of switching to HTTPS, many SEOs and website owners have not done […]

SearchCap: Google gas, link profiles & more

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google displaying gas prices in the local 3-packApr 13, 2016 by Barry Schwartz Now you can get the prices for filling up your tank in the Google results when searching for […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 17, 2014

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Starbucks & The Economist Admit To Using Google+ For SEO More Than Social Last Friday, a New York Times report on Google+ spotlighted Starbucks and The Economist as two brands currently […]

Enterprise Social Media Management Software 2014: A Marketer’s Guide

Table of Contents Section I: Market Overview Section II: Enterprise SMMS Market Trends Section III:Enterprise SMMS Platform Capabilities Section IV: Choosing an SMMS Platform View complete Table of Contents "Enterprise Social Media Management Software" editorial team: Editorial Advisor: Michelle Stinson Ross, Social Marketing Manager, Offers.com Editors: Karen Burka, Senior Research Consultant Claire Schoen, VP, Marketing […]

Third Party Page Management Comes To Google+

Google+ pages for brands & businesses were announced last week, and Google has been busy rolling out supporting features.  Yesterday, Google began displaying select Google+ pages in the search results.  Today it has been announced that Google+ partnered with six companies to create Google+ page management tools. The selected companies are: Buddy Media Context Optional Hearsay […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 15, 2011

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Tweaks Interface For “Keyword Ideas” In AdWords Keyword Tool Google has changed the way it’s displaying “Keyword Ideas” in its AdWords Keyword Tool, breaking them into a separate tab so […]