Jan 30 2013

11 Innovative Google Authorship Profile Pictures That Will Inspire You

Google Authorship is fast becoming a necessity for all bloggers and content writers to help verify and add credibility to their work.

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3 Ways to Get Google + to Work for You

Facebook is seemingly insoluble and undefeatable, seemingly... but will it always be the social media empire that it is today? Many experts in the field of social media simply say Facebook has done an excellent job, but it is really only a matter of time before their tombstone is adjacent to Myspace's. "As a company like Facebook grows, it's natural for middle management to begin to fatten up and become 'safe'.

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6 Unique Tips for Using Google+ for Marketing

Here are six tips for using Google+ that you will not see elsewhere. 1 - Use Google+ hangouts to communicate with your customers and potential business partners. This is a very under-utilized tip because it does take a lot of time and effort on your part - to pull in what is potentially a very small amount of customers. But what most business managers and their staff fail to realize is that it is actually a very...

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Did Google Plus Bring Anything New To SEO?

Though it took some time, Google finally took the step to enter the social media arena with Google Plus. The platform is fairly intuitive to use and has had strong growth since its implementation. Organization through Circles provides an excellent way for the user to direct the correct content to the appropriate audience. Of course, businesses and marketers want to know how Google Plus is impacting SEO. *Matt Cutts, Principle Search Engineer, Speaks On Google Plus...

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FTC Investigating Google for Possible Anti-Trust and Privacy Issues Over Google+

Internet Giant Google has been the subject of a recent suit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as it alleges that Google’s recently launched Search Plus feature violates users’ privacy and unfairly favors Google products over competition. When Google launched the new “Search Plus” weeks ago, competing social networks Facebook and Twitter immediately claimed that it unfairly favored Google+ as it integrates photos and posts from Google+ into...

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Optimizing Your Google Plus Profile

Google Plus is the latest social network to really catch wind; it is progressing at an increasing rate and is at roughly 50 million users. Facebook is however, on over 800 million users. Googles’ 50 million is not something to be sniffed at, it IS expanding extremely fast and is a contender in the social media world. Taking into consideration it is a definite possibility that Google plus will dominate social networking, businesses need to think...

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Google+: Is It Worth The Effort For Driving Traffic to Your Website?

You have just gotten used to Tweeting updates about your website, and Facebook has been a resource for years, but now Google has come out with Google Plus (G+ henceforth) and you are wondering if it is a useful property for future promotions. The short answer is that every avenue is useful, but the cost versus time equation comes into play. There are a few ways of looking at the real meat of the problem, so...

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