Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Well, Google+ is making that possible. Remember that Google product? With Google+ Ripples you can see who has shared a particular post and through a graphic representation view the string of shares from one person to the next. Google is always innovating. It’s the sign of a strong company.

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AUGUST 13, 2011

While everyone’s talking about Google Plus being some type of game-changer well before it’s even had wide release, many are already asking if it’s going to be the Facebook killer. It’s obviously too soon to tell, but Google has made great strides to dominate the online world.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Google+ business pages haven’t even been out a week yet and already they’re getting criticisms. I hear that the things he wants Google+ to do are on the way. Should Google have added those features before rolling its pages out publicly? I think Google+ business pages have a lot of potential. Possibly so.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2011

» Who’s The Bad Guy, Google Or Bing? Google claims Bing is copying its search results. I’d be curious to know if any of those signals and features include crawling Google’s search results. Evidently, Google thinks Bing could be doing something underhanded as well. That’s a bold claim.

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Small Business Mavericks

MAY 29, 2014

There’s been a lot of talk swirling around the latest update of Google’s Panda algorithm. But some pretty big names have taken a hit, according to the Motley Fool’s look at How One Google Algorithm Update Can Kill A Business. Google is just seeking to validate what’s already there.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

Google Authorship has been a hot item in SEO circles and where Internet marketers hang out. What has some people confused, however, is whether or not it’s a useful tag for when you are writing and publishing articles under a pseudonym, a mascot, or a persona representing your company. Google says no. That’s right.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Google has a market research tool that few people know about. You don’t need a Google account to use the tool. There is also a column for Competition, making it similar to the old Google External Keyword Research tool that was retired earlier this year. It’s called Global Market Finder.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Your landing page, according to Google , affects quality score, ad rank, and advertising costs. So what does Google look for in a landing page, and how does it actually play out with the real people who visit your site? Here’s what Google says it looks for: providing relevant, useful, and original content.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The consumer will, theoretically, go online, search Google for the keyword, and then click on a website with one of the highest page ranks for search results. As a consequence of this, many Google users will try to track down a business by entering a desired product and then a local area.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

In the meantime, I expect Google to keep increasing search complexity such that it’s prohibitively expensive to make & market a small independent commercial website. In Aaron Wall’s world, big companies win because Google let them win. I’m not saying it couldn’t happen, or that it won’t happen.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 23, 2011

How does Google Maps rank your business for searches conducted? But your Google Maps listing will be ranked based on a user’s search query and your location from their search location. But your Google Maps listing will be ranked based on a user’s search query and your location from their search location. Prominence.

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JUNE 29, 2012

It started with the Google Panda update that first hit the Net back in February 2011. Since then Google has run that update several times. It worked like gold for some of those companies for a little while. Then Google slapped them silly and they went reeling. But I think such plans work a lot less these days.

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JUNE 2, 2014

Panda 4.0 – Google’s latest algorithm change publicized this week – isn’t a “sweeping overhaul” but merely another change Google is making in their continued quest to rid the web of spammy content and sites. What happened to eBay is no surprise, and they aren’t alone.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

1 and Google was No. The Coca-Cola Company fell in at No. This year, it’s Amazon, Apple, The Walt Disney Company, Google, and Johnson & Johnson rounding at the top 5. Good company to work for. Good feeling about the company. Last year, Amazon ranked No. Apple was No. Plays a valuable social role.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Google recently announced a new tool webmasters can use to fight spam or to clean up after a bad SEO campaign. Google’s head of webspam team, Matt Cutts, said that most webmasters will not have a use for the tool. It’s called the Disavow Link Tool. But this tool does come with a warning.

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MARCH 27, 2013

Many web companies call themselves SEO companies and sell useless services like search engine submission services. Google has one. A lot of these search engine submission services submit your website links to old directories that Google doesn’t even crawl any more. And it might even hurt your site. And Bing has one.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Company and third-party blogs are considered less risky than Twitter or Facebook, which indicates that businesses are warming up to blogging. Google+ came in at 49% slightly risky and 33% not risky, a total of 82%, beating out Foursquare in the “slightly risky or less” category.

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MARCH 19, 2015

I was talking with someone who works in a company specializing in helping local businesses become effective in their internet marketing. This particular company had done what so many small businesses used to do a few years back — they bought links. She told me that she’d spent all day working for one particular client.

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JUNE 5, 2011

Google constantly updates its algorithms. Nevertheless, companies are abandoning it. That’s why it will become even more important for small businesses to have a solid SEO company on their side. The reason businesses are abandoning SEO in favor of social media is because it is getting more and more difficult.

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JULY 17, 2012

Google+ users, on the other hand, score the highest on the Happy User Scale with a customer satisfaction score of 78 out of 100. The survey places Facebook at the bottom of 20 companies on customer satisfaction, which is quite alarming. If you think people are happy using Facebook, then you just aren’t in touch with reality.

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APRIL 22, 2011

Do you have a company blog ? Of course, you only get these benefits if your blog and if you blog in the right manner. Here are those 3 benefits: Fresh Content – Every time you write a blog post, you add fresh content to your website. Needless to say, the more often you blog, the more likely you are to realize these benefits.

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JUNE 26, 2011

Keep in mind that Google Offers is barely two months old, so the study could be biased. Subscribers who bought a deal at Groupon equal 47% compared to 22% for LivingSocial and 12% for Google Offers. But Groupon and LivingSocial have been going at it for some time now.

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DECEMBER 7, 2011

Yes, large corporate companies advertise all the time and spend large amounts of money to do so. Use Google Local to list your business. In the business world, advertising is everything when it comes to keeping a business going. Especially small businesses. A lot of people can’t do that when running a small business on a budget.

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APRIL 6, 2011

If you ask Forbes Media and Reputation Institute, Amazon is the most reputable company in the world today. Did you think it was Google? Amazon’s reputation is not based on its brand or its products, which makes me wonder if Google would have ranked higher had product been a criteria. That tells me something.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

They want to steal you away from Google AdWords. Since Google AdWords has pretty much dominated Web advertising for almost a decade, Facebook is looking to get a piece of that action, and more than any other company they are poised to take a big bite out of Google’s chunk of the market. Here’s a test.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

Since August, local search gurus have been bemoaning the loss of Google’s 7-pack, which has been reduced to a 3-pack. A 3-pack in Google search results will always be based on the proximity between a searcher’s location and the location of the businesses that appear there. Finally, familiar with Schema markup.

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

If your target market is technology companies, many of them are on Google+. Many times, you can connect and establish relationships with company big wigs on their own forums. Technology company employees in particular tend to use their own forums a lot. Internet marketers tend to hang out there a lot, too.

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Google has advanced enough that you can use almost any phrase for anchor text. If you’re still relying on Google for 80% of your traffic, then don’t be disappointed when they change their algorithms and you fall. There is no better justification for diversifying your traffic sources than Google Panda. Point of view.

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JUNE 9, 2012

They also represent your company online. Imagine having a social media account at LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus in the name of your company. That’s a total of 13 social media accounts that you can leverage on behalf of your company. And that’s what makes their social media efforts so special.

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JUNE 13, 2013

Google+ started supporting hashtags just last month. Start your own hashtag around your company brand or a product brand that your company owns. Search for a specific hashtag from your search bar. Compose posts directly from the hashtag feed and search results. One way to use hashtags is as a branding element.

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Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 11, 2012

More and more, companies are starting to use social media for more than straight up marketing. Here are three very powerful ways to use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, et. Do it openly so that everyone following you can see that you are a company that takes customer service seriously. for customer service.

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JUNE 5, 2015

The Rise of Google+. Another interesting thing to come of out of this survey is the second place positioning of Google+ as the social media platform that delivers the most ROI. Google+ is typically not mentioned as the favorite ROI destination among small business owners. The survey results don’t give us any indication.

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MARCH 15, 2013

There’s a company in Palo Alto, California that is calling itself “ Google Analytics for the real world.” ” The company’s name is Euclid. I think this is a sublime idea. Euclid collects data for retail businesses using smartphone technology to track consumer movement.

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Small Business Mavericks

JULY 25, 2012

Some smaller companies already cannot afford to pay an SEO consultant for services, so they end up doing it themselves if at all. It’s anyone’s guess, but if they choose to end their relationship with Bing they will likely go back to using Google. In that case, they may not mind losing market share to Google.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

You’re in good company. Other social media sites that do well in sending traffic to websites include: YouTube. StumbleUpon. Of course, not all traffic is equal. Traffic that converts is better than traffic that doesn’t. Still, if you can drive targeted traffic to your website from social media, then you are doing well.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Paid search gives new or small companies immediate brand exposure. eBay did a study showing improvement in click-throughs when PPC was gone, but Google did a study that showed no difference. Paid search is metric-driven and measurable. 3 Not-As-Good Things About Paid Search.

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APRIL 18, 2011

Yesterday, I went to bookmark something at the site and I got a message saying Mixx had been purchased by UberMedia , which I found interesting because the rumor is that the company could soon be launching a Twitter competitive site. Companies come and go, mergers happen, and acquisitions change the landscape for users.

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