Craig Paulson asked: Google Places Optimization for small business is one of the most effective things that you can do for your small business’ on-line presence. Optimizing your Google Places listing is important for your small business as Google is the most popular search engines and making sure your free listing there gets ranked highly on Google for local searches. These high rankings will certainly lead to more traffic to your website and therefore more customers for your business.To optimize [...]
Dec 182011
Is Google+ Already Making Its Mark on Search?
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Dec 182011
Jonathan Celeste asked: Since launching its social network Google+ earlier this year, and then unveiling brand pages for businesses this month, Google has made no secret of its plans to incorporate its new social side with the results of its popular search engine.Now it appears that process is well underway. Over at SEO blog Search Engine Land, Matt McGee says that: “Google+ content is slowly – but very surely – expanding its footprint inside of Google.com’s main search results.”The change [...]
An Overview of Google Apps
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Dec 172011
Carolyn Clayton asked: Google Apps provide a most hassle free way of life when it comes to business organization. The main advantages of Google Apps are:AffordableLower maintenance costsHighly purpose-centricAlmost negligible downtimeMore than enough storage spaceAt the very mention of these apps, email, calendar, docs and sites is what that comes to our mind. Let us discuss a few of the lesser known apps of Google.Secure Apps for governmentGoogle has developed apps that aid the government to secure intelligence and data. [...]
Google – How Long Until I Am Listed?
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Dec 152011
Luke D Edwards asked: One of the most common questions asked of us by new clients is “When can I find myself on Google?” It depends on a process called ‘Indexing’. Think of it as a process of proofing and then printing your websites details to Google’s directory. As to how fast this can happen, well truth is there is no fixed time within which Google will first index your site.There are however some factors which can affect how long [...]
Enhancing Your Business With Google Places
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Dec 042011
Natalia Morais asked: You’ve heard of Google Places and have claimed your page. Now what? I’m going to show you how to use the features of Google Places to enhance your business. The more information you add to your listing, the bigger the chances of attracting more customers.After accepting your page, Google will show you two tabs-Dashboard and Offers.1) The Dashboard tab will show four different types of statistics: Activity: it shows 2 graphs- Impressions and Actions. Impressions are the [...]
Google: The Ultimate Web Writer’s Style Guide
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Dec 032011
Nick Usborne asked: Indulge me for a moment.Forget that Google is a search engine. Just for a moment, imagine it is a style guide. A very different kind of style guide.Instead of this particular style guide being written as a static book by an expert or two, it is written by studying the searching and browsing habits of hundreds of millions of web users.Get the idea? Not a search engine. A style guide. A constantly evolving style guide that works [...]