This week Matt Cutts released a video (see above) outlining the plans for changes to the Google algorithm that may affect SEO in the next few months. Some of the major talking points I found interesting: Some of it was the same stuff… publish great content, blah, blah, blah. Yeah we all get that, right? [...]
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Why I am Moving to Feedly
As most people already know, Google Reader is shutting down July 1st, 2013. So sad, as I love my Google Reader. I am switching to Feedly and here is why: Feedly currently uses Google’s API, so it automatically syncs to your current GR feed and keeps all your information intact. However, when that API is [...]
New Google Maps – What SMB’s Need to Know!
New Google Maps Gets More Social So as per usual, nothing boring about Google Local, always new changes. Google rolled out a new Google maps, you can see the main talking points in the video above. I think the main items SMB’s should think about based on the new Google Maps is how they [...]
How to Get Google Places Support From a LIVE Real Person in Under 2 Minutes
So many small businesses need help fixing their Google Places listing(s) and they have no idea how to get some basic support. SMB’s do not understand the ‘ins and outs‘ of Google Places like us local seo’ers. So I made this quick video to show how any small business can get real live [...]
1 in 3 Searches are Local
We thought this was such a great video by Ed Parsons, we decided to have it transcribed too for those who prefer to read it. What I wanted to spend the 20, 25 minutes talking about is where and actually putting what you’re going to hear the rest of the afternoon into context. To do [...]
How Does Google Consider Site-Wide Backlinks?
We get this question often too, but Matt Cutts answers it well enough here in this video. You can read the transcription below. Today’s question comes from Chris in Poland. Chris asks, “Are site wide backlinks considered good or bad by Google or do they just count as one link from the whole domain?” Matt [...]
How to Improve Your Business Through the Power of Story Sharing
I saw this video today and I think every single small business can benefit from watching it. It’s amazing what little edification and how the power of positive stories can transform businesses. Write in the comment section below what your favorite part of the video was.
What is Manual Link Buiding?
Manual Link Building For a lot of crappy link builders they hate “manual” link building. Personally, I love it! I think when you are a great manual link builder you can secure the best links and these are usually the links your competitors never get. Many SEO’ers refer this type of link building as a [...]
Google’s Disavow Links Tool is FINALLY Here!
New Google Tool: Disavow Links After months and months of SEOs and webmasters asking for the Google Disavow Links tool, it’s finally here. Many SEO’s will be playing the “wait and see” game where they wait for others to use to find out how it all works and ends up increasing rankings or decreases [...]
