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by Matthew Hunt
in Blog, Google Places, Social
Couple interesting Google Maps things I found this week. By now you must have heard that there is a Google Maps based game coming to Google+ next month. It’s an Android based game. There is not doubt in my mind games are BIG, even though I personally do not find myself playing them. Games are [...]
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by Matthew Hunt
in SEO, Social
Personalized search is obviously important to Google. We are seeing more and more personalized results in Google search results and looks like Google wants to push the envelope even further with Search Plus. Not sure if this is a further step to compete with Facebook or not…? Danny Sullivan said in Search Engine Land: Perhaps [...]
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by Matthew Hunt
in Blog, Google Places, SEO, Social, Tips
I was just speaking to Mike Blumenthal on Google Plus about his recent blog post titled “Review Management: 7 Tips on Avoiding Bad Reviews“ and it addresses some very important concepts a lot of small businesses are not implementing into their business procedures and I’d like to re-share Mike’s recommendations and add a few of [...]
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by Matthew Hunt
in News, Social
Google just announced the Google +1 . Will this be the social that works for Google? Only time will tell. I thought it interesting to see how they are connecting all the data, go to your Google Dashboard ( http://www.google.com/dashboard/ ) and find the the section that says “Social Circle and Content” and look at [...]
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by DavidLeonhardt
in Social, Tips
The title of this post is a bit of a silly pun. I run Zoomit.ca, which is a social bookmarking website just for Canadians, and a lot of online businesses are using this site (and many others like it – I will be recommending a few in this article) to build an online presence. What [...]
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by Matthew Hunt
in Blog, Google Places, SEO, Social
I just realized I have never put together a list of who I follow and read when it comes to Local SEO. I have to say that a lot of what I know about local SEO has to do with these people and their blogs. If it wasn’t for them openly sharing their local SEO [...]
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by Matthew Hunt
in Google Places, SEO, Social
Recently over the last 6 months, there has been no shortage of changes with local search marketing. One of those majors shifts is Google Places Reviews. It is apparent that “reviews” is becoming increasingly more important to Google Places and Google Maps. As these updates and changes to the local ranking algorithms have been beneficial [...]
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by Matthew Hunt
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I just came across this awesome video by Don Crowther about Closed Captions (I have been a fan of his since I took his social media course about 2 years ago through Stompernet). I was trying to figure out a cost effective way to get my videos to have the closed captions because I was [...]
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by Matthew Hunt
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Last week I had the great pleasure to download, and test-drive a brand-new plugin from MaxBlogPress creators; it is called ‘Subscribers Magnet‘… perhaps you have already heard or read reviews about it! You can see in action on our site. Here’s my opinion about it and why I think you should or NOT buy it! [...]
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by Matthew Hunt
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Twitter is an incredible marketing tool for so many small businesses, but so many businesses use it totally wrong! It’s not about how many people are following you or how many people you follow. It’s about helping and solving people’s challenges and offering useful insights without necessarily anything back. It’s about monitoring real time conversations [...]