A Google query for “New York Italian Restaurants” doesn’t display a single restaurant in the top 10 organic listings! The top 10 organic listings are links to popular local directories like Zagat, Yelp & Urbanspoon and no longer links to popular Italian restaurants like Carmine’s.
What’s the catch? You’re only showing up there if your Italian restaurant is optimized for Google+ Local!
4 Google+ Local Action Items For Small Businesses
How to Create a Guest Post Strategy
Guest posts are a great way of generating traffic to your site while providing your audience with the content they crave. To develop a fully effective guest post strategy, it’s important to consider a few important factors, that we’re going to discuss hereinafter.
Google Data Highlighter Tool
If your website goals are related to events and location you should quickly jump on this tool. More data and languages are constantly added to the Data Highlighter, helping you more and more to leverage your data in many useful ways. Get out and start playing with this tool to get comfortable so you are able to recognize opportunities to get more data crawled by Google.
Mobile Commerce to Quadruple in 5 years
Mobile has become the fastest growing platform because the rise in devices, mobile optimized websites, and mobile app development. Naturally we have seen a rise in mobile commerce or “mcommerce” if you will. It has transformed some businesses including Amazon, eBay, and flash sales sites like Gilt.
2013’s Top SEO Trends
Here are some items to be aware and consider for your SEO campaigns in 2013. With the latest changes in Google algorithms like Penguin and Panda there are areas that have more of an impact on SEO that before.
Website Trends in 2013 Part II
It used to be that freelancing was microscopic portion of the global workforce. Now freelance has grown to be a credible means to earn a living from anywhere with an internet connection. The combinations of remote collaboration technology like Skype, Google+, or GoToMeeting have provided companies to do more with less. Freelancing is the perfect vehicle for web designers and development firms or individuals.