You’ve done all the beginning steps when it comes to getting your business online. You have a website, signed up with a hosting account, and maybe even learned how to accept money. Online marketing isn’t a dark art reserved only for those wearing Black Hats and frequenting hacker forums. The slick SEO consultant who comes …
It had to happen, and it has. The newest Google update, named Pigeon, is all about local search results, and it has had some rather wide reaching effects. The stated objective of this update is to more closely tie local results with what the standard web ranking signals are. This is presumably done to make …
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Google Hangouts are a terrific platform for melding your online video marketing with your social media. Directly connected to your Google+ account, it provides the advantage of being very easy to use, and fast. You can go online and create a Hangout, and begin broadcasting in minutes, and then afterward find it uploaded to your …
If you’re just trying to rank your site and you run into offers to help you do exactly that for a measly fee of $299 (or a lot more) it can be difficult to know what to do. After all, not all of us are fully up to date on what’s working right now in …
A lot of small business owners may have never considered the possibility of using pay per click ads for marketing their local business. That’s unfortunate, because there are several advantages to doing this. We’re going to take a moment to look at why PPC for local business is a good idea, and check out why …
These days the question isn’t so much “Do you have a mobile strategy?”, but “How is mobile doing for you?” Mobile presence is a must for local search for the future, and if you’re late to the party, we would like to share a few things you should take into account if you’d like to …
Since Google+ is now recognized as the Avis of the social media sites behind Facebook, with more than 540 million registered monthly users, and the +1 button getting pressed more than 5 billion times each day, maybe it’s time to see just how much this goliath can do for your small business. With the chance …
See Ya Later Zagat – Google’s 5-star review ratings are back!! In Google’s official statement they said; “Today, with the launch of the new Google Maps, we announced a change to the way people rate businesses on Google on the Google and Your Business blog …As a business owner, you’ll notice that past ratings have …
Even though it has been a couple of months since Google merged with Google Places to become Google Local, there was some confusion as to just what this new entity would grow to be. Not any longer. One glowing example of what is possible for small business is the Google business page for BakeSpace.com. They’ve …
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