Is Google+ our search marketing future? See what our guest bloggers have to say about how G+ will influence search and social, including Google+ authorship, hangouts, local, communities and more.
Shortly after writing about Why Small Businesses Shouldn’t Be Afraid of Google+ Local, which focused on “best practices” that are still highly relevant in light of the new +Local/Places merger, I began to wonder what other helpful Local ranking tips the average local businessman is missing out on. When I say average, I simply mean …
With Google Places coming out of its cocoon and transforming into the butterfly that is Google+ Local, many rightfully wonder what changes to the Local ranking algorithm may have occurred and what optimization tactics are still considered relevant. While it’s true that many social factors will come into play, I feel that there are still …
There’s no denying it: slow page load will kill your conversion. This illustration from StrangeLoop demonstrates that: Just one second and you can lose 7% of sales. Did you know that the original Google +1 button took 2 seconds to load? That’s true…and I don’t know about you, but I would definitely want to do …
The social media space is one of the most competitive industries in today’s digital world. This became clearer than ever in 2011, a year when we saw social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn evolve, and the birth of new players like Google+. Despite having an uphill climb ahead of it, Google knows that …
Chitika Insights has covered the heavily publicized launch of Google+ amidst a variety of reported statistics, some which stated that Google+ hosted a user base comprised of over 40 Million people, others which described the fledgling social network as nothing more than a ghost town. Initially, traffic on Google+ saw a rapid rate of growth, …
As many of you know, earlier this week Google released Fan pages for their Google + Network. Google has opened up the ability to setup a Google + Fan Page, much like a Facebook Fan page to all businesses. Google made this option available today. I currently have a Virtual Tour company called Pixloo that I set …
It’s true, all the details & specifics about how much of an impact Google+ Pages will have in the SERPs have yet to be discovered, but if there’s anything Google has told us in the past, it’s that they’re all in with Google+. When Google released the +1 buttons, they weren’t successful from the very …
Over the past few days there has been a lot of buzz surrounding the coverage of Google+, particularly focusing on the measured 60% downward trend seen in the site’s traffic as reported by Chitika Insights. In further investigation of this matter, Chitika researched traffic patterns of the social network to determine whether the downward trend …
Will Google’s +1 Button Be the Facebook Killer?
The Google +1 button, the social sharing option from Google that’s seen impressive popularity since its launch, is adding two new features: snippets and Google+ sharing.
