I have to admit that I have become a little tired of how demanding the “social” call has been for all those with a website. Sure, I know it’s important, but upon reflection is seems that “Social” is taking over the Internet. I liken the social changes to the many body-snatcher Sci Fi movies I’ve…
If you’ve had a Twitter feed in your website or blog you will likely have noted that the Twitter API no longer functions. On June 11, 2013 Twitter retired version 1 of their API which provided, among other things, the “Recent Tweets” feed commonly found on websites. You can view the Twitter developer page for…
A business that gets a lot of positive reviews will have a significant advantage over a business that doesn’t. This advantage comes about since most review sites are highly ranked and trafficked so having a link on them is great both for SEO value and company exposure; and maybe most importantly, studies have noted that…
Once the first search engines started ranking pages there came about a competition of sorts to rank at the top. If a business wanted to ensure that their website was ranked well they would utilize a variety of search engine optimization techniques, otherwise know as SEO. Initially the techniques used were all about keyword stacking. …
Not long back Bing changed the name of the “Bing Business Portal” to “Bing Places for Business”, and a while before that Bing removed the “review” part of their “Places” listings. For this reason you may think that there is little reason to create a listing with them (beyond the standard URL submit) but from…
UPDATE: Yahoo Small Business will no longer be providing their own reviews, or their small business marketing dashboard. The review part of their site is now importing Yelp reviews, and when I visited their page I found this notice: Coming soon! Yahoo Small Business is becoming Luminate from Aabaco Small Business. Considering that Yahoo has…
The one aspect of web design that most clients are interested in is SEO. Since Google recently updated their search engine algorithm I wanted to include one more post to highlight those SEO practices that are of most importance. So in short, this is my “SEO Big Cup” post which I hope will be of…
Not long back I wrote a post about the Google Penguin 2.0 update and how this is linked to Google+; seeing how this update just came into effect I spent some time doing a bit of additional research — especially important to me since I noted that my own site (which has a well established…
Most businesses have a website by now, and the majority of these were created a few years back, though often much longer. In many cases the owners of these sites contact me and ask me if I can make a few changes to their site since their current designer is no longer available. This of…
Not too long back Google had updated in search engine algorithm, known as the “Panda Update”. Well, Google is at it again, and there upcoming update is known as “Penguin 2.0”. This update is said to have considerable changes in the way that Google sorts and ranks its search engine results. Penguin update and Google+…