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4 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Optimizing Your Google+ Posts

Thursday, May 16th, 2013

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As we mentioned in the past, brands and businesses shouldn’t underestimate the power of Google+ as it presents numerous advantages that can raise brand awareness with your target market. But besides creating discussions in Google+ Communities, effectively managing what you post in the social network is a must in order to attract new followers, retain loyal customers, and expand your Circles.

 

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Signing Up for Google Authorship to Protect Your Copy from Content Theft

Thursday, April 25th, 2013

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Having quality content online can do wonders for your business. Aside from making you seen as an expert in your chosen field, it engages and attracts your brand’s ideal demographic. And as your work is shared from one social media site to the next, you end up reaching a broader audience.

However, despite putting a lot of time, money, and effort into creating an outstanding website with marketable content, it’s all too easy to get it plagiarized. Content thieves can easily do a quick copy-paste job on your site and market your words as their own. In effect, you may experience a decrease in online visitors and potential sales as clients are funneled to the competition.

 

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Four Reasons Why Your Business Shouldn’t Underestimate Google+

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

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While Facebook is deemed as the social network to be in, most businesses forget that Google+ also has a number of advantages that can help maximize their online presence.

Here are four reasons why your business will benefit greatly from having an active Google+ account:

 

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The Effect of Google Reader’s Shutdown on Blogs

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

Blogs are known as one of the earliest forms of social media. Since 1994, people were writing and following these online weblogs that often chronicled people’s lives. Over time, many companies followed suit. Through their own blogs, they got to communicate with customers about their own products and services.

 

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Weekly Link Round Up – 08-24-12

Friday, August 24th, 2012

Google Starts Pre-Approving More Google+ Vanity URLs (TechCrunch.com)

As the first set of custom URLs for Google+ appeared earlier this month, Google hopes to gain massive amounts of custom URL users after making sure that they’re not issuing misleading addresses to fake accounts.

Should Your Online Business be on Google+? (TheOnlineSeller.com)

More than a year has already passed since Google+ was launched. Now, the question of whether online businesses should be on Google+ is still a fair one, as it remains to be a long way from threatening other social media platforms.

5 Ways to Use Google+ Events for Your Business (SocialMediaExaminer.com)

Aside from being yet another way of competing with social media giant, Facebook, Google+ Events has new bells and whistles that will not only help users promote business events with their community, but also make organizing, scheduling, and sharing easier.

The Future of Google+ for Business (TurnThePage-OnlineMarketing.com)

Rob Rance, CEO of Turn The Page Online Marketing, sheds light on the merging of Google Places and Google+ business pages and how the new features of Google+ can impact the presence of small businesses across the social media landscape.

Infographic: Google+ for Business (ChrisBrogan.com)

This colorful infographic shows us how we can use the underrated social network to its full potential. With over 90 million users, the Google-indexed site can help businesses further increase visibility and help customers find them faster, especially when used in coordination with other social media networks.

Tool Time: Awesome social media tools for organizing live events

Monday, August 13th, 2012

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When developing your brand and promoting its products on the social Web, combining traditional and social media marketing strategies have proven to be quite the dynamic formula. And while we all devote a huge chunk of our daily schedules propping up our brand’s online presence, reaching out to them in the real world will definitely help tons. Here, holding events can help your brand boost your engagement opportunities, invigorate public awareness, enhance perception, and even tap into markets that aren’t exactly heavy social Web users.

 

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Day 2 at Google I/O: More tech for your social media marketing tactics

Friday, June 29th, 2012

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One of the largest mobile and Web developer conferences, Google I/O, kicked off this week with Google delivering a considerable smorgasbord of goodies for its attendees of tech developers. The three-day conference erupted with cool announcements on its first day, with the company unveiling new products and updates that included the latest version of their mobile operating system / development platform, Android Jelly Bean, as well as under the hood updates to some of their Web services.

 

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