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GOOGLE Places Swept Clean of Reviews – Or Was It?
Tuesday July 26, 2011
Reading Time: 5 minutes
Image via Wikipedia The street sweeper just drove through your GOOGLE Place page. And it might have been swept clean of reviews. Go ahead…mosey over to your GOOGLE Place page. You will notice a few changes. The most important visible change is, according to GOOGLE: “Based on careful thought about the future direction of Place…
Places, Everyone! GOOGLE Places, That Is
Tuesday June 14, 2011
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Were you ever in a school play, pageant, band, or orchestra? It could have been grammar school, middle school, college, Summer Stock, regional community theatre, or Broadway…do you remember the “director” calling out: “Places, everyone!” In grammar school it was the Benedictine (O.S.B.) nuns who tried to control me and in high school it was…
A Thank You Makes You Smile
Monday May 2, 2011
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Do you send thank you notes? Not email thank yous, not thank you phone calls, I am talking about old-fashioned thank you notes or letters. Here at Webconsuls we often receive phone calls or emails thanking us for a job well done. It is great to feel appreciated. Most recently we received a unique thank…
BING Business Portal – It Is Time To Claim Your Listing
Wednesday April 27, 2011
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It has been a while since we talked about BING. Lately clients have been asking more questions about BING. Sometimes they think it is an entirely new search engine and then they realize that prior to two years ago they knew BING as Live Search, Windows Live Search or MSN Search. In July 2009, Keith…
Search Engine Marketing Newsletter Spring 2011
Wednesday March 23, 2011
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In this Newsletter we discuss two recent Google news stories and also something that may be coming down the road from Google. Google made the news recently with two stories – a change to its algorithm and also an explicit penalty imposed on the rankings of two large retailers. Judy Helfand has written an excellent…
Google News: Algorithms, JCPenney and Overstock.com
Tuesday March 1, 2011
Reading Time: 11 minutes
GOOGLE makes news every day. If you don’t see the headlines hot off the presses, you may catch them later via a TWITTER feed, a Nightly News program, a cable news program, a co-worker, a client, a FACEBOOK page, or even GOOGLE’s Official Blog. February 2011 was flush with GOOGLE news. News about algorithms, JCPenney…
Chris Brogan Wants A Pony Like Jack Snyder Wanted An Elephant!
Saturday February 19, 2011
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Image via Wikipedia Do you wait for the mailman? I am talking about the US Postal Service employee. I think we all do this. We hope that the mail will include something more exciting than a bill. Today Chris Brogan published a video post “A Look In the Mail Bag.” Did you watch it? Chris…
Twitter Is My Virtual Birdfeeder
Friday February 11, 2011
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I don’t know how many times I have posted about Twitter on this blog. You can search our twitter label and read all of those posts and it will let you see the evolution of this social media tool and our/my approach to it. It is kind of interesting, but today I want to talk…
Remembering the Challenger 1986 and More
Friday January 28, 2011
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Image via Wikipedia This past week has been filled with historic anniversaries like President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 Inaugural Address and while this is a business blog, I think it is important to sometimes stop and remember the impact of these significant events. When I talk of impact I am not just talking about personal…
T-Shirt Memory Blankets – Why Didn’t I Think of That?
Tuesday January 25, 2011
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Aaron with his Disney t-shirt 1983 We all have “aha” moments. Or better yet, we smack our forehead and say to our self “Why didn’t I think of that?” This morning I had one of those moments. I passed by the television which at the time was tuned to MSNBC. A promo ad was playing…
Reviewing 2010 and Ringing In 2011
Tuesday January 4, 2011
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Image via Wikipedia Webconsuls’ 2010/2011 Winter Newsletter If 2010 was nothing else, it was a fast year. It seems only yesterday Dick Fay and I were working on our 2009 Winter Newsletter and now here we are writing our 2010/2011 Winter Newsletter. We want to take a few minutes to: Thank our Webconsuls’ clients, introduce our…
Google Weights Poor User Experience
Friday December 3, 2010
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If you have a business website it is probably safe to assume that on occasion you might feel overwhelmned by GOOGLE. “How do I get my site to be #1 on the search engine results page (SERP)?” “How can I move up on GOOGLE Places?” “How do I deal with negative reviews that appear on…