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Why Your Google+ Profile Image is Important for SEO

May 15, 2015 at 6:22 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Why Your Google+ Profile Image is Important for SEO

Most people, when choosing the Google+ image for their business, tend to choose the company logo. They may do variations of their logo for certain events or seasons, such as Christmas or Mother’s Day, but the logo itself is usually recognizable to anyone somewhat familiar with the brand. But some companies have been choosing non-traditional […]

European Mobile Carriers Planning to Block Ads to Force Google to Pay Them

May 15, 2015 at 5:39 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

European Mobile Carriers Planning to Block Ads to Force Google to Pay Them

European mobile networks are declaring their own war on Google’s ad revenue by considering the use of the ad blocker Shine across their datacenters, which would block ads from being served to all their mobile customers. They do plan to allow ads to continue to be displayed in social networks, including both Facebook and Twitter, […]

Google Displays Visit Website Not Rates in Hotel Listings

May 15, 2015 at 4:46 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

Google Displays Visit Website Not Rates in Hotel Listings

Google has been adding more features to their hotels in the Google search results, most notably with the 3-pack of hotel listings directly within the search results that allow searchers to search availability and which lists pricing. I noticed something unusual when doing a search. For some hotels, Google does not display a listed price […]

How to Create Tracking URLs for Google Analytics

May 15, 2015 at 4:06 am PST By Jennifer Slegg

How to Create Tracking URLs for Google Analytics

Did you know you can create tracking URLs for Google Analytics, even if you are not currently using a third party tool that will do this automatically for you? Just because you don’t have fancy tools doesn’t mean you can’t use the standard tracking URLs in Google Analytics. If you would like to be able […]

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