First things first. What are rich snippets? Here’s how Google defines the term: With rich snippets, webmasters with sites containing structured content—such as review sites or business listings—can label their content to make it clear that each labeled piece of text represents a certain type of data: for example, a restaurant name, an address, or…
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What Is Pinterest?
If you like playing around on social media websites – and who doesn’t? – then you might like playing around on a new up-and-coming site called Pinterest. Here’s a website that is heavily graphic and has quite a bit of potential to provide small businesses with some branding power, reputation management, and search engine optimization…
Google+ Moves Out Of Field Trial – Why You Should Care
Google+ just announced that they are moving out of field trial and into beta. So what’s that mean? In a word, it means that anyone can join without an invitation. Yep, even you. This is big news for a number of reasons. First, Google+ is the fastest growing social network in history. It’s not the…
Tumblr And Your Reputation
Have you heard that Tumblr grew by 218% last year? What’s that, you say? What is Tumblr? Tumblr is like a cross between Blogger and Twitter. Technically, it’s a microblogging service, which puts it in the same category as Twitter. But you can do cool things with it like share videos, photos, and text and…
You, HubPages, And Reputation Management
About two years ago I decided to open up a HubPages account. I wrote three articles and quit. Then, earlier this year, Google kicked HubPages in the shin with its now famous Panda update and HubPages started losing search engine rankings, traffic, and revenue – fast. Like all good businesses affected by a Google update,…
What Is A Ghostwriter?
Sometimes, when I tell people I am a ghostwriter, I get a glazed look as if the person has never heard the term before. Maybe they’ve haven’t. But they look confused as if they don’t know what a ghostwriter does. Well, let me explain what a ghostwriter is. A ghostwriter is a person who writes…