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Looking ahead to 2014
How will you plan? WILL you plan? Resolutions? Intentions? What are your 3 words? Here are some of the best thoughts I’ve seen in my newsfeed over the past week or so…
Social Sharing And Content Engagement In 2013
Sometimes, looking back can help us decide how to move forward. Click the ‘read more’ to get the whole picture…
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How do you delete a Google+ account?
How do you delete a Google+ account? No I’m not encouraging you to abandon Google+ — in fact is just the opposite! Recent research shows that having an active Google+ account effective ways to get found in search but any number of accounts more than one is too many for most people. Here’s how to delete those extra Google plus accounts…
Chromebook for Christmas?
Don’t be confused by Microsoft’s #bs advertising…
Give away your secret sauce?
Here’s a little something for those not waking out of a post-Thanksgiving food coma or chasing down Black Friday deals…
Are you managing Google+?
Are you managing Google+ or is Google+ managing you? One tool that can tip the scales in your favor is Friends+Me. Friends+Me has magical unicorn-like powers that not even HootSuite or Buffer possess; specifically, Friends+Me can take things that are posted to your Google+ account or pages and autopost them on a schedule to a Facebook profile or page, LinkedIn profile, group or company page or Twitter…
Watch this video and for a quick overview as to how it works:
Using Friends+Me, you can automatically do this and it works great…
Friends+Me and DoShare in Chrome…
I had hoped to come in this morning and shoot a screencast on this topic, but it has been one dam thing after another as the beaver said, all morning long. Please accept this until I have a chance to do my own — it’s a little long, but I learned a lot from it…
How To Hack Google+ For SEO Value
This is a small excerpt from a big post by HubSpot on the value of Google+ for SEO:
The biggest difference between Google+ and every other social network, in terms of SEO value, may be the way that user-created content is treated.
Public posts on Google+ are indexed for search, unlike most tweets, Facebook posts, etc. [Note: Twitter has told Google to not follow most links and Facebook’s privacy settings prevent many posts from being indexed – it’s not simply because Google won’t index content from other platforms]. Sure, your profile on other social networks will probably rank well for name-related searches, but there’s no way to target keywords and long tail phrases with specific social posts.
The impact of indexing Google+ public content goes far beyond your personal posts. It means every time that your content gets shared by someone else, you’re gaining link equity as their posts are indexed.
Quick summary: there are a couple primary SEO benefits of using Google Plus. First, posts get crawled and indexed – and it happens quickly because, among other objectives, Google is trying to use Google+ to enhance real-time search. Secondly, Google Plus is used to optimize search results with rich snippets, including the popular Google Authorship feature that allows the author’s picture and information to appear in search results.
Get the rest here: How To Hack Google Plus For SEO Value.
I’m not saying you should abandon any other strategy that is working for you — I’m just encouraging you to revisit Google+ if you have not done so already…
Google+; studying up on how to use it better…
Recent reports indicate that Google+ may be much more important for search engine marketing than we thought. Here are a slew of resources I’m going to be digging into this weekend. Thought I’d share…
I can’t get my mind off Google+. Here’s my weekend reading list…
http://storify.com/toddlohenry/thoughts-on-google
Related articles
- The Aftermath Of SEO’s Death This Summer (forbes.com)
- Why Your Business Should Be on Google+ [INFOGRAPHIC] (socialmediatoday.com)
- Is it time to search for Storify alternatives? (business.toddlohenry.com)
- 315 Businesses Boost Rankings by Optimizing Their Google+ Local Pages [Study] (searchenginewatch.com)
- Google+ Template Guide and Post Tips [Small Biz Social Friday] (sociallystacked.com)
- How Recent Organic Search Changes Will Affect Paid Search (searchengineland.com)
- The Social Media Giant That Is Google+ [INFOGRAPHIC] (socialmediatoday.com)
Is it time to search for Storify alternatives?
I have been using Storify for almost 1,000 posts or pages across various accounts. They were acquired by Livefyre and since then, some features have been removed and most recently, I noticed that some of my posts and pages did not display within Chrome. While troubleshooting this issue, a tech support person at Livefyre shared this tidbit with me:
“Over the past few months, WordPress’s API has changed and so has Storify’s. We try our level best to be compatible with all WordPress versions, but there are some especially the latest that might now work very well with our plugin. Some setups might not support embeds, resulting in to an error you seeing currently. I’m afraid there is no workaround for this at the moment, we may even discontinue the feature in the future due to us not being able to support a variety of WordPress versions.”
I love Storify because of the way it has worked in conjunction with WordPress in the past but the Storify plugin has not been updated for almost a year. This combined with the lukewarm response from their tech support forces me to put Storify on the ‘not recommended’ list until the status quo changes…
Tune Up Utilities 2014
Tune Up Utilities is the only utility I use to keep my Windows computer running like new every day. Each year I gladly pay the $29.95 to update to the latest version. This year, however, it’s cheaper to install it as a trial version and click the ‘buy now’ button – you’ll save yourself $5.00! So, whether you’ve never used Tune Up or it’s time to renew save yourself the 5 bucks and have a good pint on me…
Hello world!
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
I’m doing a major overhaul on this blog…
…so don’t be surprised if things are a little out of sorts until sometime on Monday. I’ll post about the changes and the reasons why as soon as I get this all fixed…
WordPress plugins I use and love…
I break my own rules here. I say only use as many as you need and not a single one more. Inactive plugins should be deleted as the have an impact on your site even though they are inactive. Have any good ones that I missed?
If you only use one tool to manage your social media…
…I’d make it HootSuite. Here’s part of the reason why; the HootSuite Hootlet…
Unroll.me!
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Your inbox is a mess — admit it. You are constantly bombarded with irrelevant emails throughout your extremely busy day. It doesn’t have to be this way, though. Luckily, you’ve come to the right place.
Bright, shiny objects! 
