Welcome to the Telapost SEO and Content Marketing Blog. Our most popular categories have articles about Content Creation, Google My Business News, SEO News, Technical SEO and Case Studies. Sometimes there are random posts about business or North Carolina. Here’s our blog’s RSS feed, our blog’s Feedburner Feed and our a category specific SEO News Feed. Below you will find the entire blog’s most recent articles beginning with the newest articles first.
On December 28, 2016, Snapchat exploded with stories containing words or emojis of fruit. I asked the people of Snap what it meant and I was snapped the game heard around the world in approximately 35 seconds. Note: see the snapchat animal meanings here. What do the
Read more →Recently someone shared their Google Analytics after reading my article about review markup and implementing it on their law firm’s website. Prior to installing it, they wondered if their click through rate (CTR) would improve. I told them it would, but how much, I was not sure
Read more →While looking up New Year’s Eve celebrations taking place in the mountains of North Carolina today I came across a hacked site. That is nothing out of the ordinary, however, the site’s payload is a trojan deliverable via a JavaScript. The way this works, is, you visit
Read more →I spoke to Google My Business earlier today, inquiring about a business which was missing a few reviews. I am very familiar with Google My Business and the quirks it can have and have heard about reviews going missing for one reason or another but never experienced
Read more →Sometimes when creating content for clients I end up making big, fat, juicy, pages. Some people would call these pages “overwhelming walls of text”. Yes, I knew your little secret. To make things pretty and put them into smaller, easily digestible nuggets of content, content can be
Read more →Redirecting a website is like moving to a new home. Instead of telling the post office where you have moved, you are telling the search engines.To do this the best option is to use a 301 redirect. But will the 301 hurt your SEO or your search
Read more →Here’s one for the North Carolina category of my blog, which I have been neglecting too much lately. Koka Booth Amphitheater in Cary NC is home to many great presentations, festivals, concerts and performances. Named after former Mayor Koka Booth and located on Regency Parkway, Koka Booth
Read more →This week North Carolina social media lit up with stories about the anti-Trump painting which was displayed at the art show at Roanoke Rapids High School. Since the news broke, the image has been disappearing from some news websites and has been rather difficult to track down.
Read more →We are currently investigating some businesses which are missing a handful of reviews from their Google My Business page. There are many reasons a Google My Business page, formerly called a Google Plus page, can be missing reviews. Most often, there is a glitch at Google, people
Read more →The question has come up many times over the years. I can say with confidence, that I have personally tested this, and I have multiple witnesses. Now this is going to be a bit of a lame article, as I can’t show you the results. You’re going
Read more →You’ve seen it. “Sponsored Content” “You might like” “Recommended from the web” “Popular Stories” What do you even call this stuff? I call it promoted content. Others call it content distribution. Some people would say they are crap spewing web plugins. There are a variety of “content
Read more →Many law firms and businesses have discovered they can increase their exposure on the web by having lots of great content. After all, if your content is not on the web, people can’t find you when they are looking for you. This is more important for some
Read more →Millions of people have been waiting for today, December 15, 2016, for Super Mario Run to be released. This is Nintendo’s first smartphone game and the first time we have seen the plumbers in quite some time. But, this much anticipated game is not without its fair
Read more →Since I discovered the new “top stories” section on Google news last month I have been playing with the news feature quite a bit. Lately, I have noticed some spam in the search results quite often, from a website called Car Chat (car-chat.info). No, I have no
Read more →North Carolina is home to many scenic mountains and beautiful coastlines. Unfortunately, it is also home to some of the worst SEO companies in the United States. This weekend I heard a story that one of them removes content that you paid for from your site if
Read more →I recently predicted Google would remove some review rich snippets in late 2016 or early 2017. Well, here we are. It is December 8th, 2016, and yesterday I noticed that lots of websites are missing their review snippets, aka the “little stars in search results”. It is
Read more →Today business owners received an email titled “Your new setting options in Google My Business”. It is a legitimate email from Google. However, this email is sure to confuse pretty much everyone who reads it, even me. This is what the email says: Hello, This is an
Read more →Most of the WordPress sites I operate have the comments turned off. But on a few, I encourage them, and if the websites are about TV or entertainment, people comment. Those websites are “protected” by Akismet or other anti-spam plugins, however, many of them have failed to
Read more →What is comprehensive content? Comprehensive content is web content which is complete, and thoroughly covers all or nearly all elements or aspects of a subject matter. Comprehensive content is good for SEO in many ways Comprehensive Content is the new “SEO Copywriting”. There was a time when
Read more →Beginning about a week or so before the Presidential Election, something odd popped up in Google Analytics in the Audience Overview section. The default page lists languages, but standing out in November many users were greeted by this message below. Note the “G” in Google is not
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