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.
It should be no surprise that seniors are using social media to research things. The generation is connected and armed with smartphones. Many marketers, businesses, and colleges use social media to broadcast their message. The only problem is, it is their message. It is great to hear
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Yik Yak is an anonymous social media application. To use it, you need to install the app on your Android or iOS device. It is very similar to Twitter, except the network is “anonymous”. (Also see: Is Yik Yak Really Anonymous?) Posts are called yaks (not tweets).
Read more →Recently, I noticed Yik Yak’s Peek feature had been updated. You can now “peek” anywhere in the world. I think there is a very good chance that we could all look back on this as the most important thing to happen in social media in 2014. Here’s
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I have been meaning to write Yik Yak and will do so in just a moment. I thought I would put together a very quick article here though in case I forgot, and for future reference. People have very short attention spans these days. Ironically, it is
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I do not do much shopping, or Black Friday shopping, but this Black Friday, November 28, 2104, I was out driving someone around at midnight. We just went to 2 stores, and I waited out in the car. I read the news, checked in on Yelp, and
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I run several high traffic blogs and see all kinds of strange spam. Even someone as experienced as me is almost tricked on occasion. Today I received an email from Josephine.bergson@lltconsulting.net. This email came through my contact form and was not flagged as spam. The email said
Read more →One of the hurdles I have to jump when taking on a new content client is getting their website built. Typically they have a website that is just a static site with no blog that is not mobile friendly. As a prerequisite I almost always require this
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I have loved content marketing since I was distributing my BBS list in 1993. I had no idea that I was marketing content, but, it was indeed content that people were dying to see each month. This was pre-Internet Explorer and pre-Google. Back then people visited your
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Upon the sale of my last service oriented business, I purchased and read a book called The Four Hour Work Week. It became very clear to me to have a 4hr work week I would need a product and not a service. I still provide services, but
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I have recently turned to Twitter for much of my news. Mainstream news networks haven’t covered many things that I have an interest in, and, when they do, they seem more and more skewed lately. Plus, the news on Twitter is delivered instantly. In 2011, when an
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This morning, November 20, 2014, the news broke that was a threat on the Yik Yak app recently sent just up the road from us near UNC Chapel Hill. The threat read: “To all my friends, don’t be in the Pit tomorrow at noon. Things will be
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A common misconception in the SEO world is that meta descriptions are not important to SEO. This is not the case at all. Here’s why. What is a meta description? A meta description’s purpose in life is to describe a page in 160 characters or less. We
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A handful of times someone has asked me “Do click through rates (CTR) affect SEO or rankings in Google search results?” My question back is “Why wouldn’t they?” If your company (Google)’s entire goal in life is to deliver people to a good resource, wouldn’t you measure
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November 18, 2104 Google announced that they have introduced mobile friendly labels in to mobile search. This means that people browsing the web on a mobile device will see a little “mobile friendly” notice beside them. This is what it looks like on my Andoid phone: As
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I have been asked several times and have often wondered if a Google Maps (Google My Business) Listing would lose it’s reviews and/or search ranking after being reclaimed or merged. Last week, I took the plunge and found out. If you follow this blog you may have
Read more →Business owners will see something new in their Google My Business dashboard when reviews come in. Google has added review notifications. Google had announced this update along with updates to the GMB app, and I posted that here, on October 29, 2014. I first spotted these in
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College students are often associated with “hookup culture.” As a demographic, were famous for preferring one-night stands and meaningless friends-with-benefits relationships more than the traditional committed, monogamous, long-term boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. I’m not a psychologist so I’m not going to try to validate or vilify these claims. However,
Read more →This could change tomorrow, but, as of Novmber 2014, Google My Business Pages are having some issues being reclaimed. A law firm that I work with was recently trying to access their Google My Businesss page. Their page was verified and displaying very well in search, but,
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Recently our site had been growing slower and slower. We purchased our own server and launched telapost.net performance hosting. We moved Telapost.com over to the new server. There was a night and day difference and our site runs like lightning now. Today I logged into Google Webmaster
Read more →It would be in your best interest to not post threats on Yik Yak. Here’s why. On September 1, 2014, before the new college semester started, I posted Is Yik Yak really anonymous? as I thought people might google it. They do, and a lot of people
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