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’s 2014 and there is suddenly talk online about using your business name, address, and phone number at the very top of your website. Soon, many people in the SEO world will be doing this, trying to squeeze a little more juice out of their site, or
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What are Google+ Hangouts On Air? Google+ Hangouts On Air, also sometimes referred to as an HOA, is a live streaming video broadcast in HD. HOAs may be started at any time or scheduled in advance. When HOAs are broadcast, they can easily be viewed on Google+,
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The web turned 25 today. My first experience on the Internet was in the early 1990s. The only people using it at that point were university professors, a handful of people sending email/ftp/gopher, and hackers, mostly exploring and transferring files. As a BBS SysOp, one of my
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Before I talk about Google+ Direct Connect, I’d like to briefly go over why I think that Google+ Direct Connect will play a role in the future of Google search, especially for local businesses. When a Google Plus Local Page has gone through the claim & verification
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In February of 2012 I was dead set on not joining the social media crowd. I didn’t have a Facebook, I had no Twitter and I sure as heck wasn’t on Pinterest or Instagram. My anonymity was important to me. When several Google algorithm changes hit websites near
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What is Caturday on Google+? Cats have infiltrated much of the Internet. They started on websites, blogs, and forums and then worked their way into the social networks and are very active on Google+ or Google Plus. They started gaining traction as shared images in 2005-2006. Then
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#GYBOWeek is Get Your Business Online week. A lot of us business owners will be scrambling to get our taxes done. Some of us business owners which are more organized will have done taxes months ago. Assuming your taxes are done a priority for you should be
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Is your content a bacon weave taco?! Search engines reward websites that consistently put up quality content, plain and simple. Put up great content, rank in search. Assuming you have a quality product or service to offer that people either want or need, you will make money.
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Do you or a loved one suffer from 0% engagement? This is pretty common on Google+. Below I’ll cover both personal profiles and business pages. Let’s start with the personal profiles: Possible reasons for low engagement: A lot of people get on Google+ and discover many of
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Nearly every business owner that I talk to that uses Facebook is not aware of this fact: People who like your page are not seeing what you post. As of April 23, 2012 pages reached about 16% of their audience. As of December 1, 2013, most businesses
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I’ve found multiple exterminators taking advantage of Google Plus recently. The first businesses to join were marketing companies.. Then along came the photographers (thanks in part to Google+’s awesome photo sharing abilities).. Then as Google Places pages became Google Plus Local Pages the attorneys piled in and
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Happy Valentine’s Day! Google and Google Plus brought it this year and are spreading the love! February 13, 2014 Google Plus dropped this surprise on us, an AutoAwesome feature. Upload an image of 2 people hugging or smooching and tada, AutoAwesome Hearts. You can keep the image
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Over in the Google Product Forums there is a thread asking about a random email that Google has been sending out to business owners. It is vague and appears to be a phishing attempt, but it is actually a legitimate email. The email reads: Hello, Due to
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Optometrists are told all sorts of crazy things by SEO companies, marketers, and salespeople. These salespeople are very convincing. One of my friends works for one of the largest SEO firms in Raleigh North Carolina and he tells me their tricks all the time. He tells me:
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I met a stray cat the other day. The cat was very skittish. He primarily came around late at night or when I least expected it. I would never have known he existed but I could tell when he had come through. He didn’t always come to
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When Facebook came out, I avoided it for a long time until all of my friends and family were on it. I was disappointed with it as it really did absolutely nothing more than pull feeds of people and places together into one neat little stream. Myself
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I was contacted this week by a criminal defense attorney. He was asking why his site was receiving less traffic and on a “downward trend” (his words). In October of 2013 his site received 661 visits, then in November 653 visits, December 472 visits, and in January
Read more →What information do we collect? We collect information from you when you respond to a survey. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address or phone number. You may, however, visit our site anonymously. What do
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Google bought Boston Dynamics 12/13/13. I’m pretty sure this was Ray Kurzweil’s idea. Below is a video of one of their robots: And here’s a pic of petman: I’m not sure what to think of all of this! What happens with this down the road will be
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Google Fiber is a 1GB/s Internet connection. In other words, it’s really fast. We’re talking 200x faster than your average Internet connection. Some packages include HDTV. It is only available in a few places, and for the current list you should visit the Google Fiber page here
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