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.
Update 2/19/2014: The SBL has moved here: www.telapost.com/google-plus-suggested-business-list/ On Google+ there is something called a Suggested User List. Facebook is good for communicating with people you already know, Google+ is great for communicating with people you don’t know yet that share the same interests as you (Google+
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WordPress 3.8 was released today and we’ve been updating websites much of the day to the latest release. So far, so good! This is a really nice update. FTA: Version 3.8 of WordPress, named “Parker” in honor of Charlie Parker, bebop innovator, is available for download
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I’ve watched several Hangouts on Air, been involved with them, and done many Hangouts, but today was my first time hosting a Hangout on Air. I think that it went pretty well, and I look forward to doing more! This first HOA was very brief. I intend
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December 9, 2013: Google Plus Post Ads Advertising Released. Google Plus Post Ads is going to revolutionize advertising. Like I said last week, using Google+ as a business is CRITICAL. We already handle Google+ presences and we will now be offering Google +Post Ads Advertising. The news
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NORAD has partnered with Microsoft this year to offer the “official Santa Tracker”. The Google Santa Tracker features cool games and nifty features that help you get into the Christmas spirit. You can visit the site here: http://www.google.com/santatracker/ But wait, there’s more! Be sure to visit this
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Telapost is now on Pinterest. Pinterest is a great website and we shouldn’t have put off joining it this long. We’ll see you there! pinterest.com/telapost
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After posting a few AutoAwesome Action images on Google+, a common question was: How can I make an autoawesome action image? First of all, you need a camera (or a cell phone w/ camera) that is capable of taking a burst of images. Next, you’ll need to
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Google Maps recognizes the most active reviewers on Google+ Local and Google Maps and designates them Local City Experts. I am often asked: What is a Google Plus Local City Expert? You must have 50+ quality reviews completed and be actively adding a minimum of 5 new
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After posting a few AutoAwesome Snow images on Google+, a common question was “How can I make an autoawesome snow image?” Fortunately, the answer is simple! AutoAwesome Snow is a new feature released 12/5/2013 and it is very easy to use. If your phone uses the Auto
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Google+ does it again! The new features are coming out so fast they’re almost impossible to keep track of. Today it’s AutoAwesome Twinkle and AutoAwesome Snow! (examples below) To get an AutoAwesome Twinkle image, just upload a new photo of something that sparkles, like a Christmas tree
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You can now talk to Google Chrome! This is awesome. I just installed the Chrome plugin and am playing with it. To get started, ask it what tomorrow’s weather is.
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Effective immediately, it is critical that your company starts using Google+. Like, yesterday. For the purposes of this article, I have broken down your business’s Google+ presence into 3 options, or phases. Mandatory Google+ Presence Suggested Google+ Presence Advanced Google+ Presence If at any point you get
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Google+ Community Rank isn’t quite an official term (yet), but we’re going to need a term for community authority on Google+ so I refer to it as Google+ Community Rank. This article will also raise more questions than it answers. Various ranking factors apply to Google+ Communities,
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If you have ever wanted to create an animated GIF file from a YouTube video, now you can! You have probably already bumped into these online. An animated GIF file is a single image which contains animation, or multiple frames. This post on Google+ explains how it
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Google Now is essentially …. Amazing…. Is Google Now the future of search? Is Google Now the next big thing? Combined with the Hummingbird update and all of the new knowledge graphs, Google Now isn’t going anywhere any time soon. This article is from 2012 but I
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Changes are coming to telapost.com. I love the SEO world, but it has come to my attention I’ve been spreading myself too thin and spinning my wheels. I must come up with dedicated packages to concentrate on. I’d love to manage PPC campaigns, set people up with
Read more →Several of the websites we manage that were recently upgraded to WordPress 3.7 upgraded themselves to 3.7.1 last night via the new feature automatic background updates. When they were done upgrading themselves they emailed us to tell us that everything had went well. So far, so good!
Read more →WordPress 3.7.1 was released today here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.7.1 This is a maintenance release for the recently released 3.7. It addresses 11 bugs. The most important are: Images with captions no longer appear broken in the visual editor. Allow some sites running on old or poorly configured servers to
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Oh, where to begin. Richard Dawkins coined the term “meme” (pronounced meem) back before I was born in 1976. It was his way of explaining how cultural information spreads. An “Internet meme” follows this same concept but is specific to Internet culture. People usually think of Internet
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Google+ doesn’t always deliver their news live like this, on the Internet’s birthday. But, today they are! So, what could the news be? Will the news be that big? Why can’t the Senior VP of Google Engineering get to sleep? Anyways, I’ll be online to watch the
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