What are Pinterest Rich Pins? Pinterest is an interactive pin-board where you can digitally “pin” your images and videos. A Rich Pin is essentially a super pin – it includes more information taken from the data provided by the website owner from where the image was pinned. It’s far easier to show you than explain! […]
How to Use Pinterest for Local Business Marketing
Can you really use Pinterest for local business marketing? That is the question! Many small business owners I speak with look at me as if I have two heads when I mention Pinterest. While the social site is growing rapidly in popularity, it isn’t as popular as old favourite Facebook. Of course, there’ a but… […]
How To Add Your UK Business To Bing Places [Video]
Put up the bunting and hold a street party – Bing Places for Business is now available in the UK! Gone is the messing around with my118. Gone is the hard upsell when they phone to “confirm” your business details. And hopefully gone are the endless calls to update business listing details that never get […]
How to Disable the Facebook Notification Beep and Get Your Life Back
I’m going to admit to something that I never thought would happen to me. The Facebook notification beep has me trained like Pavlov’s Dog… A couple of weeks ago I started noticing a weird intermittent beeping sound from the laptop. With all the tabs and windows I have open, it took a while to track […]
WordPress Social Media Widget Plugin Spam Problems
Sucuri reported on their blog yesterday that the WordPress Social Media Widget plugin is injecting payday loan spam into websites. It is recommended that you remove the plugin from your WordPress site. How to Remove The Social Media Widget Plugin Apologies for the poor sound, I still have not replaced my Muppet chewed headset! Written […]
5 Steps to Spring Clean Your Local Online Listings
Spring has officially arrived and when better to turn your thoughts to tidying up your local online listings. Dig out your mops and rubber gloves, let’s get started! 1 Google My Business Local Business Pages Top of the list is your Google My Business Local Business Page. This “online listing” puts your business on […]
New Google Plus Cover Photo and Profile Changes
In the midst of Facebook Timeline announcements, Google Plus was in stealth mode last week making changes to the Plus Profile and Pages cover photo and about pages. Perhaps I had my eyes shut most of last week, as I didn’t see much of a song and dance about it. There was a brief G+ […]