If you keep up with the Google and Your Business Forum, rarely a day goes by when someone doesn’t post about a call from Google Maps and then their business disappearing from the listings. I had the unexpected pleasure of a call from Google Maps yesterday… Google Maps Called Me The call was from a […]
Yoast WordPress SEO: Open Graph Tags and Twitter Cards [Video]
My recent blog post about setting social sharing image thumbnails with Open Graph tags was perhaps not the most tech free and simple as it could be! If you use WordPress, these Open Graph tags can be set really easily using the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin. While I was in the Social section of Yoast […]
How To Verify Your Website On Pinterest [Video]
Pinterest recently introduced the option to verify your website on your profile. Pinterest is one the fastest growing social media platforms, and recent studies have shown that it drives more traffic and converts more sales than other well established social sites. As a business owner, website verification on Pinterest is useful because it shows on […]
Defining Social Sharing Image Thumbnails: The Secret Is Open Graph Tags
Social Sharing and Open Graph Tags When you share your web pages or blog posts on social sites such as Facebook, Google Plus and LinkedIn, a thumbnail image is often generated and displayed next to the description. These thumbnail images can be auto-generated based on the first appropriately sized image on your page or post. […]
How to Add an Interactive Transcript to Your YouTube Videos (and Why You Should) [Video]
In my last post I explained that YouTube now add a machine generated interactive transcript to videos containing a lot of speech. This may sound like a good thing, but often the transcript does not make sense. How to Add an Interactive Transcript This short video shows how to add your own interactive transcript to […]
How to Remove an Interactive Transcript on YouTube [Video]
YouTube now adds machine generated interactive transcripts to videos containing lots of speech. That’s great isn’t it? Well not exactly… Why You Should Remove the Interactive Transcript The problem with machine-generated transcripts is well, they can be barely understandable. For example, I was working with a client over the weekend and we discovered that YouTube’s […]
Updating Google+ Local Verified Social Pages
Updating Your Google+ Local Page Google have confirmed that edits to your business information on your Google+ Local verified social page should be done through the Google Plus dashboard – NOT the Google Places dashboard. The only exception would be editing details that are not available through Google Plus, such as the categories. Edits do […]