How to Create a Business Page on Google Plus in 3 Minutes

Setting up an official page for your business on Google’s emerging social network is a great way to position your organization to take advantage of the momentum that the search engine giant is putting behind it’s latest social venture.  Luckily, Google has made a streamlined & simple process for setting up new Google+ Pages. Here’s… read more →

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Google Buys Zagat – Doubles Down on Local Web Marketing

According to Reuters, Google has acquired the grandfather of restaurant reviews, Zagat, for an undisclosed sum. Google has long made user ratings & reviews a part of Google Places, but the appeal of Places was mostly the tie-in to reliable location-based searching, maps & directions via Google Maps.  I still expect that as Google Plus… read more →

Google’s +1 Button Will Impact Search Results

Well, it looks like the folks over at Gizmodo and Wired have gotten official word that Google is looking at ways to use the data from the +1 button to re-order search engine rankings.  This probably shouldn’t be a major headline, though, since we’ve been expecting Google to use it’s new social networking toy to… read more →

Google Plus Is Not About Google Plus

Google’s launching its own social network, called Google Plus, and already everyone’s getting fired up about how Google is taking on Facebook, and how Google Plus is a “Facebook killer”… Google+ is a collection of social networking tools that are all linked through a news feed of friend activity that resembles Facebook pretty strongly, so… read more →