by KMGuru | Jul 25, 2011 | Google Plus, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Late last week, in a move that was apparently spurred by threats of an FTC investigation, Google removed third-party reviews and listings from their Places pages in the Local/Maps results. This change was intended to help thwart complaints by sources like Yelp,...
by KMGuru | Jul 19, 2011 | Google Plus, Mobile Apps, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Google said on its Q2 earnings call last week that there were more than 10 million users of Google+ so far. It didn’t announce how many were using the site on mobile devices or how many had downloaded the well-received Android app. The iPhone app should prove popular...
by KMGuru | Jul 7, 2011 | Facebook, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Almost certainly and almost always, the answer is “yes!” Classifying exactly how and precisely how much is a more challenging question, but search engines like Google and Bing do access some forms of data from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google’s...
by KMGuru | Jul 7, 2011 | Google Plus, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Tonight Christian Oestlien, the Ads Leads for the Google+ Project, posted a message along with a brief YouTube video about future Google+ plans on his Google+ account. The video is just over a minute, but Christian covers a variety of topics. The most important of...
by KMGuru | Jul 6, 2011 | Facebook, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Today, Facebook has promised us something “awesome.” The press has assembled. I’m here with them, and the live blogging will soon pour forth from my finger tips! The event is supposed to start at 10am Pacific, but I think it will be a bit late. When it starts, you can...
by KMGuru | Jul 6, 2011 | Facebook, Google Plus, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Just over a week old, how’s Google+ doing? Comprehensive stats are hard to come by. But from our own experience, along with some other stats out there such as a new top Google+ accounts list, it seems to easily be eclipsing its Google Buzz predecessor. Google Buzz...
