Posts Tagged ‘Google’

How To Strike a Balance between Social Media and SEO Strategies

Friday, February 1st, 2013

Emma Julie FoxAbout the author: Emma-Julie Fox writes for Pitstop Media, a top rated Vancouver SEO company that provides services to businesses across North America. If you would like to invite the author to guest post on your blog please contact www.pitstopmedia.com

Google has implemented a series of algorithm updates since 2011. As a result of these, many businesses have experienced a significantly negative effect on their search rankings. And the drop in rankings didn’t just happen in Google search rankings, but even on the results pages of other search engines. That’s because other search engines typically follow Google’s lead where algorithms are concerned. (more…)

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2012 social media predictions – Guest post from Alia Haley

Friday, December 9th, 2011

As the year comes to a conclusion, pundits have already begun talking about the social media predictions for 2012. In all fairness, you have to agree that social media has turned out to be a major hit in 2011, determining the longevity and success of various products, movies and even governments. So, no matter how hard you try to argue against it, social media will play a major role in 2012.

So, here is a look at some of the predictions: (more…)

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Keep calm in land of the giants – guest post by Mervin Straughan

Friday, August 19th, 2011

As most of the savvy practitioners in the social media sphere have already been telling us, there’s a new kid in town and he’s big.

But before rushing to sign up Google+ to the team once it’s rolled out, businesses would do well to think about how and where this giant fits into the team.

The new tool is likely to be an asset but anyone who has attended a Quest PR social media seminar will know , that, in a new world, some of the old rules of the game still apply, chiefly “focus” and “integrated planning.” (more…)

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Tops tips to power you up the SEO rankings – Guest blog post by Joanne Ernst of www.online-catalyst.com

Monday, August 8th, 2011

As an advocate of fusing traditional PR and social media, Quest PR works with a select  number of fantastic partners who champion social media and help small and medium sized companies to grow. Joanne Ernst is our special guest at our September 7 seminar where she will demystify Search Engine Optimisation and provide tips on what to do and what not do. To book your place on the seminar please email charlotte@quest-pr.com. (more…)

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Google+ – Should Businesses embrace or discard it?

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011

Many new social media sites heralded as ‘the next big thing’ have come and gone, but when Google+, a new social media site has been developed by Google – you have to sit up and take notice.

Despite all of Google’s failures in social media with Google Wave and Google Buzz, Google+ has attracted a great deal of interest and a high uptake, attracting 20 million users in three weeks. (more…)

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ARE YOU GRABBING GOOGLE’S ATTENTION WITH VIDEO?

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Following the fab feedback from fellow tweeters and blog followers from my last post I wanted to share some further listening and posting devices from top Vistage speaker Grant Leboff.

As the social media bandwagon gains momentum, it is powerful to see the bottom line benefits that businesses are enjoying through either managing their own blogs or commissioning PR agencies to manage them on their behalf.

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