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3 Unique Use Cases for Authorship Markup

Web professionals immediately embraced Google authorship markup when it was unveiled in 2011. In case you’re still (somehow) unfamiliar with authorship markup, know that it is a specific microdata set that utilizes the rel=author...

Profile Dimensions of the Big 3 Social Networks

The most immediately apparent social media design flaw that far too many brands fall prey to is having one (or more) improperly sized images on their social network profiles. With a medium as visual as social media, it's important...

Google+ Communities for Merchants

Merchants tend to put the majority of their social resources into sites like Facebook or Twitter, but it might be time to shift some of that social focus to Google+. This is because having a profile on Google’s emerging social...

The Ripple Effect: Track Trends & Find Friends on Google+

Google+ has had its fair share of problems differentiating itself from other, more established social networks, and because of this, it hasn’t exactly skyrocketed in popularity. However, it turns out that by ignoring Google+...

New Business Tools for Google+

Google has launched some new business tools for Google+, which aim to help colleagues collaborate more easily over the social network. Currently, the new tools are in “full preview mode” for Google Apps customers. According...

APIs Make Google+ Easier to Manage for Brands

Did you forget about Google+? I almost did, and I write about this stuff for a living, so you’re totally forgiven if the social network fell off your radar sometime in the last few months. However, if you’re business has...

Google +1 Recommendation Feature

Web users want more (and better, more relevant) information and Web workers obviously should want to show it to them. Sounds like an opportunity to me! Google must think the same way as it has released a new feature of the +1 button...

Google+ Finally Goes Local

Google is finally putting last year’s acquisition of Zagat to good use. The search engine giant added a new local feature to its social network, Google+. The Local tab, which is located on the right-hand side of Google+, enables...

Google+ Makes Waves with Massive Redesign

Did you just love Facebook’s Timeline update so much that you wished another major social media site would adopt something similar? Well, Google apparently did also and has included a conspicuously Facebook-like redesign of profile...

How Your Business Can Get an A+ on Google+

Google's social network hasn’t provided Facebook with the competition that many thought it would when Google+ was first announced, but its importance as a social media avenue towards Web success cannot be denied. Fortunately...

Google+ Brand Pages Gaining Ground

If your business has been hesitant about creating a Google+ brand page, perhaps a good New Year's resolution would be for your company to get on board -- or at least consider it. According to a recent BrightEdge SocialShare study...

Final Brand Page Changes for Google+ in 2011

Google+ wants to know who the 50 most important people in your company are; or, at least, the 50 most important people related to social media. As a present to its users, both brands and regular Joes, Google+ pulled out a few last...

Has Google+ Become a Competitive Social Alternative?

A lot has been discussed about in the tech industry concerning the potential (and necessity) of the upstart social network Google+. In recent months, questions have been raised about just how successful Google's foray into social...

Google+ Updates: Real-Time Search, Hashtags and YouTube

Yesterday, Google released a video featuring its Senior Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, announcing that Google+ is going to be getting big updates in both real-time search and hashtag support. The company's social...

Google+ Grows Over 1200%

The master of search, Google, is now gaining speed in yet another category — social media. Since Google+ opened up to the public last week it has seen a significant increase in traffic. According to Hitwise , the social network...

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