***Update 10/2/17**** – Yelp is AGAIN showing ads for competitors. Better check your own page if you’re paying them… I still think my August post about this should have made the national news, after I showed that Yelp was charging businesses to...
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a WordPress plugin that would let you give people a way to easily leave you a review at their preferred service? For example, if I could fill in my profile links in the back end, and then just use a shortcode to display them for...
Different from Google Analytics, Google business listing Insights shows local businesses where customers find them on Google, and also shows various customer actions, like requesting directions, phone calls and views. However, since August 16th, the photo views seem...
Paying for a Yelp enhanced profile is SUPPOSED to include the removal of competitor ads from your Yelp Business Pages, but that’s not really true… I’ve used the Yelp Business manager for a lot of clients and different business types over the years, and sometimes...
This morning I had a button in my Adwords account to try the new Google Adwords beta interface, so I did… Transcription: This is my very first look at the new AdWords experience. I got an email for one of my clients and it said that he qualified for the new...
Last summer when I was at SMX Advanced in Seattle, Danny Sullivan interviewed Googles Gary Illyes in a sort of “Fireside Chat” session. They covered a lot of ground, but the question that stood out most for me, was the last thing Danny asked, at the end of...
In 2002, we moved our web hosting websites to a billing and hosting control panel called Hsphere, and for 15 years it’s been a workhorse. On the other hand, if you’re in search for a hosting company for your own site, then you can trust services like...
For at least two months now, I have been unable to create and save an audience in Facebook Audience Insights. It doesn’t work in either Chrome and or Firefox, even with all extensions disabled, and the problem is present whether you use the old version or the...
Referral Spam in Analytics, a.k.a. “Fake Traffic” has been annoying us for a while now, and it’s still a problem, ESPECIALLY for small businesses. If you have less than 1000 visitors a month, often nearly half the supposed traffic to a website is...
