Welcome to the Telapost SEO and Content Marketing Blog. Our most popular categories have articles about Content Creation, Google My Business News, SEO News, Technical SEO and Case Studies. Sometimes there are random posts about business or North Carolina. Here’s our blog’s RSS feed, our blog’s Feedburner Feed and our a category specific SEO News Feed. Below you will find the entire blog’s most recent articles beginning with the newest articles first.
Beginning in March and continuing into April 2015, I have witnessed a surge of Facebook fans on several of the brand/business pages that I have access to. These pages range from pets, legal, medical, corporate training, and a variety of other niches. Not all niches were “hit”
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I told everyone I knew back in 2012 that Hillary Clinton would be the next President of the United States. Nobody believed me. That, or they didn’t want to. Social Media is a wonderful place for politics I know several people who say “Never discuss politics on
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Website content that answers questions from potential clients always ranks well in Google search. Ranking in Google search of course is invaluable to businesses and professionals in almost all niches. Today I’m very happy to spending a few moments with Attorney Andy Green to hear first hand
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Many Android users are trying to figure out how to add Instagram photos to the Facebook’s business page. Directions are confusing as many are written for iOS and the Android Instagram App works differently. Furthermore, the steps change. Below are directions that work for Andoird as of
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I was playing in Instagram the other day and I noticed that I could add a business location to some photos and not others. This used to be much easier before Instagram switched from Foursquare’s database to Facebook’s places database. Geotagging When an Instagram user uploads a
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The other day a client asked me “My competitor has a 5 star rating displaying in Google’s search results and it really stands out, can we do that on my site?” Spam vs Real Star Ratings A review site, such as Yelp, or a page where people
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Last week Twitter announced a partnership with Foursquare that allows users to add a location to a tweet. They also describe how to add a location to your tweet in their announcement. Businesses should use Foursquare We’ve been wondering what is up with Foursquare but it has
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Instagram is the current social network that keeps growing, growing, and growing. Instagram however currently lacks many local features. Local features Instagram lacks Users can tag locations on Instagram and there are geolocation features. As of March 2015 Instagram currently lacks: An easy way to search for
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Years ago, I tried to share a post on Facebook from one of my websites. Instead of seeing the title I expected, I saw an advertisement for an overseas pharmacy. I was able to catch and repair the issue before being penalized by the search engines. I
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Developing content for real estate agents and brokers is my new favorite niche, especially agents located near me in central North Carolina. Occasionally I see some agents hung up on trying to rank in Google search for neighborhood names. Does ranking for neighborhood names help sell houses?
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On the web, your website is your property. It is your real estate. The more traffic you have to your property, the more it is worth. If you have a website that gets traffic, it is just like having a commercial property at a busy intersection. Of
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Millions of small business owners have to make the tough decision of where to allocate time. Any small business owner knows there is just not enough time in the day. While many dream of being that entrepreneur that strikes it rich the harsh reality is it takes
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While doing a search on the Internet the other day I bumped into the New Homes & Ideas website. The first thing I noticed is that there is a ton of fresh, helpful content going onto the site on a consistent basis. Then I realized that the
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James Fell is an MBA grad and professional fitness speaker and an internationally syndicated fitness columnist whose work is read by millions each month. He writes for the Chicago Tribune, interviews celebrities for the Los Angeles Times about their fitness stories, is the head fitness writer for
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Whenever I visit an eye doctor’s website the first thing I usually notice is that there is a lack of content. When I discovered www.eyeporter.com I was thrilled to see not only a blog, but a YouTube video series! Holy content! Isaac Porter, MD, is an Ophthalmologist
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Update 11/19/2015: See this follow up article: Yahoo Small Business Listing Problems – YEXT or Aabaco or Luminate? Update 11/1/2015: It appears that the SMB dashboard is now missing, please see this article for more information: https://www.telapost.com/luminate-coming-soon/ This is one that always seems to slip through the
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It can be easy to lose sight of this, but don’t forget: people use search engines because they want answers. You can read about SEO until you are blue in the face. You can study how meta tags affect click through rates, measure bounce rates on your
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We have all seen it before. Some schmuck of a company ranks on page 1 of Google’s results for a term such as “Charlotte SEO” or “Raleigh SEO” or “Los Angeles SEO” etc. So how did they get there? Isn’t the best at SEO company at the top for “SEO”? In many
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Webmasters who are using Google Webmaster Tools (WMT) and have a website that doesn’t work good on a mobile device (like a cell phone) have been receiving a warning message from the Google Webmaster Tools Team telling them to fix “mobile usability issues”. There is a looming
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Every day I run into a website that needs content and yet has none, or just has a few pages up. Where is the content?! Did the web dry up and the words evaporate, leaving nothing behind but dry, cracked websites? A quick example: Wednesday I met
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