In an earlier post we emphasized the importance of video in Google Search and SEO but only briefly covered the how-to portion. Today I want to share some links with you to further your understanding of how creating a video for your website or self storage facility is as easy as pie.
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Are you attracting customers with your Facebook, Twitter and Google+ profiles, or driving them away?
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What’s the worst attitude you can have about your web presence? Listen up, you hipster whiners who like your websites all pretty and user-interfacey. It’s time for you to meet Don Chernoff, the man behind a sweet little suitcase called SkyRoll.
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Google+ opened up a new service for businesses and brands, Google+ Pages, last week. Many businesses tried to set up G+ pages when the network launched in July and had their Pages deleted (Google was only allowing personal accounts), so there’s clearly a business marketing interest in the networking platform.
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When Steve Chaires received his local yellow pages book recently, he was mad. But his anger was tempered by the realization that what he was so upset about probably didn’t matter all that much.
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With Google no longer pulling in reviews from Yelp and other third-party sites, the importance of reviews on Google Local pages has increased substantially. Reviews are just one of the many factors that affect SERP rankings, and since reviews are not really commonplace in the self storage industry, they can set your business apart.
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Back in the early days of StorageFront, our sales guys had to work hard to convince our customers that a subscription model was a better value to them than a pay-for-performance model.
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First page of Google is sacred land, a funnel for self storage renters that lands their stuff in your facility. Of course, landing on that first page is not easy. But there is one strategy that is not utilized by most: Video.
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The other day it was quitting time at work and a couple of us gathered around a computer monitor, talking about the new fall television shows, and wanting to check out one of J.J. Abrams’ newest creations: Alcatraz. Unsatisfied with my coworker’s search terms in Google to bring about the proper sneak peek video I had already seen, I took over his computer and typed in a few keywords that I knew would get me the results I wanted.
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In this post I’d like to drill down into one social tool specifically (Twitter) to illustrate what and how social interaction is beginning to influence search. To me it’s an interesting case, since Twitter is largely viewed as web cotton candy with no basis in business reality.
Many SEO experts believe that Google penalizes poor spelling, especially the black hat bozos who misspell words on purpose in an effort to rank high on search terms that are regularly misspelled. For example, maybe I want my furniture site to rank high on the search term “furniture.” With all the competition, I have no chance of cracking the first page, but I figure out that a lot of people search for “furnature” by mistakes, so I sprinkle “furnature” into the copy of my site. Now, my site is on first page for any searches for “furnature.”
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Last month the Local Search Association (formerly the Yellow Pages Association) released a study conducted by Burke that confirms once and for all: Search has taken over as the top way to find local businesses.
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SEO best practices are the only way to guarantee that a website can climb to page one while also staying on Google’s good side. But no matter how much we harp, self storage operators aren’t sure until they see the proof. That’s why we’re excited to share today’s Compete data.
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SEO experts agree that search algorithms will continue to find ways to recognize and value the input of humans on search results. That means marketers are going to have to stay on top of and understand the evolving impact of all social networks. Astute companies are already attempting to lure higher clout connections to beat the rush.
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NSSA and Private Businesses Gain Small Victory in State-run Self Storage Debate
Last August, the Idaho Land Board unanimously approved the purchase of Affordable Storage in Boise, Idaho. The property was purchased as part of the endowment trust land portfolio, which support the state’s public schools. A state-run self storage operation was alarming to the National Self Storage Association and NSSA President Michael Scanlon wrote a letter to the Land Board in November 2010, urging the state to sell Affordable Self Storage.
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