Google doesn’t care if you sign up for Google+ and never come back – just as long as you’re signing up. This is the conclusion that Josh Constine of TechCrunch came to after a recent ComScore study showed that users are spending about three minutes per month on Google+, compared to 405 minutes on Facebook.
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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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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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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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Progressive web marketers are highlighting the importance of online reviews for local business more and more. Unfortunately, receiving numerous legitimate reviews is an elusive goal that baffles many local businesses.
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In the new generation of organic search, we believe Google plans to separate branded websites from “generic” websites in its search results. That’s because known brands tend to produce happy searchers, whereas generics often lead to poor user experiences.
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In the next generation of search, we suspect that infrequently clicked results, and results with high bounce rates, will sink toward the bottom of search because they’re less relevant to humans. Frequently clicked and captivating pages will bubble up toward the top.
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Social-based signals can be highly valuable to Google because they serve as pointers from human users who, in previous search generations, couldn’t “vote” for content with emotion and commendation. With the inclusion of social signals, Google will take what people like or share into consideration.
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Inbound links to your self storage website from other reputable, related websites may determine up to three-quarters’ worth of your Google rank. What that tells you is, inbound links should be at the tippy-top of your web marketing strategy. Right? Not so fast. Before you dump every marketing minute into links, you should know: Changes are coming.
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