A Complete Guide to Local SEO

How to Attract Local Customers: A Complete Guide to Local SEO

Most people don’t know that there are really two types of search: global search and local search. You use Google (or your favorite search engine) for them both, the search engine just uses different algorithms to show you what it thinks you want.

Global search is related to everyone on the internet. These are the pages that come up when you search for “the best type of dog” or “headphone reviews”. If you’re looking to rank here, check out these 75 tips.

Local search is when you’re looking for things within a specific geographical area. This would include searches like “restaurants in Chicago” or “furnace repair in Albany”. If you own a local business and trying to attract local customers, you’ll need to do some things that will help your local SEO.

Here’s how to tackle your local SEO.

Google My Business Page

This is the most important part of the process. Every business has a Google My Business page, and you need to claim yours. This was previously called Google Places.

When you google a local business, Google uses these listings to display the local results on map next to your search results. You need to claim this to get the best and most accurate exposure. If you don’t, your hours could be wrong, website not listed, or you may not be there at all.

To claim your Google My Business Listing you just need to visit Google My Business and follow the steps.

• Fill out all the fields when you claim your listing. Google will use all this information in its search results, so the more you give them, the more accurate the results will be.
• Update your hours so they’re correct. Google will now flat out tell people whether you’re open or closed when they google you. If your hours are wrong, you could be missing out on business because people think you’re closed.
• Add photos and videos. This will allow people to see inside your business and really get a feel for what it’s like. It can be the extra nudge people need to stop in.
• List Your Business Consistently

If you list your business name, address and phone number in various places, try to always list them consistently. This is called your NAP (name, address, and phone).

When search engine experts look at how local business is ranked, one of the most important factors was consistency in NAP. This may sound like a no-brainer, but several marketing companies (phone book directories, local advertisers) will give you a tracking phone number to show you how well their ad works. Having a separate phone number for each ad will penalize you in search.

If your business is listed in several online directories or local websites, just ensure your NAP is consistent across all them. Simply emailing the owner of the page to list it the way you want should work. Most of them will have no problem.

Local Link Building

Building local links within your community will greatly help your local SEO rank. It will give you that much desired local page authority that Google values highly. It will help push your website to the top of the list.

It’s not always easy to build local links, though. There are plenty of valuable links that money can’t buy, and you’ll need to work at getting them.

Here are a few ways to build local links:

• Contests. Run local contests. People love free stuff and will link to your pages to share the information.
• Best of Nomination. Most local communities have some kind of top business people, or “best of” contest put on by a local newspaper or website. Get your business in on the voting. It’s all about the backlinks, but winning is a nice perk.
• Get in the News. Any type of story you can get on the news websites that links back to you is golden. Do something newsworthy. Create controversy. Help the poor. Do something amazing. Anything you can do to get stories about your business will help.
• Host Community Event. Not only will this help your business in general, the backlinks you’ll get from posting it online and in meetup classifieds will help.
• Sponsor Local Clubs. Most local clubs and sports teams have a website. They’ll almost certainly list you on it if you sponsor them. It also builds community goodwill.
• Work with Other Businesses. Working with the competition may be tough, but trying to partner up with most other businesses will work well. Create a page on your site that recommends other local businesses and ask them to do the same.

Local links won’t just help you in search, you’ll also get traffic from these links. There’s no harm in getting more and more people to your company’s blog. Most local SEO strategies will help you in more than one way, and this is a prime example.

Local Keywords

When you’re writing the copy for your website, try to keep the keywords centered around your town or city. You’ll want google to be very clear about where you’re located, as most people search for local things by including the city name.

There are a few important places you’ll want to make sure you include the name of the city you’re in along with your main keyword:

• Title of the site. This is done via the title tag.
• Your domain and URL.
• H1 Tags on your homepage.

Don’t do keyword stuffing on your website. This tactic doesn’t work as well as it used to. Most people will turn away from pages that read like they were written by robots.

Local Reviews

Reviews matter. You’ll want to solicit them as often as you can.

There are three major places that you should be looking to get reviews: Google business page, Facebook page, and Yelp. These are the three most common places reviews will be looked at. If you’re ranking well with good reviews, you’ll find it helps you attract business, and hopefully, they’ll leave a good review as well.

Ask your past/current customer base if they wouldn’t mind leaving a review. Most of the time if they’ve had a good experience they won’t mind. Especially if these are people who keep coming back.

You can also ask any current shoppers to leave a review. Simply putting a nice thank you note onto their invoice that asks them to leave a review if they enjoyed themselves. Not everyone will, but the ones you do get should be fairly positive. After all, they liked you enough to make a purchase.

Social Media

The value of social media is well known at this point. Using it in local business has many benefits. The most obvious, it allows you connect directly with a local audience.

Where it also can help is by connecting you to local influencers. These are the popular social media and blogging people in your community. A link back from them can do wonders for your local SEO. Don’t spam influencers, but include them in anything cool you’re doing. See if you can form partnerships where you can work together.

Social media will work together with most of the strategies above. You can use it to solicit reviews, get the word out about contests, create that newsworthy story and work on local links.

Local SEO requires a bit more work in the real world than global search does. As impersonal as the computer can be, those real world relationships can make a big difference in your local SEO.

If you’re well established, using the best practices above will only help you dominate even more.
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Google My Business vs Google Plus. What’s the difference?

This guide will help you understand not only how these two are different, but how you can use them to your advantage.

Google has far more products and services now than anyone could have predicted in its search engine infancy. But with so many options available, it may start to become unclear what each one is for, or at the very least, how the services differ from one another. Between Google Plus and Google my Business, marketers may not realize that the services differ in value depending on the company that uses them.

“With Google+, you can share links, videos, pictures, and other content with people who share your interests. And you can see what other people have shared in your stream. You can always choose who you share with.” – Description found on Google+ Help.

The search giant's social network is increasingly integrated with the entire Google ecosystem, from search to Maps to YouTube. Engaging with Google+ isn't just a way to share updates and deals with your customers; it's also the best way to ensure they find your business in the first place.

Getting on Google+ will help Google's Web crawlers index your site, leading to higher placement during a Web search. It will also ensure that customers get the right information when they search for your business on Google.

But getting started on Google+ can be confusing, especially if your brand is already juggling a Facebook page, Twitter account and profiles on other social networks . Read on to learn how to make the most of Google+ to promote and grow your business.

What is Google+ Local?

Google+ Business, Google+ Local, Google Places — these are all platforms launched by Google in the past few years to help customers find local businesses. The tech giant hasn't made it easy for business owners to distinguish between each platform.

So, before we get to the nitty-gritty of using Google+ for promotion, a little explanation is needed.

Google+ launched in 2011 as a social media platform for individual users, with personal profiles that function just like Facebook profiles. Later, Google launched Google+ Business, which let businesses and brands get their own Google+ profile — just like Facebook Pages for businesses.

Google+ Business users can share status updates, photos, videos and more, just as business owners can do on their brand's Facebook page.

Around the same time, Google launched another service called Google Places, which consists of pages displaying your business's location, contact information and consumer reviews. If you want your business to be listed in Google's Web search results and to show up on Google Maps, sign up for Google Places.

Here's where it gets complicated.

Google Places still exists in name, but it was integrated with Google+ Business this fall under a new name: Google+ Local.

You can still sign up for Google Places. Doing so (and verifying that you are actually the owner) will still allow you to create a basic local listing for your business. When users search for local businesses on Google or Google Maps, they can still navigate to your business's Places page, which now appears as a basic Google+ page — even if you never signed up for Google+.

But signing up for Google+ Business can have big benefits. Doing so will activate social functionality on your business's profile, allowing you to share updates, deals, photos and videos. It's also the only way to customize your profile with personal touches, like a custom banner image.

Google recommends that you sign up for Google Places first to create a basic local listing for your business. Once the listing is up, you can easily activate Google+ social features in your account settings.

“Google My Business connects you directly with customers, whether they’re looking for you on Search, Maps or Google+” – Description found on the Official Google my Business Page

Brent Carnduff described it as “as the interface between you and Google local search activity.” In short, Google my Business is your online dashboard for your business. It shows you different channels that define your business on Google.

The first thing you’ll notice after setting up your company on Google my Business is Google’s location feature. Usually, when you look up a business on their search engine, you’ll see a range of information in a neat card on the right-hand side. As you can see, it includes the business name, photos, a map, reviews, contact details, and operating hours. This gives visitors more information, and assures them on the reputability of the business.

All of this can be managed in Google my Business. You can choose which details to share, and which photos visitors will see. Once you create a location, Google will send you a verification postcard in 4 days to confirm that the location is real. Once you input the code from that postcard, Google will list your location on their search engine.
In addition, Google My Business gives you key data with Insights and Reviews. Insights shows how many views, clicks, and followers your website may get, while reviews show a deeper form of engagement, the written testimonials of real customers accompanied with a star rating.

Lastly, Google my Business gives you the option of accessing your business’s Google Plus and Analytics account. Here you can manage your presence on Google’s social network, and yield important data on who your visitors are, and how they interact with your website.

Why you should care

Studies have shown that nearly all consumers use the Web to search for local businesses. Overall, 20 percent of Web searches have local intent, and that number jumps to 40 percent for mobile searches, according to Google.

If you want your business to be in the mix, you have to take action. The more you engage with Google's Web ecosystem, the more visibility your business will have in two different types of Google searches. A standard Google Web search will be more likely to position your business close to the top of the search results if you are actively engaged. Google+ Local pages are automatically shown when Google knows a search has local intent. Consumers can also seek out businesses by searching within Google+ itself. A local search on Google's social network will return only Google+ Local pages, so your page doesn't have to compete with traditional websites and ads that appear in a regular Web search.

The process Google uses to rank pages in a Web search is complex and beyond the scope of this article. But know that the more complete and appealing your business's Google+ page is, the more relevant it will appear to Google, and the higher it will likely rank.

It's easy to see why it's so important for small businesses to get on Google+, but what about social engagement?

Sharing updates, photos and videos can also improve your business's search status. The more information you share, the faster your content is likely to be indexed by Google.

If you're hesitant to engage, consider this: Every Internet user with a basic account for Gmail, YouTube or any other Google Web service already has a Google+ page. Even if most people prefer Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, Google's social network is huge and growing.

As Google+ becomes the de facto home for business on Google, your business's profile is quickly becoming the landing page that will determine whether a potential customer becomes a real one. If your page is updated frequently with news, deals, appealing photographs and positive reviews, it's almost guaranteed to drive sales.

And users are much more likely to "follow" (or subscribe to) a frequently updated page, so they will be alerted to your updates every time they visit Google.com.

Frequent updates will also encourage users to share your content, which could land your latest post on the What's Hot tab, now accessible from every Google+ profile. If your business is featured in What's Hot, it could drive more followers and more sales.

What’s the difference?

Due to the various changes both Google Plus and Google my Business have undergone, it’s perfectly normal to be confused with the purpose of each one. What is the difference between them, and what purpose does each one serve?

Dashboard v. Social

Try to look at it this way: think of your business as a fancy dinner or a birthday party. Google my Business is everything to do with how people find your party and how they get there. Google+ is about the actual party itself, and what kind of things people talk about when they’re there. Google my Business is a dashboard- it allows you to see different kinds of information that relates to how your business is found on Google. Google+ is a social network, that allows you to more closely connect with your visitors online.

Plus as Part of Business

In other words, Google+ is just one aspect of Google my Business, which contains a number of other features. While Google+ is its own thing, Google my Business allows you to link your accounts together, furthering the point that Business acts as a dashboard for your business online.

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Moto X Pure Edition 2015

Moto X Pure Edition 2015

The phone is plenty powerful, has great ergonomics and feel, a fantastic 21MP camera, 4G LTE† , WiFi 802.11AC + MIMO, and importantly is "pure" Android (plus actual improvements from Motorola)... Moreover, reasonably priced $399






Operating System Android™ 5.1.1, Lollipop

System Architecture/Processor
Motorola Mobile Computing System including a 1.8GHz Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 808 with hexa-core CPU (MSM8992), 600Mhz Adreno 418 GPU, Natural Language Processor, and Contextual Computing Processor

Memory (RAM)
3GB LPDDR3

Storage (ROM)
16GB/32GB/64GB
Micro SD Card support (up to 128GB)**

Dimensions
Height: 153.9 mm
Width: 76.2 mm
Curve: 6.1 to 11.06 mm

Weight
179g

Display
5.7” IPS TFT LCD
1440p Quad HD (1440x2560)
520 ppi
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3

Battery
All Day Battery§ (3000 mAh)
TurboPower for up to 10 hours of use from 15 minutes charging

Water Protection*
Water repellent nano-coating

Networks
LTE cat. 6 capable
WCDMA
CDMA
EV-DO
GSM/EDGE

Bands
GSM/GPRS/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
UMTS/HSPA+ (850, 900, 1700 (AWS),1900, 2100 MHz)
CDMA (800, 850, 1900 MHz)
4G LTE† (B1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 17, 25, 26, 38, 41)

Rear Camera
21 MP
f/2.0 aperture
Phase Detect Auto-Focus (PDAF)
Closed loop processing
Color Correlated Temperature (CCT) flash with dual LEDs
Quick Capture
Tap (anywhere) to capture
4X digital zoom
Burst mode
Night mode
Auto HDR
Panorama
Drag to focus & exposure
Video Stabilization
1080p HD video (30fps)
4K video (30fps)
Slow Motion video
Video HDR (1080p and 4K)

Front Camera
5 MP
f/2.0 aperture
Wide-Angle lens
1.4um pixel for better low light
Night mode
Flash
Slow Motion video

SIM Card
Nano-SIM

Connectivity
Micro USB, 3.5 mm headset jack

Bluetooth® Technology
Bluetooth version 4.1 LE

Wi-Fi
802.11a/g/b/n/ac + MIMO

Speaker
Front facing Stereo speakers with Smartboost

Video Capture
1080p (30fps); 4K (30fps)

NFC
Yes

Location Services
GPS

Base Models
Black with Dark Gray metal frame and Black soft grip back
White with Silver metal frame and Bamboo back
White with Light Gold metal frame and Winter White soft grip back

Backs
Choose from 18 different inlays. Colors, materials, and availability vary by market.

Accents
Choose from 7 different accents. Colors and availability vary by market.




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Asus Wireless AC5300 Tri-Band 802.11ac Router Overview

Asus Wireless AC5300 Tri-Band 802.11ac Router - single solution for big house, appartments, hostel, small hotel... up to 500 m2 (around 5400 square feet).

Ultra-fast 802.11ac Wi-Fi router with a combined tri-band data rate of 5334 Mbps for low latency online gaming, smooth 4K streaming and extremely fast file-sharing.

Tri-Band Smart Connect automatically selects the fastest of the three available frequency bands for each device, based on the device’s speed, signal strength and how busy each band is. 4x4 MIMO antenna design with AiRadar universal beamforming for unrivaled multi-device performance and wireless signal range up to 500 m2.

Link aggregation supports close to 2 Gbps wired transmission for more devices to enjoy faster access speed. 8X capacity Wi-Fi with revolutionary MU-MIMO technology. AiProtection with Trend MicroTM with triple-strength total network security, plus robust parental controls and privacy protection.

The RT-AC5300 will support all existing Wi-Fi clients, including those using the obsolete 802.11b standard. To get the most benefit from it, however, the clients need to support 802.11ac and better yet the same performance tier that the router has.

The router also has two USB ports (one USB 3.0 and one USB 2.0) to host a printer and an external hard drive. You can also use these ports to host a cellular dongle in case you want to share a 3G or 4G connection with the rest of the local network. Though the router is quite big, it still has the usual four Gigabit LAN ports and one Gigabit WAN port.

According to Asus, the RT-AC5300 will ship by the end of the year. Its pricing is not yet available, but it's rumored to be around $400.

The RT-AC5300 is the first of its tier being announced, but soon other vendors, such as D-Link, Netgear and Linksys, will likely follow suite. There's even a chance that the Asus might not even be the first AC-5300 router that you can actually buy. But buy any from US only. Under the law more channels and big power are authorized for 5 GHz. And by experience with previous models - in the official firmware the region can't be changed, as result 200 mW from 700 mW for US. There are alternative firmware with more TX power later, but the router is overheated - the bigger radiator or fan needed, plus new power supply etc.

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.mobi and Blogger

Earlier this year, Google announced that for the first time, it was seeing more search activity on mobile than desktop. The caveat was that this was for 10 countries, including the US. Today, Google has now said this is the case worldwide.

If you want to build the trust and definitely increase your organic traffic, it’s a good idea to go for register mobi domain. Dot mobi is essentially a TLD or Top Level Domain, similar to dot com, dot org, dot net etc. Dot mobi is not as common as some of the others and there is a reason for that. Dot mobi TLD is specialized for mobile devices so keep all of this in mind when you are picking out your hosting package online.

The way to register a dot mobi domain is very similar to how any other domain name is registered. There is one difference though and that is that the registrar has to first make sure that your website can actually be viewed on a mobile device. If it can, you are allowed to have a dot mobi domain.

For many reasons best to use Bloogger free platform from Google. People who use internet on their mobile devices know that most websites are not designed to be viewed on the mobile. A lot of web developers are now designing web sites which are tailored to be viewed only on mobile. For such websites, register mobi domain is the perfect option. 

Blogger.com initialy has 2 different templates and switch automaticaly depend on screen size.It will build the trust and definitely increase your organic traffic. And your customers will find you easier in online searches on Computers and Mobile Devices. Because every .mobi domain registered gets its own entry in the Internet Zone File, your site will perform better than any other mobile naming convention. Additionally, search engines detect searches from mobile devices and prioritize their results accordingly. Because .mobi sites are high quality and made for mobile, they go to the top of the mobile search results.

Entering long URLs is cumbersome; you need a short name for your site. There are still millions of great .mobi names available for your content. A domain name says a lot about who you are and what you do. For businesses especially, picking out the right domain name is often the starting point to building a successful online presence. Read all 10 points before buying the domain. Suffice it to say, from my long experience easydns.com and reg.com does not engage in any of the tactics described below.

General practice tricks

1. “Transfer-out” fees

Buried in the fine print of a registrars’ “Terms of Service” will be a hidden fee authorizing them to charge your credit card a “transfer-out” fee if you move your domain to another registrar. Often times, this transfer-out fee is 2 or 3 times the cost of the original registration.
This practice violates the ICANN policy on domain transfers. In most cases if this happens to you a simple call to your credit card company will have the charge reversed, if you notice. Registrars who use this practice play the numbers game as many will not.

2. The fine print from hell

Most people (read: nobody) actually reads the long, odious Terms of Service for anything they buy online. Some registrars bury truly chilling things in these terms like the aforementioned “transfer-out” fees and in one mind-boggling case a “power-of-attorney”.

3. “Pay-as-you-go”

This is where you make a multi-year interest-free loan to the registrar. It works like this: You register a domain with them for example, 5 years (perhaps to obtain a discounted rate), you expect your domain name to be registered for 5 years. Think again, some registrars will pay the registry for 1 year and pocket the rest of your money.
Then for the rest of your five year term they’ll renew each year for one year. Usually this is coupled with a strict “no-refunds” policy, so an odd situation occurs: they stand to make more money from your original registration if they lose you as a customer before your full 5 years are up, so providing poor service to the point where you leave actually adds to their bottom line.
You can use a Free whois lookup tool like EasyWhois or RegWhois to verify the real expiration date for your domain. It should match up with the number of years you paid your registrar for.

Whois database scams

4. Whois edit fees and locks

Every time you register a domain name, the details of that domain registration must be published in a publicly accessible database called Whois. One of the functions a registrar is supposed to be providing to you is the ability to change those whois records. Some registrars (especially the bargain basement outfits) register your domain for a dirt-cheap price and then ding you with an “administration fee” when you want to edit your Whois record.
Some others may also “lockdown” your domain for 60 days everytime you make an edit to your record, preventing you from moving the name out to another registrar.

5. Premium whois privacy services

Because your domain record is public for all to see, some registrars want to upsell you to “privacy services” or “whois masking”, “private registration”, where they put their own info in the whois record instead of yours.
The important thing to know here is that in the eyes of the domain Registry to which all the Registrars interact, and the Registry’s oversight body (like ICANN, or in Canada, CIRA), whoever is listed in the domain whois record as the domain Registrant is the legal owner of the domain name. Keep that in mind, if you use a service like this, they own the domain, not you, notwithstanding whatever contract or Terms of Service you enter into with them to “own” this name on your behalf. If it lands in a dispute proceeding it will be an open and shut case: they own the name.
Taking it one step further, some “privacy” services will get you to sign up for the whois privacy service and then they turn around and happily offer to sell your true data to anybody else who cares to pay for it.

6. Mining whois and domain slamming

Because all the data is there for the taking, spammers and marketers “mine” the whois database and harvest registrant data including addresses, fax numbers and email addresses. This is a real problem, and there have been very slow moving Whois database reform processes creeping through ICANN as well as CIRA in Canada.
In the meantime though, people may wonder why is it that shortly after they register a domain name, they start getting all kinds of marketing spam in their mailbox. This is because their email address is being harvested by robots from the Whois database. There is a free service to protect your email address called MyPrivacy.ca.
The variation on this is some registrars (and there is one outfit who is particularly notorious for this) which is mining the whois database for registrant information, and then mailing out what look like renewal invoices for either those domain names or variations of them.
Unsuspecting recipients think they’ve received a renewal invoice on their domain and then remit payment, initiating a domain transfer without realizing it. Surprise, you’ve been slammed. In the worst cases your website and email comes crashing down as your DNS services terminate with your old provider. Domain lock-in (a.k.a You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave.

7. The registrar-lock

There has historically been a real problem with “domain slamming” (see above) and unauthorized domain transfers, so the “registrar-lock” was created to protect a domain against this. If the registrar lock is set, nobody can transfer your domain away from you. This is actually a good thing and best practices include having this set for all your domains. The sharper registrars enable it by default when they register or transfer a domain for you.
Alas, this lock can become a real problem for you if it is turned on and the registrar will not turn it off, or give you the ability to turn it on or off yourself.

8. The domain auth-code

Some of the Top-Level-Domains (TLDs) run on a protocol called “EPP” and to further guard against unauthorized transfers, a domain must have an 8-character auth-code supplied before it will transfer. Current examples are .BIZ, .INFO and .ORG. The current or “losing” registrar holds this code. You need it if you want to move your domain away. Hopefully they will give it to you.

Traffic and monetization scams

9. Domain parking

You may not know this, but domain parking is big business. You know, when you click on a link somewhere or make a typo entering a web address and you wind up on some crapola “search page” optionally throwing up a million pop-up ads? That is a parked domain and the larger players can park thousands of domains and make literally millions of dollars “monetizing” them via domain parking.

You know who has access to thousands of domains? Domain registrars. Some of them offer domain registrations and rock bottom prices just so they can monetize the parked names. This may not bother you, but some people don’t realize they’re paying for something their registrar then uses to generate more revenue for themselves.

(Update: since the time of writing one registrar in particular rolled out a “Make money from your domains’ parked pages” initiative, which surprised me since I knew them to be one of the biggest parked page monetizers around — they make millions per month monetizing their customers’ parked domains — until I looked at the details: Packages start at 3.99/month. They are actuallycharging their customers for domain parking monetization. What audacity. If you actually have a domain that’s actually worth something parked, take it to a parking service. They pay you to park your pages. Not the other way around).

10. “Free” URL Forwarding

Some people may wonder why the price ranges vary so much for domain registrations and what the difference is between somebody who offers everything but the kicthen sink for $2/year while others charge more than 10 times that much for basic DNS and URL forwarding.
Well the low cost one often has other tricks up their sleeve for making money, either by adding your domain to their parked pool (above) or in this case, they offer “free” URL forwarding for your domain, and then sell pop-up or pop-under advertisements on your domain. You know, those things people like so much.

Conclusion

There are many gotcha’s in the arcane and Kafkaesque world of domain name registrations. There is no free lunch, the rock bottom priced domain registrar has other plans to boost their revenues and at the end of the day a good rule of thumb is….

You get what you pay for

So if you want to register your domain with a registrar who doesn’t play any of these games, a domain registrar who:
- never hides any fees
- pays the registry for the same number of years you order, up front
- gives you direct, unfettered access to your whois records, your registrar locks, your auth codes and even total control over your domain’s DNS settings like hostname records, mail exchangers and nameservers
- offers a free whois email privacy service and will never sell your data to a third party
who doesn’t “monetize” your domains
- a domain registrar who answers the phone and basically doesn’t try to upsell you or sell you a bunch of services you don’t need or want, who is courteous, professional and has experience providing rock solid domain and DNS services… from my long experience - some top 5 providers with best prices-support-services (including free Emails and flexible web-hosting plans) for different scenarios:

1) Price for domain name with reg.com - best prices for domain name, hosting, and Google Apps. Free and fast DNS, up to 1000 free email accounts with 10 Gb clouddisk space and messanger. WordPress, Joomla, Free website builders - Parallels, WiX, goMobi. And more...

2) Price for domain name with hostgator.com -good prices for domain name, good web hosting, ticket system, and support in english.

3) Price for domain name with easydns.com - not cheap, but they are widely used across the industry.

4) Price for domain name with godaddy.com - some good prices in discount club, the largest registrar of domains in the world. The company provide many marketing actions which can appear a trap... read details.

5) Price for domain name with Google Domains - new, in beta, for US only, test in progress...

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Google+ Pages

About Google+ pages (look at examples)

Google+ pages provide local businesses, brands, organizations and artists with a public identity and presence on Google+. Google+ pages are managed through the Google My Business dashboard, which allows businesses to update and share business information on Google.

Google+ pages interact in the Google+ world similar to the way that regular Google+ profile owners do - they can add people to circles, edit their profile, share things in Google+, +1 comments and photos, and create and join Hangouts.

Google has described Google+ as a ‘social layer’ that enhances many of its online properties. Having a Google+ page can help business owners to build a loyal fan base, providing customers with the opportunity to leave reviews and show their appreciation. Users are also able to use Google’s +1 button to endorse and share business related content across the web.

Google+ enables local business owners to link their Google+ page with their Google Places For Business page (formerly Google Places), and their own website. This enables businesses to connect with customers via organic search, Google+, or on mobile devices, and ultimately puts businesses in charge of their brand.

Depending on the nature of your Google+ business page, various rich snippets of information may be displayed to enhance the appearance of your brand and encourage engagement with your business. Businesses will also be able to provide accurate information and company updates to the end user directly via the search results page.

Types of Google+ pages

Local business pages

Local Google+ pages have features that allow customers to easily connect with that business’s physical location. For example, local pages include a map of the business’s location and feature its address, phone number, and hours of operation. Verifying a local page helps provide Google users with accurate and up-to-date information about your business.

With Google My Business Locations, you can add and manage multiple locations on Google for free using our simple management tool. Google My Business Locations allows you to:

 Be found by customers:
Google My Business Locations allows you to manage business information for all your locations so customers can easily find you on Google Search, Maps, and Google+--no matter what device they're using.
 Make it easy for customers to get in touch:
Give customers the right info at the right time, whether that be driving directions to your business in Maps, hours of operations in Search or a phone number they can click to call you on mobile phones.
​ Edit multiple locations:
Easily import, verify, and edit multiple locations at once from a single dashboard.

Most local pages also share the functionality of other Google+ pages -- you can create and manage circles, start and join hangouts, and share content like posts and photos.

Brand, organization, or artist pages

Brand, organization, or artist pages don’t include address or other physical location information that appears on Google Maps. Brands, organizations, artists, and other groups or individuals can create Google+ pages to reach out to followers, fans, and customers on Google. You may choose from the following page types:
- Product or Brand
- Company, Institution, or Organization
- Arts, Entertainment, or Sports
- Other 

Reviews of your business may also be displayed in the search results alongside your business information. Having a presence on Google+ will allow you to monitor these and respond via social media. Reviews are becoming an increasingly important factor for search engine rankings, so being proactive in encouraging and managing your reviews and online reputation is important.

Photos of your business and product offering may also be displayed for your brand search, so ensuring that you have a Google+ profile which is nicely populated which high quality images is important.

On the social side, linking your Google+ profile to your website also has the potential to display your recently published blog posts and news stories within the search results. Making sure that you are regularly updating your site’s content and sharing this via Google+ gives the best chance of promoting updates to a wider audience, and increases the chance of this content being shared and endorsed.

Not only are you able to gain greater visibility of your company information, hooking up your Google+ profile to your website can also gain you more followers on the platform. Google is now giving logged in users the option to ‘Follow’ businesses on Google+ plus right from the search results page.

Google Plus Business Secret

Encourage your employees or coworkers create their own Google+ profiles if they don’t already have a profile. They can help you in just a couple minutes a day, post links to your websites on their Google+ profiles, they can share the posts from your page and even +1 posts. It’s an easy, yet powerful way to quickly and legitimately gain social signals for a new page.

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Google +1 Button

As a webmaster you must have noticed that Google has added “+1″ Metrics into Google Webmaster Tools. But, Do you know the exact reason behind doing so? If your answer is No, then you may carry on reading this article further. In this post, I will figure out areas which you need to know about “Google +1 Button” , “Google +1 Metrics” and effect on this button on your search engine results.


Google +1 Button :

You may think that “Google +1 Button” is only a sharing button for your content for your blog post, like any other button like Facebook, Twitter and all. But, the truth is it is not its only utility. Google has always tried to provide best search results to their users and for that Google is using so many different parameters for handling personalized search results for every user. This one step by Google is also in relation to provide best search results to the users.

When user comes to your site with “specific keywords” and read your article. Then, If that user clicks on “Google +1 Button”, it indicates the Google that there is some quality contentrelated to these “specific keyword” on this site. This click of a user not only increase the search relevency in Global Search Results but also becomes more effective in personalised search results of his friends and family who is in his contact list. Seems interesting na..?

Simply speaking this is one of the area which is difficult to be manipulated for better Google search engine results by Webmaster, Except proving quality content on the blog or website. This may help google to provide better search results for “specific keyword” in search engine results.

How to use and evaluate Google +1 Metrics :

In Google +1 Metrics, there are 3 different area on which I will come upon one by one. I will tell you how you can evaluate and use it for your site and search engine optimization.

+1 Metrics: Search impact

The “Search Impact” page will let you know the exact impact, how +1 button is affecting your site’s performance in search results. This feature shows you the pages on your site that received the most impressions with a Google +1 Button annotation, and allows you to see how Google +1 Button annotations impact clickthrough rate (CTR). You can compare the clickthrough rate (CTR) of Google +1 button clicked search impressions to the general clickthrough rate for all impressions. The data for all impressions and clicks matches the data on the Search Queries page, so you can compare your +1 traffic to your traffic from all sources.

+1 Metrics: Activity

The Activity page shows you, How many times users have clicked on “Google +1 button” with customized date range report. You can choose to display, New “Google +1 button” clicked and All time “Google +1 button” clicked on your site from Activity page.This page further shows you how many times users have clicked on “Google +1 button” in search results and ads.

+1 Metrics: Audience 

The Audience page displays information about people who have clicked “Google +1 Button” on your pages, including the total number of unique users, their location, and their age and gender. All information shared is anonymous; Google doesn’t share personal information about people who have clicked “Google +1 Button” on your pages. To protect privacy, Google won’t display age, gender, or location data unless a certain minimum number of people have clicked “Google +1 Button” on your content. But, If you have good traffic and you blog about some targeted traffic then you may get quick feedback about your content quality apart from comments.

As a webmaster, I would suggest you to login to Google webmaster tool and check out your Google+1 metrics. If you still missing out Google+1 button on your blog, I would suggest read:

Indeed, Google +1 button is going to be one powerful social bookmarking buttons which will also help in your search engine ranking. I hope this tutorial have given you enough insight about new Google +1 metrics and webmaster tool integration. Read more

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