Social media is an ever-changing platform and sites such as YouTube have to strive to keep up with the consistent changing demands of its users in order to offer them the best online experience.
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Estate agents occasionally ask us about lead follow-up. They want to know when the best time to follow up a lead is, fearing they might come across as desperate or trying hard sell tactics if they respond too fast. There are three statistics which real estate professionals should know…
Spain has passed a new law forcing the American giant Google to pay newspapers a fee every time it links to one of their news stories on its search engine.
The law, known as the Canon AEDE, states that sites which link to a news article alongside a meaningful description will have to pay a bill to the publisher.
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Google has received 41,000 requests in just four days from people hoping to have search results about themselves deleted from the search engine results pages (SERPs), the Wall Street Journal reports.
That amounts to roughly 10,000 requests per day, or 7 requests per minute. The European Court of Justice ruled last month that search engines must give their users the option to request information about themselves
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Google has launched a new online search removal request tool via a submission form as it starts the lengthy process of executing the “right to be forgotten” rule following its recent loss in a landmark EU court case.
Individuals will now have the right to request “irrelevant, outdated or inappropriate” information about them or their company to be removed from Google’s search results.
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Google’s recently released an update to the way its search algorithm works, dubbed “Panda 4.0″ aimed at discriminating against websites that publish duplicate or spammy content. It has long been a conundrum as to the SEO value of real estate website listings which are imported from and exported to third party sites. So how will Google”s Panda 4.0 update affect real estate websites?
Pandas may look cute and cuddly, but they can be extremely hazardous to your health. The same can be said about Google’s most recent update to the way its search algorithm works, dubbed “Panda 4.0,”which is said to be wreaking havoc with some major brands on the web, according to Business Insider.
“The intent of Google’s updates is the same as all its previous updates: It is attempting to discriminate against spam webpages that publish duplicate, thin, or useless content simply for the purpose of getting search traffic from Google,” writes Jim Edwards for BI.
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The newish corporate face of Facebook has proven that indeed there is no such thing as a free lunch. Let me ask you this: when you post on your facebook page do you feel snubbed by your thousands of followers? Feel like you are speaking to yourself? Unless you’re posting funny videos, pictures of cute kittens or Justin Bieber it seems most people can no longer see them.
Can businesses in Spain advertise on Twitter? A good question. We tried entering the details of two clients with about 1000 followers a piece and both over a year old. The first one was an established law firm based in Marbella (their target market is the Marbella area), and the other is a leading real estate agent also based in Marbella (their target market is outside of Spain). And this is what happened…
As Spain’s leading internet marketing company, we at Voodoo are big spenders, and that’s official! We can reveal that we have surpassed the €1,000,000 milestone spent on Google Advertising.
That may be a drop in the ocean for Google, but it’s a good indication of the level trust our clients have placed on us over these recent difficult times, and a clear sign of success.
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Have you noticed when searching on Google that your competition’s search results is displayed with little thumbnail image of someone with their name written next to it?
Want to know what it is, if it’s of any benefit, and if so, how to get it?.
Read MorePinterest, a content sharing service that allows members to "pin" images, videos and other objects to their pinboard continues to grow and could soon top Twitter. Latest research reveals that 15% of Americans currently use Pinterest, and 16% use Twitter, according to Pew Research Center....
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International Social Media consultant and guru Jeff Bullas has composed a very useful self-explanatory list called ‘20 Things You Should Share On Social Media’.The list is a useful ‘prompt’ of things company bosses could and should be sharing as a business on social media.
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