If you have searched and found this post, then it may well be that you're looking for the answer to this annoying problem. My favourite search engine is Google. That's the one I want to use. But for some reason, some software programs have included yahoo search in their installation files. That's all well and good but what if I don't want to switch to yahoo? I use Mozilla Firefox as my web browser of choice. I like how it works and to me is more robust than others I've tried. So imagine my … [Read more...]
Linkedin and Google ranking
One of the LinkedIn groups was discussing how you can check your *Google rank for your LinkedIn profile. Why were we checking our ranking? Because the person posting the original message had a theory that we would all be at the same rank for our profiles at LinkedIn. It was soon found that wasn't the case, although the majority at the discussion seemed to have a ranking of 3, there were some with 2 and 4 as well. I hadn't thought to do that before and so thought I'd play the game too. My … [Read more...]
Got a listing with Hotfrog?
I was following a thread at a forum the other day and we were talking about our Google listings. Someone commented that Truelocal, Hotfrog and others will always bring up your listings first. They didn't for me, but that's not the point. At any rate I found a Hotfrog listing for my website much further down and thought I'd go see what was there. Very basic, listed my business name with a web link and my suburb. That's it. So I decided to claim the listing and proceeded to enter my details. I … [Read more...]
Are you on Google+ yet?
I am, however I'm as yet undecided about the usefulness of it. I know that there are over 20million people on it already even though it's in Beta form. I do understand how the circles work and find that could be a useful tool. But do I need another social media tool? Who am I reaching that I'm not already via Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter and do I have the time to really want to play around with it? How about you? Are you using Google+? Would you like to share your highlights (or … [Read more...]
