Category Archives: Google Tools
Why SEO Sucks and why Adwords can save your business?
I’m often asked whether Google Adwords is worth the cost for a small local business or Realtor. Should you spend time and money on organic results or pay for Adwords? It’s a great question and almost always the answer is yes, but “Adwords needs to be done right”. Google Adwords can suck a lot of…
Small Business SEO
So you hired an Small Business SEO expert and things seemed to be going great. Then one day you lost all your rankings. What happened?? Well a few things could happen. 1. Maybe you over optimized and Google listed you as spam. 2. Maybe you have bad links purchased or created by your Small Business…

5 Essential Things You Can Do with the New Google Drive
Search giant Google, has entered the online storage service in addition to its ever growing list of products, calling it Google Drive. Free Storage Google Drive starts you off with 5GB for free. Paid Storage Google Drive gives you more flexibility at a cheaper rate: Storage Monthly Rate 25 GB $2.49 100…

How to back up Google Contacts
How to back up Google Contacts In this episode we look at how to back up Google Contacts to ensure we don’t lose them in the future. Step by Step: How to back up Google Contacts 1. Log in to your Google Contacts. http://contacts.google.com 2. Choose “More” and Select “Export” 3. Save as Google CSV…

Broaden Your Social Marketing Using Google+ Pages & Direct Connect
Eversince Google+ started, businesses have always wanted to be part of it. In July, Google closed any account that has been verified as a business. Fortunately, earlier this month Google+ Pages welcomed in businesses & brands to use the Google+ social network. An amazing addition is that Google+ branded pages are appearing in search results. People…
Facebook and Google still tops for web hits
The latest web statistics from Hitwise (www.hitwise.com) are out. Here are the highlights of the most popular websites in Canada for the week ending Aug. 6. A few things are obvious from the latest results. Facebook, YouTube and Google dominate in their categories. Canadians love our banks’ online banking websites, too! Meanwhile, MLS continues to dominate activity…

Google Analytics Now Tracks Social Engagement
There are lots of ways for businesses to keep track of their social media activities and performances. Today, there are hardly any business which doesn’t have a Twitter, LinkedIn or a Facebook fan page. If you just invest enough time on these platforms, they can be efficiently and effectively used for businesses. Google is getting…

Is the Google “+1” Button A Plus for Google?
The powerful search engine Google, who does not require much (if not any) introduction, has been trying to “go social” for quite some time; Google Wave and Google Buzz were just the beginning. Recently, Google made an announcement on their blog that they will start introducing a “+1” button to Google search. Apparently, the +1…

Picnik: Zooming in on Photo Editing Tools
Picnik is an online photo editing and image enhancing service. You can upload photos from your hard drive and edit them using a multitude of powerful photo editing tools. You can also draw photos directly from your other online photos sites such as Picasa, Flickr, Photobucket and Facebook.Picnik is very easy and fun to use.…
Google for Real Estate?
No long ago Google announced it would be removing listings from Google Maps/Local/Base. You’ll see in this video that instead of showing listings Google is attempting to support Real Estate Agents with what they call Google for Real Estate. Here’s the video enjoy.