We just added Facebook and Google automatic form filling to the websites, which works for anyone logged into their Gmail or Facebook accounts. This is not a new technology, as you can see in the first image (Athlinks is a running race management app that I use), as it has been widely used by other systems. So far it is…
Month: January 2018
Who Do You Hire for Social?
“That’s crazy some of my posts get up to more than 40k views a day just wondering how that happens if you only have 6k friends?” Meanwhile I get a miserable few hundred views on my posts after reading and thinking about a topic for hours. It’s ok, I’m not salty, I know I cannot compete. I must improve my…
Local Mobile Searches
Yelp indexes very well specially on mobile searches. However, many mobile users are using social media apps that can bring recommendations based on geo locations, such as services like Facebook Local. Will this new offering for local mobile searches (in a sense a network consolidation) affect relying on location indexing dependent services (like Yelp)? Will they go out of fashion? Yago de…
Google AMP Project Changes
How many times in 2017 did Google push to use the YouTube director app? Be careful falling too far for Google’s AMP project. In terms of changes, direct traffic, business name searches, geo + product location, etc. will not be affected. Only a small fraction of long tail searches may be affected. If you don’t even do custom content this…
Automotive DMS Security
Automotive DMS security: Meanwhile in the automotive industry everyone is suing everyone for charging DMS access fees (security fees). We could just be friends, not nuke anyone (especially Hawaii!) and just give DMS data access to whoever needs it. Note: I have not fact checked the news below. #reynolds #cdk #dms
Google AdWords Review Changes
With the start of the new year, Google released a bit of unexpected news: “As of January 15th, 2018, Google will no longer be supporting AdWords Review Extensions” Google discontinues review extensions: Review Extensions allowed us to share third-party rankings, awards, and positive reviews alongside your text ads like the image below. While they were known for having an often lengthy…