Lollipop Local

Great infographic which talks you through the pros and cons of each of the different social media networks so you can decide which one is the best for your business. Click on the image to go through to the full size at source. In a survey of 1500 Facebook users, 60% said they only knew [...]

A friend visited yesterday and asked me if there were any alternatives to Google. She was fed up with feeling spied on and having her information ‘collected’.  She wanted to go with Firefox. I explained to her that Firefox was actually a browser not a search engine – like Internet Explorer or Google Chrome.  A [...]

There’s been a lot of online chatter about Google Privacy Issues over the past few days and now they have released a video which purports to simplify their case and if you’re signed in “may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services. In short, we’ll treat you as a single [...]

With thanks to PR Daily for this infographic on Who’s Using Google Plus. It looks like it’s mid-range salary males aged 25-34 in the US, followed by their counterparts in India. It is also interesting to note that, of the 40 million people who have signed up, only 17% are actually active. However, recent reports [...]

I am indebted to The Next Web for this infographic on Social Sharing Trends. Highlighted is the explosion of sharing through both Tumblr and the address bar, far exceeding the success rates of more expected platforms. Poor old Google still can’t quite make it happen though, even with their +1 button

A new client and a YouTube account with lots of lovely content all ready to be optimised but I either needed to change the youtube email or the primary Google Account email/user name. Their previous advisors had set it up using an email address/username which had the domain of their previous advisors at the end [...]

Further to yesterday’s post about Setting Up Google Plus Business Pages, lost in all the hype around last week’s announcement of the launch was the following paragraph from Google’s blog: “People search on Google billions of times a day, and very often, they’re looking for businesses and brands. Today’s launch of Google+ Pages can help [...]

When setting up Google Plus Business Pages, choose your email carefully. It’s not like Facebook where you can have an account purely for business nor can you set up multiple pages from one personal account and then allow selected individuals admin rights. Also, like Facebook’s Username/Vanity URL,there are SEO implications if, as has been intimated, [...]

I puzzled over it for ages but it was Gav at Crunch Web Design who showed me how to change between my personal profile and Business Page on Google Plus. On the right hand side of the Home page, you will see your name with a very tiny drop down arrow next to it. Click [...]

With thanks to the peeps at Search Engine Land and Add This, some great infographics that show content sharing statistics. I bang on to all my clients about the importance of blogging and sharing that content over various different platform because it has been shown that this encourages comments – and if someone comments it [...]