Google changing its search algorithms is not news to most SEO experts. What is new with the latest algorithm changes is that Google is being more transparent and talking about them openly. What caught my attention and IMO applies to industrial marketing, are these four changes: Snippets with more page content and less header/menu content: Google’s explanation: This change helps us choose more relevant text to use in snippets. Add a blog or convert your industrial site into a blog site if you want to satisfy Google’s appetite for fresh content. MORE >>

Let me boil my last post, Google Plus was born prematurely and you should take advantage , down to practical pieces. To help you carefully handle Google+ for maximum advantage, I’ve assembled eight steps that help you get the best searh visibility from your Google+ posts. hacked this awful-looking graphic as an example: Here’s a list of things that you need to consider before you invest your time and energy in Google+: Make sure all your posts are Public. Here’s my Google+ public profile. Use a clean URL when you add your content to Google+. MORE >>

Will Google+ be a “Facebook killer” or just Google’s next failed social network? Then again, the average Facebook user spends nearly seven hours per month on the site—compared to just three minutes for the average Google+user. Many of this year’s best posts about Google’s newest social platform were written early in the year. “Ghost town” or not, many experts agree that Google+ is here to stay, and it’s valuable for b2b marketing, SEO , personal branding, and reputation management. So what makes Google+ special? MORE >>

There is unnecessary unrest that has been buffeting the launch of Google’s newest online social network, Google Plus, and the reason for that is simple:  Google was forced to launch G+ because Twitter blocked Google’s real-time and direct access to Twitter updates. This What has been happening even before the real names scandal is the scandal that any and all Google Plus profiles that were not simply real users with real names were deleted en masse. Until Google Plus, there was only one true source for real-time news and real-time trends: Twitter. MORE >>

If you weren’t around then (and I suspect most of the Google decision-makers weren’t) I know it’s hard to believe that consumers actually rose up and made such a stink that a mega company completely reversed course about something, but they did.  So now we’ve got the New Google and for professional searchers it tastes about as good as New Coke.  Here’s the vanilla article from Lance Ulanoff at Mashable, announcing its birth:  Google Merges Search and Google+ into Social  Media Juggernaut.  I’d argue that Google is “free,” but whatever.  It was huge. MORE >>