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Does your business have multiple locations? One of our favorite clients, Eagle Rivet Roof Service Corporation, has 4, 2 in Connecticut, one in Florida and one in Massachusetts.

One of our initiatives this year was to expand their local marketing. We recently got the MA roofing contractor page approved by Google and are proceeding with promotion. The Florida roofing contractor page has been online for a few months and we have gotten to #20 for “coral springs roofer“.

If you need Google Places promotion, please contact us today!

Here at 3PRIME we’ve taken a dedicated approach to Local Marketing. Much of the reason we’ve gone this route is because of Google’s focus on connecting users with local businesses. In large part, this change has seen the rise of Google Places, where businesses show off their location as well as reviews submitted by customers. Google has just taken a step to increase the importance of their local listings by purchasing Zagat Ratings. Read the rest of this entry »

Finally Found a solution to the following Error Message when inserting a new Row into a worksheet:

Expected response code 200, got 400 We’re sorry, a server error occurred. Please wait a bit and try again.

The Fix: Your column header values must be lower case, they can’t be Capitalized!

so this: array("Name"=>"YOURNAME", "Email"=>"youremail@fakeemail.com");

Must be converted to resemble:

array("name"=>"YOURNAME", "email"=>"youremail@fakeemail.com");

I hope this helps. Took me a day of researching to find this fix.

h/t: http://www.ayasoftware.com/content/magento-how-work-google-spreadsheets

Google +1 integration is pretty straightforward, although these can often be complicated by the fact that most businesses don’t directly manage their own web content or rely on a trusted, efficient vendor to update their website in a timely fashion.
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Providing small businesses the opportunity to quickly ramp up their advertising spending, that’s Google’s latest venture.

The Adwords Mastercard overview:

• Launched & available as a “beta test” and were sent out Wednesday July 20, 2011 to select customers
• Available should favor small and medium-sized business, but might be wider
• Fairly Low 8.99 ongoing (not introductory) annual percentage rate
• Issued by: issued by the World Financial Capital Bank
• Attractive Credit Line, yet to be announced but likely based on adwords spend
• No Annual Fee

Would you consider this for your business? Would you promote a new product or product line with it just to try it out? Need a new website to advertise? Call in the Pros!

The short answer is yes FB has implications on rankings. The big question is how you use it.

1) Improve the placement of your FB page
2) Trying to use FB to improve the placement of your website.

If your goal is #1, then there are various traditional SEO activities you can do. You then need to concern yourself with what people can do once they get there.

If you are only worried about #2, then the only thing to do is to get the FB pages ranked more highly, so that the few links to your website are worth more.

In either case you’re going to be building the prominence of the FB page, but why you are doing it is the most critical question to answer. This will determine your course of action.

Thought I’d share as I had to do a double take! I mis-typed gmail.com and got this wonderful offer, complete with google-colors and derivative footer design. I almost proceeded until I saw the URL I’d been forwarded to:

http://mail-giveaway.com/?sov=138360

Good stuff! They bought gmial.com and have it set to forward to their phishing site. Users answer questions and provide their info and Lord knows what happens then. I’m not sticking around to find out!

Not too long ago we did a post on the updated google images search that by now I’m sure you guys have gotten pretty familiar with. Unfortunately, we’ve begun noticing a troubling occurrence with them (or rather our virus scans have) and it turns out that tons of them have become infected with malware. According to this recent Huffington Post article, around 5,000. Google says they’re working to improve their results and malware detection. So whenever you’re searching through Google images for pictures of kittens or the newest internet meme, be aware that there might be a nasty gift with your JPEG.

3PRIME recently started work for Washington Memorial Funeral Home. They’re based out of North Haven and they are yet another local company that we’ve had the pleasure to work with. Washington Memorial takes great pride in their work, and their attention to detail in all aspects of services is second to none.
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Google connects millions of people each day to a wide array of different businesses and services. One of the interesting ways they do this is with Google Places. 3PRIME has been setting up and optimizing Google Places accounts for our customers for over a year now.

Our Google Places service includes claiming and optimizing the places pages, and then promoting them through a variety of methods that have been tested to offer the greatest benefit for our clients. Recently, 3PRIME set up the Google Places account for Image Paint & Powerwashing. They’re based out of Brandford, CT and as always, we’re honored to work with a local company.