How To Do SEO On A Travel Blog: The Everywhereist Edition

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SEO consultant publicly offers free advice to a high-profile travel blogger – and we get to see how the experts run a site audit… 

What do you do when you want to showcase your SEO skills on a famous blog, and the blog owner won’t let you in? For John Doherty, SEO consultant for Distilled, the answer is to show them exactly what they’re missing. He’s just performed a fantasy site Continue Reading

Klout + Google+ = More Klout!

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Google+ has joined the list of social media platforms that Klout uses to assess your online influence.

Google+ only opened up its Application Programming Interface (API) for public use last week, so Klout have been pretty quick off the mark to integrate it.

Klout CEO Joe Fernandez told Mashable.com that it will take a few days for Klout to process the new data and “normalize it across the population” before assigning a new Klout score (from 0 to Continue Reading

Live video blogging from your phone with Google+ Hangouts

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Google have today announced some significant changes to Google+, which they point out, is still a product under development, and the implications could be huge for travel bloggers.

There are  improvements to a number of  Google+ elements, but the one that stands out is the introduction of video ‘Hangouts’ on mobile devices.

Hangouts are like video chat rooms. You can select one of your circles (of friends, work mates, etc), click the button and everyone in that circle who is Continue Reading