About: Nick Spears

Video Snippets for SEO By Nick Spears – Follow me on Google+ Let’s first start by asking the question “What is a video snippet?” A ‘video snippet’ is the same as a ‘rich snippet’, but specifically for video. A rich snippet allows Google to better suck info from your site. You’ve most likely seen new looking website results within the Google results, these are usually some form of a rich snippet. These new results display things like a rating, thumbnail[...] Continue Reading

Understanding Google’s Hummingbird Update Google has had numerous updates (Penguin, Panda, Caffeine) to their search algorithm over the past few years, but none quite like Hummingbird. September 27, 2013. A day to remember within the internet space. It marked the 15th birthday of Google, as well as the announcement of their new search algorithm update ‘Hummingbird’. Google hopes to advance the quality among the search results it spits out upon being queried. Amit Singhal, the Senior V.P. of Google, stated[...] Continue Reading

Is Vine worth using? How would I use Vine for my Med Spa? Why would I use Vine for my medical spa? I have some answers if you’ll join me on this little journey down Vine Road… let’s start with the basics. What is Vine? Vine is an app created by Twitter that allows users to create 6 second videos. That’s right, I said six seconds. The Vine app also allows users to follow other Vine users. Users can then[...] Continue Reading

Google+ Introduces Communities ‘Google+ is supposedly the fastest growing social media network on the web‘, says, you guessed it… Google! But, I do agree. The dark days of Google+ are slowly fading. The sun is starting to peak through the clouds. Not many people use Google+ regularly, but the geeks at Google are once again doing their best to entice you. So, lucky us, Google has decided to add Google+ Communities. Let’s see what all the hype is about shall[...] Continue Reading

Watch the following video on Incredible Keyword Meta Tag Optimization:   One of the very first things you should know as an “SEO Expert” is how to properly optimize a keyword meta tag.  Sure, we all know the keyword meta tag holds minimal power in the overall scope of seo these days, but it is still an example of how seo should be done properly.  It is my biggest pet peeve when I see websites that have general keywords within[...] Continue Reading