Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps

Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by EGreg on Thursday May 29, 2014 @05:23PM (#7818668)

But I just told you. Social. Linkedin. Vimeo. YouTube. Other things. Sure you don't get the "instant win" of having a big player link to you. But you also are not so dependent on ONLY that big player.

It's kind of like the difference between being discovered by an A&R department of a record label or going the indie route like Ben Haggerty.

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Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by TheMagicHorsey on Thursday May 29, 2014 @07:21PM (#7819226)

But people won't discover my blog posts and videos without Google.

Or do you suppose spamming my Facebook feed promoting my work website is the way to go?

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Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by EGreg on Thursday May 29, 2014 @08:17PM (#7819437)

How do you go from "people won't discover my own site under google's new algorithm" to no one on linkedin and other places will ever discover any articles linking to my site without google?

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Re:Google Maps Mania Blog is Dropping Google Maps by TheMagicHorsey on Friday May 30, 2014 @08:39PM (#7824813)

We do post things on LinkedIn and Facebook, however we get only a tiny fraction of the traffic that we get from Google. In addition, the traffic from Google seems to convert to paying customers at a higher rate--not sure why yet.

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