As we mentioned in our most recent blog post, the deals Yelp recently made with both Yahoo! and Yellow Pages to merge their review site listings may have an impact on your SEO. The fact that both Yahoo! and Yellow Pages seem to be placing…
neil@smokestudios.co.zaApril 1, 2014
Comedy Central recently launched their new series called "Review". The show is hosted by Forrest MacNeil, who claims that he is "addicted to knowledge". The premise of the show is based around leaving reviews not about businesses, food, or movies, but rather life itself. MacNeil…
neil@smokestudios.co.zaMarch 11, 2014
ReviewInc’s industry-leading monitoring capabilities are now available in HootSuite! ReviewInc supports over 200 popular review sites across over 100 countries and organizes positive reviews for sharing on social media outlets. The ReviewInc app for HootSuite allows you to monitor multiple streams of reviews, engage with…
neil@smokestudios.co.zaFebruary 24, 2014
Attention Business Owners: We recently partnered with Woodbury University to conduct a study on online reviews and how they are viewed by both business owners and consumers. Click below to view the results: Woodbury University Business Research Study Results Key Takeaways: - Out of 261…
neil@smokestudios.co.zaJanuary 14, 2014
A few months back, we posted a blog about Anonymous Posting. The blog outlined our view on reviewers posting anonymously, of which we wanted to further elaborate on here. One of the main reasons why reviewers choose to post anonymously is due to fear of…
neil@smokestudios.co.zaJanuary 13, 2014
If you do a quick Google search on 'Is SEO dead?', you will quickly find dozens of articles claiming that SEO is dead. But is it? We dig further into this phenomenon. In recent years, many spammers have attempted to game the system by typing…
neil@smokestudios.co.zaJanuary 9, 2014
Last year, many review sites launched mobile reviewing capabilities. While many already had apps for smartphones, they had not previously allowed users to leave reviews straight from their mobile devices. Now, there are even more gadgets cropping up that are allowing users to read reviews…
neil@smokestudios.co.zaJanuary 6, 2014
As we all know, the recession affects all of us. From small businesses to large corporations, right down to us: the consumer. It's hard to know where to start to begin that climb back to normalcy. One way we've found that can help make your…
neil@smokestudios.co.zaDecember 23, 2013
