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About bpizzy

I am the owner of BPIZZY.com... I find myself searching for the answers to questions (my client's and my own) daily... I try to share as many of those answers via this blog to help others... If you have any questions or better answers, please let me hear about it in the comments.

Did Google Remove the +1 Button from SERPs?

It appears so.  We we doing some social media work and realized that the Google Plus One button that used to appear right next to the URL in the search result is no longer there. The following screen shot shows what past results looked like:   Search engine watch outlined past changes to the plus [...]

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5 Tips: Picking a Good BuddyPress & WPmu (Multi-Site) Host

Recently, we have been building a lot more websites with WordPress Multi-Site and Buddypress.  There is a high demand for sites that need a open-source social networking option.  Buddypress still has a lot of short comings,  but it’s easy integration into WordPress 3.0 make it a popular choice. I have found that Buddypress and WordPress [...]

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Improve & Organize Your Local SEO with GetListed.org

GetListed.org is a cool free tool I have been using for many of my Local SEO campaigns.  GetListed has been around for a year or so now, but they recently upgraded their local dashboard to track many more local listing indexes.  They currently will track your business addresses on Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local, [...]

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Top 5 WordPress Plugins for Site Optimization

Over the years I have progressively built more and more of our sites on the wordpress platform. The reasons are endless, but the biggest upside to wordpress has to be its large community of designers and developers who constantly add new open-source plugins and themes that save development time and costs. An increasingly important aspect of [...]

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BPIZZY.com Website ReDesign

We are happy to announce the launch of our new website design for BPIZZY.com.  The new site features full portfolio pages to showcase our clients and projects. More importantly the site has a stand alone blog and social media integration so I can interact better with clients, followers and curious web surfers. Here are some [...]

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Hello World! Truly Yours, BPIZZY

Hello World… I would like to welcome everyone to the the musings of BPIZZY, aka Bryan S Powell. I am entering the third year of running my own business and figured I should start doing some of the marketing stuff I sell to other people.  Practice what I preach so to speak.  So from here [...]

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