{"id":439,"date":"2015-04-28T16:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2015-04-28T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:46:13","slug":"experimental-geo-marketing-using-golf-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/experimental-geo-marketing-using-golf-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental Geo-Marketing using Golf Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February, 2015 <em>Twitter<\/em>\u00a0 announced it had reached a deal with Google to make its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-02-05\/twitter-said-to-reach-deal-for-tweets-in-google-search-results\">tweets more searchable online<\/a>. If you&#8217;re looking to expand the &#8216;social signals&#8217; that Google count in their ranking algorithms, consider this innovative approach by long time colleague Steve Bennet who has had 48 Titleist golf balls marked &#8220;If Found, tweet course\/hole to <a title=\"@professorVC\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/professorvc\">@professorVC<\/a>&#8220;. There are many ways to promote your business using geo elements.<\/p>\n<p>As Google Place Pages have become Google Plus Pages and Twitter campaigns integrates more with search, combined with users wanting to charge their location and what they are doing, this is a innovative marketing technique I wanted to share. I hope it inspires you to go and play golf and think about combining geo, Twitter and social into your online optimization campaigns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150427_194021.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-440\" alt=\"IMG_20150427_194021\" src=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150427_194021.jpeg\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150427_194021.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150427_194021-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150427_194021-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, 2015 Twitter\u00a0 announced it had reached a deal with Google to make its tweets more searchable online. If you&#8217;re looking to expand the &#8216;social signals&#8217; that Google count in their ranking algorithms, consider this innovative approach by long &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/experimental-geo-marketing-using-golf-balls\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchforecast.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}