by mtraphagen | Oct 28, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Google Author Rank: The Sasquatch of SEO When it comes to the topic of Google Author Rank and whether it is a reality today, the True Believers are only slightly less fanatical than people convinced that the following are real: Sasquatch (Big Foot) UFO abductions The...
by mtraphagen | Oct 24, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
After reading several live blog notes (here and even better here) on the keynote address by Google’s Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013 yesterday, I was seeing intriguing hints that he had spoken about some topics near and dear to me. But since these were live...
by mtraphagen | Oct 23, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google+, Online marketing, Social Media
I’m hearing from a lot of my spies at Pubcon 2013 in Las Vegas that I’ve been getting shoutouts from a number of speakers, recommending they read this blog to get the best content about Google Authorship and Google+. Thanks! Let me help you get straight to...
by bgassett | Oct 23, 2013 | Content Marketing, Facebook, Google+, Online marketing, Social Media, Twitter
Social Media For Real Estate As a Realtor, you will do whatever it takes to sell a home as fast as possible. After all, who doesn’t love satisfied clients and a quicker commission? But if you haven’t integrated social media into your home selling strategy, you are...
by Russ Jones | Oct 21, 2013 | SEO
As many of you know, Remove’em is already up for the US Search Awards in the Innovation category. We were and remain to be the first and only full service – from link finding to link tracking to contact finding to email delivering to disavow building...
by mtraphagen | Oct 11, 2013 | Content Marketing, Online marketing, Social Media
Presentation on Social Media Law by Glen Gilmore (@GlenGilmore) at ConvergeSouth 2013, Greensboro, North Carolina, 11 October 2013 Glen Gilmore is a social media strategist who has provided customized social media marketing training to members of the Fortune 500,...
by mtraphagen | Oct 9, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Recently I posted on Google+ that we had discovered that the Google Plus Page Verification application page is now closed. In other words, they are no longer allowing Google+ Pages to apply for verification. Here’s how the page where you used to apply for Page...
by mtraphagen | Oct 9, 2013 | Google, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, SEO
New Penguin Penalty Checker Site Assess Your Google Penalty Risk Penguin Analysis is a new site that can help you assess how at risk your site might be for a Google Penguin penalty. It’s the latest innovation from our awesome link removal experts at...
by pbuckley | Oct 7, 2013 | Content Marketing, Facebook
What follows is a real life story, I have not changed any of the names because these brands need to be taken out back and given a stern talking too. Executive Summary: Nobody enters your contest because you make it nearly impossible. Let me start with full disclosure....
by pbuckley | Oct 3, 2013 | Content Marketing
“My product is so boring that I can’t create compelling content around it.” You don’t have to talk about the concept of content marketing for very long before you run headlong into this statement. It’s usually someone who has been at the...
by Russ Jones | Sep 30, 2013 | Analytics, Free SEO Tools, Google, SEO
So, what are you doing right now. Link building? Stop it. Link removing? Stop it. Stop writing content, stop reading content, stop eating, sleeping, pooping, whatever it is you are doing and do this right now. As of writing this post, it is now September 30, 2013 and...
by mtraphagen | Sep 29, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
UPDATE 7 October 2013: At SMX East last week, in the Google Authorship session, Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Pierre Farr also confirmed that Google Authorship is not a factor in ranking search results at the present time. Original Post: “We don’t use...
by mtraphagen | Sep 18, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
How and why do certain Google+ Plus posts in search results do better than others? That’s been a question at the front of my attention for almost two years now. Google obviuosly treats public Google+ posts differently from other social network posts. You may...
by mtraphagen | Sep 16, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
Personal Brand Authority Is Key to Customer Connection Recently I was asked to give a workshop for entrepreneurs and startup business people at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. Since the Foundation was taking the trouble of flying me all the way...
