by mtraphagen | Aug 17, 2013 | Apps, Content Marketing, Online marketing, Social Media
A Flipboard Magazine Is Content Curation Made Beautiful When I was a kid I loved that my parents subscribed to lots of magazines. Life, Look, National Geographic…whenever a new one arrived I loved nothing better than to flip through their beautiful photos, and...
by mtraphagen | Aug 10, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media, YouTube & Video
Below is a recent interview I did talking about how we should be writing content for the semantic web. I was the guest of Michael Ehline of the Circle of Legal Trust, a “Confederation of Online Attorneys and Webmasters Dedicated to Providing Educational Content...
by mtraphagen | Aug 7, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
UPDATE: Some Hope for Small Publishers 11 August 2013 We have seen before where a new feature like this only works for big guys in the beginning but eventually rolls out for anyone. Authorship would be a case in point. I set it up when it first came out, but waited...
by mtraphagen | Aug 6, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Google today announced that “In-depth Articles” are to be featured in Search. The Official Google Webmaster Tools blog today announced that Google is beginning to roll out a new feature in Search (US first) that will highlight “in-depth...
by mtraphagen | Aug 4, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
UPDATE: Google Authorship Intelligent Author Attribution? 21 August 2013 – My friend Mike Arnesen yesterday published what looks like a possibly amazing revelation about how Google may be moving forward with both Authorship attribution and author subject...
by mtraphagen | Jul 31, 2013 | Hive Digital
Employer Support for the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a division of the United States Department of Defense, today named Virante Inc. CEO Malcolm Young as a “Patriotic Employer.” The award was presented in an informal ceremony at Virante headquarters in...
by mtraphagen | Jul 15, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land recently wrote about a fascinating hint at Google Subject Authority Ranking from Google’s Matt Cutts in a recent Google Webmaster Help video (video will start at the relevant portion.) Every time I do a Hangout or...
by mtraphagen | Jul 8, 2013 | Google, Google+, News, SEO
There’s a new Google Maps coming. Google is rolling out a complete overhaul of the look and feel of its popular browser-based mapping program. Everything is designed to be more intuitive and one-click away. I applied to preview the new Google Maps interface...
by mtraphagen | Jun 20, 2013 | Google, Google+, News, Presentations, Social Media
This Friday, June 21, Todd Hartley, CEO of WireBuzz will interview Martin (“Marty”) Smith and me about our experiences with cancer, as part of Google’s promotion of Men’s Health Month. The Live Google+ Hangout On Air event will be co-sponsored...
by mtraphagen | Jun 19, 2013 | Social Media
Want to find out if you’re at risk for a Google penalty? Find out for 99 cents at PenguinAnalysis.com! Happy Birthday, Remove’em! It’s just one year since we introduced Google penalty recovery tool Remove’em, and already it’s been used to...
by mtraphagen | Jun 18, 2013 | Google, Google+, Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, Social Media, YouTube & Video
The Future of Healthcare Marketing TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR Give us one morning & you’ll grow your healthcare business In just one morning you can discover the array of opportunities Google affords you to dramatically grow the reach and influence of...
by mtraphagen | Jun 14, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
UPDATE: rel=publisher & Google In-Depth Articles 12 August 2013 – Google’s recently introduced In-Depth Articles search feature includes a special role for rel=publisher (verified brand page) connections. If the web site hosting an article featured in...
by mtraphagen | Jun 13, 2013 | Social Media
Here are my on-the-spot notes taken down as Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land interviewed Google Distinguished Engineer (and head of Google’s anti-web spam team) Matt Cutts with questions of his own as well as some from the attending live audience at SMX...
by Russ Jones | Jun 10, 2013 | SEO
Update: There is a reason why I put the disclaimer below, and I am very glad I did. After further analysis, we revealed a bug in the data causing several fields to display as blank. This skewed the responses towards the tail of the dataset such that it appeared the...
