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How to Manage Google Plus Notifications in Gmail
If you're a Lord of the Rings fan, you know the terrible torture that the Eye of Sauron imposed on poor Frodo. It made the ring he bore a heavy burden. Day and night he could feel the Eye calling out to him to surrender himself to the inevitable. If you're an active...
Google Plus Verified Pages: Of What Benefit Is the Verification?
Recently the Virante Search Marketing Google+ Page was given "verified name" status by Google+. The only visible change this makes is that now a checkmark appears next to our name on our profile, as well as any appearances of our name in Google+ search. As they say,...
How Facebook Is Silencing 57% of Your Fans
UPDATE: Facebook has now introduced an update for all mobile apps that includes a share button for posts from others in your news feed. Late to the game, but the problem described below is no longer a problem Imagine that your team is in the Big Game. It's all on the...
What Is the Difference Between Google Authorship and Author Rank?
If you follow my writing here, on various other blogs, and on Google+, you know that I am a big fan of Google's Authorship project, and that I do a great deal of thinking and research about it. But when you've got your nose deep into something, it's easy to slip into...
Google Plus User Map Visualization
CircleCount (a Google+ user stats site) created this stunning info-map showing the locations of active Google+ users across the globe. Here's how they describe its creation: We visualised the profiles in our index with a publicly shown location (more than 4 million)....
YouTube Google Plus Integration: How to Make It Happen
My friend and YouTube SEO Wizard +Ronnie Bincer alerted me to an option that Google has been offering on YouTube for a while now, but few know about: the ability to change your YouTube channel name to your Google+ profile...
Cloud Computing: The Challenges and Opportunities (Video)
The latest in +John Rakestraw's "Platform Live" Google Plus Hangout On Air conversations with +David Amerland and myself (and now with the very welcomed addition of +Susanne Ramharter) is on the subject of cloud computing. After an initial discussion of a breaking...
Google Plus Notifications Changed: Now How Do We Do Marketing?
Watch this recorded Google+ Hangout on Air panel discussion hosted by +Ronnie Bincer, and featuring +Fraser Cain (of Universe Today) and +Stephanie Wanamaker, with Virante's own +Mark Traphagen. Click the video image at the bottom of this post to watch. Our topic was...
Major Change to Google Plus Notifications
In an update that began rolling out to new users on August 22, 2012, Google+ made huge changes to the way notifications about posts are created and received. The initial announcement caused a lot of confusion among active users, and some of the changes to the related...
Which Google Plus Features Most Affect Search Rankings?
Watch this live Google+ Hangout on Air webinar (at bottom of this post) I did host by the charming +Yifat Cohen. In it, I discuss what we know or can guess about how using Google Plus and Google Authorship (connecting all your web content to your Google+ profile)...
Google Plus Local Places Page FAQ
If you run a local business and have a Google Places account, there's a pretty good chance you're aware of what a mess it can be for many. Inability to verify, wrong information that you can't seem to get changed, duplicate accounts--these are just a few of the issues...
How to Share to Google Plus from Safari for iPad or iPhone
If you're a regular Google+ user and also often on your mobile iOS device, it can be frustrating to try to share a page you're browsing to your Google Plus circles. Here's a solution using Javascript in a Safari for iOS bookmark, shared with me by Peter du Toit. Step...