by mtraphagen | Mar 26, 2012 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing Facebook Adds News Feed Noise Reducer Facebook now auto-suggests adding “friends” with whom you...
by mtraphagen | Mar 19, 2012 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media, Twitter
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing Using Facebook Interest Lists to Improve EdgeRank Facebook recently introduced Interest Lists, which allow...
by mtraphagen | Mar 13, 2012 | Analytics, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. (Apologies for the late post this week. The editor was out sick yesterday.) Social Media & Content Marketing 10 Must Have WordPress Plugins...
by mtraphagen | Mar 5, 2012 | Analytics, Facebook, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing What Women Want: 6 Lessons for Pinterest from 100K Visitors Through extensive testing, expert viral marketer...
by mtraphagen | Feb 29, 2012 | Analytics, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Yesterday I posted a dramatic example of how an influential Google+ profile combined with Google author verification linked to high-traffic web posts can result in a huge Google SEO power boost for Google+ posts in regular Google search, even for non-logged-in...
by mtraphagen | Feb 27, 2012 | Analytics, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing LinkedIn Launches Company Follow Button – Here’s why you should have it and how to get it for your...
by mtraphagen | Feb 20, 2012 | Analytics, News, Online marketing, Paid Search, SEO, Social Media
A weekly roundup of the most interesting and useful posts and articles on search / inbound marketing from the past week. Social Media & Content Marketing Will Teens be Turning to Google+ Instead of Facebook? Remembering Peter Lynch’s classic advice to...
by ekoppel | Jan 26, 2012 | Analytics, Google, SEO
Google announced, via its Webmaster Central Blog, that it was making an update to the “Top Search Queries” data. Beginning today, Google Webmaster Tools Top Search Query report will take the average of a site’s top URL rankings for a query versus an...
by mtraphagen | Nov 17, 2011 | Analytics, SEO, Social Media
Social sharing facilitator ShareThis today announced a new service to be fully unveiled early in 2012: Social Quality Index (SQI). According to the company blog, ShareThis SQI will provide a quantifiable index of the social effectiveness of individual content pieces...
by mtraphagen | Nov 12, 2011 | Analytics, Google, Google+, Social Media
Ripples is a Google+ feature unparalleled in any other social network. If you’re not familiar, Ripples allows you to play a timeline that shows you the spread of a viral post across Google+. You access it by clicking the little down arrow to the right of a post....
by Jacob Bohall | Oct 21, 2011 | Analytics, Paid Search, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
I had the pleasure of being invited (again!) to a Transportation Marketing and Sales Association event. I met some wonderful people, and hopefully imparted some wisdom regarding the importance of search engine marketing, popular search engine marketing strategies,...
by ekoppel | Oct 19, 2011 | Analytics, Google, SEO
Google officially announced that over the next few weeks, it will begin encrypting search queries and results for signed-in users. This change will increase privacy and security for all signed-in users. However, for us web analysts (and Google Analytics users), this...
