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Authorshipocalypse! The Great Google Authorship Purge Has Begun

by mtraphagen | Dec 19, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO

December 2013: Authorship in Search Results Gets Restricted UPDATE 21 January 2013: I have now published results of my study detailing who lost Google Authorship and why. UPDATE: While composing this post, Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Land reported that Google...

Google Author Rank: On? Not Yet? Why I Don’t Care

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...

Matt Cutts at Pubcon 2013: Authorship, Authority and the Future of Search

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...

Hey Pubcon: Here’s All My Google Authorship Content!

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...

Google Authorship Not a Ranking Factor (Yet): John Mueller

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...

Google Plus Posts in Search Results: What Causes Ranking?

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...

Powerful Personal Branding via Content, Social Networking, & SEO

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...

Google Answers Questions About Google Authorship

by mtraphagen | Aug 21, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media

It’s been a long time since we’ve had any real information updates on Google Authorship and how it should be used from the horse’s mouth (that’s Google with the saddle on over there, by the way). That changed today with the posting of...

Writing for the Semantic Web and Semantic Search

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...

Google In-Depth Articles Search Results: Any Hope for Small Publishers?

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...

Google In-Depth Article Search Results: How to Qualify Your Content

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...

Google Authorship Update: Where Is Google Going with rel=author?

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...
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