by mtraphagen | Nov 6, 2012 | Hive Digital, News, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
We apologize that due to reduced wifi capabilities at the conference, our live blogs will be delayed A crew from Virante will be live blogging most of the public sessions at this year’s Internet Summit in Raleigh NC, November 7 and 8, 2012. Posts will be in...
by mtraphagen | Sep 13, 2012 | Hive Digital, News, Social Media
Virante Search Marketing, a full-service Internet marketing agency located in Morrisville, NC, was pleased to be a chief patron of the recent 24-Hour Telethon fundraiser for the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina, located in nearby Raleigh NC. The...
by mtraphagen | May 21, 2012 | Analytics, Apps, Content Marketing, Facebook, Google, Google+, Hive Digital, 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 Google+ Live Hangouts on Air Now Available to All – Tech pundits disagree sharply on whether or not...
by mtraphagen | Feb 10, 2012 | Google+, Hive Digital, Social Media
Virante Director of Social Media Marketing +Mark Traphagen will be one of four panelists teaching over 30 Fortune 500 companies, major universities, and government entities about using Google+ for greater brand engagement and visibility in a webinar sponsored by...
by mtraphagen | Nov 11, 2011 | Free SEO Tools, Hive Digital, Presentations, SEO
Yesterday Virante’s CTO Russ Jones (Twitter: @rjonesx) spoke at PubCon in Las Vegas on the topic “Low Risk, High Reward Link Development.” Virante Director of Customer Relations Jacob Bobhall (Twitter: @jakebohall) live tweeted the talk. The...
by mtraphagen | Oct 27, 2011 | Google, Hive Digital, Social Media
Later today I’ll be on the panel for a webinar titled “An Advance Look at Hot, New Google+: How It Will Impact PR Pros, Social Media Strategy and Your Customers,” sponsored by Bulldog Reporter, a news and information source for professionals in...
by mtraphagen | Sep 16, 2011 | Google, Hive Digital
Google’s Doodle (homepage logo) for today celebrates the birthday of Albert Szent-Györgyi. He is credited with discovering vitamin C and its benefits. A glance up at the title of this blog will tell you why we couldn’t resist sharing this! Here’s the...
by mtraphagen | Aug 4, 2011 | Hive Digital, Social Media
Holy Kaw! We got notice just last night that this blog’s social media feed has been picked up to be indexed on Guy Kawasaki’s AllTop.com top blog aggregation site. AllTop has been consistently recognized as one of the best and most widely-used blog...
by mtraphagen | Jul 22, 2011 | Hive Digital
A jam-packed bar late into a Thursday night in downtown Raleigh? What could it be but the second Raleigh SEO Meetup, this time sponsored by Virante Inc., a Triangle Region full spectrum Internet marketing agency. SEO’s and those interested in SEO and related...
by mtraphagen | Jul 5, 2011 | Hive Digital
Nina, our Client Representative, sports the latest in coveted Virante bling: (Cue Price Is Right Announcer Voice:) “That’s right, Mark! These stylish earrings also double as 8GB USB flash drives! They have a handy swivel-style design that keeps your data...
by mtraphagen | Sep 29, 2009 | Hive Digital
Bloggeris a great, easy to use site for creating a personal blog. However, if you are planning to build a blog for business purposes, it is probably not your best choice, even to start out on. I just learned that Google does not allow Blogger sites to 301 redirect....
by mtraphagen | May 11, 2009 | Hive Digital
AdBlock Plus, provider of the leading browser plugin for blocking display ads on web sites, has announced in a blog post today that they are considering introducing an option that would be a modified form of a ad-blocking meta tag first proposed on Virante,...
