by mtraphagen | Feb 21, 2013 | Content Marketing, Social Media, Twitter
I was perusing Portent’s new “tool,” the Content Idea Generator, and wondering for what awesome purpose I could use it. For what topic do I wish I could spin out endless content ideas? And then it struck me. There is only one thing worth writing...
by mtraphagen | Feb 13, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google+, Infographics, Social Media
I was featured this week in this infographic about Google Plus for Business, created by Jeff Machado of Fiore Communications. Original at http://fiorecommunications.com/2013/02/11/expert-advice-on-the-value-of-google-for-business/
by mtraphagen | Feb 6, 2013 | Authorship & Author Rank, Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
Wherefore art thou, Google Author Rank? This past weekend The Wall Street Journal published excerpts from an upcoming book by Google Chairman Eric Schmidt. Among Schmidt’s seven predictions for what we can expect in the coming years of the digital age was this...
by mtraphagen | Jan 17, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, SEO, Social Media
Are you one of us? Once, we were few. And we were lonely. We had Google+ powers far beyond those of “normal” users. Some called us mutants. Eventually, our shared condition drove us together, and we became the X-Persons of Google+, sworn to use our powers...
by pbuckley | Jan 16, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Online marketing, SEO
I’ve been doing SEO for a while, not since the stone-age of SEO, but as far back to remember when you could so easily game the system. That is now a lost world. In the not so distant past SEO’s could offer their clients a the equivalent of a diet pill. No...
by mtraphagen | Jan 8, 2013 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
According to Dan Petrovic of Dejan SEO, as of 5 January 2012 Google stopped following (for link juice purposes) links placed in posts on Google+. The primary link is still followed. This is the first link you put into a post on Google+ if you allow G+ to turn it into...
by mtraphagen | Dec 31, 2012 | Content Marketing, News, Online marketing, SEO, Social Media
There is simply no better source on the web for discovering the best inbound marketing content than Inbound.org. Members contribute links to articles they find useful, and the community upvotes the best to the front “Hottest” page. Most of the best and...
by mtraphagen | Dec 28, 2012 | Content Marketing, Google, Google+, News, Online marketing, Social Media
Beginning yesterday (27 December 2012), it appears that Google+ has been rolling out to brand Pages the ability to comment on, +1, and re-share posts from personal profiles of people who have not circled them. This is news because until now brand Pages had no ability...
by mtraphagen | Dec 6, 2012 | Conferences, Content Marketing, Online marketing, SEO, SMX Social Media, Social Media
A live blog of a panel session at SMX Social Media in Las Vegas, 6 December 2012 Travis Wright – Consumer Social Media, Symantec.com (@teedubya) SEOcialization, Bro! Bro is the new SEO: Business Relationship Optimization. Navigate the corporate silos. SEOs need...
by mtraphagen | Dec 5, 2012 | Conferences, Content Marketing, SMX Social Media, Social Media, Twitter
A live blog of the Wednesday Keynote address at SMX Social Media in Las Vegas, December 5, 2012 By Del Harvey, Director of Trust and Safety, Twitter (@delbius) Broadway Books in Portland was on the brink of shutting down. @everydaydude in 2008 tweeted “buy a...
by mtraphagen | Dec 5, 2012 | Conferences, Content Marketing, SMX Social Media, Social Media
A live blog from SMX Social Media in Las Vegas, December 2012 Jennifer Evans Carlo – President, SugarSpun Marketing (@JenniferCario) It’s not a blog without social media. Without that, people are blowing their blogs away. Think one brand – many...
by mtraphagen | Nov 20, 2012 | Content Marketing, Facebook, Google+, Infographics, Online marketing, Presentations, SEO, Social Media
Once upon a time there were SEOs and Social Media Managers. SEOs lived on a solid planet called Data and lived by a code called Measurable Results. Social Media Managers lived in a cloud world called Engagement. Though the two could see each other from afar, they had...
